(Moonstone Books´) Revenge of the Mummy has been solicited and will be in the upcoming Previews.
It´s a two-part mini-series in B&W written by Justin Gray and drawn by yours trully, with cover by Kalman Andrasofszky.
Working in this book was a blast, Justin is an amazing person who gave me free reign to go wild with the art.
Revenge of the Mummy tells the story of a scientist, a young woman who is murdered and returns to life to hunt down the man who betrayed her.
Him and anyone who stands in her way.
Going into the book, I admit it took me a couple pages to shift gears.
Initially I didn´t have a clear picture of Jenna in my head.
I knew what I wanted her to be but I didn´t have a mental image of her.
I wanted her not to be Lauren (Cloudburst).
One could say I felt in love with Lauren, she was a bright, sweet gentle creature caught in extraordinary circumstances and trying her best to survive facing the events that were thrown at her.
There´s nothing gentle about our undead Jenna.
She doesn´t react to the events, she´s the one who creates them.
Jenna takes the initiative; she´s proactive and hunts and kills almost rituallistically.
Where Lauren was feminine and voluptuous, Jenna is feral.
Through her body language I tried to convey her savage drive and thirst for revenge.
Up to this part, however, Jenna was just a concept.
She hadn´t been born yet.
You could say I was sketching her on auto-pilot.
I can pinpoint the exact moment and page where she was born; page #4, pannel#2.
I was trying to envision how she´d hold a gun at a thug´s face and no matter how much I tried, it just didn´t look right.
Something was missing.
Justin would later comment that I was trying to draw Sadako (of japanese horror fame) and he was right.
Then, lightning struck me as I was toying around with their poses: Cats and mice.
Jenna´s an undead.
She can fall from a 50 stories building and walk away whistling.
This wasn´t a thug at her mercy, it was a little mouse; a defenseless little rat caught by a cat.
When I looked down at the sheet, my hand had drawn a smile in her face.
It´s the only moment where the unstoppable killing machine smiles in the entire series.
The moment of her conception.
Posted by Zeu at June 20, 2005 10:00 PM