After more than 20 years working professionally as a comic book artist, I decided it was finally time to build the story I wanted to leave behind.
It’s called NAJA — TimeFang Chronicles.
I’ve worked over the years on projects involving Star Wars, Dungeons & Dragons, Black Tiger, The Lucent: Fractured Mind, covers for Rippaverse Comics, and many other projects in comics and games.
But NAJA is personal.
The story begins when scientists discover something impossible hidden inside a cave: a machine capable of traveling through time.
When they reach the future, they witness a humanity heading toward catastrophe.
Their attempt to prevent that future leads to PRIMALIS — experiments combining human and animal genetics, secret programs, conspiracies and individuals scattered across different periods of history.
At the center of it all is NAJA — PRIMALIS-017.
He doesn’t fully know what was done to him.
He doesn’t know where — or when — he truly belongs.
And because the time device implanted in his brain is damaged, he can be thrown without warning across different moments in history.
His mission becomes simple:
Find the others.
Find the truth.
Find his way home.
I’m currently producing the comic independently, in black and white with color covers, and building this universe one issue at a time.
You can explore the characters, artwork, previews and world of NAJA here:
🌐 https://www.najacomics.com
The website is also available in English.
NAJA is an independent project, so right now I’m looking for people who believe in creator-owned comics and would like to help me keep producing it.
I have a monthly recurring support campaign on APOIA.se:
⏳ https://apoia.se/najacomics
APOIA.se is a Brazilian crowdfunding platform, but international supporters can participate using an international credit card.
Even a small monthly contribution helps me dedicate more production time to the book, create new pages, develop the characters and continue expanding this universe.
More than simply funding a comic, I want to slowly build a community around NAJA and let the people supporting it become part of its journey from the beginning.
If sci-fi, time travel, strange creatures, conspiracies and creator-owned comics are your thing, I’d really appreciate it if you took a look.
And even if you can’t support financially, visiting the site, sharing the project or telling me what caught your attention already helps enormously.
The timeline has already been broken.
Now we get to discover what was hiding inside it.
— Rod Luper
Creator, Writer & Artist of NAJA