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scans_dailyFrom a CBR article and preview on the new Ray title
Meet Lucien Gates.... lifeguard, genuinely nice guy, and hero.
From the CBR interview with Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin grey
Gray: Lucien is vastly different in every way except the similarity of light-based powers; he's a lifeguard from San Diego, carefree, easy going, adopted by new age pseudo hippie parents and in love with a girl who works for a talent agency.
Palmiotti: We set out to create a character that the audience can simply relate to in a lot of different ways, someone likable that, when given these abilities, chooses a course of action I think a lot of us would.
Along those lines, who is Lucien Gates? What can you tell us about the character?
Gray: We started thinking about Lucien as represented by light, and with that came the need to do something optimistic and bright, the kind of superhero who is modern and yet still retains some of the old school action hero comics. There's no soul-crushing drive behind his actions, which is why we made him a lifeguard -- to show he had heroic tendencies before gaining superpowers. Much of the series is grounded in Lucien's life outside the costume and how it often serves as an escape. Its like bungee jumping; people do that for the rush and the excitement. Sometimes, they do it to escape their personal lives.
I'm liking what I hear of this, but I've always been a sucker for the "ordinary guy is granted powers whether he likes it or not and makes the best of it" school of origins.
A striking splash page to start with;
And simply because it's Tuesday and I want some eye candy, a scene showcasing Lucien in his OTHER working clothes...
The origin actually makes me think of both Dr Light II (The Kimiyo Hoshi version I hasten to assure you) and the Will Payton Starman from the 1980's. Those are good credentials IMHO.
And asmaster_nate mentions below. Jamal Igle has a DA page, which has the original pencils, for those (like me) who like such things.
Meet Lucien Gates.... lifeguard, genuinely nice guy, and hero.
From the CBR interview with Jimmy Palmiotti and Justin grey
Gray: Lucien is vastly different in every way except the similarity of light-based powers; he's a lifeguard from San Diego, carefree, easy going, adopted by new age pseudo hippie parents and in love with a girl who works for a talent agency.
Palmiotti: We set out to create a character that the audience can simply relate to in a lot of different ways, someone likable that, when given these abilities, chooses a course of action I think a lot of us would.
Along those lines, who is Lucien Gates? What can you tell us about the character?
Gray: We started thinking about Lucien as represented by light, and with that came the need to do something optimistic and bright, the kind of superhero who is modern and yet still retains some of the old school action hero comics. There's no soul-crushing drive behind his actions, which is why we made him a lifeguard -- to show he had heroic tendencies before gaining superpowers. Much of the series is grounded in Lucien's life outside the costume and how it often serves as an escape. Its like bungee jumping; people do that for the rush and the excitement. Sometimes, they do it to escape their personal lives.
I'm liking what I hear of this, but I've always been a sucker for the "ordinary guy is granted powers whether he likes it or not and makes the best of it" school of origins.
A striking splash page to start with;
And simply because it's Tuesday and I want some eye candy, a scene showcasing Lucien in his OTHER working clothes...
The origin actually makes me think of both Dr Light II (The Kimiyo Hoshi version I hasten to assure you) and the Will Payton Starman from the 1980's. Those are good credentials IMHO.
And as
master_nate mentions below. Jamal Igle has a DA page, which has the original pencils, for those (like me) who like such things.
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Date: 2011-11-23 09:41 pm (UTC)I like to watch soap operas with my mom, have since I was little, and it gets ridiculous--not in a fun way, either. Character freak out all the time about who their birth parents are, and if there's a question of whether a baby belongs to Boyfriend A or Boyfriend B, it doesn't matter that the girl was screwing two guys--it only matters which one had the luckiest sperm.
The other day I told my mother I think they should just randomize babies at the hospital so no one knows who their birth parents are.
And then there's the whole, lady-who-bought-sperm-from-a-sperm-bank who sued for child support from the sperm donor, or the whole concept of "open sperm donation."
tl;dr I think people who care about genetics when it comes to personal relationships are dumb.
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Date: 2011-11-23 10:56 pm (UTC)Blood does not say who you are. Blood doesn't say who you'll be. It's just blood.