Ballad of the Antichrist

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After two years of post-production hell, my first graphic novel is finally done. It's a docufiction within a story, about a unified conspiracy theory in a parallel universe, where a secret cabal is on the verge of enslaving humanity once and for all and only a renegade titan stands in their way.



It's an unconventional style of storytelling that doesn't utilize a lot of character development and relies on a lot of exposition and visceral action sequences which may not appeal to some people but it's how I wanted to present the story in one volume. To be completely honest, I have an extremely difficult time depicting subtle character development. I never really understood why I've struggled with the quiet moments of storytelling, like two people sharing a meal or colleagues at work or an employee getting chewed out by their boss, until I heard this quote re-enacted during a Lovecraft documentary:

"I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them. Without interest there can be no art. Man's relations to man do not captivate my fancy. It is man's relation to the cosmos—to the unknown—which alone arouses in me the spark of creative imagination. The humanocentric pose is impossible to me, for I cannot acquire the primitive myopia which magnifies the earth and ignores the background. Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability. To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty. Like the late Mr. Wilde, "I live in terror of not being misunderstood."

So just to prevent any misunderstanding between us, this isn't the character based storytelling that you're used to. It's different, it's an experiment and it pushes all kinds of boundaries. It's 242 pages of cognitive dissonance that I tried to make as entertaining as possible because I wanted to get this information out of the way to establish the universe, like a zero issue of a comic book series.

If this sounds interesting to you, check it out. At $3.99 for 242 pages on a kindle/tablet it's a steal compared to most monthlies.

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Paperback costs more but I couldn't charge less than $9.21, so there's always the e-book.

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Behold,

Master Man!! ! © Liam Rodgers, with special permission from Aaron Shepard.

Able to lift a mountain, hurdle an ocean and break the sound barrier.

Alas, he cannot fly.

Nice

Sweet. I love the kinetic energy of panel storytelling. It's my all-time favorite graphic art form.

For 3.99 it's going on my pull list.

Thanks guys, if you're into conspiracy theories then this is your new bible.

An abridged version of 61 action packed pages, and a spiffy new cover, is available now on Comixology.

Check out the not-so exclusive preview below.




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A hero is born!