A Personal Note from Creator C. Edward Sellner...
I've never made it a secret that my writing is very personal and my stories always have more to them than simple entertainment. Sure, stories can just be for fun and maybe someday I will actually write one of those. But the ones that have always stuck with me had something more and those have always been the kind of stories I wanted to tell.
When I launched Visionary, I was very intentional in choosing that name not because I believed our work was already visionary, far from it, but because it was something I wanted us to aspire to. I hope to meet that challenge in everything we do with the Visionary Creation, but in Monarch especially I wanted to create a hero who truly is a Visionary. An exciting but terrifying challenge.
When Marvel launched its universe in the 1960's one of the popular catch phrases Stan Lee used to describe it was "the world outside your window," heroes who faced everyday issues, from the beleaguered Peter Parker being bullied to family squabbles in the Fantastic Four, to the bigotry the X-Men faced.
Monarch is very much set in the world outside your window, the world we live in today. It's a world plagued with injustice, divided by hatred and bigotry, teetering on catastrophe, aflame in war, and dancing with fascism. What we need is a hero who confronts those challenges and shows hope that not only can we survive the world today, but that we can genuinely change it for the better.
Yes, it also has lots of action and swords and sorcery style magic, but it was very intentional to make Shakalla a 'stranger in a strange land,' one newly thrust into our world that can see it with a fresh set of eyes. One that questions everything because he hasn't become numb to the reality. Shakalla's journey is one of confronting a world who has lost its way on so many levels and deciding to actually do something about it. We lay the groundwork and take the first steps on that journey in volume 1, pulling no punches along the way. It is my sincere hope that you will join us on that journey as we might explore making the world a better place together.
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