From Sloane, With Love #1
Since Prism Stalker Vol 2 is postponed till next year I’ve stopped drawing comics for the time being. I’m 70 pages into inks with another 70 to go but I think a break is needed especially with *gestures at world* all of this. Prism Stalker was canceled by Image Comics as soon as the second issue came out in 2018 because it didn’t make enough sales. It’s been a few years since its debut so whats another year, hm? I’m hoping with this extended break my brain will reset and finds new pathways for my drawing hand and maybe my art will have improved somehow. It happens okay!
Until then I’m working my first novel manuscript! The pitch:
When a star-faring tribe flees their destroyed colony and is forced to land on an inhabited planet, Rekha, a young mech pilot, must choose between joining a strange feudal society of giant aliens or starting a bloody war.
I’m 37,000 words in, so about 1/3 of the way through. There is romance and mechs dueling towering aliens and a MURDER MYSTERY and betrayals. I have a title already but for now she’s known simply as #projectMechMance as in Mecha Romance. Whatever. Anyway, here’s the main characters. Alien’s height subject to change (to be even bigger).
What else am I working on, you ask eagerly, starry-eyed, mouth agape, a dribble of drool twinkling on your lip? Well I’m working on a SECRET PROJECT for the incredible TKO Studios! I’m writing and my incredible cartoonist friend Anna Bowles is gracing the story with her art. Here, have a taste of her work for our project. It’s obscene how good she is. (This is a big file but it deserves to be seen HUGE!!! Projected onto a movie theater screen IMO!!)
I feel monstrous I made her draw this but also thrilled, over the MOON, insanely EUPHORIC over how perfect this spread came out.
Anyway, that’s me. That’s what your old pal, old buddy, old friend Sloane is up to.
NEXT on BRIEF AND INVISIBLE WORLDS:
Sequences #2: More Manga, More Problems