Black Powder Red Earth 1 (Volume 1)

Welcome to the Black Powder \\ Red Earth Volume 1 Reloaded Edition. BPRE V1 Reloaded is a re-issue of the original book with new art, additional story and an appendix detailing the politics behind the scenes of the story and the jargon found within. The creators "reloaded" this chapter exclusively to bring the artwork up to the quality bar set by the rest of the series and is the definitive edition of book 1 of Black Powder \\ Red Earth.For those of you new to the series, BPRE is the story of Special operations contractors, backed by Saudi petrodollars, wage a war of ruthless intrigue and clandestine violence against Iranian proxies and agents in the post-Iraq state, Basran.

Jon Chang wraps BPRE around a realistic portrayal of a pair of PMC contractors in the not so near future Iraq...Just far enough ahead to see what is basically happening to Iraq now. Regional powers destabilizing Iraq until it splits apart, militias sweeping in during a power void, and Corporations taking advantage of it all to make a buck. I swear it's like Jon Chang was staring into a crystal ball looking at the future when he wrote this. It's almost eerie how accurate his portrayal of Iraq is in the few years down the timeline where this story takes place.- James Price, Death Valley Magazine