New 'Crossing #3' pages from Daniel!

Last week we caught up and chatted with "The Crossing" artist Daniel Panero Bertucci, and this week we have some new pages from Daniel for the forthcoming third issue of The Crossing!

The third issue of one of our flagship books will feature two new stories from Dino Caruso set within the 1560s and will focus on the main characters of the CFU while they're still in school. Dino and Daniel's Magic stories have appeared in the first two issues of the book, and this third issue will round out our early introductions to the principal characters of the Crystal Fractal Universe!

These images are some of the last pages from the "Elizabeth Arrives" story, a short comic introducing the ever conniving Elizabeth Windsor into the little cabal of magic practitioners Ilonus began in order to preserve the balance of the world's mystical portals. As you can see from the pages, her arrival hardly goes smoothly. Enjoy!

In this page Natanael and the boys find themselves in a fair bit of trouble after the previous page, where one of the character's over zealousness resulted in a demon finding its way into their dimension. Thinking quickly, they erect a defensive shield while trying to plot their next move.

Luckily for the children, Master Ilonus arrives in a nick of time, sending the poor ghoul packing to the dimensional wasteland he came from.

History of Doctor Twilight...

Why waste a good interview.... several weeks back I was interviewed for an article at the Fan Appreciation Convention June 2010 (which was mildly attended, although it was great that a future generation of new comic readers walked the halls and bought the odd book - including copies of Doctor Twilight 001 and The Crossing 001). While the article was cut for space (cut entirely) I am including it here since it did give a good background on Doctor Twilight. The interviewer's name has been changed for copyright reasons... or something like that...
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Int: So, how long ago did you create Doctor Twilight? With all of the speak of Twilight, and Doctor Who, and even the Doctor from Twilight... is Doctor Twilight a grab at those properties?

Derrek: Great question. I was beginning to feel the same thing - doing internet searches for "Doctor Twilight" I keep getting references for "The Twilight" storyline in Doctor Who, Twilight the series, etc... so it is a little unfortunate. Doctor Twilight actually was created in the early 1990s (I have dated sketchbooks as far as that goes) with a different costume (which will be posted shortly). But, as I began to move forward, thought that the costume looked a little too much like a cross between SPAWN and Doctor Strange, and so had another artist in early 2000's take a crack at it.

Int: And that was the costume that was originally presented in "Crystal Fractal Universe" 0.0?

Derrek: Exactly. The big brown shoulder pads, and a grey suit, no real boots, etc... but after running it past a few people, it didn't fly so to speak. So that costume - along with the old one - will show up once in a while... but the new design... drawn by Allison Borges... is the one we went with.

Int: A little more stylized?

Derrek: Actually, a little more TV ready. We wanted to make the transition to a TV show or movie easy enough with a look that was already suitable: a trenchcoat rather than a cape, a black T-shirt, black pants - but the same crystal imbedded in his chest.

Int: Are we going to see the old costume anytime soon?

Derrek: Keep an eye out for it posted on the website!

And the Winner is...

Over the past few months, we ran a simple "get to know you" contest.

The prize?

A CGC graded 9.6 version of the Preview Edition of "Crystal Fractal Universe" Number 0.0!

On Jan 1, 2009 we drew a winner... AND THE WINNER WAS JASON TRUONG!


On Jan 17th, we had an in-store shindig at Paradise Comics Toronto, where Jason got the book! Pictures coming soon!

D.