Thanks again Johanna.

We look forward to the challenging adventure that lies before us. We are addressing the issues of distribution, including getting onto the posts. We will be getting coverage from Military Times and other military publications, so we expect the troops to know all about us and what we are doing.

We are also working on a partnership deal with a veterans organization as well. There will be more on that coming very soon.

Gerry
Charlie Foxtrot Entertainment

Guy, I enjoyed reading your additional thoughts as well.

If CFE explores that dichotomy, and is able to do so with a professional-level product, they have a good chance at achieving some level of success. And yes, PX distribution would be a huge factor there; an offering for Free Comic Book Day wouldn’t hurt, either.

City of Fire will be a limited series, by the way. We may continue it down the line. That is up to our publishing partner. But, for now, our primary goal is to tell people what really happened that day, in June of 2004, and do so in a four chapter comic book series.

Regarding Eastwood’s film, which is a truly a great motion picture. fact is, the few real war films made usually are. However, one great war film doesn’t make up for the gaping chasm in entertainment regarding this war. Hollywood has no problem with making WW II films. To make a modern one would mean, to them, having to take sides, and that always means seeing someone’s stupid politics. That is such bull. You can tell a soldier’s story without politics. In fact, its the only way to tell an honest story of soldiers in combat.

My good friend, film and television director Josh Becker, told me that we had to choose a political side to tell our City of Fire story. I was shocked at the profound stupidity coming from such an intelligent man. Well, after I told him he was full of crap, I told him that if he understood a soldier, he wouldn’t have even considered that statement.

That’s the problem. People who haven’t been there, don’t understand. Josh is a great example of how soldiers are misunderstood. How do you make people who never felt what we felt, understand? I don’t know. Maybe its like trying to explain sex to a virgin. But we will try. We will illustrate it out for everyone as best we can, showing them in a graphic manner and maybe some will get it. That’s our hope.

However, it’s just like what you said, Johanna, if you tell the truth about modern warfare, and are brutally honest, which we are extremely so, there is the risk of having some on one side say “You are too patriotic” or others on the other end of the spectrum saying, “You are bashing the administration.” To that we say, our story isn’t about politics or those with hidden political agendas. Our story is true and is written by one of the guys who was there. City of Fire is 100% about the guys who were there and who will tell you that politicians from both sides are the biggest enemy to soldiers trying to do their jobs.

Like what was said in Blackhawk Down, “Once that first bullet goes past your head, politics and all that shit just goes right out the window. ”

Nothing truer could be said of a soldier’s philosophy.

War is ugly, brutal, vicious and unforgiving. But, in the midst of something so horrible, sometimes you will find the best and most amazing things in people. You will also find the absolute worst. Dire circumstances like combat strip all the false layers, to where all that is left of a person is what is true. The rest of what they were suddenly means nothing. You will find no person more psychologically, emotionally and spiritually naked, than a soldier in combat.

Thanks again Johanna. It was refreshing reading your thoughts.

Gerry
Charlie Foxtrot Entertainment
“By Soldiers, about soldiers and for soldiers”