Hi I need to know the sources of the Nikolai Dante comic and it's setting?,
LW
Oh, good. You again.
:lol: I've just been re-reading the 'Hapsburgs' thread. Good times.
Mainly tomato, but sometimes he used HP source.
You kids play nice now y'hear.
LWhitehead, your question is a huge one, since it's safe to say that Dante draws on just about everything from Buffy the Vampire Slayer to The Adventures of Luther Arkwright, and from the Flashman books to the Carry-On films.
A good place to start might be former editor David Bishop's history of 2000AD, Thrillpower Overload, which has a short account of the genesis of the Dante strip. Other info is distributed through various interviews with Robbie Morrison and Simon Fraser appearing in the Judge Dredd Megazine and online.
TB truly is the best of all of us.
Quote from: Dark Jimbo on 25 October, 2013, 10:48:05 PM
TB truly is the best of all of us.
Tell that to the badgers.
If you give this pamphlet a quick read you'll understand everything you need to know:
http://www.amazon.com/War-Peace-Vintage-Classics-Tolstoy/dp/1400079985
As far as I recall, Robbie Morrison took this concept as his starting point: 'What would of have of had happened if it was had of have had of been Han who got the lightsaber?'
Something like that, anyway
At the talk he gave at the Dundee comics day a couple of years ago - he basically said that he'd have been happy if Dante was actually set in pre-revolution Russia - but added the sci-fi element to sell it to 2k...
Frankly I'm not sure how much I would have enjoyed Nikolia Dante without its sci-fi elements. Though I'm sure it would have been structured a lot differently.
Will there be hamburgers?
I've thought in the past of making an annotations thread for Dante. Obviously the setting, factions and characters are heavily based on those of pre-Revolutionary Russia, but there's a lot more to it than that, including hundreds of nods to modern pop culture, everything form Carry on films to Watchmen and classic British comics. There's probably enough to fill a companion volume.
Errol Flynn (or should that be the characters played by him) seems quite a major influence too.
Quote from: The Adventurer on 26 October, 2013, 02:38:03 AM
Frankly I'm not sure how much I would have enjoyed Nikolia Dante without its sci-fi elements. Though I'm sure it would have been structured a lot differently.
The sci-fi elements are what makes it such a visually impressive strip. And there are very few who can conjure up sci-fi vistas as good as Simon, some of his future (albeit influenced by the old) settings left me stunned on several occasions. Same goes for his work on Lilly MacKenzie. It adds so much to the story so I'm glad Simon and Rob went that route.
The real reason I wanted to know is that I planed to create an Space Opera series set in a future were there are the reborn 17th Century royal houses, my Hapsburg thread was a good idea for that comic but since it's over I'm moving on hense the Space Opera idea.
LW
Something like Dune then?