SUPER BREAK POP CREW!

So I am about a month and a half away from pitching my next big comic to publishers. I've been holding the title back in supreme secrecy for months now (online anyways. I think every friend I have around me is probably sick of hearing the title, personally). But here it is: "SUPER BREAK POP CREW" is the 2nd big comic coming out of the RUDY! stable of comics!

As with "Train Me, Gamble," I will be posting a 16 page preview here on rudysolis.com for you guys, my friends and fans. You will be able to read the comic before the big wigs, before anyone right here!

I'm very very excited about this new project. The art is by the inconquerable WILLIAM ALAN REYES and the letters are by the unbeatable KEL NUTTALL. If William is my right hand man, then Kel is definitely the left. Kel is wrapping up the letters as we speak, so the preview will be up and running here in the next week or two.

But just to give you a little info on this big project: "SUPER BREAK POP CREW" is about the world's greatest Breakdancing, Pop Star, Superheroes. There are five members to this all-star squad: SUPER ACTION OPTICAL, PANDA BONG BONG, BBOY FOREVER LIFE, GUMSHOE ROBO, and the cutest/toughest girl the world has ever seen- BOY DON'T CRY! 

Our story follows the Super Break Pop Crew as they face their greatest challenge yet! What is this challenge you ask? Well, I guess you're going to have read Issue One to find out! Rest assured, this is comic is going to knock your socks off!

Now that I've hyped this damn thing up to the gills, I've got to be nice and show you at least Page One right? Okay, you've twisted my arm. Here it is folks, PAGE ONE OF SUPER BREAK POP CREW!!!! MORE TO COME!

"Super Break Pop Crew," art, and images below are Copyright © Rudy Solis. All rights reserved.

When in doubt, give them art.

So I wrote this really deep intellectual post about becoming 30. There I was, baring my soul on my site, talking all about growing up and what it is to be a young man standing on the brink of losing the word young and just being simply a "man." 

And I deleted it. I felt like I lacked the proper verbage to explain what I meant. So I let it go. Perhaps another day.

Either way, it feels really good to get older. I enjoy it. Can I just say that? I often feel like Neo from the Matrix. The older I become, the easier it is to read between the lines.

Since that is about all I have to say, I thought I would give you some stuff to chew on. Ladies and Gentlemen:

MORE ART FROM MY NEW COMIC! I chose these two pages because the final panel you will see describes how I feel about getting older perfectly...

Kel is currently working on the letters. As soon as we get them done, I will go into so much more detail about this comic! Word is bond!

Final Note: These pages come from Issue 1. The page from the post below comes from Issue 2. Yes out of order. Yes to confuse you. Glad you noticed.

All art and images below are Copyright © Rudy Solis. All rights reserved.

I got a preview. So you do too.

William just sent me an inked version Page 5 of Issue 2. It seemed only fair that I shared it with you guys as well. Check. Study. Discuss amongst yourselves.

All art and images are Copyright © Rudy Solis. All rights reserved.

Glorification of Destruction

My newest comic script is at the halfway point of being finished. Once I've made some major headway with the 3rd Issue my new artist will begin work on the 1st Issue. Wait till you've seen this new guy. Oh man... You've seen Santiago. You've seen William. But you've NEVER seen this new guy... I get pumped just thinking about what he's going to be bringing to the table!

This new comic is a mobster story. Which was no easy feat. Every type of gangster story has been told in my opinion, and told in every possible medium (movies, books, comics, TV). So where does one go? How does one present a new type of story about a bunch of gangsters doing a bunch of gangster shit?

Therein laid the challenge my friends. But I what I've come up with, what you're going to see, I can assure you has NEVER been done in a gangster story. NEVER. This is a first. I know that's a tall order. I know I may be sticking my neck out to hang, but I promise that you will love what you see...

One of the aspects I'm working with is the glorification of destruction. (And no, this is not the trump card I spoke of in the last paragraph. You're going to have to wait for inks and letters before you see what that's all about.) I wanted to write about the obsession some people have with mutilation of the lives around them, even their own. But I wanted to present it in the way they see it: charming, alluring, sexy, gross in a nice way. Some people gain a strong sense of bravado from recklessness. They feel a certain strength and confidence from acting out in ways that ruin the world around them. I wanted to explore that.

And so I am...

I found this online. The drawing is by an artist named Caleb McCall. I tried looking him up, but could find out very little about him. Maybe you know him? Either way, this drawing is in a small way a cryptic clue as to certain aspects of new comic. I promise it will make sense the second it drops. Ponder. Ponder. Ponder...

Surfing for stories in the ethersphere

"There's a material world, and there's an immaterial world. Both worlds exist, but in different ways..."

"But if your mind behaved like a place... I mean if every time anyone followed a trail of thought..."

"They'd be walking the path of immateria."

- Alan Moore, Promethea Book 1

This conversation comes from just one of the many books I am currently reading. "Promethea" is the story of a young woman named Sophie Bangs and her merging with Promethea, the living embodiment of imagination. The art is by one of the greatest living artists of our time, J.H. Williams. It is written Alan Moore.

I was thinking about this scene in particular in regards to writing. Stephen King is famous for constantly emphasizing the idea that stories aren't necessarily fabricated by the writer, more so they are plucked out of the ethersphere, with little control over what we see or why we see it. I agree with this notion a great deal.

Why do I write what I write? Where do my ideas come from?

No idea.

Oh sure, names and conversations I have end up in my books all the time. Places. Jokes. But the story? The characters, motivations and what drives them to make the decisions they do as they journey towards the end of their tale?

No idea.

Why does "Train Me, Gamble" star a giant, cowardly monster and a 10,000 year old fighter who doesn't look much older than a 6 year old boy? See above paragraph for the answer.

I often feel more like a channel for the story. Like there is a TV in my head that I turn on, surfing for stories in the ethersphere... Looking for what I am to document next. I take comfort and delight in the idea that the process of writing can feel as much a mystery to me as it may to an outside observer. There is a satisfaction I gain from walking down the path of immateria in my mind, seeing mysterious, beautiful, and ugly places in the universe of my imagination. Planest swirl. Characters bounce from one world to the next. Love is gained. Love is lost. Galaxies collide. Suns are born. Children laugh, men and women love. The good guys win. The bad guys sometimes do too. Defeat is dealt swiftly. Victories last forever on the final page...

Welcome back to Rudysolis.com. It's been a while. And yes, I missed you guys too. Stay tuned. I have lots of goodies coming up and I promise that the next time I leave you here, it will because we are hanging out somewhere together in person...

-RUDY!

You can purchase Promethea here. (I highly suggest you do.)