The first image on this page was the impetus for the series.  Yet again, a bit of fooling around spurred the "what if?" and Ms. Packard was "born."  Then going forward there was also an amount of visual character development which I rather like, and which does not happen so much with the other characters I've created. 

Yes, I noticed that the still shot of Ms. Packard that follows the Resurgence cover is, totally inadvertently (maybe unconsciously) an echo of that original Overwhelmed still shot.  Capt. Obvious strikes, just in case you missed it, and don't want to roll back up; and down, and up and down:

     For the curious: in the original image, Ms. Packard is leaning on a part of the 9-Gun Battery at Sandy Hook, NJ, with a Pittsburgh skyline under fire.  

     In the Resurgence image, the broke-down building was once part of the Defense Department's anti-ballistic missile program, or so I was told: once upon the 1950's and 60's, in Madison, NJ, a computer contracting company was doing trajectory analysis - or intercept programming - or what-ever it is that defense contractors do with anti-ballistic missile technology - in a sprawling brick building on the edge of town. 

     Fast forward four decades, and the building had been sold off at least once - when I first saw it in 2005 a telecom or cable company occupied part of it, and I think a local office of the CDC had offices, too - and was being demolished for redevelopment in 2012.  At the time I took the photo that now backs up Ms. Packard, most of the brick had been knocked down, revealing concrete slab floors and dangling electrical cables.  Today a bright and shiny new glass and steel building occupies the site.