The Blog of the Vigil comic book series.

Vigil: Black Magic Chronicles

2008-03-20T15:43:00.003-04:00

Here is a pic done by Brett. He gave it that title and hopefully I am going to write a story around that idea.

Marcelo Salaza

2007-12-01T15:52:00.000-05:00

Here's a great drawing of Vigil by Marcelo Salaza, one of the artists from Ronin Studios. Lots of energy and a cool design.

A New Pic by Brett

2007-11-30T13:16:00.000-05:00

The Vigil story, Vigil: Never Enough will appear in Ronin Illustrated #3, coming out in February 2008. In the meantime Brett has done a couple of more sketches. Also some of the other artists at Ronin Studios have done their versions of him. Also Vigil will be part of the Ronin Studios 2008 poster.

Page 3

2007-10-14T15:43:00.000-04:00

Well Brett has finished the drawing and inking of theVigil story. It runs 11 pages. Now I am looking to find a letterer and then off to publication. Not sure yet where I am going to place the story. I could have it in one of Ronin's anthology books or maybe somewhere else. Still, I really enjoyed workign with Brett on this character. I have several more ideas for Vigil stories so I will have to get to scripting one up very soon.

Here's a look at page 3...

Another sketch

2007-09-14T22:57:00.000-04:00

Brett posted another sketch of Vigil on the Ronin Studios forums. He still is working on the last half of the story. Hopefully we will have more to show soon.

Pulp Vigil

2007-09-01T22:39:00.000-04:00

This is a pic done by Brett of Vigil. He describes it as having a 'pulp' feel to it. Thought I would throw this up here to have something new to look at while Brett keeps pushing out the pages of the story.

Finished Page 1 and Page 2

2007-08-18T20:43:00.000-04:00

Well here are the finished first two pages. Brett did a great job on them. I love being able to view the comparison from the roughs to the finished pages. Great stuff. I'm not sure if I'm going to have this story done in greyscale or not yet. I really like how Brett uses blacks so I guess I'll wait til all the pages are done to decide.

And this is page 2...

Page 1 and Page 2

2007-08-16T18:19:00.000-04:00

Well Brett has been working on the Vigil story for some time now. And he has made some really helpful suggestions and additions for the story as we have gone over the plot I sent him. Here are his rough breakdowns for the first two pages of the story.

More Vigil Designs

2007-08-16T07:00:00.000-04:00

This is another look at Brett's design process for Vigil. Just a real rough pic but I thought it was interesting.

Another Concept Pic

2007-08-15T22:20:00.001-04:00

Here is another concept pic Brett did of Vigil before starting the actual story pages. He did tweak the design a little bit more. I really like where he is going with this. He has a lot of enthusiasm for this project and has certianly added a lot to it.

A Different Take

2007-08-15T21:13:00.000-04:00

Many of you reading this probably know me as the creator/writer of the independent comic book series, The Venger: Dead man Rising. The series has received much critical acclaim for its realistic look at super heroes etc. Now for fans and readers of that series that is not a true descriprion of the book but it will suffice.

With Vigil I want to take a similar approach but 'bump' it a little closer to your typical comic book. In Venger the characters do not have powers, in Vigil they do. And Vigil is the most powerful. The character of Vigil in essence is my version of the 'Superman' archtype, the god among men.

Initially I have a ten page story with Vigil in development and ideas for a longer porject as well. Brett Wood, the artist from the Venger/ Footpath: EndGame crossover book is drawing the initial story. Here is a character design for Vigil by Brett based from a design I came up with.