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Tuesday, May 23, 2023
The Future Looks Truly Visionary!
Visionary Quick Links
- Make your next project Visionary! Learn about our Creative Services!
- Signup for our first Kickstarter for the Visionary Creation!
- Signup for Outrider's Kickstarter for Deadlands: Rise of the Black Circle!
- A complete list of published works you can buy now from CCO C. Edward Sellner!
- Get the Visionary Creation Library of audio dramas at EvCol!
- Support Other Cool Kickstarter Projects - Visionary Certified!
- Check out our Visionary Creation web-comics series, including periodic short stories and new episodes of ongoing series every Tuesday:
- Monarch of Manhattan: Tapas / Webtoons
- The Knight: Tapas / Webtoons
- Visionary Shorts: Tapas / Webtoons
Kicking Off Visionary Kickstarters!
This Spring and Summer are shaping up to be truly Visionary! Between our studio work, especially with new publisher Outrider Entertainment, our own launch as a publisher, and our CCO Sellner spreading his creative wings, multiple projects will be launched on Kickstarter and new projects announced in the coming months, including our first licensed properties!
Here's the Spring / Summer wave of campaigns you can sign up for now...The Visionary Creation Phase 1 Bundle
Launching June 1, 2023, is the debut of the hottest new transmedia shared worlds setting! Dive into the Visionary Creation with 19 stories in multimedia formats, exploring a brand new omniverse from its beginning to its end, from a mythical age of magic to a far-flung future where humanity has spread to the stars! Witness the very birth of the Visionary Creation!Deadlands: Rise of the Black Circle
The new Outrider Entertainment brings you our first brand-new Deadlands epic in hardcover! Classic Deadlands heroes reunite to face a new, rising threat! When a new villain, La Bruja, unleashes the undead on the town of Nacogdoches, "Bad Luck" Betty McGrew, Velvet van Helter, Lacy O'Mally, and the harrowed Ronan Lynch must unite to stop her! But this is just the beginning of a much larger threat on the horizon! The Black Circle is Rising!
Story by: Shane Lacy Hensley / Art by: Aaron Palsmeier
Colors by: Simon Gough / Letters by: Jacob BascleThe Good, The Bad, and the Uncanny
Tales of a Very Weird West
Coming soon from Outland Entertainment, a stellar line-up of authors telling wild tales of a very weird west! Gunfighters, monsters, madmen, and ancient horrors roam the wild west, but true heroes always rise up to challenge the darkness!
Features a brand-new Golgotha story by R.S. Belcher, and explores the wild west of the Visionary Creation in a brand-new tale by C. Edward Sellner. Also includes Visionary creators Jeffrey Mariotte and Greg Cox, among others, with the whole amazing package edited by Jonathan Maberry!Astral Vengeance Issues #1-3
From Pet Piranha Entertainment, produced in association with Visionary Creative Services, the award winning Astral sci-fi, thriller series continues with a Vengeance! Volume 4 continues in single issues and with this campaign you can get issues 1-3, as well as the previous three volumes! Spanning time, space, and alternate dimensions, the powerful Astral, Lila, faces threats from our world and beyond!
Created / Written by: Jay Magnum / Art by: Ariel Medel
Colors by: Rohvel Yumel / Letters by: Jacob Bascle
Tuesday, May 16, 2023
The Visionary Creation Phase 1 Complete Checklist!
The Visionary Creation Phase 1 Complete Checklist!
Signup to be notified when our first Visionary Creation Kickstarter goes LIVE!
Our core book is our Visions Serialized Collection - this unique, 100K word ongoing prose anthology series will feature several stories in each volume, half of them will be serialized ongoing novels, half stand-alone novellas, and short stories. Each story will be set in the Visionary Creation, and various threads will tie many of the stories in each volume together into a larger whole.
Visions Volume 1 contains:
Genesis: The Books of Creation
A modern re-imagining of the epic poem, Paradise Lost, by John Milton! An epic tale of the very beginning of all creation told in a cosmic fantasy style similar to JRR Tolkien's Silmarillion, Jack Kirby's New Gods and Eternals, and with the cutting edge of George RR Martin's Game of Thrones. This chapter opens during the final Judgement Day and then flashes back to tell the tale of how everything began, including the first darkening of the angel Lucifer!Ongoing Serialized Series / Visionary Creation
SoulStar: The Dreaming
A genre-bending Superhero epic unlike any other! We open with our hero suffering total amnesia after a terrible battle that haunts his nightmares. When he awakens from a long coma, he finds himself marooned on an impossible alien world and possessing superhuman abilities that he doesn't understand. This volume ends with a startling and terrifying revelation of just how powerful SoulStar is.Ongoing Serialized Series / Visionary Creation
Monarch of Manhattan
A modern pulp fantasy! Shakalla was born in an Age of Magic, a warrior prince destined to become king. But now, in pursuit of his arch-enemy, the wizard Daemon Thornne, he finds himself in modern-day New York, a brand new kingdom to claim!This series is also being released as an ongoing comic series. See below.
