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The first book of the WEIRDING WILLOWS is being serialized in the first 6 issues of the anthology A1.

So as the first issue sold out in the first week of release and therefore is only currently available on Comixology I thought I'd give you the first episode for free here along with some commentary...

On the left is the lovely cover by Stanley Artgerm Lau, president of Imaginary Friends Studios. As the series starts Alice plays a major role in the story so I thought I'd give her a cover to herself (along with the White Rabbit). As you can clearly see she isn't a nine year old girl any more, the age she was when she first discovered Wonderland. A lot has passed since then and we'll slowly be filling that in along the way.

On the right hand side we have page 1.

The setting is England in the 19th century. I've been asked when exactly so people can start to place it in time, presumably so they can try predicting what will come next. If I had to pin myself down I'd probably say 1895, its in the last 10 years of the 19th century anyway.

Located in the town of Willow Weir there resides a scientist by the name of Doctor Philippe Moreau. He is Alice's father. Alice was born in the house they still reside in. Neither Alice or her father are able to recollect much before Alice turned 6 and when her mother disappeared. The last memory Alice has of her mother is putting the owl pendant around her neck and being told her mother will always watch over her.

Until then Dr Moreau was a fairly balanced scientist and father but with his wife's disappearance a massive hole was left in his life that he filled with bizarre experiments and macabre operations on animals. Most of his friends stopped visiting with the exceptions of Doctors Henry Jekyll and Griffen Rains, whose visits became few and far between, as well as Montgomery Doolittle who actually helped Moreau by tracking and bring animals for him to experiment from all over the world.

When you live in a house with only a mad scientist father for company it can't help but affect you. Alice doesn't have any friends left, not in the Weir anyway. She often wears her fathers old clothes, mostly because she never leaves the town to buy any new clothes. Most of their food is delivered from local farms. They used to get everything from their neighbor farmer Geoffrey McGregor and his wife June, but after a few of Moreau's half finished experiments got out they've not been on the best of terms.

Today the house of Moreau has visitors...

The art is by Barnaby Bagenda and Sakti Yuwono.

Weirding Willows created and © Dave Elliott

Description
The first book of the WEIRDING WILLOWS is being serialized in the first 6 issues of the anthology A1.

So as the first issue sold out in the first week of release and therefore is only currently available on Comixology I thought I'd give you the first episode for free here along with some commentary...

On the left is the lovely cover by Stanley Artgerm Lau, president of Imaginary Friends Studios. As the series starts Alice plays a major role in the story so I thought I'd give her a cover to herself (along with the White Rabbit). As you can clearly see she isn't a nine year old girl any more, the age she was when she first discovered Wonderland. A lot has passed since then and we'll slowly be filling that in along the way.

On the right hand side we have page 1.

The setting is England in the 19th century. I've been asked when exactly so people can start to place it in time, presumably so they can try predicting what will come next. If I had to pin myself down I'd probably say 1895, its in the last 10 years of the 19th century anyway.

Located in the town of Willow Weir there resides a scientist by the name of Doctor Philippe Moreau. He is Alice's father. Alice was born in the house they still reside in. Neither Alice or her father are able to recollect much before Alice turned 6 and when her mother disappeared. The last memory Alice has of her mother is putting the owl pendant around her neck and being told her mother will always watch over her.

Until then Dr Moreau was a fairly balanced scientist and father but with his wife's disappearance a massive hole was left in his life that he filled with bizarre experiments and macabre operations on animals. Most of his friends stopped visiting with the exceptions of Doctors Henry Jekyll and Griffen Rains, whose visits became few and far between, as well as Montgomery Doolittle who actually helped Moreau by tracking and bring animals for him to experiment from all over the world.

When you live in a house with only a mad scientist father for company it can't help but affect you. Alice doesn't have any friends left, not in the Weir anyway. She often wears her fathers old clothes, mostly because she never leaves the town to buy any new clothes. Most of their food is delivered from local farms. They used to get everything from their neighbor farmer Geoffrey McGregor and his wife June, but after a few of Moreau's half finished experiments got out they've not been on the best of terms.

Today the house of Moreau has visitors...

The art is by Barnaby Bagenda and Sakti Yuwono.

Weirding Willows created and © Dave Elliott