I… have more or less decided I’m going to go through with making The Hues into a comic.
TH has been my baby since I was 12 years old. It began as, more or less, Sailor Moon fanfiction. For a long time, in my adult life at least, I was convinced it would never see the light of day because I thought I’d lost all objectivity about it. It’s been filed away in the back of my mind for quite awhile, but I’ve been mulling it over for the last year and a half or so, and I think I’m ready to move forward.
This picture is from 2003, approximately the last time I was working on it actively, as it was originally an epic tale spanning three books. I actually did finish writing the first book, and if you look reeeeeeally hard in certain dusty corners of the internet, you can find it, poor pacing and characterization and all.
BUT, the new version will be a post-apocalyptic science fantasy, about a group of magical girls who discover their powers a little later than we would’ve liked. Basically, the question I’m interested in is, “If the Big Bad invaded Earth and the Magical Girl Squad wasn’t ready, what would happen?”
And to cut into the painful whitey-whiteness of our main cast, the new cast will be multicultural, multiracial, and with a variety of body types. It’s going to be SO RAD.
Anyways, I’m not sure when I’ll be starting The Hues, since I only have the very basic story arcs in my head at the moment, plus changing the setting to post-apocalypse throws a bit of a wrench in the existing mythology I had before, but I think I can carry the basic spirit of the old stuff and put it into the new stuff.
And all this was to let you know that, last weekend at Matsuricon, I spent some of my idle time at the table doing some concept sketches. So here they come!
