Mythica -issue 3 Production Blog

So now that Choosers of the Slain is in the can I turn my attention to Matt Campbell's Mythica project. Following the link will lead you to the page a week preview Matt does on his website every week on Mythica Monday.

My intention is to push through issues 3,4,5 and 6 to finish the arc so Matt can work it out straight through. In short Mythica is the tale of a group of people called Descendants who are the progeny of the old demigods. None of them are really aware of their legacy and they have managed, for the most part, to blend into society and live normal lives. But now (circa 1917) a goddess with a grudge has managed to force open a crack between life and death and is massing her forces to invade first Europe and then the rest of the world. The first thing on her dark to do list is to eliminate the descendants as the only real line of defense against her.

The first arc is the tale of the core of this group coming together, becoming self aware and making survival a priority. Issue one introduces us to young Kimberly Bradshaw and her fiance Yose who live in Jebbekke, Belgium. He is a slightly older gentleman in medical school and back in his home town to wrap up his affairs before heading off to do Red Cross work near the front. Kimberly, young and a little naive yet freaks out on Yose at family dinner and storms off. She returns to a series of dreams that have been plaguing her about a big Scot soldier named Magnus MacDracken who leads a Scottish Black Watch Team. Over the course of the issue Magnus's band band is destroyed by a series of attacks from demons and the German military.

Issue Two shows us Magnus has been whisked away from the battlefield by some angelic being who tells him that he is the of the line of the old gods. He also throws him the responsibility for keeping the dark goddess from running amok on earth.. Kim wakes up and feels like an ass for cold shouldering Yose for being noble.
From there we meet seductive minx Riley Scott getting a lift on a U Boat. Too bad her father is such a hard ass douche.


This is about where we are right now so i won't go too  much farther into details of that. But while that is playing out on the link above I am starting up issue three.

Issue Three: Rude Awakenings takes off like a shot. The pacing on this is quick and carries a series of quick jabs and 1/2  punches. It's a big payoff for me as a writer because it is where I get to put into motion things I have been setting up since deciding on the framework as Kimberly's dreams. Confluences of events are running together and things which were teased get to become crystal clear.

So we have recently implemented a new format for writing the scripts. Matt has had a conversation with JT Krul and he thought that since I write principally in prose that I might be more comfortable writing Mythica that way. I've had a few days of wrestling with it as far as writing a panel at a time but that just felt odd. So I am working it now by writing these pages and scenes. What the deciding factor will likely be is the ease with which Matt can translate that into the paneled page.  

 It looks like Matt will be going on an installment of Gelati's Scoop podcast on May 29 with myself and Kevin Gentilcore talking about Mythica as well as Creephouse. But for now Mythica issue 3 awaits...