Sunday pretty: Jayesh and the wyvern

Artwork done for my ongoing graphic novel

I’ve been working feverishly on my graphic novel adapt of After Atlantis: Bloodbound, and broke 80 pages last week. I have a baby due in April, and that’s going to set me back six months to a year, so I’m trying to cram in as many pages as possible.

Each comic page, I try to do at least one panel with a really good expression, or angle, or background, or something. I call it my wow panel. This particular comic page features a conversation between my hero and the grumpy grandpa wyvern who more or less looks after him, so I went for broke with a full-sized artwork.

One by oath, one by blood, one by election.

In a world of superheroes, Jayesh has a rare healing power that he uses in the local hospital. When teenagers are admitted with feather-patterns burned into their backs, Jayesh is reluctantly drawn into the underworld of black market magic smuggling.

A chance encounter with Omniscient, the villain in charge of the smugglers, leaves Jayesh with his magic shattered. A portal to the hospital goes wrong and Jayesh is instead sent to an island in another dimension: an island that has awaited its Bloodbound for centuries. In exchange for healing, he is magically bound to the island, and half his magic is turned into a tiny dragon.

Now, with the help of the Islesworn, James Chase, Jayesh must go undercover to recover the mysterious Pandora shard. But this means facing off with Omniscient, a villain who can bring a person’s fears to life—and who is increasingly ruled by his own power.

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You can read the graphic novel for free, as far as it’s gone, here. Or you can just race ahead and buy the book here to see the full story.