In Junior High, Eric migrated from DC into Marvel and his mind exploded once again. Indie titles were
popping out of the woodwork too. It was brain-candy of the highest order, an entirely new mythology.
Zeus and Mercury became Superman and Flash! Eric was now not only reading comics, but he began
tracing comics, copying comics, learning to draw from comics, inventing his own super-heroes and
monsters from comics. Eric is lucky he didn't turn into a comic! Truth be told, Eric was havin' a freakin' ball.

He absorbed the mind-boggling works of many iconic greats of artistic comic stylings.  Byrne, Buscema,
Starlin, McFarlane, Lee, Gulacy,  Keown, Kirby, Adams, Perez, Simonson, Steranko, Davis, Golden, were all
amazing artists! But all comic book fun aside, a sensible white collar job in management became bread
and butter for him. He loves the work, he loves the people and that money continues to help him pay the
bills.  So, to keep his wife Jackie loaded up with the requisite shopping funds, he opted not to gamble on
a risky comic book venture that might go south. He had seen friends try it unsuccessfully before and
thought he better keep it strictly a sideline where it would have to take a back seat for a lonnnng time
and, even today, it's strictly a spare time pursuit.

Undaunted, Eric kept watching other phenomenal artists cycle through. Artists so talented that they give
other artists self-doubts about ever being "that good." But Eric figured out that it's often not so important
to be "that good." Maybe it's just important enough to be "good" in one's own way, to have a point of
view, a "take," a "spin" and maybe a knack for writing. So many things "have been done." It takes
hardcore creativity to keep things fresh, to create a spin that hasn't been played out. This is an area in
which Eric feels he will excel. He feels he can rise to all those challenges if he tries very hard. As long as
Eric has been reading comics, he's seen pretty much everything that's been done but he sure doesn't
feel the ideas are tapped out just yet! Eric's got a truckload of them still!

So with that mindset, Eric simply got serious and disciplined about the work. Just how much CAN one guy
knock out if he's brainstorming, writing, scripting, pencilling, inking, scanning, coloring, lettering, website
developing and getting his own coffee? Well, a surprising lot if it's all he does outside of his "real" job.  
So that's what he's doing. Initial feedback on characters and concepts has been very positive. Sometimes
outstanding. He looks to carry that over into every issue. Yeah, he's been working his buns off. But
loving every minute of it.

So THAT'S why Leading Edge Comics and his first project, ANGELCORPS: Allied Nations Guarding Earth
Life came into being.  It kicked off in 2009 with a second issue just released on his birthday on 9/17 of
2010.  Hopefully, it will drop your jaw as well and give you a little of that "Ooooh, that's cooool" feeling ya
had when ya picked up yer first superhero comic book! That's what happened to me way back when and I
hope to give readers a little taste of how cool that feeling was back in the day!
ABOUT ERIC
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Eric Linquist? Who the heck is Eric Linquist? Well,
he's a new guy. A guy who always wanted to get
into making comics but was busy working that
normal nine ta five to pay the bills. That's still
happening today but Eric started making better
usage of his spare time.

How did all this start? Well, back in the day when
he was about 9 years old, a neighborhood kid had
introduced little Eric to DC Comics' Justice League
and all its resident heroes and heroines. You
know -  the big guns -  Supes, Bats, WW, Flash, GL,
Hawkdude, Aquaman, GA, Atom and JJ the MM.
Eric wasn't just taken with them, he got seriously
hooked!  He obsessed over acquiring more and
more titles and would read them religiously.  His
Dad, rest his soul, would take him to the comic
book store and let him buy hundreds at a time and
then not hear a peep out of him for weeks! (Ah, a
method to the madness!)