I've been promising this for months now, and I guess I'm going to cave in and post it. Behold! My submission samples for Image Comics, Project: IMPACT!

 

The story, in a nutshell, is about a group of teens who are forced to become superheroes. In these five pages, the kids are fighting a nasty super villain and losing. It's actually a holographic scenario, something I didn't want to mention until the last minute (I should have added another page!!!). Their mission is to stop and contain the threat without being lethal. Of course, the fact that I have to explain this means I pretty much failed at storytelling. I'll be sure to add in a few more pages in the near future.    

Unfortunately, I didn't receive any word from the company, so there must be something wrong with the art...if not the art, then the synopsis wasn't that entertaining. A friend of mine said that page 3 was a bit boring and I have to agree to some extent. At the time, I figured a splash page was appropriate, but a few extra panels would have been better to establish some sense of drama. My beef with page five is that the flying head looks flat. Just need to make it a bit more 3-dimensional. The cover turned out to be quite awful. Sure, it's just a mock-up, but... This was just a bad attempt.

What can I say? You live and you learn. Since things didn't go so well this time around, I'll be sure to give it another go really soon---possibly try other companies like Dark Horse or IDW. I was thinking about self publishing, but that may prove a lot harder than trying to submit this to a big company.

Time for Round 2.

Cheers