Lia Scott Price's Vampire Guardian Angels Comic Book Series: August 2014

Sunday, August 31, 2014

Comic Book Series Fan Posts Part 25

A very special thank you to all my wonderful friends and fans, I'm truly honored to receive your feedback, posts, responses and shares on the comic book series and I am grateful for everyone's support! Thanks again! You all rock!

Saturday, August 30, 2014

The Comic Book's Genre Influences

Lia Scott Price’s Vampire Guardian Angels^TM Trilogy Novel and Comic Book Series Genre Influences (Excerpts from Lia Scott Price Full Biography) Lia Scott Price's writing is a mix of gothic horror, supernatural/vampire, bloody brutal slasher and action-suspense thriller. This results in a trilogy novel and a comic book series (based on the novel) that is gory, disturbing, and explicit.

Price begins her stories with the traditional action-thriller format, but adds "gothic-type" settings with some old churches, cemeteries, and turning urban scenarios into rainy, gloomy environments.

She goes on to includes a more horror-type, dark setting and a theme of angels rebelling from the extremes and fanatical beliefs of Catholicism and against their own traditional protector roles.. Their main purpose is to destroy humans, because they are "God's so-called favorites". In Book 2, Price turns these pop-culture sacred icons into lustful, seductive, psychopathic, sociopathic, angry, jealous, traumatized, and resentful Vampires who pillage and murder, engage in forbidden liaisons with humans and lonely, abandoned, suffering doomed heroines, and who crave power.

There is an influence of slasher and action-thriller, martial arts and even anime in terms of the character design, as well as an anti-fanatical religious establishment element. Price's characters continue to harbor extreme hatred towards overly-fanatical religious humans and clergy. They are sick of being bound by what they believe is a guilt-ridden, fear, self-sacrifice and punishment-based religion. They hate their roles of being forced to serve a race of weak, begging, whining, institutionalized, "easily-brainwashed and force-fed by religion" humans who rely too much on the supernatural to save them, and angered by the fact that they are still bound by some rules of Heaven such as having to answer prayers because of the nature of what they are, Guardian Angels, and in some instances, still torn between their role as good protector and their transformation into evil, powerful vampires with more free will.

As an added element of mystery bonus, the endings, and sequels, have unexpected twists.

Friday, August 29, 2014

Comic Book Series Fan Posts Part 24

Thursday, August 28, 2014

Sneak Peek at Image from Comic Book 5 "Janos"

A sneak peek at an image of a character "Janos" from Issue 5 which is in drawing stages.

Issue 5 is scheduled for publication in late February 2015.

Comic Book Series Fan Posts Part 23

Comic Book Series Fan Posts Part 22

Special thanks to Jerry! You rock!!

Comic Book Series Fan Posts Part 21

Saturday, August 23, 2014

Trivia about the Comic Book Series, Part 1

The comic book series started after the artists were first commissioned in 2011. Issues 1 and 2 were published in 2012, Issue 3 in 2013, and issue 4 in 2014.

How old is the comic book series? As of 2014, it is at least 2 years old, and more issues are set to be published.

This is the first comic book project for Creator/Writer Lia Scott Price, Artist Andrew Setter, and Colorist Chad Hammontree.

Creator Lia Scott Price met artist Andrew Setter online on a site called freelanced.com. Andrew brought in his friend Chad Hammontree to be the colorist for the series.

There are two artists working on the comic book series: Andrew is the former illustrator (drawing and inking- Issues 1-5) and Chad is the colorist/letterer, graphic designer and art director.

Future issues will be drawn by Lia Scott Price.

Lia Scott Price exhibited the comic books for the first time at Stan Lee’s Comikaze 2013, and they were sold out by the second day of the event. The comic books have sold out again at Comikaze 2014 and in 2015.

The artists worked on and completed the first 2 issues while they were still in college. They finished 2 issues within a year. Later issues now take at least a year to complete since they graduated.

Currently, it takes a year to complete an issue, from planning and production to publication (due to the independent nature of the creative team, who also juggle full-time day jobs). The artists do their own inking by hand, but coloring is done digitally. (As of 2015, Andrew Setter's last issue was Issue 5).

Vampire Guardian Angels is done in black, white and red film noir style with full color covers.

Local metal bands are featured and have cameos in the comic books.

Writer Lia Scott Price first writes her comic books in script format, and the artists storyboard the panels. Price also gives ideas and direction on the covers, and the artists interpret and draw the covers.

After 3 issues and a year and a half of working together via text, phone, email and online file-sharing, the artists and the creator finally met in person when Price flew them over for Stan Lee’s Comikaze 2013. The artists Andrew Setter and Chad Hammontree live in Missouri and Lia Scott Price lives in Los Angeles, CA.

The comic books are based on Price’s existing Vampire Trilogy Novel “The Guardian, Revenant, and Dominion”. Issues 1-3 are condensed versions of the novel, and issues 4, 5 are sequels in comic book format. Future issues will all be in comic book format.

Artist Andrew Setter's artistic influences are the film noir art of Frank Miller (Sin City), and comic book artist Marc Silvestri (DC Comics, Top Cow Productions).