Planet Alkebulan releases its third book.

Jeff Carroll is a pioneer voice in the Black speculative movement.  He is a writer, filmmaker and comic book man. His stories always have lots of action and a social edge. He has written over 10 sci-fi and horror novels and made six movies. His short stories have appeared in The Black Science Fiction Society's anthology and their magazine as well as other anthologies.

“Planet Akebulan is the product of a challenge by my illustrator Jorge Gabotto.   Jorge presented me with images of a man and a woman and asked me to write a story.  The concept of Planet Akebulan immediately jumped into my head, pushing aside all the other ideas in my mind. Planet Akebulan is the product of a longstanding dream of mine regarding writing a Sword and Soul story.  Sword and Soul is a subgenre of Black Science fiction that blends African History with fantasy. With Planet Akebulan, I’m able to use the deepest parts of my imagination along with my love for African culture. I was heavily influenced by the structure of the Marvel Universe; I love the way scientific speculation, and cultural beliefs are weaved together.,” Jeff Carroll.

 

Planet Alkebulan, the first planet in the universe, is the source of all life. It produces this life in private as it’s location is unknown. When it’s life force regulator is broken they learn that the planet has also become visible making it the number one target in the universe.

It keeps producing lifeforms and sending them around the universe to suitable planets. Quhala is a mastress of the lifeforce. Quhala and her partner Shabaka are the guardians of Planet Alkebulan.  Quhala charges her arrows and other weapons with life sucking energy that drains all living beings.  Shabaka is armed with the Kem Sword a magical weapon that’s power is unknown.

 

Planet Akebulan, is similar to Star Wars in the sense that it is set in a world that predates civilization on Earth.  Planet Akebulan offers a different origin of life in the Universe.

 

In the first book the planet is under attack by wild lifeforms. The Heroes Shabaka and Quhala learn how to repair the barrier.

Book 2 While taking the King to join with the Queen they are attacked by Soulrah and the King and Shabaka are captured. Quhala is left to get the Queen and get her to help free the King.

Book 3 The Queen and her men free the King. The Queen and King join together and restore the Life Force regulator. Once restored they learn that the planet had become visible.

Here's the link to the project

Jorge Luis Gabotto (Hiorsh) is a cartoonist and writer from Argentina. He enjoys narrating, and he does it whenever he had a chance.  Whether it was telling a movie, singing a song or just telling a joke, Jorge enjoyed it. The comic for him is the concretion of many arts together; a stylistic summit that combines several languages for the narrative. The comic is also drawings; evocative plastic expressions of techniques such as perspective, color management, human figure, etc. Along with all the aforementioned joys, a comic is literature, narrative, climates, tensions and beauty in words. The comic is cinema, it is movement, it is lights and cameras playing roles from the reader-spectator point of view. The comic is many things…it is a game.

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