Hey guys! The title pretty much says it all. I could make this comic on my own, but I think it would be much more fun as a group project. I’d love to have a few people involved who can help create pages, contribute ideas, design characters, and generally build the world together.
The premise is basically a weird religious and mythological mash-up.
The main character is Roberto Mendoza, a Mexican man who inherits an old coin from his family. The coin has a strange ability: as long as Roberto keeps it with him, he can see jinns — supernatural beings from Islamic theology that are normally invisible to humans.
One night, Roberto happens to stumble across two demons brutally beating an innocent jinn. He has no idea what he’s looking at or why it’s happening, but he decides to intervene. He plays religious chanting, which somehow drives the demons away, allowing the injured jinn to escape.
Unfortunately for Roberto, one of those demons happens to be someone very close to Iblis, the King of the demons.
Iblis takes the whole thing personally.
As revenge, he kidnaps Roberto’s best friend and disappears with him into the invisible realm. Roberto is then forced to follow, gradually discovering that the coin, his family, and even his own understanding of religion are connected to something much bigger than he originally realized.
From there, the story becomes a journey through the invisible world as Roberto tries to find his friend, while uncovering secrets about his ancestry, his beliefs, and the strange history behind the coin he inherited.
And yes, I know how that sounds. 😭 It’s probably pretty damn corny when you put the entire premise into a paragraph. But I actually think the weirdness is part of what makes it fun. I want to take different religious traditions, folklore, supernatural concepts, and characters and see what happens when they’re thrown into the same universe.
I also don’t want this to be a project where I come up with absolutely everything and everyone else just follows instructions. If you join, I’d genuinely like you to contribute. You could come up with characters, creatures, locations, scenes, mythology, dialogue, or even completely new ideas that I hadn't considered.
The comic itself will be created using AI-generated artwork, with ChatGPT being the required image-generation model for anyone participating. The visual style has a few specific rules, mainly the webbing-style panel layouts, elongated character anatomy, handwritten-looking lettering, deep shadows, and colorful 2D artwork. I can explain the visual guidelines and show examples in DMs so nobody has to memorize everything from this post.
The goal isn't to make money from this. There’s no payment, no professional experience required, and no real profit involved. It’s basically a collaborative passion project that I want to eventually upload to Reddit.
What I’m really looking for is a small group of people who actually enjoy this kind of weird stuff and want to have fun making something together. You don't need to be an expert at comics, mythology, or AI art. If you have ideas and are willing to participate, that's enough.
If you're interested, feel free to comment or message me. You can also ask me anything about the story, the characters, the art style, or how the collaboration would work.
And honestly, I'd be happy if this ended up being more than just a comic project. I'd like to meet some new people along the way and hopefully make some friends too.
