KELLY BENDER COMICS COLLECTION

KELLY BENDER COMICS COLLECTION
Here is just a sampling of the many comic book series I've written & co-created

Saturday 21 February 2015

"The LEAF" meets the "INTERNAUTS" story

I wrote a 16 page stand alone comic book story for publisher RED LEAF COMICS

It's a story about an alternative reality where CANADA never existed, thus "the LEAF" never existed!  So "The LEAF" and the "INTERNAUTS" race back through time to stop the anomaly and correct the timeline.

The Comic book will be available SPRING 2015 on DRIVE THRU COMICS & INDY PLANET

Story: Me ( KELLY BENDER )
Art & Colors: JAMES LEONG 

Characters Copyright - RED LEAF COMICS, LLC

Here's a sample:

Thursday 19 February 2015

"Sadistic" Anthology Story I wrote 2 years ago.

"Sadistic" is the fourth anthology story I ever wrote. I wrote it 2 years ago this March.

It was written for publisher EVIL MOOSE COMICS

"Sadistic" is a "joker" type of homicidal character with the ability to when he dies to steal another dying person's soul and be reborn.  How do you kill an un-killable?

This anthology story was supposed to be the lead into the 4 issue miniseries of the comic, but unfortunately EVIL MOOSE COMICS has since closed it's doors :(

I still want to finish off the original 4 issue miniseries.

It's basically about "Sadistic" killing off as many "super heroes" as he can and them trying to contain him as they can't kill him.

It's "Authority" (Mark Millar run) meeets "Joker" meets "Planetary" (as the heroes all pay homage to famous ones).

Created & Written: Me KELLY BENDER
Illustrations & Inks: BRYANT YINI 
Colors: PASCAL VERHOEF 
Letters: MICAH MYERS 










Tuesday 17 February 2015

"Jewel of Man" one page complete story

"Jewel of Man" is a One-Page complete story created for the anthology "THE PROMPT" 

Written: Kelly Bender
Art & Colors: James Leong
Letters: Micah Myers

"The Prompt" is an anthology created by Nic J Shaw. It is a challenge to make a complete one page comic book based on a prompted theme.

This prompted theme was "Coming home..."


Here is how this one page story became a completed comic page:

STEP 1:  SCRIPT

I wrote a script for artist James Leong & letterer Micah Myers.

A typical comic book script I write is formatted like this:

Jewel of Man   By Kelly Bender                                                                                        Page 01

PAGE 01 (8 PANELS)

PANEL 01 (panel 1 is tall and narrow)

This is our location shot. CAMERA IS ZOOMED back and we’re looking at a KNIGHT riding on a horse that’s going up a mountain trail covered in snow, there is a cave near the top.  NO DETAILS REQUIRED IN THE RIDER AND THE HORSE JUST SILHOUETTES. The main focus is the location Mountain with a cave.

TITLE:

Jewel of Man

CAPTION:

For Centuries men have been pining for the jewel.    



PANEL 02 (panel 2 and 3 are wider and on top of each other next to panel 1.  Panel 2 and 3 onto of each other is the same height as panel 1)

We’re looking at the knight walking towards us (WAIST UP) we can see she is wearing armor and a helmet. Her SWORD is out and she has a torch (you know the kind with the stick and the cloth?) WE WANT TO HIDE THE FACT THAT IT’S A FEMALE UNTIL PANEL 6!!  

CAPTION:

Deep within these caverns rests the one heavenly trinket that man yearns for most.  



PANEL 03

We can see the KNIGHT walking down the path in the cave His sword still out and holding onto the torch.  There are pieces of armor with skeleton bones coming out of them, and swords stuck into the ground.  Many men have died trying to posses the jewel.

CAPTION:

Its location has been widely known, and yet that it still alludes capture has driven the wisest of men to madness.



PANEL 04

We can see an opening in the CAVE a small room, We are looking at the back of The KNIGHT who is on the LEFT, she is standing there, and her sword is lowered and the torch up.  To illuminate the room.  The JEWEL (it is a red jewel) is there on a small mound of skeleton bones.  The jewel is on the small mound as nobody can touch it with ANYTHING without dying.  The mound is just past the KNIGHTS chest in height off the ground.

BETWEEN the KNIGHT and the JEWEL we can see dozens of skeleton bones lying there on the ground. 


CAPTION 1:

Kings have spent fortunes and lost many brave souls trying to obtain it.

CAPTION 2:

Minstrels sing ballads pertaining to the allusiveness of the jewel, and how no man will ever possess it.




PANEL 5 (small panel)

Just the feet of the hero as she’s walking and has dropped her helmet. There are skeleton bones on the ground.

SFX:

Tink! (metal helmet hitting the ground)  



PANEL 6

We can see the KNIGHT face and long hair now. We can tell it’s a girl!!  She is just about to touch the JEWEL (like INDIANA JONES and the gold statue from Raiders of the lost ark :)) the Jewel is glowing now.


CAPTION:

But I’m no man!


PANEL 7

We can see the KNIGHT is turned to a skeleton in a flash.  JUST an effect like you’d draw a body in the fire.  But this is a skeleton.

SFX:

Foosh! (like a blast of energy or fire)

SFX:

Ahhhhh!



PANEL 8

We can see the SKELETON fingers of the woman falling away from the jewel.


CAPTION: (at the top)

The end

CREDITS: (bottom of the panel or along the bottom in the black part)

Story: Kelly Bender
Art: James Leong

Letters: Micah Myers


PENCILS