PARAGON comic

[Van Dom]

Cool, great review there. 4.5 out of 5?? Score!
" A demented energy " yep, that about sums up the lot of us!!!

[Colin YNWA]

And this is what the latest issue of Comic Heroes had to say about PARAGON#9, giving it 4.5 out of 5.

That'll do

Just seen this in the latest edition of Comicbook heroes (oh if only this wasn't £7.99 as its a great read) and thought I'd just say well done. That's a great write up (hands up only have one issue to date...)

[locustsofdeath!]

The review was illustrated with frames from Mekkosapiens and Jikan, so Locust should be chuffed to see his work get a bigger readership

WOW!!! That really brightens my otherwise dreary life right now.

Is there anyone out there who would go through the trouble to pick me up a copy and send it across the pond? I will paypal you the cash before you spend a red pence.

[Emperor]

- Found the Battle Ganesh strip impenetrable.  Dialogue too elaborate

That was a deliberate decision. As well as being inspired by things like Ulysses 31, I was also influenced by Jack Kirby's more mythological-inspired works, especially Kirby and Lee's Thor, and some of that may have leaked out in the dialogue,  just not quite as full-on as Thor

the main story line a little in poor taste (IMO).  An action strip about HIndu god? I dont profess to know a lot about Hinduism but do have friends who display oraments of Ganesh and I'm sure they would find the strip a little in bad taste.

The story is a science-fictional reworking of the Rayamana, which is a widescreen adventure, so it isn't exactly a big leap. However, in my research I found at least one Hindu group that campaigned against anything that wasn't basically a strict retelling of Hindu epics (and representation of their Gods), some of the examples are pretty blasphemous to most people but they go after pretty much everything. In some ways this was a bit of a weight off - pretty much anything I do is going to offend someone, so that isn't going to come out of the blue and there is little I can do about it. This is a respectful . There are also many different versions of the Ramayana, ancient and modern, so it is far from clear how you could even give a strict retelling. Equally there have been less faithful retellings, a few in comics, and they haven't met with a storm of protest, so I'm fairly confident I'll not get hunted down by a lynchmob at some point.

Maybe some form of "Review of the Review" blog is in order?

You do need to deconstruct reviews - does the reviewer know what they're talking about? Do they get it? If they don't get it can they still enjoy it? Is what they're saying chiming with your gut feelings? Is there anything you should change?

The bottom line though, is that you can't make everyone happy, so even if you can't get anything useful, you can, hopefully, shrug and move on without it wrecking your week

[Daveycandlish]

This was the review page with art, chaps - and Locust, I'll pick a copy up for you tomorrow and send it off ASAP.

[Davek]

- Found the Battle Ganesh strip impenetrable.  Dialogue too elaborate

That was a deliberate decision. As well as being inspired by things like Ulysses 31, I was also influenced by Jack Kirby's more mythological-inspired works, especially Kirby and Lee's Thor, and some of that may have leaked out in the dialogue,  just not quite as full-on as Thor

the main story line a little in poor taste (IMO).  An action strip about HIndu god? I dont profess to know a lot about Hinduism but do have friends who display oraments of Ganesh and I'm sure they would find the strip a little in bad taste.

The story is a science-fictional reworking of the Rayamana, which is a widescreen adventure, so it isn't exactly a big leap. However, in my research I found at least one Hindu group that campaigned against anything that wasn't basically a strict retelling of Hindu epics (and representation of their Gods), some of the examples are pretty blasphemous to most people but they go after pretty much everything. In some ways this was a bit of a weight off - pretty much anything I do is going to offend someone, so that isn't going to come out of the blue and there is little I can do about it. This is a respectful . There are also many different versions of the Ramayana, ancient and modern, so it is far from clear how you could even give a strict retelling. Equally there have been less faithful retellings, a few in comics, and they haven't met with a storm of protest, so I'm fairly confident I'll not get hunted down by a lynchmob at some point.

Thanks Emporer - always interesting to understand where the ideas are coming from 

[Van Dom]

I love Ganesh and miss it from the pages of Paragon.
Please Mr. Emperor sir, can we have some more???

[Daveycandlish]

http://paragoncomic.blogspot.com/

This issue, and indeed every back issue, is now only a quid.

That's right - one single pound. That's only a penny more than the download versions!!

You can click the link for details 

[Daveycandlish]

Let's revive this thread! 

(well, it saves starting a new one every time don't it?)



Issue #13 is available for FREE to download from http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/PARAGONcomic (and paper copies cost £2.50)

Meanwhile...

Someone asked, so here we have a link to a subscription deal!

http://paragoncomic.blogspot.com/

I publish three issues a year of this anthology comic and by my reckoning I have enough strips being worked on by the talented contributors for the next three issues, so if anyone would like a years subscription for only £10 just click the link to the blogspot for details!