KNIGHT & GALE - "A Cold Day In Hell"

For more than a decade now, I've been trying to bring to fruition a Spy-Fi comic book of my own. Sort of a "happy ending" version of On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Knight & Gale is about an British ex-superspy who falls in love with and marries an American heiress. Inspired in large part by Dashiell Hammett's classic novel The Thin Man and the William Powell/Myrna Loy movies based on it, K&G was to chronicle the ongoing adventures of the couple as they kept finding themselves embroiled in world-threatening plots.

At various times, I persuaded different artists to draw up some character designs to help pitch the project, but it never sold. No publisher has ever shown interest in it, in part because it features a happily married couple.

Anyway, four years ago, I did manage to interest veteran comic book artist Rick Hoberg in drawing an online comic version, 16 pages of which were completed and posted online at a site called Komikwerks as part of a paid subscription plan. Matt Webb was the colorist. Unfortunately, the strip failed to generate any income and Rick went back to animation. The first story, "Cold Day in Hell," was never completed.

Oh well, maybe someday. In the meantime, those first 16 pages are archived here.