Caverns of the Darkest Night
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| Title: | Caverns of the Darkest Night |
| Publisher: | Roaring Lion Press |
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| Author(s): | Vickey Brickle-Macky |
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| Date(s): | July 1992 |
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| Genre: | het |
| Fandom: | Beauty and the Beast (TV) |
| Language: | English |
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Caverns of the Darkest Night is a het graphic novel 108-page Beauty and the Beast (TV) zine by Vickey Brickle-Macky.
Past and Future Publications
Death Shall Have No Dominion, part 1 (originally published in Macky's Sign of the Lion v.1 n.5)
Death Shall Have No Dominion, part 2 (originally published in Macky's Sign of the Lion v.1 n.6)
Both were reprinted in Collected Macky's Sign of the Lion.
From the Editorial
The story is originally based on the second season ender "The Best Is Silence" and goes from there into it’s own alternate universe which I am gradually evolving as I write the Atanzi series of novels. The story is as realistic written and drawn as I can make it. Do be forewarned that there is nudity, here and there, but hopefully, tastefully done and not X-rated.
1 am not a real comic book artist, although it has been one of my lifelong ambitions. I am an illustrator so if it doesn't have the zip and action of a real comic book —sorry— I’m still learning as I go along, which also explains the variety of rendering styles as I’ve tried to find the best ways and means to make the art come out the way I wanted.
I started this story after the second season ender, but couldn't finish it due to other work and losing the thread of the story. Recently, the whole story fell together and I finally I got the entire thing plotted out. Now comes the drawing, dialogue, and inking it all. Doesn't sound like much but producing a comic book from scratch is a lot of work if you are doing everything involved with its production with no help.
Most comics have someone do the writing of the story, with a blow by blow script that lays it out, another person does the pencils roughs, then another does the inking over the pencils and someone else does the lettering. I have to do it all so it takes a little longer to get each section out baring distractions and family obligations.
Caverns of the Darkest Night will publish "Death Shall Have No Dominion," as two books — Book One — Parts I to IV, and Book Three -- Parts V to VIII. Book Two will contain the complete "Moonshadow," story which is almost ready for publication except for inking. After that I am not sure.
My only wish is that I could do this in color or have an independent pick this up as a real comic book and not just a fanzine, though as a fanzine I can be a lot more liberal with the story lines and the art than if I was having to work under someone's guidelines and restrictions.
