Right before school starts every year, stores go into back-to-class mode. The night before Day 1, I'd always have folders made up with lots of loose leaf to take syllabus notes in every new class. So, freshmen year in high I had a yellow notebook I had no need for. Getting bored in class, I'd see all that white paper as a waste of space and start doodling. Doodle here, doodle there. Next thing I know, I'm hands deep every day in that folder making up characters, stories for said characters, weapons, and environments. This is my very first comic. To be honest though, it was intended to be a cartoon series based heavily on RPG and anime influences. Finding a project name for it was hard, but I settled on Frontier.
My main characters: it all started when I wanted to make characters based on my group of friends. Naturally, I started with me as the main, had to find the perfect name for him so I stuck with Leo Summers. He uses a sword, wears basically the same outfit I loved to wear, and looked sort of like me. Next was just a slew of characters who have changed tremendously over my time on the comic. Sakura Kennelly is the main girl character, love interest to Leo, and uses a swordwhip. Quiro Elana was the next guy I created, he has this badass one shoulder pauldron thing, uses 2 spears simultaneously, and did the Brock from Pokemon thing where he never opened his eyes. Hitomi Vega changed the most over all because she is a summoner that would change her costume based on the summon she performs. Storm is a master of controlling the wind, uses a large sword, and had cool long manly hair. May Tenshi is a martial artist who is shy when it comes to matters of the heart and courageous when it comes to battles of the body and soul. My favorite part of her was the martial arts gear she wore with the oversized sleeves. Last, but not least is Kai Onimoto a character I've kept using for all of time. He's a ninja samurai.
My main enemies: These are the so-called Element Masters. Each of them controlled a different element. Genesis Cook, a name I created and never stopped using either, is the main Sephiroth-like white haired villain. He controls darkness and is the best friend of Leo. Genesis summoned a black one-winged tiger named Ouroburos that allowed him utmost shadow capabilities. Jast is a surfer/ninja/mermaid with ridiculous eyebrows and sideburns. He used a large spear and controlled water. Also, in my comic, mermaids had horns. Alexis Chase is a martial arts classmate of May's and controls ice and her own ki. She is an ice queen and reserved herself for Genesis. Lavaho is a mechanic that controls fire and used armored arms to really do some work. Hitari Ayanami and Izis de Simone were both in the main team at separate times for separate reasons. Hitari, the lightning master, is a thief and joins the team under the pretenses that the lightning master the team looks for is a man, so she infiltrates their team. Leo and Hitari were to fall in love, Sakura was going to distance herself from the team because of Hitari, but everything gets alright in the end. Hitari has really cool tonfa blades. Izis is Leo's ex and controls earth and light. She joins later and helps the team out with her fencing abilities. The Element Master of wind is Storm. He would've quit the team in the wind master arc and faced them at the end. But it would be a misunderstanding. Storm was never recruited into the Element Masters. The EM spread rumors that the public opinion of Storm out to be one of them.
The Elementals: this is a team of element masters I created that were formed to be a copycat team tantamount to the seven Element Masters. Salazar--leader, uses claws, controls darkness. Awata--sister of Jast without fully formed mermaid horns, uses a staff, controls water. Linneri--archaeologist, controls earth, uses ancient weapons. Jet Wiles--controls wind, rides a boomerang. Dalton--knight, controls lightning, uses a lance. Blane Mitiara--punk rockstar, controls fire. Hyouga--kid magician, controls ice and magic, uses daggers.
LUNA: she's a character I've always wanted and always had. She's an acrobat, the greaseman on heist jobs, and would a mixture of dance fighting and capoeira. She's from a rewrite of Frontier I'd do at one point in my past that involved the main team being a group of thieves.
Here is something random I drew after wanting to try a new style after reading some wuxia I picked up in Chinatown. Most don't know what wuxia is like or what Chinese manwha look like. It's colorful, vibrant, fast, symbolic, and full of fighting. Wuxia is a type of Chinese story that was based in their history [mainly the Three Kingdoms era] that fantasizes the battles into kung fu legends. Great stuff.
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