Rise, Kraken! training manual excerpt: Standard Equipment

As many of you know (and several of you are sick of hearing), I've been working on a new comic with the insanely talented Jerzy Drozd, due out from Ape late this year.

What most people don't know is that I'm trying to make it a deeper experience than just a comic, with a lot of supplemental material available on the Web to world-build and make Rise, Kraken! something a bit more immersive* than standard comics fare.

One of these things is a training manual -- something a bit broader than KRAKEN, and that can apply to new recruits to pretty much any Global Domination Organization from HYDRA to SPECTRE. At the moment, I'm working on raw content, with layout and illos (probably photographs) to come later; the whole thing will be bundled as a downloadable PDF and may be available for sale if demand warrants.

I tried posting it here, but it's disgustingly long and Blogger doesn't let you generate a "more" tag without jumping through a ridiculous number of hoops. So you can read the excerpt over here instead. Sorry about the outlink!

*this is apparently not a word. So: "something one can immerse oneself in."