Iron Corvus
They jumped into the wrong century.
In 1985, a U.S. Special Forces team flying a covert Cold War mission near the Iron Curtain is pulled nearly 2,000 years into the past, mid-flight, and bails out over a battle between Rome and the Germanic tribes. The team is split, and half of them become Rome's prisoners. The rest have to rescue them with whatever they can salvage from the crashed aircraft.
The squad's weapons are overwhelming, but they run out. Rome has numbers and discipline, and it learns.
It's Germania, 16 AD: forest, marsh and rain along the Weser, seven years after Teutoburg, with Germanicus hunting Arminius. Seven Green Berets, call sign Raven, land in the middle of it.
- Format
- Part 1 is eight issues of 8 to 12 pages, with a short video for each
- Status
- Issue 1, “The Drop”, is drawn and in revisions. Issue 2 is scripted.
- The title
- The corvus, “raven”, was the Roman navy's iron-spiked boarding bridge. The tribes have their own name for the aircraft: iron birds.
- Motto
- Nox nostra est. The night is ours.
