I have this persistent dream, it goes like this: I’m in the comic book shop hunting through the millions and millions of comics that are stacked EVERYWHERE but I just can’t seem to find what I’m looking for….not that I don’t want everything I see but I can’t find something I haven’t seen before. Then in a mild fit of anger I go to the counter and ask for something new, something original something FRESH…..like the stuff I keep seeing all over the Internet, you know like a Digital Comic? As you can guess the dream ends rather violently.
Lately I find myself looking for comics in the Internet more than in the shop and though I hate to say that, it truly is where the art & story talent are building an empire. Last week I had a chance to delve into Black Salt from Blackline Comics and though I thought it had great potential as a ‘property’ I wasn’t that hyped about it as a comic. And therein lies the beauty of producing a Digital Comic – it suddenly can be envisioned and executed in multiple ways very easily.
So now I see Tim Tyler has put ‘Engine’ over at Blackline and I’m wondering where this might be going. Tyler has a pretty classic tale withsome odd and surprising twists that give it a fresh spin. His artwork is dead on to the story line and pretty highly detailed which bodes so well for this comic. I like to see writers do their own artwork – I think it lends for a cohesiveness that you sometimes can’t get when you seperate out the tasks. Tyler certainly has the talent to handle both like a comic veteran. So I can easily say this one will get bookmarked and watched closely.
Blackline has a Press Release statement for the book and it pretty well sums up where Engine is going and what’s to be expected from this property. I’ll tack it in this article so you can see the commitment they’ve made. Go over and take a look at Tylers pages, I think you will be intrigued. Four installments are up for the reading and if the quality continues Engine will certainly gather a following. If you are a fan of the ‘Chisel & Carnage ’ sword weilding planet hopping hero you don’t want to miss Tylers take on it.
BLACKLINE COMICS BEGINS RUNNING THE EPIC SERIES “ENGINE” ON ITS WEBSITE
Created by artist Tim Tyler, the adventure series is being developed for multiple platforms and formats.
LAS VEGAS, NV– Publisher Blackline Comics’ follow-up to its digital flagship title, BLACK SALT: THE LAST HEROES LEFT, is a swashbuckling, sword-wielding space opera with a twist of martial arts mayhem known simply as ENGINE, created from the mind of artist Tim Tyler.
“ENGINE is a combination of many genres of film, gaming and comics that I have enjoyed over the years,” says Tyler, a Kentucky native who most notably inked over Tim Vigil’s artwork on the independent comic series FAUST. “Some of the early influences are the action scenes of DRANGONBALL Z, games such as GRANDIA II and SKIES OF ARCADIA, the comic series BATTLECHASERS and films like STAR WARS and LORD OF THE RINGS. I mix it all with a bit of anime and my love of Silver Age comics, especially the works of Jack Kirby.”
ENGINE,because of how fertile Tyler’s creative mind is, almost defies classification, which is the true virtue of the series. “Just when you’ve become comfortable with the direction the book is going in, it switches up on you, but its best that you experience that when you read it, says Blackline Comics’ Director of Operations Michael De Lepine, one of ENGINE’s biggest fans, and the letterer for the online series, which he likes to phrase as being “digitally remastered.”
While ENGINEruns on the Blackline Comics website, it will be also prepared as an issue-by-issue digital comic to be sold on sites such as Comics XP (www.comicsxp.com), and the digest-sized trade paperback will soon be available on Blackline’sweb store for $9.95 per copy for those who still crave the feel of a comic book in their hands. More information will be made available in the coming weeks.
ENGINE,which debuted on the Blackline website on October 18th, will post new installments on Sundays and Wednesdays. For more information or any inquiries regarding ENGINE and other projects under development, visit our website at www.blacklinecomics.com.
Okay, there you have it. See the mention of BATTLECHASERS up there in that press release ?
Remember the cover for Battlechasers?
I don’t think Engine is going to dissapoint at all – Tyler seems to have stumbled into our dreams and inked out our cross genre fantasies with fanboy precision.
Catch Tyler over at DrunkDuck.com – he’s pretty popular and he puts up art quite often. He’s got an evolving style that certinly merits watching.
