Image produces Task Force 1
Image Comics is publishing a new comic series called Task Force 1 that deals with a counterterrorist team going to war with terrorists in the post-9-11 era. One of the writers even took a look at some army websites for research:
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Newsarama: There are a lot of super hero teams, what makes TASK FORCE 1 unique?I certainly hope that, even if this is only allegorical, that it'll give the reader something to think about, and so, I'll look forward to seeing what it's like.
Jeffery Stevenson: This team has Jim, Carlos, Joel, Jason, Kris, and me making them look good.
The team for TASK FORCE 1 is a actually a team of military soldiers. BDUs, combat boots, armored vests, that work!, guns, and all that fun military gear. Volunteers wanting to defend their country, family, and friends.
They're also a look at what the military soldier could become. I took Jim Valentino's initial concepts and went through notes and press releases from the various military research centers, scientific journals and news sites, and the archives of the great DefenseTech.org blog to see if there were any patterns that could actually lead to the technology TASK FORCE 1 uses. There are.
It's still a work of fiction, minus encounters with mutants, the supernatural, aliens, magic, or super-genius time-travelling were-octopi pygmies, but there's a hint of possibility for practically all the tech seen in TASK FORCE 1, including the stuff used by the terrorists. At any moment, you might get hit with the thought, "damn, that really could happen."
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