Where Gods and Mortals Dance ~ About

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Where Gods and Mortals Dance is a character-oriented dark fantasy focused on a former priest's attempts to thwart a worldwide demonic infestation. The story is told from a variety of perspectives, the main one being from Caleb Glade, a young man whose connection to the whole ordeal is indirect at best. It's been knocking about, the characters especially, for years. Late 2004, it finally found a suitable method of expression. The following February the first page was released. WGMD's changed a lot since its initial conception. It has become, among other things, a criticism of religion, a tribute to rock n' roll, and a celebration of humanism. It's an experiment in the "we know where we're going, but let's see how we get there" attitude toward production, which is, to a degree, frightening and exciting at the same time. King can't wait to see how he works things next.
Kingston Callahan Rockwell is an general artist and storyteller in his early twenties living near Savannah, Georgia. If you're ever in Rincon, you might see his quirky ass walking about town. His favorite passtimes are coffee and cigarettes, an evening with a good book or movie, intelligent conversation and music. He's particularly crazy for MC5, Bauhaus, The Ramones, Stevie Wonder, Belle and Sebastian, Interpol, Pink Floyd, Gnarls Barkley and almost anything blessed by the hands of Glenn Danzig. A few of his favorite albums are Queen's A Night At The Opera, Iggy And The Stooges' Raw Power, Sonic Youth's Daydream Nation and The Polyphonic Spree's Together We're Heavy. He figures David Bowie should've been granted godhood already. He's been teaching himself how to draw since he was seven, the same age at which he decided he wanted to write comics. He by no means started learning to write so early. That, unfortunately, didn't come till later, and didn't matter none till he got over some qualms and got awesome. Dudes like Raymond Chandler, Douglas Adams and Frank Miller helped. King adheres, by nature, to the ideals of rock n' roll, which he sees as more than an attitude toward music, but an attitude toward life. It has its own set of morals, or anti-morals, rather. They can be mostly summed up as three principles: a) Do whatever the hell you please (though we prefer you don't fuck with another dude's ability to do the same) b) Don't take bullshit from anyone c) Have a damn good time with it. In accordance with this he considers: the existence or nonexistence of a god in the traditional sense a non-issue in that it has no direct relation to anything ever; two of the most important qualities in person to be whimsy (which he defines as the capability to have fun) and moxy (which he defines as the ability to take care of oneself independently); that perfection is a trick used to suppress individuality; the postmodern attitude toward art is the fucking awesomest thing. Despite all this, he's still a nice bloke to talk to and in many cases one of the politest dudes on the planet. He loves basically everything, and even moreso when drunk.
Kyle Toothaker, starting at page 7 of chapter four and excepting page 11, is our new inker and he's awesome. C.F. Barber inked pages 9-11 and 13-22 on chapter one and we love him for it. Everything else was inked by yours truly.