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Interior Illustration and the cover for my newest novel set in the Red Lantern Universe, 'HeartTheft' - https://furplanet.com/shop/search.a.....rch=hearttheft
Taken in by an Abbey at a young age, Isidor of Ebon Gables is an inquisitive, passionate, fiercely pious young Akita in a rigid society where prescribed roles for all good folk are not just a road map for how to live one’s life, but part of his faith and his holy profession. Isidor is a Templar — pledged to an Order of armed enforcers who keep a vigil over the purity and adherence to religious edicts that their ruling class must follow — as well as an Inquisitor in training, elite Templar who execute the Church’s orders that are best left in the shadows. Concealing the secrets of the upper-class, spying, and hunting the Church’s enemies are all in a day’s work.
“The Heart Thief” is one such enemy: an infamous antiquities thief who is suspected of stealing one of the Church’s most holy artifacts. Isidor is dedicated to tracing the clues left by them and bringing them to justice as a means to prove himself. But unearthing the truth behind the crime — and the criminal themself — may bring more to light about the nature of the Templar Organization than Isidor is prepared to learn.
When new knowledge challenges conventional wisdom, doubt and introspection challenge doctrine, and a young man so accustomed to following his heart feels it lead him towards a future that is contradictory to who he believes himself to be… where will his journey of faith, love, and the search
for truth take him?
Get your copy now, here - https://furplanet.com/shop/search.a.....rch=hearttheft
In case it isn't clear (and I'm sorry about that, really!) -
The Hardcover of HeartTheft is the entire story in one, both books combined
The Softcovers are Book 1 - Covenant, and Book 2- Apocrypha
Taken in by an Abbey at a young age, Isidor of Ebon Gables is an inquisitive, passionate, fiercely pious young Akita in a rigid society where prescribed roles for all good folk are not just a road map for how to live one’s life, but part of his faith and his holy profession. Isidor is a Templar — pledged to an Order of armed enforcers who keep a vigil over the purity and adherence to religious edicts that their ruling class must follow — as well as an Inquisitor in training, elite Templar who execute the Church’s orders that are best left in the shadows. Concealing the secrets of the upper-class, spying, and hunting the Church’s enemies are all in a day’s work.
“The Heart Thief” is one such enemy: an infamous antiquities thief who is suspected of stealing one of the Church’s most holy artifacts. Isidor is dedicated to tracing the clues left by them and bringing them to justice as a means to prove himself. But unearthing the truth behind the crime — and the criminal themself — may bring more to light about the nature of the Templar Organization than Isidor is prepared to learn.
When new knowledge challenges conventional wisdom, doubt and introspection challenge doctrine, and a young man so accustomed to following his heart feels it lead him towards a future that is contradictory to who he believes himself to be… where will his journey of faith, love, and the search
for truth take him?
Get your copy now, here - https://furplanet.com/shop/search.a.....rch=hearttheft
In case it isn't clear (and I'm sorry about that, really!) -
The Hardcover of HeartTheft is the entire story in one, both books combined
The Softcovers are Book 1 - Covenant, and Book 2- Apocrypha
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Actually, yes. Rukis will be writing out the complete Red Lantern Graphic Novel series as a set of 3 (3-5) written novels so that we can see the complete story including how it all ends, starting very soon! She WILL be continuing to work on them as graphic novels. She just doesn't want us to have to wait the years (and years) it will take her to finish all 5.
Is this true? Sorry, but why should I want to read those books? Please don't get me wrong, I don't want to sound rude. I love Rukis, I love her work, the comic, the books. I've got all of them sitting on my shelf. Red Lantern was one of the first things I came into contact with, when I stumbled into the fandom, way over a decade ago. I've been around all this time, patiently, and in the meantime I've enjoyed many of Rukis' other great stories. But now she wants to spoil me the joy of experiencing the rest of the graphic novel, by telling me how Red Lantern ends in a book? What's the point of continuing the comic when the story has been told? This is not how I want to experience this story! I'd rather wait another decade for the comic before I touch these books. I don't understand this decision!
