Capt. LIGHTS motion comic series

The “inter-galactic” electro-pop sensation LIGHTS has begun a new project with MTV and Tom Coker from Marvel Comics. The project is a series of 10 semi-animated, 2-minute shorts recanting the adventures of Captain Lights herself. The project, entitled AUDIO QUEST: A Captain Lights adventure is done in the increasingly popular Motion Comic medium. The first episode appeared on Monday, September 28, and new episodes will be added every Monday on both MTV and MTV.com





The first episode begins the adventure with Captain Lights crashing on an apparently music-deprived planet. It is revealed that she only has a few sound-bites (her ship and weapons main source of power) left. As she goes off in search of music to repower her ship she encounters a mysterious red-eyed creature in the shadows. While the dialogue can be blatantly expository at times, Coker’s art-work and animation are breathtaking and the LIGHTS’s voice work is amazing.

The First episode can be viewed HERE

Tom Coker, the animator for Audio Quest, has worked with several major comic book companies, including the biggies: Marvel and DC. His most recent work with Marvel was the Daredevil Noir series which begun earlier this year.

LIGHTS began to gain stardom in 2008 after four of her songs were chosen to be part of an Old Navy ad Campaign. But the primary source of her stardom has come from the young pop-stars nerd nature. Her passion for online-based fantasy games has given her a nigh unlimited source of fans.

"There's an entire world of people out there that play WoW and are talking about science fiction and they feel a little bit outcast, so if you can reach those people that's sweet! Even my look is inspired by video game characters – it's a cross between Laura Croft and Wonder Woman."

Quoted from iamlights.com

Her full length album will be released in the US on October 6, so be sure to keep a weather eye out for that and tune into MTV and MTV.com on Mondays for the next episode.