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essrose
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 Posted - 04/14/2010 : 16:17:21
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Hi!
My name is Aaron Alexovich, comic book artist, writer, SGU fan, and occasional animation industry drone. I've been lurking about the edges of the big skeptic community mosh pit for several years now, and I think it's high time I dove in and started showing off my, ahem, "wicked cool" moves.
BUT I NEED YOUR HELP! (ACK!)
ELDRITCH! my new comic (with art by "Devilish" Drew Rausch), stars Anya Sobczek, a snarling 23-year-old punk-rock SKEPCHICK with a sharp mind and an arm tattooed shoulder-to-fist with the story of human evolution. (I'd describe her as a combination of "Darwin's Bulldog" Thomas Huxley, Harry Houdini, and Warrior Queen Boudicca.) The story deals with Anya's investigation of her "occultist" little brother Owen's new, seemingly "demonic" powers. And since it's just us skeptics in here, (SPOILER!) I can reveal Anya sure as hell won't end up a "believer" by the end of this thing.
You can read the first eight pages on DC Comics' ZUDA site right now. To see the OTHER 52 pages, you'll have to VOTE! There are a lot of great competitors this month, so we could really use help!
The comic industry DESPERATELY needs a good dose of good old-fashioned rationality, so please come out, vote, and help us add a FEROCIOUS new voice for skepticism!
Thanks so much!
THE OFFICIAL SYNOPTICUS:
"NEW ELDRITCH, CA: A decaying former tourist haven on the Pacific coast.
Anya Sobczek (SUB-CHECK): A restless but committed scientific rationalist with a hair-trigger temper and an arm full of Charles Darwin tattoos. She will do violence in the name of science, oh yes she will.
Owen Sobczek (SUB-CHECK): A sensitive, poetic lad drawn to all things unexplainable, mystic, and obscure. “Magick” is the word of his day, every day, no matter what his irritable sister might say about it.
Ever since grade school, the preternaturally brilliant Anya and Owen Sobczek have been waging the bloodiest war in the history of sibling rivalries. And up until now, Owen's been on the losing end of nearly every pound of ordnance. It was fun for a while, sure, but at this point little brother’s getting tired of life in big sister’s overachieving shadow. Owen would give his right hand to show her up once and for all...
...And now he has a new trick.
ELDRITCH is the story of Anya's bull-headed quest to find the source of her brother's hideous, near-uncontrollable new "demonic" powers, a quest that pits her up against a pretentious coven of super-powered teenage witches, a gibbering tentacled maneater of a baby, a hidden laboratory of atrocities, and one pop-collared, spray-tanned, walking midlife-crisis named Ted Newbarn... who could very well be the most dangerous living thing on earth.
SCIENCE VS. SUPERSTITION and a bubbling infection about to crush California with a thousand quivering tentacles.... It is ELDRITCH!"
Here's that link to vote again: http://zudacomics.com/node/1839 (Comments, ratings, and "favoriting" also count, somehow, if you have the time.) And thanks again for helping strike a blow for rational thinking in comics!
(Take THAT, Neal Adams!)
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Skep-Chick Comic in DC Comics Competition!
