After a short hiatus due to drawing Blue Moon, Emerald-Man will be returning! Here are some previews for the next issue.
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The cover is really beautiful.
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The newest EMERALD-MAN is released! The Merrow searches for a long lost pirate treasure, and itās up to Emerald-Man to stop her!
Comments and critiques are appreciated!
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donāt tell greg about toa of gravel
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This is just beautiful.
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The newest issue is released! Stuck in the Underworld, Emerald-Man must fight his way out of it.
Comments are appreciated!
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She looks beautiful.
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Sheās married!!
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Say Chronicler in the near future will you do an Absolute version of your Emerald Man similarly to how Xanderflicks did an absolute version of Bullet-Boy later on? I ask because there is a trend where people are trying to strip away what makes their OC heroes the heroes, making the characters feel grittier, edgier and more realisticly tragic which could make things interesting as well as seeing the main characters take things to the extreme when they do combat.
Is that supposed to be a good thing?
I know I havenāt commented on here before, but I like how Emerald-Man is more bright-colored and light than so much of the world and our culture right now. Iām not personally a fan of the religious themes, but I do like how the comic implements myths that donāt often see reinterpretation in modern media, and how steadfastly heroic Emerald-Man is. Keep up the good work, @Chronicler!
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Absolutely not, I hate Absolute Batman. I donāt enjoy gritty heroes like that, I find it immature and pretentious. The whole point of Emerald-Man is that heās classically heroic and I will keep it that way. Emerald-Man is meant to be more of a silver/bronze aged superhero. I also hate following art trends, they date projects.
I also reject grittiness and hopelessness as any form of realism, in reality itās enforcing a nihilistic worldview. This idea of greyness and hopelessness and sadness is not a reflection of reality in the slightest. Optimistic storytelling can often tell far deeper truths about life than making things sad and sorrowful. But also, I would argue Emerald-Man is already tragic; what are the stories of Fetch and Danu, and the Merrow, but tragedies?
I also avoid any forms of time travel/alternate universes/realities in my comics as a general rule, so no, we will not be seeing an alternate universe version.
Appreciate it!
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Batman already had realistic tragedy. Older Batman iterations were about finding hope and right despite tragedy.
Absolute Batman is just an easy way to make money while parading the corpse of a character that not only had depth, but actually fought for something good.
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There is a danger in overdoing the tragic elements in comic books, to the point where they become absurd. (Though Iād argue the absurdity of Absolute Batman is itās point.) Well placed tragedy in storytelling is more poignant. Case in point for Batman, the tragedy of his parentās death motivates him to ensuring no one else endures what he did as the Dark Knight.
For the case of Emerald-Man, so far he has endured a lot of tragedy in this second volume! He already dealt with losing Carolina in the first volume, and now has endured losing a lot of other things in this comic. But what makes these heroes good is that they still see the positive, they see the hope in it all in the end.
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Wait a minute, is it really that bad to adding too much tragic elements? I thought it would help make the story feel relatable. Now I am really confused on what is good for comics.
Thereās something to be said about relatability coming from other sources than tragedy. A character that is unsure of themself in media aimed for kids or teenagers is relatable whether their name is Spiderman or Matoro. But, happy thing happen in the lives of both, not just sad things (though Spiderman is guilty of overdoing tragedy, I think). Arin and Frak from Ninjago are not relatable because the formerās parents went missing and the latterās dad is horrible, but because theyāre both awkward, clumsy, ninja-obsessed teens. Some people relate to them because of the tragedy in their stories, but more people relate to them because of the other aspects of their characters. Should stories be devoid of tragedy? Not necessarily. But is tragedy the only place relatability comes from? Hardly. And, if there is too much tragedy in a characterās story, they will cease to be relatable, as it will seem (as with Spiderman) that the writers canāt ever allow the character to have lasting happiness. Real life has happiness too, and, even when it doesnāt, entertainment as escapism is hardly the worst thing in the world.
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I think relatability is overrated. Stories are most interesting when earnestly portraying a perspective I donāt relate to. Not that I want totally alien characters, but thereās nothing to learn from things I 100% relate to.
I think a story being ātrueā is more important than realism or relatability.
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I know I just talked about relatability, but I definitely agree with this (although partially because most ārelatableā characters are a different perspective to me, especially including the ones I talked about in my post).
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