About Area 51: The Helix Project
The bold epic conclusion to Pocket Watch Press’s Area 51: The Helix Project has just launched on Kickstarter. Area 51: The Helix Project is created and written by Trevor Fernandes-Lenkiewicz, illustrated by Nigerian artist Samuel Iwunze, colored by Marcio Luis Freire and lettered by Ringo award winning letterer Taylor Esposito.
The logline reads:
A child of two worlds is forced to excavate the trauma of his past when a mysterious unknown places his father’s death into question. Tortured by the loss and driven to uncover the circumstances surrounding the murder of his father after having exposed his alien physiology to save a child’s life, Kent is dragged into the jaws of a Cold War genetics conspiracy; what’s left of him is forced to face a twisted ghost from its past as it plunges a dagger into everything he’s come to know about himself, and ultimately, what it means to be human.
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“This must be what it feels like to send your first born child out into the world,” said Trevor Fernandes-Lenkiewicz. “This story was born from a place of not knowing who I was in a world that tried to force feed a life to me. I had the fleeting dream of writing comic books despite a trajectory toward stability and a well-respected career in molecular biology research, so naturally a story formed around a young man looking to figure out who he was too—independent of all the voices that tried to command his sense of self.
“Kent’s journey eventually took on a life of its own, and somehow, his growth taught me more about myself than I ever could’ve learned without him. Having the opportunity to end his story, to experience his struggle coming to grips with who he was, and further, who he wanted to become changed my life too. For that opportunity, for the readers that allowed me to get to this point by connecting with him – and with myself by default – I am grateful beyond words.”
Samuel Iwunze added, “It’s not every time you find a creative partnership that has this type of synergy and open mindedness. It’s what pushes you to provoke what you think art is.
“Working on this book with Trevor has shown me that this possibility is not lost. I’ve learned a lot in my short stay on this marvelously written comic. I haven’t made art as wild, dynamic and emotional as this before, and thanks to what I’ve learned from Trevor, from everyone involved, I can say the possibilities became endless.”
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Initial Reaction
It’s a pity that Trevor Fernandes-Lenkiewicz feels the need to end such a bold expansive world that he’s established in Area 51: The Helix Project. That said, the illustration from Samuel Iwunze has not let up in this final chapter. There’s an excitable, dystopian-level darkness to the final chapter that gives you no respite and no reprieve.
Indie comic books aren’t meant to be this good.
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