Wired Magazine writer Corrina Lawson recently chatted with the creator of the graphic novel ‘Shadowlaw’ Brandon Easton. Here’s an excerpt:
GeekDad: What drew you to a story that featured the Catholic Church in a struggle with vampires?
Brandon Easton: It was an amalgamation of a variety of my creative influences as well as a kind of rumination on the nature of power, government and religion. The original concept dealt with a chase adventure through a ruined landscape. Like if you mixed Book of Eli with The Lost Boys.
Concept drawing of the vampires in Shadowlaw
Over the years, the story and world changed to fit a more cohesive theme. The funny thing is that I originally came up with the story for Shadowlaw back in 1996 before the current vampire craze in pop culture.
GD: Tell us a little about the lead hero of the story.
BE: Rictor is a man whose parents were killed by government troops during what was believed to have been a botched raid. He was eventually adopted by the Chancellor of the New Earth Alliance (NEA). In a bizarre twist, Rictor would be indoctrinated in the ways of the people who murdered his parents and later finds himself in a similar situation at the beginning of the book.
GD: What other types of monsters are represented in the story?
From chapter two of Shadowlaw
BE: Not really too many monsters other than the cyborg vampires – something that I don’t think has ever been seen before. One of the first artists on the series (Scott Kester) designed the mech-vampires and he went above and beyond my expectations for their look. People are going to see some stuff that has never been done before in an American comic series.
Read more of the interview here
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