Why does everyone who joins this forum have so much more talent than I do? Dang it! Can we get at least 1 new person who can't draw even a stick figure?!?
I'm sure those folks simply aren't speaking up...
You, young lady, have a lot of talent.
Aww, shucks. *blush*
Espy said:
I agree! What are your influences RG?
Well, let's put it this way: I've got a tattoo of the Rebel Alliance insignia.
I'm a Star Wars fan from
WAY back; I was a year and a half old when the first movie came out, and I imprinted on it, big time.
That said, though, perhaps the biggest influence on my comic is actually Star
Trek...after a fashion. I don't much care for a lot of aspects of the Trekverse, but the basic premise--exploring space--is one I really, really like. And, actually, I found
First Contact to be pretty all right, and the J.J. Abrams re-boot made a believer out of me. But even those haven't quite done the concept the way I'd like to see it...so I'm doing it myself; though they start out as bounty hunters with hearts of gold (their ship is called the
White Knight; you do the math) they eventually become space explorers.
Babylon 5 is also a huge influence; I have a larger-scope macro-plot arc planned out for this thing. It may not be readily apparent
YET, but it's there.
And I like to think of the visual/tech style as being NASA-meets-The-Jetsons.
Character-art wise, I think my biggest influence is Wendy Pini of ElfQuest fame.
Overall, I tend to pitch this comic, Hollywood-style ("Terms of Endearment meets Predator", for example) as being the ship and crew from "Firefly", with "Star Trek's" mission, in a "Star Wars" style universe, with "Babylon 5's" plot arc, glossed over with a NASA-meets-the-Jetsons look.
Granted, I won't even hit 100 pages until December 22nd, but...gettin' there, neh?
Thanks for looking!