Serialized Novel Series / Visionary Universe
The Knight
Who is the mysterious vigilante protecting the streets of Washington DC? What are they fighting for, and what will it mean for the people around them? The Knight is similar to Batman, but everything is different. We focus on a small cast, any of whom could be the vigilante who takes to the streets to fight the organized crime cartel known as the Syndicate.This series is also being released as an ongoing comic series. See below.
Serialized Novel Series / Visionary Universe
The Legend of Fire-Mane
Set in the Age of Magic, a Dwarven clan faces a new threat, and one of their greatest warriors must face the battle of his lifetime, against impossible odds. All while wrestling with his own doubts about the choices that brought him and his soldiers to this place and time. Witness the death and birth of a legend!Novella Series / Visionary Universe
The Interview
A crusading reporter, Aairah Massood, has been seeking the truth about a top-secret government agency that deals with threats facing our world far beyond most people's imagination. When she learns the name of the man running it, Killian Grieves, she is granted an interview to learn all about GUARDIAN (Global Unified Armed Response Division / Intelligence Acquisition Network). As she does, she becomes concerned this may be her last interview. Ever.Short Story / Visionary Universe
The Storyteller
An author shares the mysterious encounter he had when, as a boy, he became lost in the woods and met an old woman who opened his heart and mind to the true magic of storytelling. In the spirit of Neil Gaiman's works, this modern folktale will touch your heart and soul!Short Story / Others Universe
Transfer of Power
Story by special guest author and editor of Visions, Greg CoxIn the far future, when humanity has spread to the stars and established interstellar civilizations, conflicts of power still remain. On one world, a peaceful transfer of power is about to face a challenge never expected and hard to believe. Greg Cox delivers a fascinating future world with future world problems.
Short Story / Visionary Universe
Comics and Webcomics
The Monarch of Manhattan
NEW WEBCOMIC EPISODES EVERY TUESDAY!
A modern pulp fantasy! Shakalla was born in an Age of Magic, a warrior prince destined to become king. But now, in pursuit of his arch-enemy, the wizard Daemon Thornne, he finds himself in modern-day New York, a brand new kingdom to claim!
Pulp Fantasy
The Knight
NEW WEBCOMIC EPISODES EVERY TUESDAY!
In the near future, a vigilante called the Knight, sacrifices their life to save the city, proving to be every bit the hero the people believed. But who was the Knight? What was their story? Now the truth can be told!
Stretch Goal Third Comic!
Art: Dani Mendoza / Colors: C. Edward Sellner / Letters: Jacob Bascle
Art: Joseph Slucher / Colors: C. Edward Sellner / Letters: Jacob Bascle
Pencils: Sean Lee / Inks: A3Dico / Colors: Periya Pillai / Letters: Jacob Bascle
The above three short stories have also been adapted into audio-dramas by EvCol (see below).
King Ballakka must face a trial of wit, courage, and strength to reach the Old Mother in order to receive a prophecy that will reveal the destiny of his son, Shakalla. Prelude to Monarch of Manhattan
Art: Rafail Ter-Stepanov / Colors: Steven Dellasala / Letters: Jacob Bascle
Stretch Goal Audio Dramas from EvCol
Evcol Entertainment / Clockwork Digital Studios Original Productions, parts of the On Another Wavelength audio anthology series featuring the voice talents of Samantha Boffin, Michelle Campbell-Jones, Holly Gillanders, Will Harrison-Wallace and Mitch Howell, – Written by C Edward Sellner, Directed & Produced by Simon James Collier, Series Created & Co-Produced by Adam Dechanel, Soundscape Design: Zachary Elliott-Hatton.Dark Thriller / Alternate Universe
A world famous author is facing every writer's nightmare in this noir tale with a twist. What happens when a writer faces the reality that the words have stopped coming?
Drama / Others Universe
The Little Things
Trapped on an alien world, their ship destroyed and faced with disaster, one woman will hold onto hope until her dying breath!
An alien world colonized by humans eons ago is about to receive a new master, but not the one they expect! When a young man shows himself to be a musical savant, those who have prepared for his coming welcome him as the new master of their world.
Two men must each make a choice that will change both their lives forever! Detective James Corrigan encounters an ancient and dark threat on the mean streets of New York City.
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Monday, May 15, 2023
Exploring the Visionary Universe!
Visionary Quick Links
- Make your next project Visionary! Learn about our Creative Services!
- Signup for our first Kickstarter for the Visionary Creation!
- A complete listing of published works from CCO C. Edward Sellner!
- Get the Visionary Creation Library of audio dramas at EvCol!
