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Beholder Series #13: Blueprint Magazine, “Spirit Issue”, March 2011

March 31, 2011 Beholder Series, Blog, Comic Stuff

The March issue of Blueprint Magazine, volume 10, issue 7, focuses on the theme of “Spirit”.

The direction could have gone in a couple directions, but I stuck to a little short short story that I kinda liked having in the back of my mind.

It’s not a grand idea (at least to me considering the abundance of horror things I’ve read), but one I thought would be fun to capture on Hellmouth. The basic idea is that, instead of a crazy old necromancer, or a skull faced undead lich, or some shadow entity demi-god, playing the role of “battle field warrior recycler”, it would be a religious man intent on fulfilling some sort of faith-based quest… and he and his faith need all the help they can muster up! Even if it’s the dead to rise again! DUM DUM DUM (lightning crackles overhead followed by a crackling boom of thunder)!

Seriously though, it also captures the idea that “with great spirit, no battle is challenge to great to face”. Not like the dead haven’t risen before in religious scripture anyways… why not fill them with the holy spirit of zombieness, right?

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Beholder Series #6: Blueprint Magazine, “Roots Issue”, March 2010

March 30, 2010 Beholder Series, Blog, Comic Stuff

Blueprint Magazine has released the march issue with the theme of “Roots”.

The idea for a strip revolving around “roots” was taken a bit more literally on the concept stage. At first I considered doing something based around the dwarves of Hellmouth and their “Birthstones”. The Birthstones for the dwarves are considered to be part of the Roots of Yggdrasil, the World-Tree. After pondering how to do a half-page strip story revolving around a concept that connected a stone to a tree… I figured I’d start over with something more within the universal subconscious.

That took me to taking a look at the myth of the dryad on Hellmouth and how they treat and deal with death. The subtext of the strip was the actual intended concept I wanted to get across. Not so much a “hippie thing” as something that suggests we all live on an Earth that gives us sustenance even as we take it away to progress as a species. A balance is something worth considering, instead of being ignorant to. If the Earth goes… we go.

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Beholder Series #1: Blueprint Magazine, “Death Issue”, September 2009

December 8, 2009 Beholder Series, Blog, Comic Stuff


Blueprint Magazine is out! Click on the link to read the online version is a cool flash flip-book viewer!

The first installment of what I hope will be a monthly series guided by the magazine’s theme is printed at the end of the magazine. World of Hellmouth: Beholder Series will be a window into the world of the Hellmouth and it’s people, places, monsters and events. I’m really excited about this opportunity to be able to explore small one-shots with Emmanuel Xerx Javier, the series artist.

Great thanks goes out to editor Erin Epp for this amazing opportunity!

Read the “Death” Issue on the Blueprint Magazine Website
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