Sleaze Castle: The Director's Cut Vol #3 , livre ebook

Markosia Enterprises Ltd - Terry Wiley , Dave Mckinnon

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104 pages

English

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Having fixed a massive temporal mixup, Jo, Panda and the Prof take a break in the Silurian Era to relax. But Panda's ill, so they are forced to return to the present day and Panda's alternate Earth to deal with the next unwanted result of the mixup - a lost Earth astronaut! After confusing him thoroughly, Panda reveals two devestating secrets - and Jo meets a mystery woman on the castle walls...

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Historial Fiction

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Publié par	Markosia Enterprises Ltd
Date de parution	01 décembre 2016
Nombre de lectures	2
EAN13	9781620980712
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	162 Mo

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Introduction to the digital editions

o, welcome to the digital edition of Sleaze Castle. A format like this would have only been a science fiction dream when Terry and I started the series; I’m looking at it now on an iPad - but the original early scripts weren’t even word-processed... and the first issue 1 print run was done by a print shop that couldn’t even properly register the colour on the cover!

It is January 2012, and I’m nearly 50. It is a little frightening to realise that the earliest material in these volumes is literally from half a lifetime ago - written as it was, in my mid 20’s. The most recent is from a little over a decade ago, and this introduction is the only contribution to the comics medium that I have made since then. As usual, Terry has done all the work for this - and I’ve done very little. Even this introduction is running late!

Thinking on it, I suppose there will be 3 categories of buyer of these eComics; curious new readers (welcome), completionists (also welcome), and previous readers who might have lost their original copies and want to revisit (welcome back to you too). Newcomers will notice a lot of variation in quality (in writing and artwork) as you go through the series... remember, though, that the bits of the story that are chronologically first are NOT those that we created first. Hopefully what you’ll experience will be a progressive improvement in quality. When we started, we honestly didn’t know what we were doing (see above for evidence of this in our choice of printer!) - being propelled only by Dave Sim’s “just publish it yourself ”-style philosophy. I think it was several issues before we really made contact with other indie small-press creators.

Looking back, I’m not entirely certain what the spark was that actually made us start - or what shaped the storyline(s). I remember wanting a big castle (shades of Gormenghast), and stuff to do with dimensions and parallel universes. We had a female lead (Jo) almost on a whim, and then the character who became Panda was made female because we thought it best to have them both as the same gender. I don’t think that Love and Rockets (which we were both reading around then) influenced us in this decision. Certainly Jo and Panda are nothing like Hopey and Maggie, and I can’t say that I had any real interest in specifically portraying female characters, or profess to having any insight into them (then or now). Its hard to now imagine that they could be other than they are and - given the level of female readership that we picked up, we seemed to have done OK.

Dave McK.

thus far

Jocasta Dribble.Perpetual Student. Dreamer. Cursed with a stupid name and uncontrollable hair. How has she come to be on this particular island? In the Pacific Ocean? 440 million years ago? And what of her unusual companions?

Let’s go back a while... there’s Jo; she’s leaving university at the end of a heavy day, and then...what? She’s passed through a sort of dimensional/temporal gateway thingy and metwho?Panda. Panda - who had disappeared several months previously. Panda - who was meantto be an overseas student that Jo had befriended. How was she here, in a huge rambling castle, and ruler of an alien world (that somehow simultaneously occupies the same space as Earth, is 6 months in the future and is also on the opposite side of the Sun)? And, what of Dwengthe space zombie; andRalph, who has decided that Jo is his long-lost mother? And the oddball Professor Heapsheavens - what about the? Good Little Happy Creaturesthat infest the castle (and why are they so excited to see Jo?) Events after her arrival rapidly spiral out of control. An accident with some of the equipment that stabilises the barrier between the worlds results in a race to recover an emitter (disguised as a lamp-post) before NASA can examine it. Unfortunately a Shuttle mission specialist,Major Charles Upp, gets caught up in the mayhem, and Dweng and Ralph are lost - set adrift amongst the worlds of other dimensions. Then Panda gets stuck on Earthagain, forced to relive her earlier friendship with Jo...

...All-in-all; it’s time for avacation...