The website also just underwent its soft launch. You can now go to http://www.heroineburgh.com and read about the backstory and inspiration, and also get the vital stats on the heroines and the villains. It prominently features the art of DC colorist Jason Wright.
We are having a private cast party this Sunday to celebrate the dedication and hard work of everyone involved. Then we'll hold the premiere screening at the Row House Cinema in Pittsburgh on Sunday April 30 at 6:00 pm and 8:15 pm. The series will then be up online in early May as soon as we figure out the sales mechanism for downloads, T-shirts and DVDs. Enjoy: it's a 'Burgh thing!
https://youtu.be/cAcZHg9vOto
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Hey everyone, very soon we'll be releasing a project that has been in the making for about seven months:
HEROINEBURGH. http://www.heroineburgh.com is our website until the videos go up on sale for the price of a premium comic book (around $7-$10, ranging 20-40 minutes).
Art by accomplished colorist Jason Wright (check his massive comicbookdb resume, yes he lives here!) who is currently on Hal Jordan Green Lantern and recently did Gail Simone's Megalopolis series. [also Batgirl, Secret Six, his CV goes on for days] See Jason's fantastic art below featuring the heroines from the first four episodes. Eventually we'll have one other well-known local comicbook artist doing stuff for us as well, a few months down the line.
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In case you're wondering what the premise of the series is, it's as follows: a dark energy meteor explodes above the city one night, and dozens of local denizens are transformed through the science of epigenetics (physical alteration through focused willpower, aka Lamarckian evolution). The energy primarily affects the XX chromosome and so most of the transformed "epihumans" are female.
The first season deals with the origin stories of about 15-16 heroines. They come from a diversity of neighborhood settings, professions, sexual orientations, alternative lifestyles, and ethnic backgrounds. Although most of the actresses/actors are locals, you will be familiar with at least one of them a bit further down the line (maybe more, if I can afford the budget..some of you know who lives near here...).
By the end of the first season (episode 12) they will have formed a Heroine League endorsed by the city's mayor and supervised by a police dept liaison (also a major female character). I have only the first entire season written, but the second season will deal with underground hackers, government agencies and secret worldwide cabals all intersecting with the stories of the Heroine League and its members, as well as continuing their individual life stories.
The content? PG-13. Action, mild expletives, some adult situations, mild peril. That's all I can do for now. I'm a school teacher, and some of my former students and their parents (comicbook geeks all!) are not only aware of the series but they're even in an episode. So it's like a CW show with some mid-level swearing.
As for where we got the ideas, you will find allusions to almost everything from 1960s/70s/80s/90s/00s comic books, TV and movies to various Youtube and SHIP series. As the episodes come out, see if you can catch all the references. First four episodes will be made available online in early May, after we 1) promote and cosplay at our local comicon, 2) have our cast party and 3) hold a public showing at a theater in my hometown. Yup, all of that! We are going to have so much fun with this and hopefully bring an entire city along for the ride.
OK without further ado, let's show some stills. I'll be putting up a few from each episode regularly. Welcoming any comments you might have. I would also welcome crossover with any other superheroine series that are happening - I think it would be very cool to interlock rosters, especially since the Heroineburgh universe implies that there are other Heroine Leagues already established in other cities, but our city becomes the worldwide nexus of heroine activity because of the meteor strike.
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Episode 1 "Anger Is An Energy"
features heroine Cybrina (blue hair) who has the powers of electricity and cybernavigation (she can turn into data and enter computer systems). You'll find out what happens when she battles Red Gina (black hair), a disgruntled computer programmer whom you won't like too much when she's angry
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Nikki (who plays Cybrina) is a longtime burlesquer, fetish model and costume designer. She is currently a kickass bartender at a punk club. And for years, she was the frontwoman in a power-industrial band that had a couple of international releases and did some touring at EBM/powernoise festivals. She can occasionally be seen at extreme electronics concerts dancing her ass off.
Jessica (who plays Red Gina) is a fashion store manager during the day, and also an accomplished alternative model. But her extreme side comes out as a suspension artist with a local glam/punk band - she literally hangs from various hooks in her flesh. That's gotta hurt! She has a fantastic fashion sense too.
In addition, Episode 1 features cameos by a couple of prolific local indie-rock heroes with a string of national releases, and music by one of them as well. Then there are various other local dudes (and one gal) from the local music scene whom Red Gina kicks around. The theme song (from which you'll hear portions, at the beginning of each released video) has lyrics and music written by myself, electronic programming done by my friend who I've partnered with in an electro-industrial project, and wonderful vocals by a talented and quirky local songstress.
