The first actual Vince and Nikos! adventure in full comic book format is finally done and available to the public. It took a few years since the few pointless story fragment postings to this blog, but I finally have a full story, called Sunbaked Down Mexico Way. I will try to upload occasional one to two page pieces from the story onto this blog, as a sort of "teaser".
First some background information is needed. The usual format of the Vince and Nikos! Chronicles, as introduced by this first story, is actually like two stories in one. One continuing storyline is basically in a 'college comedy' format, where the various story-lets follow Vince, Nikos! and all their friends' comical adventures and hijinks in and around the campus of Rolling Hills University, their school. The other story, or stories have to do with Vince's dreams and fantasies in between the waking hours, where he with his friends again, but under the guise as representatives of a futuristic organization called Sky Force, who go on various adventures between different dimensions to fight cartoonish bad-guys as well as explore and find interesting objects and places. With Sunbaked Down Mexico Way, which is not the first in the actual chronology of the series, I wanted the audience to get a feel for what an average V and N! story would be like, for this reason I completed and published it first, out of sequence with the actual chronology of the series. The next work will be the actual pilot story in the series, which I am currently working on. The pilot will explain a lot more about the backgrounds and initial relationships of the main characters as well as the basis of Vince's fantasy world, this futuristic utopia which is looked after by Sky Force. The category of the series could be said to range anywhere from action to fantasy to science fiction, as well as comedy thrown in.
Oh, and just be aware, the V and N! Chronicles is intended for a mature audience, as there is some drug and alcohol references, brief nudity, swearing and generally college age oriented material entailing such behavior...I'll let Vince explain more about 'Sunbaked', directly from the back cover:
Yo dudes 'n' chicks, who may be fortunate enough to get a hold of this hot item, in case you haven't flipped through the book yet, much as I would have done already, I'm Vince and that other dude you see everywhere is my homey, Nikos!, yes, with an exclamation mark. So who are we? Me and Nikos! are two cool college dudes who like to hang out, hit the herb, skip class and as squares would say, just be bums. But by night I'm a masked superhero in spandex trying to save the world from cartoonish bad guys. Ha ha, just kidding, the superhero stuff is so passé, but we still fight cartoonish super-villains, such as in this story.
We also go on comical and epic adventures, as ourselves, not just around campus, but in my case, even my dreams and fantasies. Both by night and day, usually in a boring-ass class, I dream about all kinds of whacky adventures with Nikos! and the rest of my crew, all fellow students at Rolling Hills University, our alma mater! In this whacky adventure, I fall asleep in a boring lecture, only to wake up in another one, where they tell us the story of this Mara Al-Úþa dude, the cartoonish bad guy who possesses an ancient artifact with which he travels through an interdimensional portal to an alternate version of ancient Mexico and terrorizes the inhabitants there, until of course we show up and clean house! As you can tell by the select pictures here, this Mara Al-Úþa is not a nice fellow, and we have quite a mess to go through before we can catch up to him there in wonderland.
So if you want to see us defeat a coven of Nazi vampires, trek across the Mexican countryside, see giant snakes jumping out of ponds, razor sharp live rocks flying at us, huge bats taking a swing at my head, fierce jaguars or mystical, magical spheres with the ability to transport the badguy between dimensions and stuff, don't hesitate to get my book, or like else! Oh, and like see you all at the publication of the next great V and N! adventure too!!
copies of the actual book may be obtained at the following address:
