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* ArtEvolution: As a long-form comic, the painterly art style has shifted over time into a Leyendeckeresque rendering technique with bold brush strokes.
* BilingualBonus: Intended for American audiences, Ikon's dialog is presented in English despite being 'in Russian', but the setting is Russia, and so signage, newspapers, and so on are in Russian, including joke news articles under the assumption the reader can't understand them, and a pun on a vandalized gravestone that translates to "ALL HOPE".
* BlemishedBeauty: Aleks's character design is that of a conventionally attractive man with some shrapnel and burn scars that don't actually disfigure his face.
* CareerEndingInjury: Aleksandr's dad, Abram, has gone recently blind due to a hemhorrage brought on by complications from diabetes. It has degraded his vision to the point that he can no longer work at the print shop he once owned.
* ColorCodedEyes and AnimalEyes: Multiple characters have unique eyes:
** Nikolai is a classic case of SupernaturalGoldEyes.
** Marina sports the BlackEyesOfEvil.
** Yuri's ice blue eyes are evocative of a goat or horse as a case of HellishPupils.
* CounterfeitCash: Aleksandr is counterfeiting American 100 dollar bills in the 90s to keep up with economic chaos.
* BilingualBonus: Intended for American audiences, Ikon's dialog is presented in English despite being 'in Russian', but the setting is Russia, and so signage, newspapers, and so on are in Russian, including joke news articles under the assumption the reader can't understand them, and a pun on a vandalized gravestone that translates to "ALL HOPE".
* BlemishedBeauty: Aleks's character design is that of a conventionally attractive man with some shrapnel and burn scars that don't actually disfigure his face.
* CareerEndingInjury: Aleksandr's dad, Abram, has gone recently blind due to a hemhorrage brought on by complications from diabetes. It has degraded his vision to the point that he can no longer work at the print shop he once owned.
* ColorCodedEyes and AnimalEyes: Multiple characters have unique eyes:
** Nikolai is a classic case of SupernaturalGoldEyes.
** Marina sports the BlackEyesOfEvil.
** Yuri's ice blue eyes are evocative of a goat or horse as a case of HellishPupils.
* CounterfeitCash: Aleksandr is counterfeiting American 100 dollar bills in the 90s to keep up with economic chaos.
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* DistinguishingMark: Aleks's lower lip has a contracture scar that others erroneously mistake for 'herpes'. Nikolai has lichtenberg figures across his entire face.
* ForgotTheDisability: Aleks is hard of hearing. After he loses his patience and storms out of a bar in frustration, Maks tries to find him by calling his name along the street before having a personal 'oh, duh' moment.
* InvisibleToNormals: Birds can talk, but their speech is unintelligible to normal humans. Small demonic creatures accompany Robert, an occult-dabbling businessman from the art smuggling ring, but Aleks can't perceive them.
* ForgotTheDisability: Aleks is hard of hearing. After he loses his patience and storms out of a bar in frustration, Maks tries to find him by calling his name along the street before having a personal 'oh, duh' moment.
* InvisibleToNormals: Birds can talk, but their speech is unintelligible to normal humans. Small demonic creatures accompany Robert, an occult-dabbling businessman from the art smuggling ring, but Aleks can't perceive them.
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* [[Main.TheMasquerade The Masquerade]]: Some characters such as Nikolai, Yuri and Marina are supernatural characters who live double lives to pose as normal humans.
* InvisibleToNormals: Birds can talk, but their speech is unintelligible to normal humans. Small demonic creatures accompany Robert, an occult-dabbling businessman from the art smuggling ring, but Aleks can't perceive them.
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* InvisibleToNormals: Birds can talk, but their speech is unintelligible to normal humans. Small demonic creatures accompany Robert, an occult-dabbling businessman from the art smuggling ring, but Aleks can't perceive them.
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Nikolai is covertly attempting to penetrate the smuggling ring, which is a conduit for supernatural entities to obtain items for their arcane rituals. One such ritual threatens Aleksandr's life, intended as a sacrifice to break the dysfunctional curse tormenting the smuggling ring's leader.
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Nikolai is covertly attempting to penetrate the smuggling ring, which is a conduit for supernatural entities to obtain items for their arcane rituals. One such ritual threatens Aleksandr's life, intended as a sacrifice to break the dysfunctional curse tormenting the smuggling ring's leader.leader.
!!''Ikon'' contains examples of:
* CrapsackWorld: The characters live in mid-90s Moscow, a lawless time of economic instability. Each character has their hand in some illegal venture. Even Aleks's parents seem to be unfazed by their son's involvement with organized crime.
