I sincerely think comics are great. In fact, if you see around you, a high percentage of the films Hollywood produces each year are based in original comics.
Even so, we have to agree that most of these original comics have not a great script, indeed.
You know: the played out theme of the good guys vs. the bad guys, often taken to a super-natural level: Superman, Spiderman, Wonder Woman, The League of Justice, and the list go on and on.
More interesting seems to me those scripts where the good guys are not so absolutely good, and the bad guys are not totally and unquestionably evil. Good and Evil are, in life, not so clearly defined areas and the grey in between has, more often than not, too many colors.
The ancient eastern sign and concept called “Yin & Yan” shows that in an enlighten graphical mode: a black area and a white area side by side, separated by a sinuous line in the shape of an “S”, both of them included in the archaic symbol of infinity: the circle.
But the symbol doesn’t stop there: inside the black area there is a bright, immaculate, perfect white dot. The same thing goes with the white area: its immaculate whiteness is interrupted for a dark, sinister and not because that less bright and perfect black dot.
That way is life in my humble opinion: many more grey zones that we’d like to recognize.
Maybe you wonder what all that has to do with comics…
Let me explain a bit more:
As I said before, I really like comics. But even when all of us know 88% of the merit in a comic book is at a graphical level, I still love the good stories.
And good stories don’t include for me the simplistic ones. I like to feed my intelligence whenever I can. I want to be able to keep something for me to meditate after I quickly devour my preferred comic editions.
Yes, I know. I’m expecting too much from this genre. This is not what comics is supposed to do, is it?
Fortunately for me, sometimes a few exceptions to this rule show up here and there.
This is the case with Athanaton and The Minds of Fire, a new digital comics that was released just the last April 11 by a not so known firm called Athanaton Comics, Inc.
Truth has to be said, there are almost no information about who are the guys behind this title. And no too much information about the comics script in itself besides, of course, the juicy content of the first issue which I went thought almost without stopping to breathe. It’s that good!
(By the way, you’re not supposed to pay for this first issue: you can get it right away FOR FREE from the Athanaton’s Fanpage in Facebook. Plus, you’ll get some cool Athanaton’s wallpapers too).
I don’t want to mess up your first impression, although. You should take a look at Athanaton by yourself to get your own taste of it.
All I’m going to tell you is that the script of Athanaton and The Minds of Fire revolved basically around the Athanaton’s story.
Athanaton is the head of a semi-divine army placed by Gods themselves to keep the border that separates the Hell from the human world.
Athanaton’s mission is to stop the sinister inhabitants of Hell from being able to get out and contaminate the paradisiac world where a pure and innocent mankind lives.
But the big beast who rules the hell is about to find a way to circumvent the powerful vigilance of Athanaton. And when it is done, the face of the world will change forever.
