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"Like Kirby and Morrison before them, Gerard and Webb share a dream of super-heroes with a practical use in reality: to alter our minds so our minds can alter the world."

-Tom Peyer (writer: BATMAN '66, DEADPOOL TEAM-UP, assistant editor: THE SANDMAN, DOOM PATROL)



Well, awhile back, I was able to publish my first full sized graphic novella, Ungrounded, with my artist Eryck Webb and now I'm looking at expanding it out into a digital series. Tom Peyer in particular was very gracious about the original... and so I invited him and Brian Augustyn to each write chapters of the new series.

I thought I'd share a look back at one of my favorite pages from the original:
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And the cover Art Thibert did for the hardcover:

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We have a Kickstarter going right now through March 11th to fund the next three installments with work illustrated by Eryck with writing by me, Tom Peyer, and Brian Augustyn. Link below with the cover to Chapter 4, which is something of a David Lynch homage issue with Mr. Solenoid (the scientist given electromagnetic powers by Thoth) and Major Freakshow (a government werewolf bitten by a zombie vampire):

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Date: 2015-02-12 12:51 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] night4345
Major Freakshow (a government werewolf bitten by a zombie vampire):
That's amazing.

Date: 2015-02-12 05:32 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] burkeonthesly
Comics, kids!

(Hey, I got to say that without irony today. Good times.)

Date: 2015-02-12 05:42 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] junipepper
That is just brilliant. Perfect.

Date: 2015-02-12 01:58 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] arilou_skiff
Wait, why are there selkies working for the All-father?

Date: 2015-02-12 02:50 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cainofdreaming
Good dental plan?

Date: 2015-02-12 02:18 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] sanctaphrax
This looks awesome.

Date: 2015-02-12 03:18 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] beyondthefringe
That many worlds peace solution reminds me of the Long Earth series by Pratchett and Greg Bear. :)

Date: 2015-02-12 05:34 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] burkeonthesly
I read about two thirds of the first book in that and put it down, thoroughly sick of Lobsang. Great concept, but he just knocked me out of enjoying it every time he showed up. Which was always. He was like Poochie with a blimp.

Date: 2015-02-12 03:50 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] michaelhealy
Shouldn't a lot of those "many worlds" be inhabited by their own feuding nations?

Date: 2015-02-12 03:56 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] beyondthefringe
The trick, in a multiverse containing infinite variations, is to find the uninhabited ones.
The Long Earth sequence as I mentioned above really is a cool example of how to work with the concept. Because you might start with the ones where things are exactly as they are here, but the more you branch out, the weirder the alternatives become.

Date: 2015-02-12 04:06 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] glprime
I was assuming it was similar to how the "Council of Reeds" in Doomwar used the uninhabited worlds ('cuz eventually you're gonna find some) for growing crops.

These guys just kept going to they found worlds to stack their people on (but yeah, the math shouldn't work out, if every country/countries with border disputes solved it by getting a whole planet to itself, and there existed a multiverse to cater to this fantasy, there shouldn't be enough to go around, or we'd just constantly be fighting other universes' populations)

Date: 2015-02-12 05:39 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] burkeonthesly
Well, that's where the next generation of wars comes from, naturally.

Alternately, take the Douglas Adams approach. "Matter in the universe: none (because finite matter divided by infinite space comes out to a small enough number it might as well be nothing)." Apply that to the population of the multiverse--say there's a billion billion inhabited Earths, there's still an infinity of uninhabited Earths out there too.

Date: 2015-02-12 06:09 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] cainofdreaming
You just need to be wary of the infinite universes where the Big Bang is just happening. Gets kinda hot fast, even if you just peek into one of those.

Date: 2015-02-12 06:12 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] burkeonthesly
It sounds like some kind of 'look before you leap' option is essential for the seasoned multiversal traveler.

Date: 2015-02-12 11:30 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] icon_uk
It's mentioned in the Long Earth that there is a string of worlds further down the multiversal line where some really bad stuff went down (Asteroid strike on Earth, one of those chance things IIRC), and whilst you can get flicker through through them and out the other side to more normal worlds again, it's not pleasant.

Date: 2015-02-12 06:47 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] bewareofgeek
Actually, the lovely thing about infinity is you CAN find room for everybody.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert%27s_paradox_of_the_Grand_Hotel

Also, on a semi-related note, I own a book from the Faction Paradox line, called WARRING STATES, where all the alternate universes where the Nazis won WW2 went to war against the alternates where Rome never fell. Interesting, in it's own way.

Date: 2015-02-12 12:28 pm (UTC)
From: [personal profile] agharta75
"Batman '66 Deadpool Teamup".

That could be amusing.

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