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AQUA LEUNG BANNERS
Mark Andrew Smith
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Here's the link to the banners that move for our new original graphic novel series Aqua Leung if anyone is down to sport them. It's out in April:
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg106/paulsome/aqua_banner_ad_1.gif
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=142808
Then you can read a Six Page Preview Story from Popgun here:
http://blog.newsarama.com/about/?p=6939
http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg106/paulsome/aqua_banner_ad_1.gif
http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=142808
Then you can read a Six Page Preview Story from Popgun here:
http://blog.newsarama.com/about/?p=6939
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Okay so because it's giant and a turtle, that makes it the turtle from never ending story? If you want it to be...? Go for it, it's all you.
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It's an Atlantis story about a boy who's father, the octopus god, was supposed to be this great conqueror of the 7 Seas as told in a great old story. The people closest to his father, his generals, all turn on him and conspire against him, so just as his castle is being stormed, a child is snuck out by a pod and he goes to land. So Aqua, the boy, grows up on land not knowing where he came from with adopted parents. Everything is going really well until a Dagon Assassin comes to his house and he finds his foster parents killed. There he's met by Sonny the fighting fish who gives him a ring of Atlantis that allows him to exist and he starts to take a plunge into the oceans that will lead him to his destiny.
When he arrives in the Ocean in Atlantis he's taken into Custody by King Calamari who starts his training as a conqueror under Sonny the fighting fish. Calamari is the retainer of Aqua's father's kingdom and he told his father in his last minutes that he would prepare Aqua for his path of revenge.
Each sea is ruled by a different oversized despot who has a scepter of the sea. These scepters hold great power, so with every dictator that Aqua overthrows he absorbs the power of the scepter and he starts to grow out octopus tentacles in his back and take on the appearance of his dead father. So the book is about a little bratty warlord kid just kicking all kinds of ass against giant oversized sea rulers, but the twists and turns in between are fun, and we have to see what effect power will have on Aqua and his thirst for revenge. So in a way it's a bit like Star Wars where you have this really cute kid that you like, and you know he's going to turn into something very evil when he grows up.
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I read the short Aqua Leung story in Popgun, looking forward to this.
Thanks Dark Primus, I'll try to post a lot of preview pages once we get more of the letters in and we'll probably do a few sections online for people to check out, where it's like they get to read an issue's worth of material from the OGN for free. We're putting letters on the very last issue, so I've been tweaking the dialogue, and it's this huge huge underwater battle. So as I write and make tweaks I kind of get a bit giddy and excited about it and it has an effect on me so that's a good sign. I'll try to post some more pages when I get the chance.
For the Popgun story, I wanted to do something that was more like music lyrics a bit or poetry, more abstract and telling of the larger story, and just intense and Stanley Kubrick like in intensity and where it just feels really heavy. When I was working on it I was thinking of the Shining a lot and how they push in so much on people with the camera and the states are really internalized. So I think it was a good teaser. The first volume is a bit different in feel from that story and you'll see the differences.
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Looking forward to it. When in April?
I think it will be out on April 9th. We were going to release it later in the month but Paul wanted to have it ready for NYC Comic Con so it got bumped earlier a few weeks for the show.