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New Houston Blues #1: Shepherd and the Wolf

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Parts 4
Time 1h 4m

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Set primarily in the pyramidal metropolis of Bastion (AKA: New Houston) (AKAKA: the Zig) 30 years after a cataclysm known as The Break...

Shepherd and the Wolf begins with a man bearing unlikely cargo through the desolate streets of Downside, before being suddenly, and violently, dragged into an unprecedented trek through the deeply entrenched and tribal power structures of this lowest level of New Houston... 

Culminating in the revelation of a plan, two lifetimes in the making, that would see the Great Pyramid of Texas finally lost to the ashes of history and a new world raised in it's wake.

(This is a graphic novel script, sans the "panel-map" as I couldn't carry it over to Wattpad. It's been cleaned up for readability, but still serves as a serialized  story.)All Rights Reserved

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