I was having a look at that new comic community site (a little like MySpace, but for comic people) and found that there’s a gentleman who creates concepts (complete with marketing considerations for the people with money to enjoy) for various cartoons, comics and books – one of which is pleasantly Steampunk. The Sky Boys is hoped to be a Steampunk manga for the 12-20 year old market featuring a girl who pretends to be a boy, running a street gang in a steam and airship version of Britain. Sounds like fun, especially when there’s the pirate Princess causing trouble, and a war in the background threatening the British Empire. Who knows – maybe it’ll get picked up, and we’ll be swimming in Sky Boys merchandise before long! (I for one would like to open a cereal box and find some goggles there, or a miniature airship).