Hello, everybody, DAMC here…
I´m more than aware of the many times I have
said: “The webcomic is about to start” and then fade back again into darkness.
My credibility is nonexistent at this point, so instead of whining about the
impediments for the Webcomic, I simply started to use what I already have.
The name has been changed back to what it
was always meant to be: Duat Emperor. I consider that the few many months were
an experiment and an intimate argument Leo and I had after our break up in
2013. I’m not sure if every creative has this type of relationship with their
creations, but since Leo has been with me most of my life my relationship with
him is pretty intense and visceral. I
can say today we have grown together again and Im able to start telling his
story as it was meant to be.
Leo is a bohemian, latin gay man in his late 20´s that just happen to
had been trained as a Wandler in Canada during one of his adventures. A Wandler
is one who can travel between realities (dimensions) to different places thanks
to their understanding of light angles and their lamps.
Leo was born different, aware, and for that reason his
life took a different path that often lead him to encounter things that many
would consider unnatural or transdimensional. Leo´s best friends had showed him some of the
other realities before his adventures in Canada, and even one of them is in
fact titania, the Queen of the faeries incarnated as a gay man in his late 20’s.
So for Leo becoming a Wandler was something natural and expected despite the
perils and high toll he had to pay at the time.
Together with his friends Titania and Jelly Pop, Leo
explores realities seeking knowledge, beauty, fun and the way to become someone
worth being remembered.
That’s our premise for The Duat Emperor,
and I hope it gives a teaser of what is coming and the amount of questions I have
to answer with the webcomic itself. Since: Who the hell is Leo? To: So, he does
not look for meaning in a story that explores again the idea of the multiverse?
That last one I’m gonna “start” answering
right now:
No, Leo does not seek for meaning because
in Leo´s universe to understand the universe and how it’s organized is to
understand and become the meaning. That’s exactly what makes Leo transcendental
in his own story line. Leo is able to explain why in his universe, seeking for
meaning is pointless for the simplicity of the answer. The true adventure is to
make that meaning legendary and make it transcend.
I don´t want to spoil here my own design of
multiverse, that explanation will actually be featured in the webcomic because
it’s importance to get Leo´s perspective.
The never heard of characters for Leo´s
friends are actually old real friends of Leo that just like him, had
experienced a long process of maturing and redesigning.
Titania is indeed the Queen of the faeries
and posses a lamp that allow him to travel to other realities where she has
allies and fun. Leo met Titania when they were both 19 years old in a gym. They
hated each other at first but after a few events, they became best friends and
Titania revealed her identity to Leo.
Jelly Pop is a gorgeous tattooed woman who
inherited the media empire of her parents and has been running it half time
while exploring her passions and desires along with Leo. Jelly Pop had an
undisclosed experience in a cave deep in the Mexican jungle. She had been
giving makeovers to the natives when she vanished for exactly six days. When
she was found in the cave, she had announced she was able to “see” and “understand”.
She operated a few miracles in the town
close to the settlement she had been helping and then went back to México city
to take care of her business with her new powers.
Of course, the supernatural characters that
Leo has been hanging out with will continue to reaper and be part of the story.
So, this where things are right now. Im
working on the number 0 of Duat Emperor, a bit of an “opening” and I hope next week the webcomic truly begins.
