story and thumbnails/layout

Prologue

The nation of Io is the site of the discovery of an organic alloy called Hybrid Matter that is derived from shredded asteroids. Contact with the new material is announced dangerous for human health. However this does not stop Scientist from dissecting the make up of the strange organic material. The corporation called Synthesis lead the study with the matter and form new technologies and weapons from bonding the new material to the now archaic devices.

Synthesis evolves into the conglomerate that controls the majority of the nation of Io. The traditionalists that lie on the outskirts of central Synthesis reside in Providence who look down on Hybrid Matter but have made a truce with Synthesis to allow the different lifestyles to have their own distinctions in their respective areas. Synthesis continues to grow in power and influence as their technologies advance, spearheaded by their harvesting of other bonding agents unique to other nations which they tend to retrieve by force. Synthesis functions on the obedience of the civilians who cooperate at the will of their mysterious ruler.

Providence rely on similar principles, promoting the specific roles for each individual and the obedience of the nation to the agreed laws. Certain activities are only delegated to certain social classes to promote balance of roles among the population. They are decided with the intention to ensure the right kind of people with optimal genealogy align to the role/activity that will best serve the nation as a whole. Among them is the bottom class that is concerned with the most minuscule activities with minimal responsibility. However, these tasks are physically demanding to an almost inhumane degree. These roles are assigned to the class that are lossless, who are either from poverty with no access to formal training causing them to have limited ability among most trades, or individuals who have no genealogy to trace what role they belong.

I tried to condense the ideas to be as concise as possible and clarify the themes I want to communicate. I am concerned whether or not there are enough transitions between sequences that communicate how/why the characters get from one place to another. This could all be clarified after I add in the dialogue but as just images, I feel sections are communicated well but I think I might need to add some more panels.

Another part of the challenge of telling concurrent stories on the same page is that effectively each characters story is only told in half the amount of total pages of the book as the pages are split. Keeping an appropriate page count while trying to communicate a relatively complex story with complex ideas is proving to be quite challenging but the results from the pages that work [where the stories compliment each others ideas] is encouraging.