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SummarySpecter: Herald of Ku is about a young man named Michael Pryce. After the death of his friend and mentor, Dr. Martin Walton, Michael inherited the late doctor’s last unfinished invention, a machine that could transport matter instantly across any distance. Unable to complete the damaged device on his own, Michael turned to entrepreneur Anthony Fitch, who purchased the machine and promised to see it completed. Tensions between Mike and Fitch escalated until Fitch banned Mike from the project altogether. Furious at being cut off from the last link to his friend, Mike broke into the Fitch Industries lab and used the machine on himself. It exploded, destroying all traces of Walton’s work, but somehow, Michael was found in the wreckage, completely unharmed. As he tried to readjust to his old life, Mike discovered that his accident had imbued him with the power of Walton’s lost technology, the power to teleport. Now, plagued with nightmare visions of a world beyond space and haunted by his failure to bring Walton’s dream to fruition, Michael dons the mask of Specter to try and bring about the better world his friend had worked for. About the ComicSpecter began as a poorly-conceived Batman wannabe in black and gray armor that I drew when I was twelve. He had ghostly powers that included passing through solid objects and blasting “ghostly energy” from his hands similar to the Nickelodeon character Danny Phantom, whose debut two or three years later would cause a total overhaul of the character into something very similar to what he is now. From the very beginning, I wanted Specter to be something a step apart from the modern mainstream superhero comics of Marvel or DC. I wanted to make a comic series that hearkened back to the Bronze Age of comics (1970-1985) by creating a cast of complex characters, but placing them in a world without a century of superhero history informing it, a world without ten thousand superheroes all competing for attention, a world where there is still room to breathe. Kestrel City is a place for a fresh start, where only a few select individuals are gifted with strange abilities and a masked vigilante is still a rare and startling sight. |
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SummarySidelines is the story of Joey "Jove" Vasquez, Mike Pryce's charming, trouble-making best friend, and his relationship with Rachel "Rikki" Connolly, a girl who has recently moved to Kestrel City from Tennessee. Jove's efforts at wooing his newfound dream girl all seem to fall flat on their collective face, while Rikki's frenzied attempts to force him to lose interest seem equally ineffective. We all want a happy ending, but before that happens, both our heroes must face their flawed assumptions about each other and themselves. Unlike Specter, whose story has been at least mentally drafted for thousands of pages in advance, I have absolutely no long term plan for the Sidelines story, so keep reading, because even we don't know what these crazy kids are going to get up to. About the ComicI never intended to love Joe Vasquez. To be frank, I made him up to be a simple foil to Mike's normally anti-social nature.
I had no intention of making his character interesting, complex, or terribly likable. I just needed Mike to have someone to talk to other than himself. Well, here we are
and now Jove has his own comic series, thanks in large part to the rabidness of a single, die-hard Jove fan named Sarah Tollette. Together, we developed a very special lady for
Jove, one who was simultaneously a love interest and arch-nemesis. Her name was drafted as Ricci, but the spelling was officially changed before her introduction in order to
clarify the pronunciation. The premise of the comic series for Jove and Rikki is to give insight into the personalities of the supporting cast of Specter, which we hope will
not only add depth to the main Specter series, but also immortalize the Jovester and his lady love as heroes in their own right-- admittedly on a somewhat more pedestrian scale.
Kestrel City Comics began in January 2009. I had one good story and barely any idea what I was doing. I had learned basic HTML
the previous afternoon, and had just paid rather more than I could afford for my very own domain name. I closed the site down after about seven months or so, and spent the remainder
of the year reorganizing, polishing my skills and gathering a team together. KCC relaunched in 2010 with two artists, a writer (that's me), and a whole new vision: not just one, but
a whole library of online comics under the banner of KCC.
KCC strives to provide entertainment that transcends labels of "age appropriateness," in the tradition of the exceptional action cartoons produced by Warner Bros. Studios in the late
'90's such as "Batman Beyond" and "Static Shock." Our philosophy is grounded in respect for the reader, which sometimes means presenting morally questionable actions and characters,
dark, and sometimes horrifying scenarios, or even words you might have to look up in the dictionary. We believe that a comic book does not have to be drenched in sex and violence to
be considered "good" by adult standards, nor does it have to be pathetic, pandering, overtly-educational garbage to be appropriate for teens and young adults. KCC materials may contain some
strong language, scenes of violence, and suggestive dialogue. It may also contain a great story, cool artwork, and commercial-free entertainment at no cost to you. We encourage
undecided readers to weigh those two factors and draw their own conclusions.
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