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Re: I review SCI-FI COMICS on my blog!
If you're still taking sci-fi, I'd be glad to be looked at — and equally fine if you're not.
AFTERTONE. Two chapters, free, black and white. Australian, set on an open-cut mine in Cape
York. A twenty-metre circle of dressed stone turns up in a highwall with no tool marks, no
bedding and no fracture; the instruments sent to measure it disagree with each other; and it
opens for exactly one person on site, who has spent his life hearing something no instrument
has ever picked up.
It's science fiction played procedurally rather than heroically — closer to people trying to
measure something than to anyone fighting it.
https://globalcomix.com/c/aftertone
No obligation at all, and thanks either way.
AFTERTONE. Two chapters, free, black and white. Australian, set on an open-cut mine in Cape
York. A twenty-metre circle of dressed stone turns up in a highwall with no tool marks, no
bedding and no fracture; the instruments sent to measure it disagree with each other; and it
opens for exactly one person on site, who has spent his life hearing something no instrument
has ever picked up.
It's science fiction played procedurally rather than heroically — closer to people trying to
measure something than to anyone fighting it.
https://globalcomix.com/c/aftertone
No obligation at all, and thanks either way.
Re: What are you working on?
Chapter three of AFTERTONE — an Australian manga set on a Cape York mine site.
This one splits between two worlds for the first time: the mine on one side, and on the
other a valley in permanent rain with a stone road that has been maintained for a thousand
years by somebody. Drawing them so they never look lit the same way is the whole problem —
Earth is white paper with black figures, the other side is black paper with white rain.
Chapters one and two are up: https://globalcomix.com/c/aftertone
This one splits between two worlds for the first time: the mine on one side, and on the
other a valley in permanent rain with a stone road that has been maintained for a thousand
years by somebody. Drawing them so they never look lit the same way is the whole problem —
Earth is white paper with black figures, the other side is black paper with white rain.
Chapters one and two are up: https://globalcomix.com/c/aftertone
Re: May 2025 - Introduce Your Comic and You
Hi all — Mike, from Brisbane, Australia.
I write and draw AFTERTONE, an Australian shonen manga. Two chapters up so far, free.
The setup: a thousand years ago you could walk between worlds through stone gateways, and
then inside one generation every one of them went dark. Earth was cut off first and worst
— long enough ago that nothing survived of it, no record, no story, no word. Just a sealed
stone circle in the ground on Cape York, with an open-cut mine built on top of it by people
who had no idea it was there.
Chapter one is a mining crew cutting back a bench and finding the top of it. Chapter two is
the physicist they send up working out that it doesn't open by force.
I wanted to set it somewhere I actually know rather than a generic city — so it's hi-vis,
haul trucks, water carts, a superintendent who is very unhappy about losing her pit, and a
crew who behave the way crews behave when something stops the job. I haven't found another
manga about Australian mining, which is either a gap or a warning.
Day job is engineering, so this happens at night and on weekends. Chapter three is written
and in production.
https://globalcomix.com/c/aftertone
Glad to be here — pointed at plenty of other people's work in this thread already.
I write and draw AFTERTONE, an Australian shonen manga. Two chapters up so far, free.
The setup: a thousand years ago you could walk between worlds through stone gateways, and
then inside one generation every one of them went dark. Earth was cut off first and worst
— long enough ago that nothing survived of it, no record, no story, no word. Just a sealed
stone circle in the ground on Cape York, with an open-cut mine built on top of it by people
who had no idea it was there.
Chapter one is a mining crew cutting back a bench and finding the top of it. Chapter two is
the physicist they send up working out that it doesn't open by force.
I wanted to set it somewhere I actually know rather than a generic city — so it's hi-vis,
haul trucks, water carts, a superintendent who is very unhappy about losing her pit, and a
crew who behave the way crews behave when something stops the job. I haven't found another
manga about Australian mining, which is either a gap or a warning.
Day job is engineering, so this happens at night and on weekends. Chapter three is written
and in production.
https://globalcomix.com/c/aftertone
Glad to be here — pointed at plenty of other people's work in this thread already.
