Comic:The Easy Breather
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| Artist: | James H. Vipond |
| Writer: | James H. Vipond |
| Characters: | Samantha Lewis, alias the Easy Breather; Matthew Black; Vivian Harris; Sally Reynolds; Christopher Light, alias Captain Light; Ant Woman; Karman McKnockside; Mr. Miasma |
| Updates: | Monday, Wednesday and Friday |
| Began: | February 11, 2008 |
| Ended: | |
| Art style: | 3D CGI (Poser) |
| Rating: | Web-14 for some nudity and tobacco use |
| Website | Website |
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Plot
This webcomic, set during summer in the mid-21st century, in the fictional city of St. Justin, tells how a television newswoman acquired super breath and began using that power to defend truth, justice and clean air. Warning: This article contains spoilers.
Chapters
Characters
Heroes
Samantha Dawn Lewis is the Easy Breather herself. Samantha is an ambitious — and sexy — television newscaster. When she last saw her parents alive, Samantha was helping her aging father deal with his chronic leg cramps. After losing her parents to arson, Samantha starts to lose confidence in herself, until a stranger on the bus offers her a new perfume, which increases her lung capacity. Not your ordinary blue-eyed blonde, the Easy Breather knows that the way to prevent crime is to ban tobacco.
Captain Light (real name Christopher David Light) is a U.S. Army surgeon turned civilian radio announcer. He has the ability to generate a field of pure light around his body. Samantha first met him during an electrical outage at the St. Justin gymnasium.
Ant Woman (real name Darla Colleen O'Hara) is the world's only dwarf superheroine, as Irish as the Blarney Stone. She has tremendous strength and agility, a genius intellect and remarkable sex appeal.
Villains
Karman McKnockside (real name Carmen Ophelia McNaughton) is the primary villain: a bald, dark-skinned sorceress with an intense addiction to cigarets. She had her first cigaret at age 8 and enjoyed it, but had to wait 10 years for another smoke. Unwilling to stop smoking and finding sorcery ineffective against her lung cancer, Karman decides she wants a lung transplant — and her intended donor is Matthew Black. She suspects, but does not know for a certainty, that the Easy Breather is her childhood friend Samantha Lewis, so what better captive than another newscaster?
William Lucas Rubin, alias Mr. Miasma, is a former robotic engineer and Karman McKnockside’s reluctant henchman. He had been in prison for robbing his employer and attempting to finance a meth lab. Samantha Lewis was covering Rubin’s sentencing only hours after (unbeknownst to her) her parents died as a result of a house fire that was set by an arsonist who used gasoline and a lighted cigaret.
Supporting characters
Matthew Paul Black is Samantha’s bearded co-anchor and confidant. He was on the bus with Samantha when she first became the Easy Breather. He and Samantha both are modest, unwilling to take more credit for their work than they deserve. In this story, when Matthew is called away to what he thinks is an interview assignment, he is captured by the sorceress Karman McKnockside.
Vivian Lee Harris is the curly-headed cutie with the camcorder. Another of Samantha’s co-workers, Vivian is also skilled at video editing.
Sally Ann Reynolds is a summer intern in the news department of the TV station where Samantha and Matthew are employed. Eager to sit behind the anchor desk, Sally gets her chance when Samantha, as the Easy Breather, goes to rescue Matthew from Karman’s trap.
Background
The webcomic is intended to provide backstory to the heroine of a video game I'm developing for Mac OS X. Software used for the comic includes Poser 5, Color-It!™ and Comic Life.
