David was struck down with a cold last week which has slowed his progress (artists, eh?) but he's driving forward and has 98% finished the background. I asked him to take another look at the buildings at the back and to make them more futuristic.
It was important to me that the setting of Zero Dark is against a sense of the loss of something optimistic and great, that the future promises something good, but that the present is a bit crap. I think this really nails it. This skirmish is set just outside the walls of one of the city-states. The Red Force you can see is, basically, Venusians, and represents that point in the battle when those complications just seem to ramp up with nasties popping out of every corner as the heroes fight their way out.
I'm so looking forward to seeing what David does with the protagonists.