~sephodwyrm

July 21, 2008

We will take commissions!
There's a sample up. Send us your rough sketches and concepts and we will make them into something of top notch quality. Of course, price is always competitive and is dependent on the desired complexity and effects.

Full color CG concepts 275 USD
Grayscale 115 USD
Large poster sized 400-600 USD

Of course: PURGATORY

I got about 29 pages of sketch, good enough for the first issue (25 pages) and a bit more. The first issue will introduce you to:
- War
- Fish
- Ships
- Orderlies / Blessed Ones
- Tulfangue
- Class Bigotry
- Religious fundamentalism
- House rivalries

FAQ (questions I have from AX 2008 and elaborated answers).

What is the PURGATORY?
The PURGATORY is an original series of comic thought of by me and done by me and a few other friends. We are funding ourselves right now and trying to come up with something that I can show the publishers to get published.

It looks steam-punkish...where is your inspiration?
Warhammer 40K, Warhammer, Star Wars, Last Exile, Steamboy and the Holy Bible and other assorted religious texts.
Last Exile and Steamboy has a very idealized and sanitized version of war. Not only that, the scene of leviathans flying past each other SLOWLY in 2 lines with the fusiliers shooting each other with steam guns...well, not a smart way to fight wars.
In the PURGATORY, we have blood, steel and sweat. We have political realities, all inspired by events in real world history. It will be EPIC and AWESOME. If there's any line that can summarize the PURGATORY series, it would be this:
WAR is NOT FUN.

I got your 12 page full colored portfolio...so who is this Albin?
Albin is a figure inspired by Jesus Christ. At least on the surface. He is widely believed by his followers (calling themselves the Albins) as the one true God who was unfortunately decapitated by other people.

How do the ships fly?
Leviathan Cores. The treatise of flight is a mish-mash of mumbo-jumbo, like all fantasy science fiction, containing at least 25 engineering and technical terms that most people won't understand so as to make me sound credible. Leviathan cores derive its lift via rapid countercurrent circulation of the NEBULOUS. Prior to that, they used to use human muscle powered pumps and fish blood (containing conjugated nebulous naturally found as gas). With the advent of the PRACTICAL STEAM ENGINE and the use of PERFECT GAS LAW they managed to make all steel LEVIATHAN CORES. Except that they're really big and ugly looking.

What are the Houses?
The Houses are great families that can trace their founding to the Era of Albin (when He still walked the Earth) or even prior to that. Each of the great Houses has their niche specialties. For example, the black banner of the Gothoans are feared most for their armies, while the golden seals of the Nifelheims are respected for their ability to weave Gold out of thin air. Of course, the great Serpent of the Capetians are always feared as being the most ruthless, absolute and iron-fisted of all. That is why the Empire is ruled by the Capetians.

What are the Tulfangue, or the Half-demon heretics you kept referring to?
The Tulfangues are only referred to as Half-demon heretics by the Albins. In contrast to the Albins, Tulfangues tend to be darker skinned but are in truth a great tribal alliance of numerous disparate cultures. Where the Albins are more homogenized in language and culutre, the Tulfangues are diverse and colorful. Where the Albins are organized with a central authority, the Tulfangues are loose and wild, ruled by their own Emperor (the sons of Khosar) in name only. In addition to these fundamental differences, the Tulfangue pray different. I.e. they don't regard Albin as God given that it was their ancestors that axed him. This makes the Albins really pissed off. Of course there has always been a lot of bad blood between the 2. Tulfangue raiders and ordos have been flying across the straits whenever the wind was favorable to attack and pillage Albin lands. Not to mention that the old Tulfangue Empire used to cover the lands of Capet, Carpathia and that Tulfangue bombards have shelled the Sancta (holy capitol) itself.

OK, there's a lot of history and info, but is there a protagonist?
Yes there is a protagonist. He will come out at...page 150-160...hopefully.

No hot chicks, dude!
Yes there's hot chicks! But they're classified under SPOILERS.
Here's the names and standing just in case you guys are curious:
1. Maurice Castille - Grand Marshal - hot (and a young mom)
2. Enolene Enguerrand - cute girl from the house Enguerrands...whose father (and duke) is now an obsessive scientist on the theories of Evolution
3. Singal-miq - very hot girl with hair of fire. She's a Tulfangue and she really really really really hates Albins.
4. Hurem Sultan - the queen of the Tulfangues
5. Eleanor Holgenstein - widow and grand duchess. She's middle-aged.
6. Theodora Vandalia - Her Holy Majesty the Empress of the Faithful (and a very young one, too)