New Ungrounded
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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:
And the cover Art Thibert did for the hardcover:
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)That's amazing.
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Date: 2015-02-12 05:32 am (UTC)(Hey, I got to say that without irony today. Good times.)
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Date: 2015-02-12 03:56 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2015-02-12 04:06 am (UTC)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)
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Date: 2015-02-12 05:39 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2015-02-12 06:47 am (UTC)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.
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Date: 2015-02-12 12:28 pm (UTC)That could be amusing.