Locus is a horror-ish comic about a half-human, half-succubus girl and the sword which is both her birthright and her curse. But it's really about so much more than that--love, horror, where we come from, where we go when we die, the meaning of life...all the Big Questions.
Locus is broken up into 24-page issues, with each issue shown online over the course of two months. Updates are Monday, Wednesday and Friday. The first three issues contain the first chapter of the story, in which we're introduced to Locus, Spook and Isaac (briefly). Issue Four is where the second chapter, "Unveiled" begins, which will run for six issues (or one whole year of M/W/F updates). Chapter Three will start with Issue Ten. At the time of this writing, I'm not sure how long that will run, but it's gonna be big.
After that, who knows? I have a bunch of Spook stories planned, which should go over well. Everyone loves Spook.
On the meta level, Locus is an experiment--I wanted to make a comic about Boobs, Blood and Bad Language (tm) without it being cheesy, stupid or gratuitous. Frankly, I'm pretty sick of that shit. I grew up on R-Rated horror movies (back when HBO first came to cable), Heavy Metal magazine, EC reprints, Doctor Strange, Jonah Hex, Haunted Tank, and stuff like that. Locus is kind of a mish-mash of all of them.
I'm proud to say that Locus has a strong female following, despite the overabundance of breasts. Locus is meant to be a strong, self-assured and realistic character who isn't ashamed of her body, and the ladies in the audience have thankfully picked up on that. Even my Mom likes it, and she hates reading comics.
And, just as the overall plotline is a mish-mash of different things, so too is the art style. There are a number of comic artists I admired in my youth, including John Buscema, Will Eisner, Barry Windsor-Smith, Frank Frazetta, Berni Wrightson, and all those wonderful French artists from Metal Hurlant. Unfortunately, I'm not even 10% as talented as any of these people, so it doesn't look much like any of those guys' work. But I try.
My name's Adam Black. I originally made this comic back in the mid-90s, when everyone and their brother had an independent comic publishing company. The first two issues sold fairly well, but then the whole industry completely choked on its own vomit--in the form of foil variant covers, zero issues, trading cards, pogs, ashcans, the death of Superman, the endless superhero ripoffs, the guys with the bulging muscles and eye-gouging cross-hatching, and all that fucking nonsense.
I put it all away for a long time, grew up, and got a Day Job. On the side, I illustrated some roleplaying games, such as Talislanta and Blue Planet, but the bug to finish this story never really went away.
I made a Locus webcomic back in 2001, but never finished it due to real-life problems and a move to Fairbanks AK which turned out to be an extremely bad idea. I found another Day Job and wallowed in IT hell for five years or so.
A lucky break fell into my lap in the form of Kiss 4K--the latest in a long line of comics based upon the rock band Kiss. I quit my Day Job over that (I was making half again what the IT job was offering), and enjoyed the hell out of it. Unfortunately, it dried up and I had to move on.
So I moved on to Locus. Or should I say "back to Locus"? I really don't know. Don't care, either. I'm just having fun, refining my craft, and making the kind of movie I wish I could see in the theaters. Unfortunately, I don't have the resources or know-how for making movies, so I make comics instead.
You can find me on Myspace, Facebook, deviantArt, LinkedIn, and a bunch of other places I'm probably forgetting right now. Mostly, though, you can find me on the Locus forums, which you can access via the link at the very top of this page.