Destroying Angel Lumen is Here!

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Destroying Angel Lumen continues the story I started in my first comic Lumen. But it’s also designed to work just fine if it’s your first Lumen comic.

Maybe even just your first comic?

The plan when I started the original Lumen was to do it as an ongoing series.

Bad plan. I see indie comic creators do that all the time and it almost never works out. “This is my first comic, and I’m gonna do 50 issues of it!”

STOP.

I was (and still am) very inspired by Michel Fiffe’s Copra which is (will always be) one of the great ongoings; and I thought I’d do an ongoing series too.

I realized then not only how hard that is, and how foolhardy to commit to such a long run on your first comic project, but that I don’t really like writing ongoing projects.

I like endings. And beginnings. I love series comprised of miniseries.

What better suits this story is a sequel. But also, a fresh start. I kept thinking about George Miller’s Road Warrior movie. I didn’t even know it was a sequel to Mad Max when I saw Road Warrior as a kid. I didn’t need to know what happened before, Max and his world felt lived in like the original Star Wars felt lived in; finding out there was a previous installment was just a bonus as an audience member. It wasn’t necessary to enjoy this new story.

Same experience with Evil Dead 2; thanks to the title I knew it was a sequel but it didn’t matter that I hadn’t seen the first one.

This worked all on its own.

Same goes for Destroying Angel Lumen.

But if you are returning to the story of Esteban Vela; welcome back to the Nocterra.

A lot has changed. But nothing important.

You’re still here.