Heart Guardians - All Access

Heart Guardians is our second Premium comic by Atomics. This is Episode 2 from the files of Dr. Robin Harper and the second comic set in the vast, phenomenal universe that Atomics is carefully constructing.

Each comic in the series will stand on its own, so you don’t need to have read Idealized (the first comic in the series) to enjoy Heart Guardians, but it can’t hurt!

Because Heart Guardians will probably be the longest comic we’ve ever published on TGC (I think it’s safe to say that it will be over 3,000 pages), we didn’t want people to have to wait YEARS before they could read the comic. So Atomics and I decided to release the comic in installments. We’re posting Parts 1-4 for a start, and we’ll keep on posting chunks on a regular basis until we’ve published the entire comic. 

We've put up the comic for sale in 4-part chunks on Itch, but this is the ALL-ACCESS version to buy if you want to read the WHOLE THING.  We'll add new parts as we publish them on TGC - we've published 16 parts as of this moment - and we're already over 2,000 pages!

If you’ve read Idealized, you know that it is the story of four friends who get their hands on some magic berries that can transform them into a girl for one evening… their ideal girl. The comic was the gateway to get us acquainted to the world where Rob (now Robin), Evan (sometimes Evelynn), Dave and Toby live. It’s a place where magic is real, but secret. Normal “unsighted” humans are oblivious to the magic around them… and even if they see it they can’t retain the information for long. They will forget that magic exists unless they are repeatedly exposed to magical acts.

The title of this second comic in the series is Heart Guardians. The guardians are stewards of the human world, ensuring that wild creatures and nightmares created from an overabundance of magic don’t interfere with everyday un-sighted humans. The guardians remain human, but they are given powers when they become stewards… along with a new body. These new bodies are temporary, the body a person occupies while they are in guardian form. They can revert back to their own body whenever they desire.

In other words, Heart Guardians has magic, but it’s also something of a superhero comic. The guardians are trying to keep the world in balance against immense odds.

A major focus of this comic is Scott. He’s become a heart guardian, and the body he occupies when in guardian form is female. Scott isn’t permanently stuck as a woman, but he hasn’t exactly figured out how to control his transformations. He shifts from male to female at the most inopportune times… from showering at the gym to the precise moment he’s giving a big presentation at work. 

The thing is, nobody seems to notice when Scott turns into a gorgeous redhead, and he has to wonder why… and also wonder if he actually does want people to see him with his new set of curves. Suppose you became a beautiful woman but nobody could see you. How much fun would that be?

Scott doesn’t mind being a beautiful woman, especially when it comes with powers. Scott doesn’t necessarily want to be female on a permanent basis, but he doesn’t mind learning more and more about what it’s like to be a fetching female.

Scott is filling in for Cassie, a Heart Guardian who was almost killed by a mysterious figure known as the Shadow Man. Scott is being asked to risk life and limb and expose himself as a potential target while Cassie recovers. 

Scott loves having magical gun superpowers and the ability to fly, but it’s only a matter of time before he encounters the Shadow Man. This happens in Part 9 of the story. It’s a brief encounter, and the Shadow Man seems set on giving Scott a lesson on how easily, with the simple snap of his fingers, he can turn Scott’s life upside down.

Scott and Simon (the cat who handles the Heart Guardians on the behalf of his master) aren’t quite sure of the exact change the Shadow Man has made. It takes them a little while to figure out what’s going on.

We’ll see what kind of person Scott is before we’re through, what kind of heart he has… and doesn’t that pretty appropriate for a comic called Heart Guardians?