With The legend Known As... and the 3 comics that will appear in Unico Collections still in production (I’ll have an update on these soon) I thought I’d talk a little about the new series I’ve just finished called Our Heroes Fall.
It’s a six issue arch about…
“Sarah Marshall was not always the tormented woman she is today. Once she was a tough teenage side kick to the vigilante Shadow-Owl. Sarah was the second Night-Owl following on in her older brother Richards footsteps. Regrettably Sarah's time as Night-Owl was cut short by the Debarred Ruling. This law bars all masked avengers from the United Kingdom. Believing this rule to be unjust the original Shadow-Owl kept fighting crime at night until he was mysteriously murdered. Now Sarah must don the mask of her dead father and take to the streets once more to avenge her father’s death and to find who betrayed her family”
It’s a typical super-hero script based on loss and revenge with a few new things I’ve tried to incorporate which I’ve not seen in mainstream comics before. I really like it but once I was finished with the first draft of the whole thing I was left a little cold to the superhero genre.
When I started writing comics back when I was a tender 24 years old I made a pack with myself not to write Americana comics because there’s a billion types of comics set in America so why add to it? Besides I’m British and I believe I should be writing about British characters in none comic book cliché circumstances to stand out in this business.
I love Our Heroes Fall it’s a great little comic set in the UK but it does share a lot of superhero sensibilities. At least with “Legend known as” it’s a hero/action story from the perspective of the young boy in the story only and not the hero himself so it doesn’t follow the main diet of ‘hero loses family member then avenges death’ that about 90% of comics are based on.
Don’t get me wrong what I mostly read at home is superhero comics. I love everything from Batman to the Avengers. I guess it’s just what I have a love for. I like adult character stories like Preacher, The Originals, or even DMZ That’s the kind of stuff I like to write.
Hopefully when Faith, Fracture and Hellion come out you will see some truly excellent none superhero comics.
“Sarah Marshall was not always the tormented woman she is today. Once she was a tough teenage side kick to the vigilante Shadow-Owl. Sarah was the second Night-Owl following on in her older brother Richards footsteps. Regrettably Sarah's time as Night-Owl was cut short by the Debarred Ruling. This law bars all masked avengers from the United Kingdom. Believing this rule to be unjust the original Shadow-Owl kept fighting crime at night until he was mysteriously murdered. Now Sarah must don the mask of her dead father and take to the streets once more to avenge her father’s death and to find who betrayed her family”
It’s a typical super-hero script based on loss and revenge with a few new things I’ve tried to incorporate which I’ve not seen in mainstream comics before. I really like it but once I was finished with the first draft of the whole thing I was left a little cold to the superhero genre.
When I started writing comics back when I was a tender 24 years old I made a pack with myself not to write Americana comics because there’s a billion types of comics set in America so why add to it? Besides I’m British and I believe I should be writing about British characters in none comic book cliché circumstances to stand out in this business.
I love Our Heroes Fall it’s a great little comic set in the UK but it does share a lot of superhero sensibilities. At least with “Legend known as” it’s a hero/action story from the perspective of the young boy in the story only and not the hero himself so it doesn’t follow the main diet of ‘hero loses family member then avenges death’ that about 90% of comics are based on.
Don’t get me wrong what I mostly read at home is superhero comics. I love everything from Batman to the Avengers. I guess it’s just what I have a love for. I like adult character stories like Preacher, The Originals, or even DMZ That’s the kind of stuff I like to write.
Hopefully when Faith, Fracture and Hellion come out you will see some truly excellent none superhero comics.
Pulsar Concept by Johnnie Iley
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