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Illustration: Lynton Levengood
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Velocity 2014 San Diego Comic-Con Edition
none of them can enter this place. greenleaf and gnorton have magic in their blood and vyrle... vyrle is even worse... the dragon would sense them in an instant.. and no force of arms or arcane powers can defeat the dragon.
story & colour Moray Rhoda Illustration Karl Mostert
Wait here for me. I cannot risk you going any further... I need not tell you that the fate of our world depends on your survival. it needs to be someone who is just human.
we should wait for the others...
but why does it have to be you, lilith?! it’s crazy! I don’t care if it’s the ultimate magic weapon, it’s not worth your life!
who are we to say whether one life outweighs the fates of millions? You’ll be faced with these hard choices one day - best you make peace with it now.
but it isn’t your choice. you were chosen. that is your fate... no matter what happens next, you stay alive and you stay hidden.
what if I don’t want to be the saviour of the world? what if I don’t want the stupid sword and I don’t want you to do this. what if that is my choice?
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THIEVES!!! always you come! no matter how many I slay, on you march to your death, blinded by greed!
this world is destroyed because of such weapons and those who dare wield them!.
I’m no thief, ancient one, but this world needs that weapon
how vain and blind you are to think you can save this world...
when you cannot even save yourself!
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Nooo!!
let her go! Now!!
She didn’t want this! any of it. let her go or i’ll make you sorry, you horrible wyrm!
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hmmmmm.... feisty little mortal isn’t it? tasty little morsel maybe too?
nice going kid. didn’t you hear anything I said? no force of arms and no arcane powers?! cyndarr can’t be beaten, you might as well have had a stick for all the good it would have done.
what... what’s going on?
cut it out cyn... and let me up if you’re quite done copping a feel.
cyndarr is a friend of ours. sometimes it is better to ask, rather than attempt to take what belongs to another...
brave... but not too smart. called me a wyrm! bah!!
so... it was a test? there’s no ultimate weapon?
there is an ultimate weapon that you already wield. it is loyalty and love strong enough to face any odds. it weaves a magic that will align an army of friends to your cause...and save this world. can I still keep the sword? it’s pretty sweet...
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Contributors DAniël hugo
Gilang Hale
Jayson Geland
Daniël is an illustrator and concept designer. He was one of the core members of the Igubu collective and he has filled hundreds of sketchbooks with ideas for his Oneironaut comic.
Gee is heavily influenced by Japanese animation/manga and American pop culture. He lives in Sydney, working as an illustrator and comic artist and he is the steam rice king.
Jayson is a Cape Town based creatice and writing comics is one of his many talents.
oneironaut.co.za
www.geehale.blogspot.com
Luciano Fleitas A fantasy and comicbook illustrator in constant search for artistic knowledge. He´s been pretty active in the last few years doing indie comics and working on private projects as an illustrator. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with his wife and two babies. You can check his current art in his deviant gallery at demitrybelmont.deviantart.com
Michael crafford deon de lange Deon is a Durban based illustrator and the creator artist of Gofu as welll as being the co-creator of Tomica, the webcomic.
Bolt-01 Ben Michael Byrne
Karl is a Cape Town based illustrator and penciller who cut his teeth at SA’s comic companies. He is a fulltime freelancer doing mostly book and magazine illustration. www.theydidthis.co.za
kranburn.thewebcomic.com
Paul Bradford
Rupert Greyling
A comic book writer who lives in the Perth Region of Western Australia. His comics have appeared in numerous anthologies around the globe and he is always on the lookout for new places to show his works. To keep up to date with new stuff from Paul, please visit
Draws and sculpts, but mostly wonders why he is doing neither of those things and where the biscuits have gone. He likes the idea of drawing for a living but thinks it might be something that happens to other people. He’s done some stuff, then some other stuff, and plans to do more stuff in the future. you can probably find him on Facebook if you are really interested and he might at some point decide to pull his finger out of his ass and become a professional.
Inertiapublications.blogspot.com/
vincent sammy Vincent Sammy is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer. Alternative worlds, horror & sci-fi painted in watercolours and digital tools are his primary subject matter. karbonk.deviantart.com
Noelle Criminova. Loves colour. Uses black and white photo. Scumbag colourist.
www.futurequake.co.uk
troublesometam.blogspot.co.nz
Ben Michael Byrne! The name that launched a thousand suns into supernova and impregnated every woman with thoughts of moist lust! And many of the men too. And a few goats. And one gerbil named Kevin McPuffy III. Ben also does Kranburn, as well as more Job Dun art for Mr Mark Hobby, Google and ye shall receive the answers!
karl mostert
Michael is a freelance inker and has done work for Strika Entertainment, Mamba Media, Beat Comics and Cape Town-based group They did This Illustration and Design.