* TheMafiya: Aleksandr's printing business runs [[ProtectionRacket under the influence of a Krysha]] who demands not only cash payment but for Aleks to work for their "business partners" as they dictate.
* [[Main.TheMasquerade The Masquerade]]: Some characters such as Nikolai, Yuri and Marina are supernatural characters who live double lives to pose as normal humans.
* InvisibleToNormals: Birds can talk, but their speech is unintelligible to normal humans. Small demonic creatures accompany Robert, an occult-dabbling businessman from the art smuggling ring, but Aleks can't perceive them.
!!''Ikon'' contains examples of:
* CrapsackWorld: The characters live in mid-90s Moscow, a lawless time of economic instability. Each character has their hand in some illegal venture. Even Aleks's parents seem to be unfazed by their son's involvement with organized crime.
* TheMafiya: Aleksandr's printing business runs [[ProtectionRacket under the influence of a Krysha]] who demands not only cash payment but for Aleks to work for their "business partners" as they dictate.
* [[Main.TheMasquerade The Masquerade]]: Some characters such as Nikolai, Yuri and Marina are supernatural characters who live double lives to pose as normal humans.
* InvisibleToNormals: Birds can talk, but their speech is unintelligible to normal humans. Small demonic creatures accompany Robert, an occult-dabbling businessman from the art smuggling ring, but Aleks can't perceive them.
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[[https://ikon.thecomicseries.com/ IKON]] is about a young army veteran Aleksandr Navtalov wants to support his parents with his printing business, but he's under the thumb of a "security company". As a talented counterfeiter, he's managed to satisfy their demands by paying in fake dollar bills. While the mafia has spared Aleks thus far, someone else is not so fortunate: Azariah, an undead psychopomp who should be aiding those in the grave instead of crawling out of the one they threw him in. As Aleks looks for ways out from under the mafia, Azariah, hell-bent on tracking down his own son, tries to drill his way right back in. What are they gonna do, kill him again?
The two cross paths when they both turn to an art smuggler in need of false certificates and a courier to deliver stolen, religious iconography across Russia, Ukraine, and to a drop point in Hungary. If Azariah can score this gig, he'll find his son. If Aleks can pull it off, he could make more in a week than he's ever made in a year! But there's a reason it pays so well: the trek is a three-day drive through old Soviet roads in a crumbling world of corrupt border guards, armed highwaymen, and weather that could flip a car. Your fellow travelers tend to be drug runners, jewel thieves -- you know, upstanding members of society who would never dream of stabbing you in the back when they figure out what kind of cargo you're carting through the countryside.
Ikon is inspired by the Judeo-Christian Book of Tobit, the book Comrade Criminal by Stephen Handelman, Balto-Slavic pagan mythology, and the movies Брат and Брат II.
The two cross paths when they both turn to an art smuggler in need of false certificates and a courier to deliver stolen, religious iconography across Russia, Ukraine, and to a drop point in Hungary. If Azariah can score this gig, he'll find his son. If Aleks can pull it off, he could make more in a week than he's ever made in a year! But there's a reason it pays so well: the trek is a three-day drive through old Soviet roads in a crumbling world of corrupt border guards, armed highwaymen, and weather that could flip a car. Your fellow travelers tend to be drug runners, jewel thieves -- you know, upstanding members of society who would never dream of stabbing you in the back when they figure out what kind of cargo you're carting through the countryside.
Ikon is inspired by the Judeo-Christian Book of Tobit, the book Comrade Criminal by Stephen Handelman, Balto-Slavic pagan mythology, and the movies Брат and Брат II.
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[[https://ikon.thecomicseries.com/ IKON]] is about Ikon]] centers on Aleksandr, a young army veteran Aleksandr Navtalov wants hard-of-hearing Afghan war veteran, who becomes entangled in art smuggling to support cover his parents with father's medical expenses amid the economic chaos of 1990s Russia. He unexpectedly discovers that his printing business, but he's under the thumb of a "security company". As a talented counterfeiter, he's managed to satisfy their demands by paying in fake dollar bills. While the mafia has spared Aleks thus far, someone else is not so fortunate: Azariah, an associate, Nikolai—a dishonored and undead psychopomp who should be aiding those in the grave instead of crawling out of the one they threw him in. As Aleks looks for ways out from under the mafia, Azariah, hell-bent on tracking down his own son, tries to drill his way right back in. What are they gonna do, kill him again?
The two cross paths when they both turn to an art smuggler in need of false certificates and a courier to deliver stolen, religious iconography across Russia, Ukraine, and to a drop point in Hungary. If Azariah can score this gig, he'll find his son. If Aleks can pull it off, he could makepsychopomp—is more in a week than he's ever made in a year! But there's a reason it pays so well: he appears.