- Check out our Visionary Creation webcomics series, including periodic short stories and new episodes of ongoing series every Tuesday:
The Visionary Universe
The core universe of our new, shared worlds setting is, not surprisingly, the Visionary Universe! "The Visionary Creation is the mega setting designed to explore stories we can't do in the main universe and to create a large sandbox for other creators to stake their claims and build something of their own once we begin to expand. The Visionary Universe is our prime universe, our Earth-1," shared C. Edward Sellner, the man behind the setting.
"The Visionary Universe will be home to the majority of our stories, and those stories will be far more tightly coordinated to maintain internal continuity and consistency. But we won't be limiting ourselves to one time period or one continent, country, or city. Stories here will range from an Age of Magic that took place eons prior to our own history, throughout our own age from prehistory to the far future and onto other worlds in this universe."
The Visionary Universe is built on a "niche-storytelling" model. "The idea is we've created multiple niches in time and space for telling all kinds of stories. For example, in our Phase 1 bundle, we have a dwarven war story set in the Age of Magic, one character from that age travels to our modern-day time, where six of our stories are set, including our two initial comic series, and finally another three tales take place at various points on different worlds in our science-fiction future."
Connections abound throughout these core universe stories. There are two family members who are main characters in our two comic series, there is a major event in our future that sets the stage for all three sci-fi tales and other threads and easter eggs where you least expect them.
Through this, we want to create a detailed and storied world with layers of depth that span from the beginning of time to its end.
Signup to be notified when our first Visionary Creation Kickstarter goes LIVE!
Limited Edition Wraparound Cover for Monarch of Manhattan and The Knight #1
Art by Colton Worley
Spotlight On: The Knight and Monarch of Manhattan
The two series also stand on their own, with The Knight having a darker, grittier take set on the streets of the Nation's Capital, while Monarch has a more light-hearted approach with fantasy elements mixed in, considering Shakalla's origins.
These are also our first two simultaneous prose/comic epics, with their stories being told in prose in serialized chapters of Visions and in comics in their respective series.
One of the short stories in Visions also ties directly into both of these series. Check out The Interview for events of both books to be seen from a different perspective!
Tuesday, May 2, 2023
Who Are the Mysterious Others?
Visionary Quick Links
- Make your next project Visionary! Learn about our Creative Services!
- Signup for our first Kickstarter for the Visionary Creation!
- A complete listing of published works from CCO C. Edward Sellner!
- Get the Visionary Creation Library of audio dramas at EvCol!
- Check out our Visionary Creation webcomics series, with new episodes every Tuesday:
Who Are the Mysterious Others?
One of our two key universes in the Visionary Creation setting is the Others' Universe, specifically that universe's Earth. "When I was putting together some of the initial ideas for series, it occurred to me that I had a couple characters who had two, distinct shared elements to their stories," creator C. Edward Sellner shared. "First, it was important both were set in a world without the overtly fantastic. No magic, no monsters, no super-heroes. Both also had a similar MO in how their own fantastic abilities worked, and I realized that I could do a lot more within those two boundaries. As a result, instead of those two being special people on their own worlds, thanks to a suggestion from our Production Guru Jacob Bascle, they became the first two people of a special world."
The Others are normal, every day people, who live in a normal every day world, but, often without even realizing it, they possess special abilities and gifts that instead of working in THEIR world, touch other worlds in various ways.Each is unique, their abilities are unique. Many of them operate in a way that the person with those abilities never even realize what they truly are. For some, it's more a curse than a gift, as their abilities can distort their own perceptions of reality. For others, its a gateway to adventures beyond their imagination!
Once the concept was there, more and more ideas began coming together until this sidebar world became the second most prominent in our planned launch. There are three stories set in the Others Universe in our Phase 1 Bundle, each showcasing a different member of this unique group, and each with connecting threads to still other stories throughout.
"This is one of those intriguing concepts we hope will create hardcore fans who really want to dig into the Visionary Creation to find all the connections, figure out what they mean, and endlessly speculate about what the future holds," Sellner added. "We love our fans, we want to give them plenty of mysteries, intrigue, and surprises along the way."Signup to be notified when our first Visionary Creation Kickstarter goes LIVE!
Featured as an ongoing series in our Visions Serialized Collection, SoulStar is a re-imagining of the super-hero mythos, and both our flagship and top breakout character of Phase 1! We open with an amnesiac SoulStar on a strange, alien world, with lots of questions and fractured memories of a terrific battle that hints at the scale of his powers, but leaves many questions as to who he truly is, where he's from, and just what his powers are.Spotlight on: Soulstar
"We purposefully wanted to go with this story first so we could have readers discover the truth of SoulStar right along with our hero himself. But we promise, this will be a super-hero like you've never seen before, with some really cool twists to his story. SoulStar will be one of the most important figures in the Visionary Creation, and we can't wait to share his story with fans!"
