We Claim This Rank in the Name of Grey Squad

By Lisa Fary

I’ve gotten some interesting – and surprising – comments in the thread attached to our Zuda comic, Grey Squad. Here are some of the topics coming up in the thread, along with my thoughts on them.

Top Ten
About halfway through the scripts, John made a comment about something called Top Ten. Judging by my quizzical look, he deduced that I’d never read Alan Moore’s Top Ten and had no idea such a thing existed until that moment. It’s a police comic wherein everyone – cops, citizens, etc. – is a costumed, superpowered being.

So, I’m trying to think of when I had the opportunity to eat a bite of Alan Moore’s brain. I wonder how that would taste with fava beans and a nice chianti. Wait. That’s his liver. Sorry.

But, the main character’s last name is Moore.
Yes it is. Because Janet is the Mary Tyler Moore of cybernetically enhanced human detectives. Yes, I like 1970s sitcoms. No, I’m not an old person (I just dig Harvest Gold appliances and shag carpet).

It’s so wordy. And crowded.
Yeeeahhh, guilty. English major, English teacher, Gilmore Girls fan. Words are my drinking buddies.

For a long time on Intergalactic Law, I had been doing such a good job of not crowding the panels, giving John plenty of room for visuals, and not overdoing it with the dialogue. I believe artists call this “thinking visually.”

These eight pages of Grey Squad were kind of a gift for me. We’d decided to keep the characters in the squad room for these pages which meant lots of opportunities for me to get wordy.

And lots of opportunities for John to try to hide when I came at him with new scripts. Luckily for me, there weren’t too many places to hide in our last apartment. “Not too many” as in “none”. There were none places to hide.

In the new place, there are all kinds of closets and corners for him to burrow into to hide from my two pages of dialogue for two panels. (Just kidding. That’s for one panel). Now, I’ll have to let up a bit or wait until trash day to drop a bible weight script on him for the next page.

We’ve moved up one more rank in this month’s Zuda competition yesterday. That puts us at #4. There are three more to tackle to get to the top, which is still in our grasp. John and I are working hard in our shared office space to drum up votes, comments, and favorites for Grey Squad, one person at a time. Have a looksee:

Despite our cheerful faces (this was before the Zuda diet), we do need your support.

• Click here to read Grey Squad.
• Click the “Vote” button to the right of the comic. The red box will turn green when you’ve voted. Click a star rating right under the “Vote” button. Click “Add to Favorites” at the bottom of the voting block.
• Scroll to the bottom of the page and leave a comment. Say you voted for Grey Squad.

John and I really do appreciate your support on Grey Squad. Winning would bring Pink Raygun’s visibility to a new level, allowing us to give you more coverage of the stuff you care about. Thank you for being with us these past couple of years and we hope you’ll be with us for the next.

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Lisa Fary’s early exposure to classic Battlestar Galactica in 1979 is largely responsible for her lifelong interest in science fiction and her childhood ambition of being an intergalactic space cowgirl. She thinks diagramming sentences is a fun alternative to Sudoku.

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