I wanted to share with you all what I've been working on in secret (in my spare time.) I've got almost half the pilot chapter done (the full story will be 40 pages), and am starting to think about Kickstarting it.
The comic is directly connected to my Neo Rackham cyberpunk universe, Echoes of Olympus Mons (and the forthcoming sequels to it that I've been drafting/editing), and the Suleniar's Enigma series (which is kind of like if Game of Thrones and Avatar: The Last Airbender had a Lovecraftian bastard child).
It follows an ensemble of characters, some alien, some human, as they attempt to win a final world war against the Corporate Confederacy, which has made a deal with an ancient Lovecraftian entity.
The world is a gritty cyberpunk dystopia, where mega corporations have replaced governments, and CEOs play around with eldritch forces in search of immortality.
Almost all of the art was handled by me. But I've got a talented Chibi artist doing the little heads that indicate who's speaking off screen (Who goes by Ashley Freeren), she also contributed colors to two panels on Page 3, and is working on a gag comic that would go at the end of the Pilot Chapter.
And then we have flats by Crim, a young Dutch artist who wanted to help out and save me some time.
This has been an absolute joy to work on. Ever since I first picked up copies of Viz's first serialized DBZ chapters (where they blew the art all the way up and had like 3 chapters in every release, some of which I still have), I have wanted to do comics, but never had the time, or the skill. Well, I've put the work in to better my skills over the last 6 years, and after so many false starts, I finally feel like I'm ready to tell the story I want.
I wear my influences on my sleeve. Way back when, I wanted to work on a cyberpunk style battle manga that combined the influences of Akira, Dragon Ball, TMNT, and Megaman Zero. What you see here is a fusion of American and Japanese formats for comics. It's drawn on a B4 canvas, just like manga, but is full color like American comics, and isn't afraid to be wordy when it needs to be.
I can't wait to show you more.
(Please note that these are not 100% finished, as I have to re-letter some stuff and scan for typos, like where Eyzen is spelled wrong on one of the pages, but you get the idea).
Hope you like this sample!