While Shane is 'hitting the board' as he puts it, every day producing new pages of art for the forthcoming The Overman mini-series from Image Comics, I'm now hard at work thinking about the future. The future of The Overman, that is.
I'm excited to let you know that I'm now working on the first draft of the follow-up, in novel form. For now, I'm referring to it simply as 'The Overman II', for the purposes of distinguishing it from blog news and updates related to The Overman. Yes, I do have a title for the book, but I'm not revealing that for a while. Shane knows it, and if I can persuade him away from the drawing board long enough to design the logo for it, I'll post it here when the time is right. I have 8 pages written as of today. I'm writing a little bit every day, and again, when the time is right, I'll begin posting chapters online, probably coinciding with the publication of The Overman #1 in December. For now, I'll post a paragraph from the opening chapter...just to get ya thinking.
'A horrendous transformation had occurred to the boy that became a man bent on quelling civil war and restoring peace to Russia. The man was now gone, not even a shadow of a thought of humanity remaining, and his consciousness had turned into a slow moving evolution of bio-mechanoid disease, a black knowledge of something indefinable but horrendous, a key, a symbol, a pattern of a shape that directed him, an aberration of iconography that delved deeper into his brain, scattering everything he had known in favor a simple image of a circle, broken at it's end, with an arrow pointing down. '
If it sounds like I'm getting ahead of myself, it's because I am. I could write a sequel to The Overman regardless of it's level of success, because there are vast possibilities with this story, and I'm having a blast tapping into that again as I'm writing. But realistically, Shane and I need to make sure that The Overman will succeed before diving into pre-production on a sequel. I believe that The Overman will not only succeed, but it will be a huge explosive success...but only if you tell everyone you know about this book, including your local comic shop owner. Word of mouth can be more effective than any marketing strategy, especially considering the insular nature of the comics market. So I'm passing the buck to you. It's out of my hands now, you see. It's up to you to make The Overman succeed. Pass along the url to this blog and website and explain to them...no, WARN them that The Overman is coming.
Scott Reed
www.websbestcomics.com
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