is a UK based artist & letterer as well as half of the editorial team behind the critically acclaimed UK based comics FutureQuake & Something Wicked, and the 2000 AD fanzines Dogbreath & Zarjaz. www.futurequake.co.uk
Mark hobby Based in Sydney, Australia, Mark Hobby is the writer of the bizarro-sci-fi comic, Job Dun: Fat Assassin, part rotund killer tale, part crudely devised torture device designed to drive artists mad as sadistic revenge for him being unable to draw. You’d think he’d make peace, or just practice more, but no... Thankfully, Ben Michael Byrne, Australia’s number one scrotum-artist, bellowed at the chance to illustrate the story, ably assisted by colourist Noelle Criminova and letterer Bolt-01, with the first full-length Job Dun adventure soon to be released. Find it on Facebook under ‘Job Dun’, Google or email: merzdada@gmail.com.
Kobus faber Kobus is a Gauteng-based designer/ illustrator who studied at the Central University of Technology whilst working at various graphic design agencies as well as doing art for Something Wicked magazine. He is currently working in the advertising industry. kofab.deviantart.com
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Drew Close Old enough to remember when retro games were just games, Drew Close is a self confessed fontophile with a love of all things comic book, 80’s punk and typography related. He also knows that real friends don’t let friends use Comic Sans.
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Story Michael Crafford
Art - Kobus Faber
May I come in?
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Yes, Get inside before you catch a cold.
How on earth did you get up here?
I climbed.
In this weather!? That is very irresponsible and dangerous.
It is uncanny. You look so much like your grandmother.
I will go through any obstacle and face any danger to be in your presence.
Your grandmother was a beautiful woman. You got her looks.
Why thank you. I’m surprised you saw the photo.
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I Haven’t seen you in awhile...
Meddling in affairs that has nothing to do with you?
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This pursuit of yours is very entertaining, but futile.
I will finish what he started.
You will pay for what you did!
Yes, that was unfortunate, but I am not to blame. I never intended to harm your brother...
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You sir, are NOT your father.
I merely wanted to give him a better life.
Get away from him!
After that James became tenacious in his efforts to end my life.
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He hunted me across the seas. He started to take out my crew.
He finally slow ed down when I took his hand.
But alas I grew tired of the game and he got too old to play any further part in it, so I nudged him along.
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I ha known ve met the famili him very strangest times ar about h long yet t boy. I h seems like he is im. He is here is somave not is an to perceive wild ‌alm very odd ething I fi arrogant o the world ost feral. at seen h nd it all r ne, but I differentl He he com im for a ather exciti have to a y. He may j es around while now, ng. I ha dmit v I ust gi ve him soon and do hope e not that k who kno that iss ‌ w maybe s I .
Peter! Come in.
Oh Peter, are you always so forward? I hardly know you and I do not give kisses away so easily.
I have returned for my kiss.
I said I have waited three generations for my kiss, I will not be denied again.
My kiss!
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STOP!
Today you die! To die will be an awfully big adventure... but not today.
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Contents Chosen - A Summoner’s Tale
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Grit
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by Moray Rhoda and Karl Mostert by Gee Hale
The Cat Sorceror
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Good Hope Pinup
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Job Dun
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An Awfully Great Adventure
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Scorpio Pinup
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False Hope
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Gofu
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Ides of Mars
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A Genesis
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Contributors By Steven Prouse & Nicolas Rix by Daniël Hugo
By Mark Hobby, Ben Michael Byrne, Bolt-01 and Noelle Criminova by Michael Crafford and Kobus Faber
by Vincent Sammy
by Neville Howard and Rupert Greyling by Deon de Lange by Paul Bradford, Luciano Freitas and Drew Close by Jayson Geland and Daniël Hugo
Cover art by
Lynton Levengood
Gaining Velocity - going above and beyond Velocity started as little more than a dream of artists collaborating across continents and the ideal of promoting artists from Australia and South Africa internationally. Since our last issue we have lived that ideal by promoting our artists at Design Indaba South Africa and at San Diego Comic-Con as well as getting Velocity listed on Comixology. Inbetween we have also put together the largest South African and Australian comic collaboration to date, with the Darker Forces: Devastation and Degeneration flipbook. With each project Velocity aims to broaden the exposure of Southern hemisphere comics to the rest of the world. At home we have seen an explosion of the local comic
scenes, with more books produced and more artists getting international recognition than ever before. It has been glorious... But it hasn’t been easy and from our experience, there is still a long hard slog ahead. However we’ll keep on going as long as the fantastic talent in our countries keep on pushing up their levels. And knowing that you are along for the ride Dear Faithful Reader, makes our resolve to create international awareness of our artists even stronger. We hope you enjoy the read.
Neville & Moray
Velocity is organised and produced by Moray Rhoda & Neville Howard Velocity is published by Neville Howard and Moray Rhoda. Copyright for all art and stories are © 2014 of the respective artists/writers. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without prior written permission from the respective creators.