Femme Noir by Mills and Staton
Gravedigger by Mills & Burchett
Lady Sabre by Rucka & Burchett
Ace Kilroy by Kelly & O'Connor
Simone & Ajax by Andrew Pepoy
Trekker by Ron RandallColors by Ian Sokoliwski.
Note: Hey folks – we’ve noticed that we’ve been getting a lot fewer comments on the weekly strips since the new chapter began a couple months ago.
Gene and I really appreciate hearing from you, so I’d like to encourage you to take a moment and let us know what you think. Hopefully, you’re enjoying what we’re doing here, but even if you aren’t (perish the thought), we’d like to hear from you if you’ve got something to say.
Have a great weekend, and thanks!
– Chris
Really enjoying the art!
Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned.
Interesting that Valkia blames the princess and *not* Hawke.
I really like the strip. thank you.
I like the ‘strip’ too!
🙂
Something interesting always happens.
Just found this comic and really enjoying it! Thanks for all the hard work!
A very interesing comic 😉
Very Good!!
Love the series, but this particular episode made me laugh…reminded me of old movie serials, where it ends in a terrible cliffhanger, and then in the next episode they just “escaped” with minimal description or explanation (“we’re faster…”). Love it.
It’s overall not a bad strip. It’s got great art, fun characters, and it’s a solid John Carter send-off. If I can find any form of fault, it’s that it sometimes feels less like something that is inspired by by the Carter stories and more something that rehashes the Carter stories. I just hope that there will be some stuff going forward that will help distinguish your characters and world from that of the novels.
Like I said, it’s not a bad strip–I just hope that it can surprise me.
Well, while I’ll admit I’m not pleased by the suggestion that I’m “rehashing” anyone’s specific work, I don’t deny that neither am I attempting to “reinvent” the genre, either.
This is an adventure story, firmly planted in the interplanetary romance (or sword & planet) genre, and it follows the conventions of that genre, just as a Western story has sixguns and horses and range wars and gun fights… or like how a police procedural or private eye story have their own specific formulas.
Personally, I think Donovan Hawke is a somewhat atypical protagonist for one of these stories; at least, I’ve tried to make him so. To my mind, he’s a more (semi-)realistic guy thrown into an impossible pulp adventure…. and doing the best he can to deal with the craziness.
I’ve been trying to show this in various ways: Unlike Carter, for instance, he’s not a natural-born warrior – in his duel with Kain, he only “won” through luck and even then wasn’t able to deliver the killing blow. A few pages later, he’s knocking boots with the story’s “bad girl” – something that would have been unimaginable for classic pulp heroes like John Carter or Flash Gordon.
In any case, I hope you’ll stick around for a while and see if we can maybe pull a surprise or two out of our hat for you after all….
Okay, “rehash” is a little harsher than I intended, it just seemed like it was going sort-of the similar formula in terms of how Donavan gets acclimated to this strange planet.
But yes, looking forward to seeing what happens next.