Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Quest Comic In Progress


Okay, so this is an in-progress of what I'm sort of calling Quest. It's a four-part prologue to this huge thing I may never actually do. Anyway, there's something from each part up.

At the top is the first panel of part one, which deals with a doctor in a sort of alien peace corps in the 25th century. The dome is a forcefield, inside is a hospital. I really like how stressed his bit feels, and I think it also gives a good sense of his gentle nature. I'm probably going to make the horizon clearer.

Next is the top of page one of the last part, which deals with a forklift operator in 1996, Marvelverse. Not 616, though. Tentatively, she lives in the universe where Natasha Stark marries Cap. The last background is only partly finished. The whole first two pages are this big monotone, which is the first impression people tend to get of her. On the last page, it's shown that she's sharper than she looks.

In the last row, the first two panels are from the third part, which deals with a sabatour living in China in 1899. It's sort of an AU of the Boxer Rebellion, where England was much more aggressive about collonialism and went to war to occupy China. She basically goes around blowing up military installations, until the leader of her cell tricks her into blowing up a civilian target. She's in jail for breaking his shoulder. I'm pretty happy with her story, except she's so stressed for her whole bit, there's no sense of her actual character. She's really a very happy-go-lucky, cheerful, friendly girl, which I hope is apparent in her headshots.

The next panel is from the second part, with this alien ex-cop who was drummed out for arresting a diplomat for murder. She's on this crummy space station at the start. She's pretty much always frowning. Like, constantly. She's a really prickly person, but she's very honorable. She always does the right thing, or tries to, anyway.

And then is a few headshots of girl number 3.