Anyone who has followed Drumfish Productions over the years
or knows me, knows of my admiration for Luciano. Sometimes you meet people that
you immediately click with and who will be important in your life. And for me,
Luciano is one of those people. Without him, I honestly don’t know if there
would have ever been a SENTINELS series. But even more than that, over the
years we have become great friends and I consider myself lucky to know him.
Since completing SENTINELS, Luciano has gone on to do so
many amazing things! He’s worked on projects all over the world and for
companies big and small. He’s become a role model for others and inspired many
artists with his work. Currently, he’s working on projects for both Marvel and
DC Comics and continuing to write and draw his own webcomic, SERENO! www.totemcomics-sereno.blogspot.com.ar
Ever since we finished SENTINELS and created the third
generation of the team, we wanted to do something with them. We had many ideas
and dreams about what would come next. But, with both of our busy schedules, we
just couldn’t find the time to work on anything.
Then we decided to work on a colorized version of SENTINELS.
There was a demand for it and we both thought it was a good idea and easy to
work on. It would give us both the opportunity to change or correct little
things within the original series that we thought we could do better and it
wouldn’t take much time away from our other projects. Or so we thought, lol.
Because, Luciano, being the crazy man he is, brought up the third gen again and
had a vision of them as adults. Those first sketches inspired us to change all
of our ideas on the second SENTINELS Anthology and create a story that would
satisfy us as well as fans of the series.
Without giving too much away, Luciano plotted out his idea
for the third-generation SENTINELS and presented it to me. The story resolves
one loose end to the original series that allowed us to tell a tale that encompasses
every generation of SENTINELS teams! I
think it’s the perfect ending to everything we’ve done with the series and
leaves the third-generation in a place where, if we ever wanted to, we could do
something with them one day that would allow them to have their own stories not
dependent on the previous generations.
Even with all the work he has on his plate, Luciano still
found time to do all of the layouts for the third-generation story as well as
the final art on four pages in the book. Two of those pages are a double-page
spread with a bunch of surprise characters for fans of all of Drumfish’s titles!
And I can’t forget that Luciano also wrote Clockstopper/SoulKnight’s story for
the Anthology! Whew! The man is a
machine!
Working with Luciano one more time has been a great
experience and I’m ever thankful to him for helping make this book a reality!
I’m fortunate to work with so many talented artists and I can only hope and
wish them all the same success that Luciano is seeing now. Bravo, Luciano!
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