>>1799
Alright so I'll recap from previous thread.
It started as a world building/concept art practice. It's about a sci-fi authoritarian cop lady. I was able to push it as class assignment (I'm an art student) so initially it was arranged as concept art portfolio and that was last year. However, this year my professor gave me thumbsup to turn it into a proper comic (or at least a chapter), So I further developed it. I kinda like it and if it turns out well, I might actually work it into a longer, proper comic because the story is pretty straightforward.
>World setting:
The idea itself revolves around a city on a colony planet that was once tucked under a dome while the planet was slowly terraformed. But once the planet's atmosphere has been stabilized, the dome shields were deactivated and dome walls were slowly converted into an industrial belt and stripped off to an extent while the city extended much beyond the original wall. The inner dome area (Ground Zero - G0) stagnated while the rest of the city and the planet developed, leaving it behind with a rising socio-economic crisis.The wall is a central feature of the city, always visible and marking a clear separation of the older part, now a ghetto and the newer, larger parts of the city.
The story picks during the peak of the G0 crisis and with the huge spike in crime the system's government enabled Enforcer units. Enforcers unlike the regular police force outside of G0 possess a privilege to be exempt from many legal restrictions and therefore enjoy more freedom to assess, react and prosecute without the strict and complicated procedures of the common law. Most Enforcers embrace this and commit to stretching the limits of the law, being on the edge between an officer of peace and a vigilante.
>The main characters:
Main character is Sergeant Astrid "Triddy" Thomason, an older, experienced officer. As any other Enforcer, she is mostly limited to the Ground Zero ( G0 - zone inside walls of the original colony Dome), once a symbol of protection and triumph of humanity on a new planet, now an overcrowded ghetto filled with old buildings, tight streets and decadent infrastructure, caged in by the very shield dome wall that was there to protect it from once-hostile planet. Sadly, working over thirty years in the ghetto has taken it’s toll on officer Astrid. She has become neurotic, cynic, ill-tempered and even hostile to the everyday otherwise peaceful man. She and many other Enforcers share a reputation of being brutes, spreading fear through extreme violence rather than propper application of law.
2nd major character is her partner Cabbage (Carl Brisby Aligreen). An off-world immigrant ex-military grunt who finds the Enforcer life a perfect gray zone between not being sent into the interstellar slaughter and just enough adrenaline and small urban warfare to remind him of the pleasant joys of army life.
>Their relationship:
Officer Cabbage is just fine with her superior Astrid being in charge and barking orders to commit various degrees of power abuse, from simple unprovoked beatdowns to shootouts resembling extrajudicial executions, touching a very thin line of gross human rights violations.
Sgt. Thomason, while usually working alone, was forced by her superiors to pick a partner due to her tiny size and no physical body augmentations (she is very fragile even though she has outlived her previous 7 partners). She chose Cabbage as he doesn't look as the type to die from a few gunshot wounds, be prone to panic, or express criticism on straying away from textbook protocol.
The points of the story is to illustrate and hopefully show a very gray moral code and M.O. needed for police officers to work efficiently in high crime/poverty area, inspired by police forces in my own country and how it worked in ghettos and american police behavior.
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>>1784
It's actually more clean, it's just the particular ghetto they're in that's so rugged and run down.
>>1796
Thx for feedback
>>1783
Ding-ding-ding! Homeworld aesthetics are my primary inspiration.