A New Type of Fantasy: Meet the Creative Team Behind Deep Engines

Launching this month is a project that perhaps has been a long time in the making, with three creators from different backgrounds sharing the same passion. Deep Engines is a new approach to the fantasy genre and comics as we were given a taste of a few months ago. We were able to wrestle the creators and lead artists away from the world that they created and learn a bit more about them, their inspirations, and hopes as this monumental project launches.

Black Nerd Problems: You have written a variety of characters, some of them identifying on the LGBQTIA spectrum like Bold Riley. You’ve also had experience as a writer for comics in the acclaimed Smut Peddler anthologies. In regards to Raw House, Deep Engine’s offering for mature readers about the elaborate way of life in a well-respected brothel, what’s new that you bring to the table for those that know your work? And for those that are unfamiliar to your work, what do you hope they think? Leia Weathington: What’s exciting for me about the entire project is I’ll be able to write with much more depth. Bold Riley was written in a really specific, monomythic way so I didn’t have the freedom to get up close with the characterization and the minutia of the world to maintain the consistency of an old heroic epic. Deep Engines is the opposite. I’ll get to really indulge in relationships and interactions between characters at length. Raw House in particular gives us the ability to explore gender and sexuality in a number of ways. Wh…