Here’s the completed third page. Only two more to go…

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So, all this “Boxing Bucket” business that I’ve been working on over the last month or so has all been for an upcoming comic book anthology called “Strange Eggs.” There’s a long, convoluted story behind the project, but basically it’s this: I got hired to do a tie-in story for a Nickelodeon Magazine-style book that went with an in-develpment animated show called “Strange Eggs.” The show got pulled before it ever made it out of pre-production–I didn’t know why at the time–and that was the end of my story, “Hobo-a-Gogo,” that I had done for the book.

Well, it turned out later that Slave Labor Graphics (who published my book, “Farewell Georgia”) were pulling together all the original comics pieces from the magazine and printing them in an anthology, also called “Strange Eggs.” Of course, I sent them off the scans I still had of my Hobo-a-Gogo pages, and have been doing the “Boxing Bucket” story to fill in for one of the original stories that no one can seem to track down. (The Bucket character was part of the original show, but I think Chris Reilly and I are the first to do a comics story with him.)

So here’s the weird thing: between the cancellation of the original show and magazine, and Slave Labor putting together the anthology, the original “Strange Eggs” show (that was really only a pilot episode as far as I know) has developed a weird cult following. I’ve been trading emails all this weekend with a guy named Willis Johnson who’s down in Atlanta–he’s a total nut for the show and worked on the animation for the pilot. Anyway, I just sent him a scan of the cover for his site StrangeEggs.com, so I thought I should post it here as well (this guy’s web design skills are a bit dodgy, so bear with the site as best you can). It’s missing the names of the creators whose stories we’ve only tracked down in the last few months, but here’s a version of the cover, featuring a painting by Jamie Smart:

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I had a friend in art school in Savannah who was always overflowing with good story ideas and concepts. At one point he proposed a patriotic super-hero along the lines of Captain America. I can’t remember the character’s name, but supposedly he gained his superpowers after being bitten by a radioactive flag.

Here’s our pal the Boxing Bucket as a patriotic superhero, ready to kick ass for the good ol’ U.S.A.!