{"id":329,"date":"2011-01-12T10:30:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T10:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/?p=329"},"modified":"2011-01-13T10:13:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T10:13:26","slug":"incomplete-works-gloomesbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidhing.com\/chaotic-tortoise\/2011\/01\/incomplete-works-gloomesbury\/","title":{"rendered":"Incomplete Works: Gloomesbury"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Left to right, slacker genius Doug, reluctant human slayer Kel and ambitious family head Soria.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Gloomesbury was a short lived but long-bubbling project about vampires.\u00a0 Just for historical context, this was before the Twilight-o-pocalypse of Vampires and Barechestwolves and was probably cribbed from a mush of Buffy and Underworld, but more English.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The comic is about a reluctant vampire, Kel, who has been designated as the \u201cHuman Slayer\u201d, a hunter of the clan who does his best to cull humankind and make the chances of vampires surviving from the brink of extinction a little more favourable.\u00a0 Kel is however very much a human sympathizer, getting his blood from blood donations to the clinic that his sister works at and generally being a little too mild mannered for the darker elements of vampire society.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This was the second comic that I started working on after the Student Squad and tried using a grayscale palette and experimenting with a slightly different art style, initially attempting to use plenty of cross hatching and as little computer enhancement as possible aside from the text (which is, I am terribly sorry to say, in Comic Sans.\u00a0 I was young, I didn\u2019t know, I\u2019m sorry).\u00a0<\/p>\n

There was a lot I wanted to do with this.\u00a0 I have a couple of pages still in production folders where I started to expand the cast a little more and I have a few sketches and scribbled ideas.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The main problem I would have with restarting this comic is the aforementioned Twilight craze.\u00a0 I\u2019m a little tired of vampires showing up all over the place and being the current big thing.\u00a0 Although the Gloomesbury cast do actually drink blood (except for the vegan vampire drummer in Kel\u2019s little brother\u2019s band), vampires are very much over used.\u00a0<\/p>\n

There really isn’t much of this one. \u00a0All 7 pages of it are included in the archive below.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Gloomesbury.rar<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Additional Notes:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n

Maybe it would be fresh and interesting if the cast were zombies instead…\u00a0<\/p>\n

On a side note, I really like the name \u201cGloomesbury\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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