the SANDBOX is a graphic novel anthology of soldiers, saboteurs, working parties, impossible machines and the stubborn people trapped among them. Some of the stories grow out of a world we lived in. Others disappear into history, comedy and four thousand years of imagination.
Forged in the fires of hell. Stories that hit like a blast furnace.
Every story, a world in itself. Soldiers living in the dust and drudgery, steel coffins and bold decisions under fire. A hapless lass and her lovable pooch pitted against the merciless Krauts running headlong through occupied France. The toil and boredom facing the ANZACs at Gallipoli as they repair the impossible with the improbable and we laugh at every nuance. Four thousand years in our future, something wicked has awoken beneath Mars. It'll take a band of warriors and adventurers to uncover the thousand-year-old plot to destroy all of humanity.
Walk along with Viper Company, an Army infantry platoon in Afghanistan, and ride with Aces & Eights, a Marine Light Armored Reconnaissance in Iraq. Different services, a terrifying and dirty war, and plenty of ways for every reasonable plan to go sideways.
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Sure, she's gorgeous, she knows it, her resistance band knows it, even the Germans know it, but that doesn't stop her from smacking around every Kraut she encounters. Occupied France, 1943, a woman named Marguerite is determined to blast the Jerries from her homeland and keep those luscious curls in place and her doggie out of the mud. Through waves of calamity, German patrols, bad disguises, secret radios, romantic confusion and plans that seldom survive contact with her penchant for getting into and out of every trap the Huns lay out for her.
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Gallipoli, 1915. When the Army cannot provide what the men need, they build it, steal it, repair it, trade for it or invent something inadvisable from a biscuit tin. The shortages are real, the solutions frequently ridiculous, and somewhere in the middle we get to laugh with men caught in one of history's worst ideas.
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Four thousand years from now, a minor noble from Jupiter, Commander Vex lands on a fractured Mars with nothing but a hunch and his loyal House Lancer. A mystery nobody is able to explain. The disappearances have already begun, secrets are being uncovered, horrific beasts are slinking in the darkness, the Pax Solaris is broken, an ancient and evil presence is scheming. The evidence is mounting that humanity was never alone in our own Solar System.
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the SANDBOX is being built by a veteran-led creative group with Army, Marine Corps, reconnaissance, leadership, production, and storytelling experience. The aim is not to lecture civilians or flatter veterans. It is to tell great stories whose military culture, history, technical detail, humor, and human behavior feel earned.
Iron Forge Storyworks is the anvil upon which the SANDBOX and the stories are crafted: military, historical, strange, funny, dangerous, and forged from what war does to men.
