Let's Destroy Paradise.
When you know something is wrong, but can't tell what, what do you do?
Winter has passed, but we haven’t been hibernating.
Since we last talked I’ve been painting more. Here’s a little showcase of what has been made.
While painting the above, the ghost of my grandmother stressed to me this was the year we are to pursue the creation of art again.
I had been editing the manuscript for the Epic of Dreams Zine release, but it proved a distraction to that call, and there have been some structural issues in it I haven’t been able to solve yet.
We’ve instead been working on what could be called our next release.
ENTER:
OMNIA - OPERA OF THE PERFECTED
Over the course of this last year I’ve had the wonderful pleasure of creating a comic book with one of my best friends. We’ve sweat and bled to make that as amazing as possible, and I’m extremely proud of that project.
Now that I’ve completed that process, I’ve come to understand that comics may be an amazing medium for epic poetry in the modern age.
Omnia (latin - ‘everything’) is a poem of seven cantos, that will be released as a seven chapter comic.
At its core, it asks the questions -
What does Paradise look like?
Is Paradise actually ‘perfect’?
What keeps the heavens from reverting back into chaos?
…and if it were, how exactly could such a collapse transpire?
It will feature philosophical, magical, and cosmic horror kaiju battles in the sea of burning glass beneath the throne of God, as our archons of reality struggle to understand each other.
And the precious city of God will hang on by a thread…
Absolute chaos. The Reversal of Realms is Nigh.
This project is my last practice before I dive into the real work.
Because you’re here, you’ll get all of Omnia for free as we release new pages.
Because this project is ‘practice’, we are reserving the right to re-release it after its first release is produced. I’m using the Omnia story to explore multiple mediums where epic verse and mythology can breathe.
Below is a first look at OMNIA.
Nothing here is final, but instead just a proof of concept (I understand the font is loud, lol).
The first 3 pages will look something like this...
The next time I write you, you will have the first canto of Omnia in manuscript form - further illustrations forthcoming.
May you rise to defeat all the tigers in your mind.