IRON

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IRON is just another of those 'when I get the time' things. It's only a short thing, set in Britain around the 5th Century AD, shortly after the withdrawal and collapse of the Roman empire.
 
I think it would have been an interesting, if terrifying time. People desperate to survive , scratching a living amongst the ruins of a fallen advanced society. If we wanted to look at a post-apocalyptic scenario, then go no further. It happened here.

There are really a few reasons for me doing this little thing. It's a continuing experiment with this new style I've been working on - I want to see it in greyscale. Tacking both action and domestic scenes, and playing with how narrative might flow using it. It's also just to get the idea out of my head and onto a page, since it's no good to anyone stuck in my head.
 
I'd really love to be able to get some accurate and naturalistic dialogue going, but I don't think I have the ear for it, so I'm afraid we're stuck with the best I can do.
 
Which is a bit pants.

So far I've done up five pages of IRON - thumb links below.


IRON page 01 by JonathanWyke  IRON page 02 by JonathanWyke  IRON page 03 by JonathanWyke  IRON page 04 by JonathanWyke  IRON page 05 by JonathanWyke



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You nailed the time frame for a post-apocaliptic scenario. There was in fact a void between the roman departure and foreign invasion. 
Though its a hard era to document and find references about, i think you're doing a good job.
And last but not least, mixing domestic and action is the way to go, i'll explain from my point of view:
1-full action comics are sterile, IMHO.
2-mixing both will alow you to expand the characters way beyond normal comics.
3-you can change tempo jumping from one to the other.
4-the characters build up along the story (this is a quite personal point if view, because i hate when the character appears describing himself or as a card with traits in the last page of the comic, like in some manga).
5-and... you will have more room to write it according to your will, instead of following a strict guideline.
In short, it´s quite good.