Archeon- Fantasy Comic Book


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Thanks Hammer!

Like Hammer said, my partner-in-crime, Ed Lavallee, and I, (Jon Hook), are old-school gamers. I remember the day when Gary Gygax walked on water! :D

Ed and I met when we served together in the Army from '86-'90. In '87 & '88 we served together, and met, in Germany. No one else in our unit played D&D, but we did, and we were roommates, so we spent alot of down time in our room "lost in the realms" as we used to put it. Man, those were the days.

Well, after we were both out of the Army, we decided to hook back up and go to college together.

In college we wanted to see if we could come up with a cool idea for a comic book, (our other hobby), after much debate, we finally decided to do our old D&D adventures. Well, as not to infringe on any D&D copyrights, we started designing our own world filled with our own spin on the popular races that inhabit all fantasy realms.

We have our own spin on dwarves, elves, giants, orcs, and dragons. We even created our own new race of intellegent beings known as Elkin. Elkin are lycanthopic hooved herd animals. Their natural state is the animal. They could live their entire lives in a "full" animal state. Or, since they like their demi-human halves, they could spend their entire lives as demi-humans, but they can't master the "full" human state, so even as a demi-human they still have obvious animal atributes. And, since they are lycanthropic, those atributes can switch around. So Garrow the gazelle-man is walking around town on his hind legs of a gazelle, but he is human from the waist up, with gazelle antlers though too. Garrow then senses danger, so he morphs into a gazelle "centaur" and sprints away.

Please, I welcome everyone to visit the Digital Webbing site and check out the info there about my book, ARCHEON. I hope ya'll like it.

And if anyone has a specific question, and I miss it here on this board, please email me at jon.hook@worldnet.att.net.

Thanks guys! Thanks Hammer! :D
 

Well, no offense to the creators, but I will say that the storytelling (i.e., the effective usage of sequential art as a medium to convey the story with a proper pacing) seems a little off. Overall the art's pretty nice (a little light on backgrounds, but I'm not one to complain), but there were too many characters with too little of a sample for me to really get into them. I'll want to get the first issue to get a fuller impression.

Sorry, but my girlfriend is a sequential art major, so I've gotten used to listening to critiques of comics. Even if your stuff isn't an instant classic, it's still real cool that you've got your own fantasy comic, something which I think I'll be lucky to pull off in the next two years. :)
 

Hey RW!

I whole heartily agree that sequential art is difficult to pull off well. I have a BFA degree in illustration, and I can't do sequential art... believe me, I've tried.

Our book that is coming out in October is a two-issue flipbook. Issue #1 was done by one artist who is more of a "minimalist", which I think is ok for superhero or crime books, but my creative partner and I didn't think it had all of the fantasy elements that we wanted. Our #2 issue is done by our new artist who does use lighting and special effects to "bleach out" the background sometimes, but my partner and I are working with him to stress which panels need more depth and background to them.

We are getting roughs from him now for our third issue, and there is a much greater use of background and setting in it so far.

Thanks for giving us a try. I hope you like it.
 




RangerWickett said:
Sorry, but my girlfriend is a sequential art major, so I've gotten used to listening to critiques of comics.


Wait wait wait.

She's a WHAT major?

Where is that a major?
 


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