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MOON DUST (sci-fi horror short graphic novel)
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...1985 was planned to be an epic year of return of humanity to the Moon. Expedition of a new 'Apollo' mission, leading by an older professional Anthony 'Veteran' Howell, young rookee Dylan Robertson and sarcastic James Reeve, was planned to be a next milestone in a history of space exploration at least. But their journey to the dark side of the Moon turned out to be way more dangerous and thrilling than they've expected...
It's short, 22-paged, black'n'white graphic novel, inspired by a classic sci-fi movies and 80s music. I've worked on this comics since 2014 and I'm incredibly happy to finally finish it. Space & astronautics were my childhood dreams and I put a lot of personal in this work. I hope you'll like it too.
It's short, 22-paged, black'n'white graphic novel, inspired by a classic sci-fi movies and 80s music. I've worked on this comics since 2014 and I'm incredibly happy to finally finish it. Space & astronautics were my childhood dreams and I put a lot of personal in this work. I hope you'll like it too.
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Ok, I had just finished reading this short novel and man, if Event Horizon would ever have to be depicted the same way as this graphic novel is, then this is totally it, even though your novel takes place on the dark side of the Moon and thus it`s completely different. You just cannot get to know what is real and what is a bloody hallucination by the time you reach page 12-15, especially with the panel with many dead astronauts striding along the pale-white desert, so that you don`t know who is actually the live one, if there is anyone that is even alive by this ... and even though many people would get generally confused by reading this towards the end (which could be taken negatively, like the plot gets lost between the confusion and all), I actually think it was designed that way so that no matter what kind of adaptation it`s in, it`s always having that really confusing surreal type of horror ... and to be completely deadpan honest, I really like it, even if it leaves my mind a quivering mess of unanswered questions and "Holy damn, is this actually real??". Double points if you checked Moonbase Alpha`s videos featuring fixing stuff on the dark side of the moon, like this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zObZ4… , as even if there is no monster like in here (that looks absolutely terrifying when being just a mass of sharp fleshy black bits and all with the astronaut`s corpse being barely visible through it) it`s still downright scary just because Space Dementia can be (and probably is) an actual real issue you have to face, no matter if it`s in a movie, graphic novel or the videogame.
Overall, a really nicely-made surreal-horror graphic novel and even if there are some trips along the lines that had left my brain with a really weird feeling like "Is there something missing?" (case in point, page 3, panel 3, the microscoping/view of the lunar ground image where there is an empty rectangle beneath it, like the punchline is missing), it`s really well-made, especially if the blurring between reality and illusion has been completely intentional. The images are top-notch and really give the feeling like this novel was made in the 90s even if some of them feature really bizarre expressions, which is more the fault of the medium it was drawn from than the actual fault of yours, since the colored images mitigate that entirely, even if some facial structures of the living characters can be seen as quite bizarre as well. The ending finishes this novel nicely and allows for a bit of possibility of a sequel being made, even though personally I like it the way it ends more, as it`s a fitting conclusion as per why things happened like this. Well done on it and I hope it gets the popularity it definitely deserves both in here and out of here.
Overall, a really nicely-made surreal-horror graphic novel and even if there are some trips along the lines that had left my brain with a really weird feeling like "Is there something missing?" (case in point, page 3, panel 3, the microscoping/view of the lunar ground image where there is an empty rectangle beneath it, like the punchline is missing), it`s really well-made, especially if the blurring between reality and illusion has been completely intentional. The images are top-notch and really give the feeling like this novel was made in the 90s even if some of them feature really bizarre expressions, which is more the fault of the medium it was drawn from than the actual fault of yours, since the colored images mitigate that entirely, even if some facial structures of the living characters can be seen as quite bizarre as well. The ending finishes this novel nicely and allows for a bit of possibility of a sequel being made, even though personally I like it the way it ends more, as it`s a fitting conclusion as per why things happened like this. Well done on it and I hope it gets the popularity it definitely deserves both in here and out of here.