Interview: Bryan Revell – Creator of The Unseen
The Unseen is a new comic created by Bryan Revell, which he feels tells an important and personal story, as he explains during a recent chat we had with him.
Dread Central: So, what exactly is The Unseen?
Bryan Revell: The Unseen (Indiegogo here) is a series about the End of Days but from a different perspective. The main characters are the angels and demons behind the unseen battle that has raged on since the dawn of man. Many of the other characters’ lives converge during this time, and it ramps into a post-apocalyptic world devastated by nuclear war and the last of humanity surviving until Christ comes.
DC: How did you get the inspiration for the series?
BR: It’s a crazy story honestly and most unbelievable unless you were there, but a couple of years ago out of great loss I committed suicide, and this is what I saw during that time they were reviving me and spent a few days in a coma after that. It seemed like years, even kind of fast-forwarded like a movie with visions of heaven, hell, and the world ending; and since then it’s all I can dream about mostly. So in order to keep from going mad, I write it and illustrate it. As with most dreams, it’s sketchy at best, but I fill in the gaps with research and imagination. You could say rightly I am a bit mad and brilliant.
DC: As you are both writing and drawing this series, do you feel that the story is particularly important to you?
BR: Yes, I do both, and as said above, I really don’t have a choice.
DC: You mentioned that it’s about the End of Days?
BR: Yes, it is, but a kind of behind the veil look into it. Demons control and influence us to do great and horrible things, and the angels try to guide us and protect us. I do a lot of research on everything in here, including Latin language occult practices and various religious texts, and I watch a lot of supernatural flicks and series, etc.
DC: It sounds pretty epic. The Indiegogo campaign states, “The forces of good and evil battle it out till the apocalypse comes. From possessed serial killers to nuclear war, secret clone soldiers, and New World Order and those caught in between.” Would you care to elaborate?
BR:Well, yeah, as far as the sci-fi part, the government creates a clone soldier infused with nano-bots and animal DNA. However, being that God didn’t create it, it possesses no soul, and the demons find it and pour a legion into it and go on a horrific killing spree and amass a following with a twist you’ll have to read to find out. Meanwhile, mankind spins into the New World Order; an all-out world war breaks loose and decimates the known world, and that’s just the beginning. Think Mad Max with radiated subspecies (rads) or zombie-like mutants through years of tribulation. The NWO hunts and kills radical rebels and high-tech drones/terminator like hunters; all the while the surviving characters who refuse to join the NWO must find and survive till Christ comes, and it won’t be easy.
DC: Can you tell us about the characters?
BR: This series has many, ranging from main human characters like Guage O’Donell, an ex-Navy Seal doing time for manslaughter (self-defense), and his love interest, Jenny, a counselor and halfway house manager. There are also two detectives – one’s a burnt-out older alcoholic man with a beautiful ambitious young Hispanic woman as they seek out serial killers possessed by demons – and a group of Nephilim, or half-breeds endowed with unique powers that hunt the creatures of evil (Dark Hunters), and many others who support this story, including a prophet who narrates.
DC: How many books do you plan to be in the series?
BR: There are 12 full-length epic novels, 85- to 150-page main books, with others which provide additional back story and fill in story.
DC: Can you talk about the artwork?
BR: I’d love to. I started with all hand-drawn minimal coloring panels similar to “Sin City” or the original “Crow,” and with each story and scenes I add a certain feel to them, whether it be adding a color or background or even a hue to them. I use digital coloring to do effects or backgrounds or hues, etc., but it’s all hand-drawn. I kind of meld the mediums together and watercolor by hand most of it, then digital overlay effects and lighting, hues, etc.
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