Comrade Hero's Pieces...

Thanks muchly. That's pretty much it for a little while. Spending those pennies on inking, flatting, coloring and lettering.

Thanks for picking that up. Not quite sure what happened there, must have had a brain fade.

A lot of the pages are similar, but I did spend a lot of time doing rewrites and edits after feedback and analysis, and examining bilingual publications here in Aotearoa/New Zealand.

The inclusion of elements of Māori and Polynesian cosmologies, and also Aboriginal and Slavic mythological elements, came about when comparing mythology with contemporary superheroes and looking at the parallels.

There's nothing particular new with this, but I liked the idea of shifting the focus away from Anglo-American and Western European mythologies (Graeco-Roman and Norse mythology for example) to match the geographical regions of Aotearoa, Antarctica, Australia and the South Pacific that I'm using.

Another change is that the pages have been decompressed after exploring and comparing print and digital formats. Working out the page/panel ratio for a variety of different sized viewing devices was a major consideration, and is still being experimented with.

This is pretty much still a work in progress for me, and one that has taken a while. Mainly because I'm paying for everything. Not easy, but manageable so far.

Thanks for the your well wishes. Whether City of Heroes is reincarnated into a new version, or quietly fades away, I'll be busy working on creative project for the foreseeable future.

Naked in the background.

Of course, the Comrade Hero piece by Shannon Brocas has him naked in all his full glory. But you'll have to gaze at that on deviantART when I finally post it.