Congratulations on finishing this first volume ! Your hard work and passion is really showing and I am so looking forward to the next chapters coming up ! I've been following RomanJones's art on DA for a while now (and have recently been looking at HemlockMilk's gallery and ho-lee crap that's a treat !) and seeing previews and tidbits of the future volumes is really intriguing. I'm really inspired to strive as much with my future work as you do, both of you.
I wish you good luck all throughout July with the publishing of this comic. Lord knows this story is amazing and deserves so many eyes on it !
Have you ever considered going to Webtoon? They recently had a number of their top cartoonists do features explaining how they never thought they could make it in cartooning, but Webtoon enabled them to do it. The downside is that you have to produce a lot of content, and not everyone is geared up for that. I love cartoons, and hate to see anyone give up because of bad economics.
Hello Jason, thank you for the comment and kind words - it really means a lot.
Serious Engineering had it's first incarnation back in 2008, where the concepts of implanted cybernetics, corporate mafias, controlled protests, white-collar assassins, and ineffective rebellions were pretty fresh. Today in 2020 these are sick, dark realities that make the 2008 stories feel naïve if not ignorant in comparison. It's impossible to write Quen, for example, as anything other than pure evil masquerading as a regular Joe. Otherwise he's the creation of authors who actually supporting the idea that someone who regularly operates with 1% mobsters can maintain a good heart - we're not that optimistic these days. He would be much closer to Martin Shkreli than Tony Stark, and to say otherwise would be insulting to all the people the Shkreli's of the word have fucked over.
The story can't go in the direction we originally wrote for it and needs a lot of re-writes, which we feel will result in a stronger, more credible narrative that can apply today and for the future.
(Thank you! (For some reason I don't even know I still check every few months and I didn't forget that I said I won't comment anymore - I hope this here doesn't count.) Good to know that you're still at it.)
Hopefully the events of last week, in which enough folks on this side of the US/Canadian border voted against racism, corruption, fear, and lies, and for optimism, truth, and competency, has restored some small faith in humanity again. I'm not an artist or writer, and looking forward to the next incarnation of SE, but I am a hopeless optimist. I can still see Quen as someone who has compromised himself, little by little, in order to achieve what he still sees as a noble quest. His naivety and inner turmoil are clearly apparent, and belie the good heart that has made a series of bad choices, finds itself in very deep, and is struggling to find its way out. Quen seems to be searching for the way to get back in line with his moral compass, where Shkreli and his ilk abandoned that compass long ago in their greed for power, money, etc. Quen is clearly deeply flawed, but is far more human than any of the Shkrelis of this world.
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