Author Signed Copy. "It sounds like a hundred trains. The quarters are cramped and stink of oil and coal, and if we fall, we're done." -Anonymous USSF Crewman, 1896 The 19th century saw the emergence of a new kind of fighting machine: massive coal-fueled giants known as steam rigs. Crude and cumbersome at first, by the 1890s, they had become the primary weapons of war. Nations competed to develop the biggest and the best, while brilliant inventors like Lucy Tillencrest were sought by the highest bidder. But getting crews to man the rigs was a different story. For only the most reckless and foolhardy would dare to join the Steam Force, or, as it was called at the time... "the most dangerous job on earth." Which is where Tunney, Duff and Cribbs come in... From writer-artist Larry Blamire (The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra) with art by David Miller (Avatar of the Futurians), Steve LeBlanc (Black Scorpion) and Christopher Ehnot (The Cimmerian: Queen of the Black Coast) here are the first three stories in the epic saga of steam, steel and sweat that is Larry Blamire's Steam Wars. And this is only the beginning...
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