Stiel Maiden - Operation: Redout
6 years ago, Captain John Herrig was sent on a solo mission deep in the territory of the Salanoma drug cartel. His task, find and eliminate their leader Lionello Padrazzo, and destroy his stronghold. What he would find there...forever changed his life.
Operation: Redout is a 1-shot collaboration I'm developing with insights from @Trapp, centered around the ultimate fate of the mother of his female main character Dani, Aura Garcia. In his canon, Aura's life is taken by a jealous client of hers who couldn't take no for an answer. Reading his description of the events stirred the Marine in me to want to create a scenario where this at-the-time unnamed piece of shit gets what's coming to him, so I sent Trapp a message with an idea. That idea has blossomed into this project. Set in the OzVerse, this is the resolution to the same scenario...but canon to the OzVerse version of Dani who will appear in the pages of TLWL (and perhaps Stiel Maiden...I'm playing with a few ideas). I've been toying around with the idea of a 1-shot story with John Herrig before he went rogue since 2022, but it was more of a "day in the life" idea. I do plan on working such a story, but this one affords me a chance to truly plant the seed of what changed John before his 1st appearance in SM Vol.3, as well as showcase him doing what he does best...kicking ass and taking names.
This story will be a departure from what I've done to date, in that it's strictly action based. No sexy time stuff. No riveting dialog. This is going to be a bloodbath. John Herrig vs. the cartel...where he stacks bodies on top of bodies and makes a discovery serves as the catalyst that led him to the decision he made just a year later that sealed his fate. What discovery is that? You'll have to read it to find out. But it's going to be a gut punch. While in present day John is seen as a tyrant and a murderer, if you've truly followed his motives and beliefs you'd see it's not as black and white as it seems. The ultimate goal of this tale is establishing those motives on top of serving as the OzVerse resolution to the fate of Aura Garcia. I'm in the process of taking the pictures for the project now, and hope to have the story finished and uploaded by the weekend. Again, I want to thank Trapp for the inspiration for this. It's just another example of how the comic community we have here on KE feeds into itself, and I'm proud to be part of this little collective we have here.
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