Nikolai is covertly attempting to penetrate thetrek smuggling ring, which is a three-day drive through old Soviet roads in a crumbling world of corrupt border guards, armed highwaymen, and weather that could flip a car. Your fellow travelers tend conduit for supernatural entities to be drug runners, jewel thieves -- you know, upstanding members of society who would never dream of stabbing you in obtain items for their arcane rituals. One such ritual threatens Aleksandr's life, intended as a sacrifice to break the back when they figure out what kind of cargo you're carting through dysfunctional curse tormenting the countryside.
Ikon is inspired by the Judeo-Christian Book of Tobit, the book Comrade Criminal by Stephen Handelman, Balto-Slavic pagan mythology, and the movies Брат and Брат II.smuggling ring's leader.
The two cross paths when they both turn to an art smuggler in need of false certificates and a courier to deliver stolen, religious iconography across Russia, Ukraine, and to a drop point in Hungary. If Azariah can score this gig, he'll find his son. If Aleks can pull it off, he could make
Nikolai is covertly attempting to penetrate the
Ikon is inspired by the Judeo-Christian Book of Tobit, the book Comrade Criminal by Stephen Handelman, Balto-Slavic pagan mythology, and the movies Брат and Брат II.
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Young army veteran Aleksandr Navtalov wants to support his parents with his printing business, but he's under the thumb of a "security company". As a talented counterfeiter, he's managed to satisfy their demands by paying in fake dollar bills. While the mafia has spared Aleks thus far, someone else is not so fortunate: Azariah, an undead psychopomp who should be aiding those in the grave instead of crawling out of the one they threw him in. As Aleks looks for ways out from under the mafia, Azariah, hell-bent on tracking down his own son, tries to drill his way right back in. What are they gonna do, kill him again?
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Young army veteran Aleksandr Navtalov wants to support his parents with his printing business, but he's under the thumb of a "security company". As a talented counterfeiter, he's managed to satisfy their demands by paying in fake dollar bills. While the mafia has spared Aleks thus far, someone else is not so fortunate: Azariah, an undead psychopomp who should be aiding those in the grave instead of crawling out of the one they threw him in. As Aleks looks for ways out from under the mafia, Azariah, hell-bent on tracking down his own son, tries to drill his way right back in. What are they gonna do, kill him again?
The two cross paths when they both turn to an art smuggler in need of false certificates and a courier to deliver stolen, religious iconography across Russia, Ukraine, and to a drop point in Hungary. If Azariah can score this gig, he'll find his son. If Aleks can pull it off, he could make more in a week than he's ever made in a year! But there's a reason it pays so well: the trek is a three-day drive through old Soviet roads in a crumbling world of corrupt border guards, armed highwaymen, and weather that could flip a car. Your fellow travelers tend to be drug runners, jewel thieves -- you know, upstanding members of society who would never dream of stabbing you in the back when they figure out what kind of cargo you're carting through the countryside.
Ikon is inspired by the Judeo-Christian Book of Tobit, the book Comrade Criminal by Stephen Handelman, Balto-Slavic pagan mythology, and the movies Брат and Брат II.
[[caption-width-right:1000:Ikon]]
Young army veteran Aleksandr Navtalov wants to support his parents with his printing business, but he's under the thumb of a "security company". As a talented counterfeiter, he's managed to satisfy their demands by paying in fake dollar bills. While the mafia has spared Aleks thus far, someone else is not so fortunate: Azariah, an undead psychopomp who should be aiding those in the grave instead of crawling out of the one they threw him in. As Aleks looks for ways out from under the mafia, Azariah, hell-bent on tracking down his own son, tries to drill his way right back in. What are they gonna do, kill him again?
The two cross paths when they both turn to an art smuggler in need of false certificates and a courier to deliver stolen, religious iconography across Russia, Ukraine, and to a drop point in Hungary. If Azariah can score this gig, he'll find his son. If Aleks can pull it off, he could make more in a week than he's ever made in a year! But there's a reason it pays so well: the trek is a three-day drive through old Soviet roads in a crumbling world of corrupt border guards, armed highwaymen, and weather that could flip a car. Your fellow travelers tend to be drug runners, jewel thieves -- you know, upstanding members of society who would never dream of stabbing you in the back when they figure out what kind of cargo you're carting through the countryside.
Ikon is inspired by the Judeo-Christian Book of Tobit, the book Comrade Criminal by Stephen Handelman, Balto-Slavic pagan mythology, and the movies Брат and Брат II.
