Title page colored!

Here is the almost final colored title page!

Story Boards!

The dialog isn't fully written yet, but I sat down with my projected storyline and worked out this entire arc of story boards. The art is very, very rough, but here is how it goes:

[Cover Page]

Here the horizontal lines are going to be indicative of fog. Like I said, it is very, very rough.The page will feature the main character, Septimus, in a trench with one of the Icemen sort of looming in the mist.

[Page 1]

Here Septimus is moving in to position with his squad, He considers the mist that shrouds the soon to be battlefield and looks up at the line of clouds next to the sun.

[Page 2]

The flashback to how it all started will start here. I blocked out all of the planets just in blue. I'll put more work into them later but I just wanted to block out positions for now. The third panel sets a new standard for poorly drawn, but when I'm done it should look like a plot of the course the pressure vessel ship will take to hit Mars' southern pole. The final panel should be the pressure vessel winking against the sun in the background as it moves between Earth (right) and Mars (left).

[Page 3]

Here I wanted a different layout, and I think this will succeed. Mars will be in the upper left, while the upper right two images will be the development of mars from a dead world to something a hair more hospitable. The third panel will be the colony ship, and the fourth will be in the same style as the pressure vessel ship as it travels between planets.

[Page 4]

This story board looks pretty empty, mostly because its gonna be kinda text heavy. Top left will be a small picture of a very grey Earth. Next to it will talk about earth's decay after the colonists left. Bottom right will talk about how Mars has flourished, but earth's decay has weighed heavily on the new world. It will also talk about how some of the southern-most settlements are starting to go dark. The weird cross-hair style thing on what will be Mars will be a very rough layout of how the city you'll be able to see from space.

[Page 5]

This page is rather rough, but it'll be mostly about the Martian response to their cities going dark. The first standing army in the human history of the planet being assembled, and people picking up their ancestor's trades, converting old (in relative terms) farming equipment into weapons and things of that nature. 

[Page 6]

This is the last page in my initial vision. It is Septimus looking up and watching one of the VTOLs cooking away the cloud and fog layer on the battlefield right before he moves in with his squad.