Category:Visionary Universe

Introduction
The Visionary Universe is the shared fictional setting of the intellectual properties owned by Visionary Comics Studio, being developed for comics, prose and other media.

Visionary Comics Studio is a fledgling Comics Studio which launched in 2006. Based in Annapolis, Maryland, the studio is known as the world's first, dedicated teaching studio for new comic talent. It operates as a packaging studio, working with new talent to develop properties and concepts into actual projects, then works to place those projects at established publishers.

Visionary provides direction, editorial services, art review and supplementary creative services. Once a project is complete, the studio then also works to negotiate publishing and licensing deals on the properties and once set, provides marketing and publicity services for those same projects.

The Visionary Universe, primarily created by architect C. Edward Sellner, is a comprehensive line of intellectual properties of fictional nature, all of which are set within the same, structured, outlined framework, setting, or...universe.

Unlike other 'comic book' universes, the Visionary Universe will not feature titles set only in an 'ever-present' now, with very little focus on history or the future. Instead, Visionary's projects range through an expansive frame of time, space and genre. Properties in development represent stories set in the distant past, the far future, and alien worlds. Likewise the genres span super-hero action, adventure, classic fantasy and science fiction.

However, Visionary properties are not limited to comics. Projects are currently in development in the prose market, and there has already been some discussion over licensing into video games.

Being a universe that will quickly develop a rich history, and expansive reality this project is first and foremost dedicated to referencing that growth. While each story, in whatever medium, is designed to offer a satisfying story on its own, each is also connected through thematic and existential threads to the entirety of the Visionary Universe. Thus, here, fans can explore those threads and research the history and reality of this unique fictional setting.

However, the second purpose of this project is to offer a unique opportunity to fans of the Visionary Universe: to add to it! By using the 'wiki' method, fans will be able to not only research what's been referenced, and edit mistakes, but, by open invitation from Visionary Comics Studio, they can add to it themselves. This 'official' fan participation will grow monumentally next year when Visionary launches its Fan-Canon Fiction site where fans can contribute stories of their own, set in the Visionary Universe. Those selected and posted will be considered canon of the universe.