Standing Sentinel
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| Title: | Standing Sentinel |
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| Date(s): | 2001-2004 |
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| Fandom: | The Sentinel |
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Standing Sentinel is a gen Sentinel anthology of fiction by Katie Steuer.
The first is a collection of two stories. The last three issues contain one novel, each a volume in a trilogy.
Summary
From the fertile mind of Katie Steuer comes a wonderful series of zines that are based in the beginning of the series, when the relationship between Jim and Blair was new, and each was still feeling the other one out, trying to second guess how he was going to react, which way he was going to jump -- if he was trustable with his partner's vulnerable back... Come see how hardship and joy, tears and laughter become the basis from which an unbreakable friendship was born, and revel in the brotherly love these men learn to have for each other. [1]
Issue 1
Standing Sentinel 1 was published in February 2001 and contains 267 pages.
The cover is by Lupe Backe: A Hard Day at the Academy ("This was for my second dues at SA. I used a number of different images for reference, yes, ....including that one of Jim leaning against a door frame in a tank top. It was also my second try at using pastels.") (1999)
- Germination (1)
- Bellows of the Forge (114)
Reactions and Reviews: Issue 1
This zine contains two long stories by Katie Steuer. (front cover by Lupe Backe)
I was tempted into buying it at Redemption '01 when a fellow TS fan waved the delicious cover at me, letting me know that Mysti Frank had arrived and was in the dealers room.
I should have paid more attention when it was described to me as hurt/comfort. Because that's what it is, and far too much for my taste. Lots of people loved it, I'm sure, but I don't enjoy stories where the sole purpose of the villains is to use Blair as a punching bag, and the sole purpose of Blair is to be kidnapped and traumatized. It was just too much torment and too much fanon for my taste. I read the first story all the way through, but when I realized that the second story was going to be more of the same, I just couldn't go on. [2]
Issue 2
Standing Sentinel 2 was published in 2002 and is a 285-page novel, "Saga." It was a winner of a 2003 FanQ.
This riveting novel, written by Katie Steuer, explores what the world would be like if, just after Jim's helicopter had crashed in Peru, the President got into a bit of an argument with the oil-producing nations and the US's gas and oil supply was cut off. Not having the ability to come rescue Jim, the military abandons him -- so he walks home. All the way to Cascade. Which is no longer the city he remembers. Running across a group of police detectives who are still trying to keep the city from falling prey to murderous gangs, looters and thieves, Jim joins up with them -- and the pesky Rainer student who was writing his dissertation on closed societies in the police force before The Change. When Blair realizes that Jim is a Sentinel, he's overjoyed. But when a conniving, dangerous female Sentinel decides to make Cascade her territory, Jim, Blair, Simon and the others must work together to bring an end to her reign and install the true Sentinel of the Great City -- Jim himself. [3]
Issue 3
Standing Sentinel 3 was published in May 2003. It is a 216-page novel and a sequel to "Saga." It is called, "Subsequent."
In this fascinating sequel to Standing Sentinel 2... it's been several years after The Change, and food is getting scarce. Supermarkets have been picked clean, and those who have food aren't willing to share it. Continuing to be a police force is hard, if not impossible, for the men of Major Crimes -- especially with no coffee! -- and Jim is hesitant to admit that he heard a perp mention Blair's mother, missing and presumed dead, if it will save his partner from some unnecessary heartache. [4]
Issue 4
Standing Sentinel 4 was published in May 2004. It is a 206-page novel and a sequel to, "Subsequent." It is called, "Triune."
It's been several years after The Change, and the small band of policemen in Cascade have begun to pick up the pieces and attempt make their city safe again. Life isn't like it was, but with jury-rigged electricity and running water available once more, it isn't as bad as it could be. So when a group of men arrive bearing a letter signed by the President, ordering the Cascadians to travel to L.A., where they can be trained and then dispersed throughout the country, to help other cities become as self-reliant as Cascade is, Simon doesn't want to go -- but it's an order. Jim and Blair don't want to leave the Great City under their charge, and the others want to stay where they've made a life. But with no choice, the entire band packs up and leaves with the men. It's then that they discover the lie that has lost them their home. With determination that *no one* live in the stationhouse and preside over their city but them, the band of tired, hurt, *pissed off* men make plans to take back what is rightfully theirs. This means war.... [5]