In celebration of the 20 years that the story has been in existence, we were hoping to release the very first episode of our original series, titled “Broken Stone” this year. Unfortunately that’s not going to happen. This has been an extremely busy (and quite exciting) year for us, and unfortunately we weren’t able to allocate enough time towards the Broken Stone project to finish it in time. But that’s okay! We’d much rather not rush it.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of Broken Stone, we’ve decided to share some extremely old (and previously classified) content from the world of Broken Stone.

Below, you will find images and footage from the original issues and episodes that have never been seen before by anyone outside of CJC.

These first two images are from the VERY FIRST ISSUE, created in 1991! The story was originally titled “Ninja Man”, but it has long since changed as it was constantly rewritten.

These next few images are from what would be considered “Season 2″. Created in April 2000, the story picked up 10 years after the climactic events of Season 1. The images shown are from a bar fight scene that took place near the front of the issue.

And finally, in 2003 we made our first attempt at bringing the series into the world of animation. We decided to start with Season 2 (which was titled “Dragon Stones” at the time). Below you will find the first half of Episode 1, and it runs about 17 minutes. Don’t expect any mind blowing visuals! We actually used this project as a tool to learn Flash in general, and this was one of the VERY first things that we’ve created in it!

We’ve completed about 40 minutes worth of animation in total, which equated to about 5 episodes. We plan to eventually make it back to this portion of the story and completely reanimate everything.

The new Broken Stone series is in development as I type this, and we’re hoping to be releasing the first episode within the first quarter of 2012.