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Writer Steve Horton is the writer of Amala’s Blade as well as StrongArm as well as has contributed to Dark equine Presents. artist Stephen Thompson has drawn die Hard: Year One, star Trek: new Frontier, as well as different star Wars titles. together they bring you Satellite Falling, an upcoming series from IDW. Horton as well as Thompson just recently told Westfield’s Roger Ash about this interesting new series.

Westfield: exactly how did Satellite falling come to be?

Stephen Thompson: Well Steve contacted me as well as pitched a few concepts my method for creator had series. Satellite falling jumped out at as a extremely fertile idea in terms of style as well as visual world-building. The concept of a satellite with only one human inhabitant truly opened up a great deal of potential, artwise.

Steve Horton: I usually have a great response for this question. This time, it was a combination of, “I liked that old DC book area Cabbie” as well as “Wouldn’t it be awesome if there were a book about a area station stuffed with aliens as well as one solitary human?” I didn’t truly get to understand the character of Lilly up until after Stephen came onboard as well as I saw his character designs. everything came together after that.

Westfield: exactly how much world building did you perform in preparation for the series?

Horton: Some, however not as much as you think! rather than setting in stone the different districts, alien races as well as physical building of Satellite, I’ve kept it deliberately vague to ensure that I can world-build different parts of Satellite as I go. Alien races are invented out of whole fabric as the plot requires them, as well as Lilly gos to different parts of Satellite that in shape the story. It’s truly a malleable location that kind of grows as well as modifications as the story does.

Thompson: ahead of time? almost none. I designed Lilly’s signature attire as well as look as she’s the primary character, as well as I worked up some generic aliens to provide a flavor of the general tone I was going for, however there’s just as well much to style for this book to work it all out beforehand. Every page has a new location, new vehicles, weapons as well as a hold of new aliens, so almost whatever is invented right on the page.

Satellite falling #1 membership Cover by PJ Holden

Westfield: What can you state about your collaboration? exactly how do you two work together?

Horton: The writer-artist connection that I have with Stephen Thompson (and the colorist, Lisa Jackson) is most likely the very best one I’ve ever had in comics. We work together exceptionally well. My scripts tend to be type of Spartan, which can throw off some artists as well as force me to be more verbose, however I don’t have to do that with Stephen. He totally sees inside my head as well as gets what I’m believing in any type of specific scene. Plus, his alien as well as atmosphere styles have been off the charts.

Thompson: I get a basically completed script as well as Sarah Gaydos, our editor, provides notes. After the script is finalized I pencil as well as ink the book. One unusual thing is that Steve doesn’t break down the pages into panels, he leaves that to me which truly assists with the flow as well as storytelling.

Westfield: What can visitors look ahead to in Satellite Falling?

Thompson: A great deal of sci-fi noir, set in a extremely exotic locale with lots of exotic locales.

Horton: vehicle chases, explosions, revenge, genocide plots, xenophobia, gunfire, subterfuge as well as romance. Something for actually everyone.

Westfield: who are the primary characters visitors will satisfy as well as what can you state about them?

Horton: Lilly is a bounty hunter in secret, as well as a cab driver in public. She’s impulsive as well as has a tendency to make poor decisions as well as fight her method out of them. She’s still getting over the loss of her like as well as finest buddy Eva, back on Earth. since of the rampant racism as well as xenophobia on her house planet, there are few who venture away from it; therefore, she’s the only human on Satellite.

Zaim is from a race of beings who modification genders based on exactly how they’re feeling at the time. They are the chief of authorities at the Satellite authorities Force, as well as they tend to be caring, yet manipulative at the exact same time with bit tolerance for law-breaking or dissent. A extremely complex being, Zaim likewise can’t hold their liquor. Like, at all.

Karbip, who we satisfy in problem 3, is a four-armed bartender at Lilly’s preferred watering hole. He’s sarcastic as well as cantankerous as well as makes excellent drinks. Lilly when saved his life, so he owes Lilly a favor, which she plans to money in. however first, she has to try Karbip’s latest concoction.

And there’s more that we’ll satisfy as the story goes on, however I don’t want to spoil as well much!

Thompson: more than any type of other book I’ve read, I’d state every character in Satellite falling is either hiding something, or isn’t what they very first appear to be. sometimes literally.

Satellite falling #1 reward Cover by June Brigman

Westfield: any type of closing comments?

Thompson: Yeah, our colorist, Lisa Jackson, is truly adding a big amount to the completed book. We particularly designed the whole look of the art together to take advantage of color in an fascinating way, dropping out rendering as well as hatching in the linework to provide the color more locations to shine.

Horton: If you’re tired of comics with grizzled white-male leads and/or page after page of speaking heads, this is type of the antithesis of that. Satellite falling has strong character development, tons of action as well as incredible art. inspect it out.

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