The world is falling apart, torn asunder by a force beyond comprehension. The time remaining in this world's life can literally be counted in minutes now. This world is now beyond salvation. And at the heart of it all, basking in the nightmares of his handiwork, is the culprit: one Von Mercalli, chaos embodied and personified. Imbalance and discord, doing what he does best: wreaking havoc.

Though the world may die, brave heroes from abroad refuse to let it go quietly. Headed by the one remaining HexV, an entourage of the world's strongest charge to face Von and exact revenge for the devastation he caused. But are these brave souls truly powerful enough to overcome chaos himself?

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Okay, poetic. That's great. Onto the nitty gritty details of this here proposition.

Urudezu, Ixiah and I are about to start up a comic. What I want to do before then is figure out a method to our madness. A means of drawing this comic that's efficient and devoid of complication. So we're going to practice with this; Hex storming the arena of Von for one final show-down to avenge the horror Von inflicted upon an otherwise peaceful world.

But then I figured why not take this a step further? Now I love reading about other people's characters. All the powers and abilities, designs and styles... all of it fascinates me. But what bothers me is how few people are willing to show weakness in their "perfect" characters. So I figured why not kill two birds with one stone?

Now I haven't fleshed out the administrative details of this contest (Urudezu and I are working on that), but the basic premise is this: this comic is a series of one on one battles against Von. Your character, for whatever reason, wants vengeance against him. They show up to fight him, but they are ultimately defeated. Just before Von kills your char, the next contestant shows up to save the day! Repeat. Each contestant draws their own battle from beginning to end.

I'm basically challenging you to draw your characters weak and losing. In comic form.

I feel this will not only help Urudezu and I to set a scene and practice drawing pages of comics, but also gives us a chance to observe how others do it. Pick up a few tricks here and there. It also gives you the chance to flesh out your character in what I feel is a critical aspect: weakness.

Now right now there's no real details of when we start, how we start, what we'll award, how we'll judge, etc etc etc. Urudezu, Ixiah and I have a LOT on this to flesh out. I'm just pitching the idea, and this journal is just to see who'd be interested (Really want some participation, otherwise there's no point). So spread the word please! =D