Without question, the most frequent question I’ve received over the past several years is “when are you going to do the next dio-story?”
The answer is now.
Joining the enthusiastic G.I. Joe celebration for the 2014 G.I. Joe Convention, and appropriately in the same weekend that both Hit & Run and Vypra were announced for Figure Subscription 3.0, I now present G.I. Joe: Darkness Falls.
It has been added to my Dio-Story menu above, and has its dedicated page right here, and you can go ahead and check out the Prologue directly. Expect weekly episodes, every Sunday, and right now the series is slated to run a whopping 40 episodes!
It’s been a long and hard labor of love, and it’s a labor that still continues as I work to ensure that there will be regular updates throughout the entire story. Check it out, and I really hope it was worth the wait.
Nice work, Justin. I have that same McFarlane Mummy tomb. It’s a great prop choice.
What program do you use for your captions and bubbles? I have found several online, but I like the look of yours, with the thick black outline.
I started scripting an epic diorama series a few years ago, but man, just photographing a short, goofy story is massively time-consuming. I admire your ambition!
Thanks, Monte! Yeah, I’m afraid to even calculate the amount of time I’ve spent on this thing over the past couple of years.
The actual comic composing software I use is Comic Life 2. I take the individual images and do whatever special effects are necessary first, and then pull those final images into Comic Life to add the word bubbles, orient the panels, and publish the final image.
Awesome, I’m off to download Comic Life. Thanks!
Comic Life is up to version 3.
Thanks, yeah, that’s the version I downloaded. Just the trial, though; I’ll have to see if it’s worth paying for. I’m A. broke and B. cheap.
I’ve been waiting patiently, and was stoked to see this today. I’ll be checking each weekend. Great start! -Nas
The only thing I didn’t like is the massive Skystrikers on the last panel
Oh man! The ‘ol dios that got me into photographing joes in the first place! Good to see ’em back, man!
My only suggestion would be that it is visually jarring to see outdated figures next to state-of-the-art ones.