Secondary two, a somewhat embarrassing and memorable word.
Maybe it's reading a novel, maybe it's reading some comics, maybe it's watching two episodes of "Giants" or "Meanders", but there are many reasons why a junior high school student starts to feel too self-conscious and engage in unrealistic fantasies.
But for me, it's a domestic comic that has been stopped for eight years: "Bloodline"
Speaking of this work,I believe that the people who know it should be about the same age as me,When I was still in junior high school,It has been transferred from "Comic Show" to "Comic World" on the updated serialization,In that era of funny comics,This comic has found a new way,With a fine painting style,Extremely tense combat storyboard,Gripping plot design,Rigorous and cool world view setting to build a unique set of "secondary two aesthetics",In my school at the time, it was as famous as the first three parts of "Dragon Family" Middle School Student Killer".
However, it is a pity that in 2015, due to some copyright disputes and other difficulties that are still unclear, the serialization of this work was interrupted. It's been eight years since its last serious update.
However,I don't plan to talk about the Chinese comic industry in depth today,The decline of paper magazines,Or even some rumors about the author Io,I just want to Amway about this second enlightenment masterpiece in my mind,Because not long ago,"Bloodline" announced the resumption of updates in the form of independent comics,And launched the latest single book,The big tree that took root in my mind in junior high school,Finally grew a new sprout on behalf of hope。
The picture comes from the back cover of the latest single book I purchased, and it can be seen that Io has a lot of grievances about the bad things of the past eight years
The story is actually not complicated, basically revolving around the core of the three-way struggle between the xenomorph camp represented by vampires, the human camp represented by the Holy Land, and the wizard camp represented by the Black Tower in the context of modern society, and its Chinese drama is done in a decent manner, focusing on imaginative fighting and superpower performance.
I think the key to the so-called secondary aesthetics of this work lies in the setting of the two camps of "wizards" and holy places, but it is the vampire as the title or something, no matter how you play it, it will be those tricks. In terms of the setting of the wizard, it follows the traditional mage system inherited from "Dungeons & Dragons": there is a daily limit on the number of spell casters, and the spell casting ingredients need to communicate with the magic web.
Even the goddess of magic here is called Mystra
With the addition of action, materials, and the release of three components, the spell-casting scenes in this work are particularly expressive, and the characters in the picture are either twisted or cool body movements and lengthy and complex spell-casting prayers give it a full handsomeness and sense of ritual.
The setting of the Holy Land next door comes from another classic class in Dungeons & Dragons: the priest. The power of domain-based and faith-based is the same as DND's priests, except that the author Io has added them with very modern armor and weapons, and ...... More fanatical beliefs.
When these ancient settings are fused with the new forms of expression, and they fight in the world set by the author, the spontaneous contradictions between them give this work a "philosophy of the two sexes" in addition to the above performances, such as: Does the choice between good and evil depend on camp or behavior?
Detecting factions is also a classic spell of DND
Because of the length of the article, let's talk about my "Secondary Two Enlightenment" here, have you ever had the stage of "Secondary Two Disease", and what are the works that inspired you, welcome to exchange and discuss in the comment area~