HOW WOULD YOU CREATE A SUPERHERO UNIVERSE?
It’s a complex question. Creating a universe with the intent of telling interconnected stories of characters contained within is seeded with innumerable issues to contend with.
FICTIONAL: Is the universe entirely fictional like Middle Earth or the Star Wars universe?
REAL: Or does it take a realistic approach where you have essentially the real world with fantastical elements like Marvel?
SEMI-REAL: Or maybe be mostly realistic but have certain flourishes that are fictional like DC where you have America but within it you have fictional cities like Gotham and Metropolis?
Jex and I are working on the HYPERVERSE and one of the things we wanted to focus on was establishing a world that was mostly based in reality, but had fantastical elements transplanted into it, so we’re going the SEMI-REAL direction with the Hyperverse.
The stories will take place in our universe, on Earth and in a modern setting, but there will be some fantastical flourishes where new locations will be introduced. For instance, we’ll have cities that will be analogs for pre-existing ones that will allow us to make creative changes without explanation.
Anyways, we’re going to spend the next few months really building the universe and blocking out some plots for the Hyperverse graphic novels. The goal is to have several finished scripts ready to go to line artists by Q2 2023. Are you ready?!
Take a look at some teaser sketches of some of the new characters!
HYPERVERSE - FIRST LOOK CHARACTER SKETCHES
GET SOME PRINTS
Check out the print gallery here: https://ibb.co/NKjB27m
Love the idea for the hyperverse sounds perfect. I would apply the same thing to your super heroes, mostly realistic humanoid but maybe have a couple that are a little more far out there, would love a slime hero ;) or maybe something akin to the cube in umbrella academy, depending on the shape and properties it could cause lots of sexy chaos. Looking forward to the results of your hard work 👍
Looks great! I love the big bearded dude, he looks badass. I'm hyped! Seperate topic but I reset my phone and lost a lot of stuff, do you remember what comics I got and if you do is it okay if you send them to me?