In 1987, Marshal Law, an apocalyptic comic book about superheroes run amok, came out.

The art (by Kevin O'Neill) for the cover of the first book is of the black leather clad, barbed-wire wrapped, slogan emblazoned anti-hero Marshal Law himself, about to save an already lost world from his powerful and corrupt brethren. “Fear and Loathing” is his mantra.

This character coupled in my mind with Marsden Hartley's “Portrait of a German Officer” from 1914, providing the basis and general storyline of my own “Marshal Law” which has everything to do with power, failing empires, fascist control, and wounded, brutalized citizens.