Heya all…

As you know, I am in the Military, getting ready to deploy to the Middle East…so one generally assumes I am biased towards a ‘conservative viewpoint’ (far from the case BTW).  At any rate, I have been following the debate in the American Politics venue on the current revelations on just how far the previous administration stooped in its interrogation and treatment of people captured as ‘Terror Suspects’.  Here is a good article on the issue:  http://voices.washingtonpost.com/white-house-watch/torture/torturing-for-propaganda-purpo.html
A comment to this article struck me as particularly telling, one which sums up my position on this debate pretty nicely:

GM653:

I would be interested in where you received your interrogation training.

Because at the Army Intelligence School we were taught early some very important points about the use of this garbage.

It. Is. Morally. Reprehensible.
It. Does. Not. Work.
It. Puts. Soldiers’. Lives. In. Danger.

That doesn’t even address the fact that it violates most everything this nation is supposed to stand for. There was a reason that this stuff wasn’t found in the Army training manual.

The terrorists achieved a huge strategic victory when the US stooped to using this stuff. In the name of defending the “homeland” (I hate that term), we cast aside everything that makes this country great and worth defending.

My sorry hide isn’t what is worth defending, and neither is yours. Who we are as a people and a nation, and our founding ideals, are the things worth dying for. When you cast that aside, you’ve lost already. That’s what the terrorists were trying to do in the first place.

Comment as you will…

-Eirik

P.S.: Adding this quote..

Treat them with humanity, and let them have no reason to complain of our copying the brutal example of the British Army in their treatment of our unfortunate brethren who have fallen into their hands. Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any prisoner. . . I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it will not be disproportional to its guilt at such a time and in such a cause… for by such conduct they bring shame, disgrace and ruin to themselves and their country.” – George Washington, charge to the Northern Expeditionary Force, Sept. 14, 1775

Greetings all!

This is the new site in progress for Chisuji!  As you may or may not know, this is part of the reboot process where I have decided to alter / rewrite the Chisuji storyline to allow our new artist, Satanasov, to set the overall ‘look’ of the series.  Eventually I will provide a place you can look at the old art and story archives, but bear in mind that those are not continued from this point forward and have no continuity to the current series.   For the first comic post is a image of a poster that Satanasov did that we will offer for sale at the online store (hosted by Angry Viking Press) and at conventions we attend.

We are going to launch the comic starting on June 9, 2009 with an update schedule of Tuesdays and Thursdays for the main story.  We also plan on giving you the occasional humorous strip called ‘Chisuji – Behind the Bullets’ which will showcase as often as Leo can produce strips for it (we are looking at Mondays and Wednesdays for this strip).  All in all we are fairly excited about this as we go forward.

Also be sure to check out Angry Viking Press ( www.angryvikingpress.com ) for Chisuji stuff and lots more besides!  They are going public this May through Enemi Entertainment and are in this month’s catalog which you can find here: www.enemi-entertainment.com .  Chisuji will be publishing a collected graphic novel series with them hopefully by late fall / early winter 2009, so be sure to support them – ask your local comic shop to order their books!

Thats all for now…see you as we continue to work on the comic!

-Eirik

I am Satanasov, the new artist of Chisuji.

Here you can ask me all you want (if there is anything ).

Well, I hope you enjoy the new art, see ya!