We still have a lot of original artwork left from my research for the post about Eclipse Comics AIRBOY series - remember that is how all of this started ? ( well, actually it goes even further back to another Ron Frenz tribute post I had planned to do but let's not get into that right now ) - and one independent series for which I found plenty for a solo post is Timothy Truman's SCOUT which I just mentioned in my AIRBOY solo post.
Unlike AIRBOY I had seen more of SCOUT but I don't think I ever owned an issue so I also had to do a little bit of research on this one. Timothy Truman is an artist I am more familiar with since he also did GRIMJACK for First Comics ( possible spotlight post for that series pending ) and more work in the western genre like THE KENTS - a kind of generational saga about Superman's adoptive family's adventures during the wild, wild west and a reinvention of JONAH HEX together with Joe R. Lansdale. You also might have heard of his HAWKWORLD series, a radical reinvention of the policeman from Thanagar which in the series was a police state.
SCOUT was created and written by Timothy Truman and follows the adventures of Apache Emanuel Santana in a dystopian future where the United States have become a Third World country. Originally scheduled as a bimonthly six - issue limited series SCOUT soon became a monthly ongoing series because of the positive reader response lasting 24 issues.
Timothy Truman has cited european artists like Paolo Eleuteri Serpieri, Hugo Pratt and Jordi Bernet ( whom I have all featured on the blog ) as his artistical influences and you can really see it in his work on SCOUT.
Timothy Truman did return to the Scout universe with SCOUT : WAR SHAMAN, a 16 issue ongoing series that took place over a decade after the events of issue 24 of the first series which sees Emanuel Santana with many changes in his personal life and I am not going to elaborate on the exact nature of these changes nor on how this series ends because I don't want to spoil it for those who have not read it yet. Although that might be a bit tricky if you want to get physical copies because I don't think there are many reprints of this so you might have to go on the hunt for floppies. I also have no idea how expensive they might be as there is probably not a very high demand for them without a big movie project attached to the property ( although there were plans to make a SCOUT movie in 2016 ) and I remember that back when I was able to attend comicbook conventions in Germany you could always find plenty of old SCOUT issues in the dollar bins. Anyway, for anybody who does want to just read the series without much trouble you can find it on the internet.
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