Greetings, reader!
There is a space next to the door where you can leave your coat, shoes, umbrella, and - should you feel so inclined - your brain.
What you are about to witness (assuming you keep reading this blog, and you don't just run away screaming instead) is the beginning of a shiny new cross-continuity webcomic adventure, written collaboratively by a team of three writers/illustrators, and featuring characters borrowed from several of our pre-existing fictional universes.
Just so you know who you're dealing with, we are Matt Colclough, Tim Johnston and Sarah Johnston, and our previous creative output has involved several other comic strips, including
Brothers in Shells,
Cylinder and Miserable, and
Grace and Caffeine, and various short films (usually but not always animated) including
Alpha One's Laser Café,
Alpha One's Quantum Shampoo,
X-Battles GT and
The Bookworm. The basic notion behind
Fort Paradox was to get some of our favourite characters from different universes, and put them all together in a new environment and see what happens. Random zaniness will hopefully be the order of the day.
The cross-continuity-webcomic concept has been done before, but not by us - and therefore, if we say so ourselves, it hasn't yet been explored to its full potential. We aren't going to tell you up front which characters will appear, or even what the titular 'Fort Paradox' really is, but we do have a back-story for the Fort, which will gradually be revealed as the comic progresses, and eventually the plot will involve characters from all of our other major projects. At the time of writing, we have the first 25 strips finished, and further plot discussions are pending, so in some ways we're as much in the dark as you are about where the story is going to end up. But it'll be fun finding out!
One of the joys of
FP, as opposed to all of our other comic strips, is that instead of sticking to a single rigidly consistent art style (as our previous strips have done), this project will shift back and forth between pencil sketches, ink drawings, photographs, paintings, CGI renders, and goodness knows what else. The metaphysics-bending nature of the project allows us to get away with more experimental art styles for some episodes, which we're rather enjoying.
The schedule, like the art style, will probably be variable, but for the time being
Fort Paradox will publish twice a week - on Tuesdays and Fridays - which means that Episode 1 will be appear right here on this blog tomorrow. Watch this space...
- The Colclough
(on behalf of itself & TMJ & SRJ)
