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Kreuzkreis 3 - Liebe ist...

Lemniskate

on March 30, 2008

Go check out THE PANORA PROJECT, an ambitous community project I'm participating in. We're still in search of further participants.

Oka, with that said:
Boss and his wife. You can't see it, but she has metallic skin and can shoot some kind of energy circles…

Okay, so what's with all this single pages? Why don't I upload whole multi-panel pages? A real story? Well…
Some of these characters roam around in my head an on my paper for over a decade now. Often, I drew them in combat, one panel per page (i.e. there were some figures fighting on a blank background, for I was too lazy for background and who wanted to draw backgrounds when they were 12 years old?), battling for dozens of pages for no obvious reason then the fight itself. I shall post one of these pages later :P
I often neglected them for years just to be inspired on rare occasions and creating a bunch of new pages in days. And even later, sometimes I just had an image in mind which would illustrate the character, so I drew it.
Only since I'm involved with DD am I playing around with the thought to create comics with my characters. When I started working on it, I soon realised that it is too fragmented, that I can't create a story which will include EVERY SINGLE PICTURE made to date.
So I thought, if it's fragmented, why not stick with it? That's when I began reformating, redrawing and inking old images, ~40 or so.
But the idea of a story lingered in my mind. What is to be done? I realised, I have three sets of characters: Kreuzkreis, Eingreifer and a bunch of pupils, each set apart by ~10 years, so I just have to come up with three stories for some of them.
And now I wrote scripts for Kreuzkreis and Eingreifer which deal with a central problem (cruelty of war resp. death penalty), but I don't feel that I can identify with these themes. It's not what I want to write and create, so I'll toy around with it for some time until I really know what I want BC to be about.

But in the meantime: here is what I've got so far. I hope this material is suitable to get a feeling for the characters and how they might behave in a real story.