First off, obvious statement- you don't need to read them. Second off, it's because the comic takes around 40-50 hours per page and it does not, nor has it ever afforded me a living wage to work on it. I have about 22 pages finished for volume 3, but it is extremely hard to fit in something so time-intensive around my schedule of commissions and work that pays my bills. I work on it now purely as a passion project. The novels allow me to continue developing the world, and giving it all a whole lot more detail and characterization than I can include in the comic. You're welcome to wait for as long as it takes me to put this story out in comic form, but some of my fans would really like a conclusion, (not everyone is willing or indeed even able to wait the decade it will likely take) and this novel is for them. No one's gonna spoil your enjoyment of the main comic if you don't go looking for spoilers, my fandom is not that big or widespread, and if you don't like reading novels as opposed to graphic novels, that's okay!
You're right, of course. And I guess I have to accept the reality that some people can't wait and that you wish to consider that fact. And the monetary situation as well, of course. I guess this unexpected news just rubbed me the wrong way for a moment. Red Lantern has always been that awesome graphic novel for me. Wrapping it up in a book felt odd to hear. Anyway, even though I may be a bit reluctant to pick up this particular one, I hope you will do well with ALL of your projects! I did not mean to offend.
While I'd love to encourage you to give the novels a chance, I know that much reading is daunting, and not for everyone. But another factor I didn't discuss above is that I've been writing the Red Lantern novels for awhile, and I genuinely feel I'm able to tell the story better and more detailed IN written form. My art style does not work well for timely comic making (understatement of the millenia) but for illustrated novels, it's perfect! An upside to having the novels complete is that normally I work off of a script, but having written novels will be a good resource for narrowing down scenes for the upcoming comic pages, and perhaps telling the story more succinctly in comic form when the time comes.
Reading is not the problem. I love reading and I love novels. I wrote that comment yesterday in a bit of a sour mood (after years of waiting that wasn't exactly the sort of news I wanted to hear). But now that I've had a night to sleep over it, I see it more objectively and your points are all valid. I think my thoughts may have come across a bit ungainly in the heat of the moment, so allow me to elaborate them.
I love Red Lantern! And I love comics in general. I love them for the art, the stories, the characters... And when they happen to be crafted by truly passionate artists, that only makes it so much better! You excel in all the aforementioned. And one more thing I love about comics, about web publications in particular, is that moment of excitement whenever a new page comes out. When you finally get your hands on a new chunk of the story, see it progress, learn something new, meet the characters again and see what they do next. And at the end of the page, you can look forward to the next one.
What I meant, when I said that the written novels would spoil the comic, is that, once I've read them, I already know what's going to happen. I will know the story, what happens to the characters and I'll know where it all ends. This will take a lot of the excitement out of the comic for me. The excitement of experiencing something for the first time. The excitement of experiencing something I've been waiting so long for.
That's why I was so unhappy about initially hearing about these planned books. It's not that I don't want to read them. I do want to read them! But I still want the comic more, that's where I want to experience the story first. I hope that makes some sort of sense.
I love Red Lantern! And I love comics in general. I love them for the art, the stories, the characters... And when they happen to be crafted by truly passionate artists, that only makes it so much better! You excel in all the aforementioned. And one more thing I love about comics, about web publications in particular, is that moment of excitement whenever a new page comes out. When you finally get your hands on a new chunk of the story, see it progress, learn something new, meet the characters again and see what they do next. And at the end of the page, you can look forward to the next one.
What I meant, when I said that the written novels would spoil the comic, is that, once I've read them, I already know what's going to happen. I will know the story, what happens to the characters and I'll know where it all ends. This will take a lot of the excitement out of the comic for me. The excitement of experiencing something for the first time. The excitement of experiencing something I've been waiting so long for.
That's why I was so unhappy about initially hearing about these planned books. It's not that I don't want to read them. I do want to read them! But I still want the comic more, that's where I want to experience the story first. I hope that makes some sort of sense.
Love the designs for both characters, especially the Templar armor. I was very curious about the religious organizations of Red Lantern ever since that conversation between Luther and the inquisitor in Heretic, and now we'll get, so pretty awesome. I'm eager to get a job soon so I can afford patreon and physical books because these art pieces and the stories are masterpieces. Awesome job, Rukis.
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