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I first met Phil Jimenez at the Paradise Comicon in November 2003.
It was Sunday, I had already been there for three days and by that time, and I was very weary from sitting in line for a signed book (sitting because I have an electric scooter) and sick of the convention hotdogs rotating in the lamplight. That?s why I had absolutely no expectations when meeting Phil. I didn?t want an autograph. Hell, I hadn?t even heard of the guy, let alone cracked open any of the Wonder Woman comics he was signing at the time, so I just parked beside his table, introduced myself and we started talking. We talked about what I was into and what he was into and the state of things in comics, generally just shooting our mouths off like old friends. Suddenly, I began to notice that there were a lot of people lining up for this guy. I noticed something else too; every single one of them wanted a drawing. In fact, so many, he stopped doing them because he was so behind on the requests. After a while the crowd thinned out and I asked, what he was working on and he responded,
?The next couple months are going to be super busy; I?m working on a top secret project.?
With that, he pulls out his sketch book and there, right in front of my eyes, are character sketches of a beautiful woman with long flowing hair, a Minotaur, and a sleek cyborg. All of them had flowing and intricate line work, with every detail of each of their individual frames mapped out in a variety of positions.
?It?s my personal project, I?m writing and drawing it,? he said, ?There are so many aliens, gods and robots in this thing that I think I?m going to call it?Otherworld!?
Fast forward to July 2005 and Phil Jimenez?s ?personal project? has already hit comic stores. Wizard Magazine describes it as, ?The Real World, meets Lord of the Rings, meets Tron,? and there can?t be a more accurate description than that. A group of twenty-somethings (some friends, some not) are transported to a Celtic inspired, ancient and mystical civilization called the Otherworld. The sweeping line work and intricate detail of the early sketches I saw were nothing compared to what I saw when I opened the book for the first time. The art was absolutely radiant with the added colouring of Jeremy Cox and the texture of the inks by Andy Lanning, but it wouldn?t have been made possible without the complex pencils of Phil himself. Even though, on the surface, their world looks Pristine and harmonious, (as the art suggests) the people of otherworld have been locked in a territorial turf war between two factions, magic and technology, for centuries.
That?s where Soibian Moyihan and her friends come in; they have been recruited by the mystic Cessaire to give the mystics the edge over the cyborgs in the war. Rather, Soibian was recruited because she was born with a mystic elder?s blood, the rest were brought to otherworld solely to protect her. All of them have been given powers, ranging from those of your standard superhero, to shape shifting, and even, telekinesis. They?ve been dragged into this war against their will and quickly realize that the word of Cessaire is not the gospel and they are forced to save a people who seem to not want their help. Now, with Soibian?s boyfriend on the other side, fighting for the cyborgs, after experiencing the pain of his girlfriend cheating on him with his best friend, the drama level is about to rise.
Although the art is some of the best in comics, we?ve already seen that before from Jimenez. What he brings to the table here, is a vehicle to deal with the issues you can tell have been peculating in his brain for a while. He deals with racism in a scene from issue four when two warring villages stop the fighting, only to throw stones at one of Soibian?s friends, who transformed into a Cyclops only to help them, but they see as an outsider. Phil has often expressed his thoughts about women in comics, maintaining to me that comics cannot market to women because of the unsettling atmosphere in comic shops and many comic companies seeming inability to market to women.
?The material is there for women in comics, look at Sandman, Rose & Thorn or even Ghost World, but the predominate features of comic shops i.e., sweaty fanboys standing around a stuffy room next to the life-size cardboard cutouts of Emma Frost [X-men] with boobs the size of her head, and a thong waded up her ass. This is just the wrong way to get women into comic shops.?
Somehow, with all the creative freedom he was granted by DC/Vertigo, for this creator owned project, you just know that our discussion about the inequality of women is going to twist into the comic somehow. Even though Phil?s storytelling style can be very confusing and slow moving (having dropped us right into the heat of the action and not told us anything substantial about the plot until issue three) I admire what he is trying to do. He?s trying to bring relevant social issues back to comics, like Neal Adams did in the late ?80s and Grant Morrison did with Invisibles in the ?90s. He?s one of the guys in comics who has figured out, while Vertigo is a mature comic book line, that is supposed to deal with mature issues, most of their books have degenerated into having the ?mature readers? designation simply as a license to push the envelope. (With the notable exception of Deus Ex Machina and some recent limited series?) I applaud him for bringing back issue driven comics and letting the reader get inside his head.
I will happily grin and bear this convoluted and complex story and have faith in what he is doing. He certainly does, Phil has been pitching this series on and off for ten years, and I?m glad Vertigo finally took him up on it. Phil Jiminez is a rarity in comics, he is the whole package; he?s a writer/artist and creator. I wouldn?t worry if he goes off on a tangent every once in a while, I?d just enjoy the ride. Fact is he?s in his own little world, his Otherworld!
Otherworld is a Vertigo comic, so it is suggested for mature readers. Find your local comic shop and grab yourself a copy by calling the comic book locator service at: 1-888-COMIC-BOOK.
