Schedule Monthly Number of issues 24 Letterer(s) Timothy Harkins Writer Timothy Truman | Format Ongoing series Main character(s) Emanuel Santana Publisher Eclipse Comics | |
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Publication date September 1985 – October 1987 | ||
Scout is a comic book series by American writer, artist and musician Timothy Truman. It was published by Eclipse Comics starting from 1985.
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The story stars a Native American Apache named Emanuel Santana. The setting of the series is a dystopian United States that has become a Third World country.
Publication history
Twenty-four issues of the first series were published.
After the series ended, a short comic featuring Santana's marriage ceremony was published inside Timothy Truman's first album release entitled Marauder by his band The Dixie Pistols.
Two mini-series were published that 'bridged the gap' between the two Scout series: New America and Swords of Texas, each 4 issues long. While Truman oversaw them, others wrote and drew them. A one-shot 'Scout Handbook' was also published.
A new series entitled Scout: War Shaman continued Santana's adventures after having two children and being widowed. The series ended with issue #16, after Scout is killed. Further series were planned, Scout: Marauder and Scout: Blue Leader, but never appeared.
Plot
Relatively eco-political and also with a semi-mythical element (due to Emanuel Santana's Apache origin), both series had a gritty and violent portrayal of the future. The story posited that a history of past ecological excesses had led other nations to levy vast sanctions against the USA: the situation was similar to that of Germany after World War I, but instead of having lost a war of invasion, this was due to responsibility for "stealing" world resources.
Author Michael A. Sheyahshe noted in Native Americans in Comic Books – A Critical Study, that "Scout is presented in a respectful and genuine manner with tribally specific cultural ties."
Collected editions
Eclipse did two trade paperback collections of the comic: Scout: Four Monsters (#1–7), and Scout: Mount Fire (#8–14).
Currently, Dynamic Forces/Dynamite Entertainment is doing a new series of reprints, which are 'remastered' and recolored: