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I got my contract in the mail today, so it's official: I'm the new writer for Cowboys and Aliens: Worlds at War, the sequel to the original Cowboys and Aliens graphic novel by Platinum Studios. The first volume is still available online, and though we'll be departing from the style of storytelling in the original, we are drawing on the first volume for characters and set up.
The entire project is being led by Jeremy Mohler (of Baeg Tobar), and everyone working on it is part of Empty Room Studios. Rick Hershey, the creator of Steampunk Musha, is the primary penciller for the series. Daniel Harris, who I haven't worked with before, is the colorist.
Doing the research on this has been skads of fun. After doing some initial research on the world in 1873 (Platinum provided us with quite a bit), I started looking up information about the Apache to better flesh out two of the main characters. I studied Native American Anthropology in college, so doing linguistic and religious research has been refreshing, even though I imagine very little of the actual research will show up obviously in the comic.
The really exciting thing about Worlds at War is that the stories take place all over. So we'll be covering everything from the shift between Edo and Meiji Japan to the Boers (Dutch rulers) of Transvaal (South Africa) and their ongoing conflicts with the Zulus. Because we want to keep everything as realistic as possible--to provide a counterpoint the fact that the series revolves around an alien invasion--each section is going to involve a research period getting us up to par on the cultures and politics of the area we're working in.
As soon as the project goes live, you can be sure I'll post the link!
The entire project is being led by Jeremy Mohler (of Baeg Tobar), and everyone working on it is part of Empty Room Studios. Rick Hershey, the creator of Steampunk Musha, is the primary penciller for the series. Daniel Harris, who I haven't worked with before, is the colorist.
Doing the research on this has been skads of fun. After doing some initial research on the world in 1873 (Platinum provided us with quite a bit), I started looking up information about the Apache to better flesh out two of the main characters. I studied Native American Anthropology in college, so doing linguistic and religious research has been refreshing, even though I imagine very little of the actual research will show up obviously in the comic.
The really exciting thing about Worlds at War is that the stories take place all over. So we'll be covering everything from the shift between Edo and Meiji Japan to the Boers (Dutch rulers) of Transvaal (South Africa) and their ongoing conflicts with the Zulus. Because we want to keep everything as realistic as possible--to provide a counterpoint the fact that the series revolves around an alien invasion--each section is going to involve a research period getting us up to par on the cultures and politics of the area we're working in.
As soon as the project goes live, you can be sure I'll post the link!
