I would say if I had to compare with movies, it'd fall into the the 1980's "horror-comedy" genre, although it has fantasy elements in it, I overall wouldn't say that the presence of vampires or other monsters makes something a fantasy, I'd classify fantasy as more of thing relating to certain tropes about how the story is laid out and the atmosphere it gives. Why "horror-comedy" comes to mind is that I've always felt a horror comedy is essentially a slightly light-hearted approach to the horror genre. Horror comedies do not necessarily have to be haha type of funny, like a good example of some classic 80's horror comedies are like Ghoulies and Return of the Living Dead. Essentially horror comedies are just not so dark as their pure horror counter-parts. Btw I love the comic so far. I would say it definitely could be considered a mystery but since it's trying to clearly establish the existence of vampires and that threat is looming over from the very beginning instead of the threat being slowly uncovered it leans more towards the horror spectrum while also not veering into thriller territory. This is just my initial reaction, and in general I try not to through the term horror-comedy around too much since it confuses people and makes them think it's a horror satire. My internet is a bit slow so I have to skim through the pages for now, but I've subscribed.
Would anyone perhaps like to genre test my series Mercenary Gu ?
My series is a sci-fi in environment but I craft lore and elements of the story from fantasy inspiration. I'm not sure if the fantasy vibe shows at all though. Not much of what would help it acheive this feeling is revealed yet unless someone took the time to read all the alien races and their backgrounds I written so far on a different thread. But essentially there is such things as 3 major warring empires, the use of melee weapons are prevalent despite many high-technology in this world. Some of the aliens have no high-technology at all. There are some mystical(but not outright magical) things that exist. The later plot to be introduced is that the main character will have to track down literal shards of reality and take the shards from the people possessing them. Each reality shard (a literal solid piece of reality that was shattered like a window when an interdimensional beast self-willed itself into existence) has a different physics breaking power it gives the people who possess it. Such powers include phasing through matter, exponentially getting stronger, distorting gravity, changing velocity of objects, spontaneous combustions, destroying existence of light, absorbing force and energy and expelling it for later ect ect. The main character will eventually collect these shards and kill their users and give them back to an interdimensional anomaly hating demon of universal order...sounds a bit crazy so I wasn't going to jump right into that stuff until the 4rth issue, as of now I think the comic appears as pure sci-fi. The art style I try to direct my artist to use is something that provokes the feeling of giallos(1970's ittalian horror-thrillers [imagine film noir meets slasher that's what a giallo movie is like but the art style is very colorful with deep shadows]) Me and my writer agree not to take the series too seriously since the main character is already a dark personality, we wish to give it an actiony violent feeling that still has this sense of whimsy to it that doesn't come off as jarring. What do you guys think? What does my comic look like to you?
