Bulldozer
1916- Horace Canfield is born in Minnesota.
1933 - 17-year-old Horace travels to New York and becomes a high-steel construction worker.
1937 - 21-year-old Canfield enlists in the army, serving in Europe before the US’s involvement.
1942 - 26-year-old Canfield is transferred into Easy Company. He strives to lead the company, but quickly discovers that they are the perfect fighting unit under Frank Rock ,and becomes his second in command.
1945 - 29-year-old Canfield & the rest of Easy Company are killed to the man in the last battle of WWII.
The Sergeant Rock comics were action-packed adventures, and while they definitely had a group of named characters that made up Rock's Easy Company, they for the most part didn't drive the story so much as populate it. We did learn more about them over time, just because they appeared so often, but it was pretty peripheral to the actual excitement du jour.
So we are going to do something fun. We have a specific archetype in mind; one taken from a specific story that we believe was itself taking cues from Sergeant Rock and Easy Company, and will use that as our template for these characters.
So we are going to do something fun. We have a specific archetype in mind; one taken from a specific story that we believe was itself taking cues from Sergeant Rock and Easy Company, and will use that as our template for these characters.
Bulldozer's StoryOf the members of Easy Company we all now recognize, Bulldozer is one of the earliest ones to get a name, preceded only by Ice Cream Soldier (who we aren't using.) He debuts in a story that is in fact actually about him; Our Army At War #95 in 1960. He's a bold, younger soldier that has his eye on Rock's stripes, wanting to take his job as the top kick of Easy. Over the story he comes to recognize just how vital Rock is to the success of Easy Company (kind of like Jake Busey in Starship Troopers), and he quickly becomes a very regular part of the series, acting as Rock's second in command and hype man. He's probably one of the most recognized figures in Easy Company, as the gigantic muscle guy with his sleeves torn off and carrying a Browning machine gun without a turret.
This is probably, of all the characters we are modeling from our particular template, the easiest parallel to draw. He is huge, musclebound, sleeveless, and carrying an absolutely ridiculously big weapon. Bulldozer is specifically a much younger, clean-shaven character rather than being a mustachioed 'Sexual Tyrannosaurus", but he's still clearly this archetype. |