Comic:Indefensible Positions
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| Indefensible Positions | |
|---|---|
| http://www.panix.com/~remus/indepos/IP_currentbanner.gif | |
| Artist: | Remus Shepherd |
| Writer: | Remus Shepherd |
| Characters: | Character Bios |
| Updates: | Tuesdays and Fridays |
| Began: | February, 2005 |
| Ended: | Will end in Autumn, 2007 |
| Art style: | Realistic/Superhero |
| Rating: | Web 14 for images and language, MA for corrupt philosophies. |
| Website | Website |
A comic about philosophy and musings about the world we live in, wrapped in a superhero subtheme. The main story follows a young man who stumbles into a war between Order and Chaos, in which he discovers everything he knows about the world is wrong.
Colloquial Description
"Hi, this is Remus, creator of Indefensible Positions. I hate dry, encyclopaedic text, and have never been a Wiki fan. I'd rather tell you about the comic in a casual, colloquial manner, and talk to you in the first person. I do this a lot with fans who post on my LiveJournal; it's just more natural for me.
IP exists for many reasons. For one, it is a story I wanted to tell, but that was completely unpublishable in any market of which I'm aware. No sci-fi market would want it; some of the more extreme comic publishers might do it, but I haven't the chops to get into that market yet, if ever. At first glance, IP may appear to be a fairly ordinary if wordy super-hero comic, but with a closer read I think you'll see its true nature. The characters are going to explore things that can't be proven, have opinions that can't be justified, and do things that can't be defended. If all goes as planned, I expect Secret Service attention and possible pickets by concerned christian groups. :)
I structured IP in a challenging way, a format that I'm not really sure I can keep up through the entire run of the story, but I'm going to try. The comic began in shades of gray, with some objects and characters in color. In these early pages color indicated something -- something revealed explicitly in Chapter 7 ('Hooli's Story'), at which point the comic became full-color. It shall remain full-color until the end, although there will continue to be major shifts in art style now and then.
The characters had different artistic styles in the early chapters, but most of them have merged after the events in Hooli's Story. Foil, the main character, is the exception -- he remains cartoony and quickly drawn, and always in grayscale.
Although there are story-related reasons behind the switch from grayscale to color, it's also a matter of my learning how best to draw a webcomic in discrete stages. I am a fairly good artist, but I am slow, and using the computer to draw is not natural for me. I am learning soooo much doing this, that so far the experience itself has been worth the effort.
There's one other reason I created IP. Some people, including Warren Ellis (yes, *that* Warren Ellis) have expounded to me that anyone could be successful in writing or comics if they just did the work. I disagreed with him -- talent, training and luck are important ingredients in success. IP is my reaction. I'm putting in the work, so I really can't fail -- If IP sinks into obscurity, I win the argument, while if IP takes off, Ellis wins the argument but, hey, I'll have a successful comic. :)
But beyond all that, I'm hoping that IP entertains people and makes them think. Hope you like it."
