Rojo Fernandez: Son of Wind
Rojo Fernandez: Son of Wind is © Gabriel Bautista Jr.
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Rojo Fernandez: Son of Wind is an epic story of self-realization and choosing between the family ties and the fate of the world.
The god of wind takes the title of "dead beat dad" to another level, as he tries to tries to recruit his half human, half god son to be a the new heir to the kingdom of wind. But how can you recruit someone who hates every ounce of your being? If that wasn't enough, what do you do with the other three sons that what nothing more than to rule the world through the power of being the new king of wind? With time against him, the king must do his best to flip Rojo's already hateful attitude towards him.
whoa original!!! I agree with Donald.
me wants conclusion !!!
nice story and art, bro´ galvo!
I love the idea,the only thing is that you need more pages to tell us what is going on. :D
good stuff sir.
I voted for it.
To me, this entry seems one of the more interesting stories. Bravo, its tough just to get 8 pages into the competition!
And so, definitely keep at it!
I must admit I didn't really get this. The art is nice in its own kind of way, but I think it doesn't really manage to capture the wind. If the wind were fully realised visually you might be better off, but he looks like a big blue cloud to me, or a weather symbol that's fallen off a chart, and the mini winds - gusts? well they don't look like wind or clouds. Great concept and potential but lacks a real grasp of the visual - probably need a few more tricks in the bag to describe something you basically can't see. Difficult to achieve, so a brave try.
I found this to be completely entertaining. I mean...Come on...Who argues with wind? That's hilarious. And I love the sidebar about the sonsequences of Wind quitting his job.
Go go Gabe! I really liked your colors on this. Top notch stuff!
Not terrible, but not great either. The little factoid about the anime food chain was funny, and the cloud guys were cute, too.
An interesting tale with some pretty off-beat humor. Your art style's not bad. But I think you didn't take advantage of your creative space. You have huge panels in some sections that don't seem to be necessary. And the ending is obviously meant to be a cliffhanger of sorts but it almost seems like you got to the 8th page and realized that's all you could submit and decided to stop. Your story is unique so I just think you should have taken more of the space alloted to allow us easier passage into this world you've created.
galvo, I liked your story a lot. The dead beat dad as the king of wind was a good element for the story. The kid standing up to the two little cloud minions and Rojo's anger/reaction made me think he had a lot more in common with his father than he let on. If your dad is the God of wind different standards should apply. I know 8 screens may have been two short to see Rojo's brothers, but i think it would have helped your story to see in the 8 screens Wind wanted his son to replace him/ and more on possible reasons why. I thought the pacing was a little off. In any other month you could have stood out more for the color along, but this month almost all the comics have top-notch colors. Still I thought you did a great job with the colors/art. I would only have liked to see more of the synopsis in the story. I think you should be ranked higher than #9 in this contest. Best of luck with the story, do you have plans to do anything to really promote the story as other comics have done in the past? Or keep it going if you don't win on Zuda? I also enjoyed the funny moments of Wind telling his kid about his job, and what that entails. Maybe trying to let Rojo know if his kid took over he would be important? Thanks again for a great read 4/5 stars from me.
Great colors!
Your style looks like it belongs in one of the IMAGE anthologies...Flight. I like it. I like it a LOT. Good Deal, Man.
I like it alot and specially where it's going to. The last page is really adding a lot to the suspense, I guess.
I think the action shots though could use better detailing, specially since they took some real big panels. Maybe the whole speedlines thing would work perfectly on smaller panels, though. The colors are really lively, and I can taste the sundown from here.
Good luck, Galvo!
I really like the art here and the story intrigues me, but the writing seems to somehow lose it's rhythm about halfway through. I think this would benefit from an expanded format with a bit more room for the story to breathe. It seemed a little constricted within the 8-pages even though not much actually happened. I do like this though and would like to see the story continue.
cool.
hello all!
thank you all for the kind words and awesome thoughts and critiques!
i greatly appreciate all of you and your feedback, and lookin at my work now with all of your opinions, i'll defintaley put to use the various suggestions you have all made!
thanks again amigos!
goodluck to all the artist this month!!
Ron, working Blue isn't normally my PRIMARY goal! Get it? Cus Blue is a primary color? And so is red? Which, in Spanish is Rojo, I think. Which is our main character! Which doesn't make this joke any funnier!
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sorry.
First four pages were alot more engaging than the last four. The last few panels make Rojo out to be cocky and unlikeable (he beats up adorable clouds?) and essentially ends where the 8 pages began with his dad yelling at him. Also why is he loudly declaring that he's the son of wind? Doesn't he hate his father at this point?
Seems like there was a missed opportunity for some plot development or at least some kick ass cloud city scenery.
Its interesting. Not much happend in the 8 pages but it was a first for a Zuda Comic to slice or break the wind. (Bad I know)
Good art, good story. I wouldn't be at all disappointed if this won.
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Some gripes though:
For a preview, this is a lot of talk, some of which was funny, but if this is the tone of the story, than I'm going to get bored.
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That said, I hope this is a story I will continue reading if it continues. Be it here at Zuda or elsewhere.
First Impression: I like this. I think it's strong but with certain caveats. On page 5-7 there's some lazy background work. I think it would've been better to skip background altogether. Better than that would've been to incorporate better background work in with your comic action but either way it seemed unfinished....
I'm interested in seeing the continuation of the story. I like the 'mythic' qualities, as commented by SuprrEgo, and the Wind's explanation for not paying child support was really and truly funny. Very nice.
C'mon Pete, you gotta work blue? Ba dum dum. Homonyms, get it?! Words that sound the same, different meaning. What, nobody likes Grammar jokes?
I don't really see this going anywhere. It's kinda like Bigby from Bill Willingham's Fables series but not cool. Sorry, Galvo.
Wow, I got to the end of this one, and like in Bayou or High Moon, I was left with..."Where the hell is the next page? Why can't I click...oh." Good job.
Loved the characters and humour. The fact that the point of Wind's rant was no more anime or videogames was hilarious.
This one went by way too fast IMHO. I liked the character development on pages 1-4 and deadbeat dad's explanation of why he's too busy to pay child support was hilarious ... the vapid fight scene on pages 5-8, not as engaging (the kid's personality totally changed and he came off like an unlikeable, omnipotent snotty brat). Good art, flowed too fast without traveling much distance for me.
I really like the mythic quality this envokes, nice job. One of my favorites.
Has potential but this is another one, that 8 pages make it hard to judge...
I think the biggest problem with this is that I can't really get a feeling about how this is going to progress. I like th art and coloring alot, I like some of the dialogue and character interaction, But I don't really get a sense of where this story is going what the primary conflict could be and how it might be carried out. Or even where the character archs could go. I don't know enough about the story to tell if it has potential. I read the synopisis and think "eeeh, I don't think I'd like that" but then I read the comic and think "well I like THIS"
How could wind have a kid? Doesn't wind blow?
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sorry.
Good luck!