The trade paperback is out from AHOY Comics – and the creators bring you this EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY… When the folks at AHOY Comics say you can “Expect More,” they mean it. You should expect more from your comics. More thoughtfulness. More humor. More content. More value. More intelligence. In my mind, there’s no better small publisher in comics today than the folks who bring you titles such as The Wrong Earth, Edgar Allan Poe’s Snifter of Terror, Planet of the Nerds (soon to be a major motion picture!) and the ’70s-soaked adventure satire Bronze Age Boogie. The first trade for Bronze Age Boogie — Swords Against Dacron! — by writer Stuart Moore and artist Roberto Ponticelli, is out now and I urge you to pick it up because it brings you the kind of entertainment you deserve. The kind you can “expect more” from – because it delivers. So, in that spirit, we bring you this EXCLUSIVE COMMENTARY on several pages from the opening chapter by the book’s creative team — including layouts and pencils. Far out. — By STUART MOORE and ALBERTO PONTICELLI Stuart: Welcome to Bronze Age Boogie! This book is inspired by a lot of 1970s pop culture, ranging from barbarian comics to exploitation movies to kung fu action. At heart, though, it’s the story of Brita Constantina, a teenage barbarian girl who swings a mean sword but longs to visit the future — 1975, to be exact. Which brings us to the first page… Page 1 (Numbered 7 in the TPB) — Begins with “PROLOGUE: 1975 AD” Stuart: This was a fun page for me—I hope it worked for everyone else. Originally the first chapter was going to take place in 1975, but we wound up restructuring the story and reducing that sequence to a prologue and an epilogue. So I needed Doc Lunar’s dialogue here to paint the picture that we wouldn’t really see until the end of Chapter 1: a city in crisis, plagued by urban decay and teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Alberto: The story starts in a typical discotheque from the ’70s, so I immediately thought about Studio 54. It was so famous those years; a lot of famous and eccentric people used to go there and have fun. So I started looking for references in order to feel the...