This is Blue Moon Comics, a newsletter about Blue Moon Comics publications like Diversions and our line of Special Editions! Blue Moon Comics, if this is your first time hearing of us, publishes a comics anthology called Diversions, featuring super-heroes (like NIGHT SPIDER, MIDNIGHT STRANGER, UNBEATABLE BRICK, and others), sci-fi (OTHER WORLDS), fantasy (KRAGOR the SAVAGE), Westerns (GUNS & ROSA), and lots more. The first 7 issues of Diversions are in black and white, and issues 8 on are in color. We’ve also published collections (we call them “Special Editions”) featuring MIDNIGHT STRANGER, GUNS & ROSA, ASH-AMAN (in black and white) and NIGHT SPIDER (in color). If you haven’t checked out our comics, please give them a try! You can find them in print or digital from DriveThruComics and IndyPlanet!
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Midnight Stranger
“CRIMSON DEATH ON DARK WATERS”
Page 1
1.1 FULL PAGE Splash page showing pirates boarding Athena’s Star as the Midnight Stranger’s ghostly image floats in the cloudy, night-time sky above, looking down angrily at the tableau as it unfolds.
CAPTION: DAYS AGO, SOMEONE TRIED TO KILL BENJAMIN BLAKE. HIS BODY WAS LEFT IN A VEGETATIVE STATE, BUT HIS STILL-ACTIVE SOUL SOUGHT OUT ONE WHO COULD HELP HIM GET REVENGE. A BEING CALLED SIEGE-L HEARD HIS CRIES AND MADE A DEAL WITH BLAKE: SIEGE-L WOULD AVENGE BLAKE IF BLAKE WOULD ALLOW HIM TO USE HIS BODY AS A PORTAL TO EARTH. SIEGE-L'S MISSION ON EARTH: DESTROY EVIL! BLAKE AGREED, AND TOGETHER THEY PREY UPON THE WICKED AS...
LOGO: THE MIDNIGHT STRANGER!
CAPTION: WITNESS, A BAND OF MODERN-DAY PIRATES. THEIR LEADER, KNOWN ONLY AS “SUTTON”, IS A CHARISMATIC MADMAN COVERING HIS LOOTING AND KIDNAPPING ACTIVITIES BEHIND POLITICAL PLATITUDES. THESE 21ST CENTURY SWASHBUCKLERS DON’T KNOW THAT THEY’RE ABOUT TO FIND…
TITLE: “CRIMSON DEATH ON DARK WATERS!”
CREDITS: LLOYD SMITH-AUTHOR
As you can tell, Kent and I have worked together in the past, so Kent is able to take my simple description and turn it into a beautifully realized image. You’ll also note that I often edit my scripts as I letter the pages. That’s why I like to letter. :D
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That first page is amazing! So spooky and atmospheric! The Midnight Stranger has become a favorite strip of mine, but hey: so have ALL of the Blue Moon original characters, eh?