Join us next week as we explore the Visionary Universe!
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STAY VISIONARY!
Tuesday, April 25, 2023
Welcome to the Visionary Creation!
“The Visionary Creation isn’t just one world, or one universe, or one time, it’s a setting with stories spanning from the literal beginning of all existence to its end, and that’s just in our first volume of our Serialized Collection series, Visions,” shared C. Edward Sellner, creator and primary architect of the Visionary Creation.
“Each of our stories stand on their own, and they can be set anywhere within a vast multiverse of worlds, through billions of years of history, but, and this is the important part,” Sellner continued, “there are threads that connect many of those stories subtly, often in unexpected ways. Some of which will converge into larger epics being planned in the future as we expand. Even with our audio dramas produced by EvCol Entertainment, we’ve started planting those seeds, weaving those threads, and that will really come out in our Phase One Kickstarter books.”
Perhaps our most epic story will be a modern reimagining of Paradise Lost, the epic poem by John Milton. Genesis will be an ongoing serial in our Visions Serialized Collection of prose stories. We open on Judgement Day at the end of all things, then we go all the way back to the very beginning.
Witness the origins of God, the creation of Heaven, and the first angel, Lucifer the Morningstar (pictured above), whose destiny will shake the very foundations of creation!
The story will incorporate Judeo-Christian mythos as well as other cultural myths and stories, creating a cosmic epic in the spirit of Tolkien’s Silmarillion, and Jack Kirby’s Eternals and New Gods. All of it seasoned with the brilliant character development and edge of A Game of Thrones.
One of the key characters introduced in Genesis will be the Chronicler, a being who has shared every thought, and every feeling of every living creature throughout the entire Omniverse of the Creation! She also appears in one of our other stories which shows us the beginning of her actions to save the Creation.
Visionary Quick Updates!
- Learn more about Visionary and our Creative Services at our main site!
- Signup to be notified when our first Kickstarter, for the Visionary Creation, goes LIVE!
- Check out this complete listing of published works from our CCO C. Edward Sellner!
- Get the Visionary Creation Library of audiodramas at EvCol Entertainment!
- Check out our Visionary Creation webcomics series, with new episodes every Tuesday:
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Visionary Partners with Pinnacle Entertainment!
Visionary is proud to announce a partnership with Pinnacle Entertainment Group to launch their new fiction publishing company, Outrider Entertainment! Outrider will publish fiction, both prose and comics, based on Pinnacle's line of original game properties. C. Edward Sellner will serve as Editor-in-Chief of the new company, with Visionary developing and overseeing the content, Outland Entertainment handling distribution, and Pinnacle's direct involvement in marketing, supplemental material, and support. The first projects have already been produced, with several more in development.
Deadlands: Dead Man's Hand
This hardcover collection brings together an all-star roster of comics legends in four epic tales of the Deadlands universe! Ron Marz, Bart Sears, Jimmy Palmiotti, Justin Gray, Lee Moder, David Gallaher, Steve Ellis, Jeff Mariotte, Brook Turner, and C. Edward Sellner craft tales of action, intrigue, mystery and more!
Deadlands: Raven (Pre-Order)
This hardcover collects the 5-issue mini-series detailing the tragic and monstrous history of Deadlands' most notorious villain, Raven! After his tribe is slaughtered, young Raven dedicates his life to a most deadly vengeance and sets out on a journey that will change the world! Written by Matt Cutter and C. Edward Sellner with art by Greg LaRocque, based on Shane Lacy Hensley's Deadlands.
Deadlands: The Kid
Issue 1 of the new ongoing Deadlands series, The Kid, is available now. This collector's item, single issue debut brings the legendary Billy the Kid to the Deadlands universe! When Billy loses everything to a roving pack of werewolves, he takes an oath to hunt evil in all it's forms. Guided by Fire-Dancer, a medicine man, and supported by new allies he finds on his quest, he will face a greater evil than he ever imagined!
Deadlands: Rise of the Black Circle Issue 1 and Issue 2
This new ongoing series by Deadlands Creator Shane Lacy Hensley reunites classic Deadlands heroes in an all new epic! A new evil is on the rise in the world, as powerful villains are beginning to unite to bring a new level of terror to the Weird West! Join Ronan Lynch, Bad Luck Betty McGrew, Velvet van Helter, and Lacy o'Malley as they are drawn together to face the Rise of the Black Circle! Art by Aaron Palsmeier and Simon Gough.
Hardcover Collection and Issue 3 coming to Kickstarter in May!
Join us next week as we start a series going in-depth on the new Visionary Creation!
Learn the secrets behind the hottest new shared worlds setting, and get details on the many new stories coming out this year!
STAY VISIONARY!