Backstabbers

My friend Glen asked me to draw a picture of Caesar being stabbed by Brutus for the textbook he is putting together, and I of course said I would. Or maybe I should tell it like it happened: I pretty much forced him to ask me to draw something for his textbook instead of using stupid pictures of actual paintings and statues and the like. So he had no choice but to smile and pretend this was the best thing since sliced bread. He then mentioned Brutus and Caesar, and I got down to work.

The funny thing is that, either that same day or the day before, I had read a challenge at the J. Scott Campbell forum for anyone to come up with Danger Girl outline for a hypothetical comic book, the more Danger-esque, the better. At the same time, we were getting ready in school to have our students watch Barack Obama's inaugural address to the nation. And then, just like Stephen King says in On Writing, two previously unrelated ideas connected to create something new under the sun. I both drew this picture and wrote an outline for a Danger Girl story that had Abbey and Sydney chasing down somebody intent on killing the President of the United States on Inauguration Day with the same mystical dagger Brutus used to finish Caesar, a weapon that had been passed down from historian to historian throughout history. Sounds interesting? Well, if Campbell calls begging me to write the series, I'll let you guys know. Enjoy!