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COMICS
I write comic books for fun, and soon, I hope to do it for a living. If you draw professionally, chances are I can tailor a script to you and we can get it out there if you want to be paid on the back end. If you get paid on the front end, show me your work and we'll talk. Here's some of what I'm working on:
Homicidal Suicidal Psychological Steve is a comic about idealism and realism that breaks the fourth wall, based upon my first novel, which I wrote at the age of 18.
Wrong Man is Gotham Central meets the thriller genre, to a degree. I've got a story about a gent in the traditional wrong-man plot, only the problem is that he's in a universe of capes. So not only are the mob and police after him, so are the capes, good and bad. Hilarity ensues.
Man in Black (tentative) is the story of what would really happen if a human being were given superpowers. Like The Walking Dead, this is a piece of survival horror, told through the eyes of the survivors as they cope with an omniscient, powerful ruler with horrid amounts of power.
200 Years is a limited about a group of people segregated from American society for 200 years, returning from exile within a network of caves to adapt to modern society. Id is conceptually a fumetti story of a man who wakes up in the middle of an endless forrest, away from his technological and workaholic existence as a writer. He finds himself examining his inner self, his worth, and what his life means as he slowly dies in a private, introspective hell. Thus the name. But, there's always the potential he could escape...it's an ongoing with a clear path, I'm not sure how far, but I'll go as far as it takes me.
Paladin is an allegory of love set in a pseudo Stephen King style world, featuring Grendel, archaic tradition meeting modern technology, and swordplay. It is also featured in a secondary "fish-out-of-water" series I'm developing. It's a mystery bounty hunter tale and a fantasy adventure merge.
The Fairport Years is a story about my years in college, amped up a bit for comedy.
The Most Offensive Comedy in the World (AKA Burn Me) is a skit-type Mad Magazine style vulgar, evil comedy that will probably get me stomped to death and killed. The first issue, for example, has teddy bears getting their necks snapped, Nazis, violent bums, and Batman falling to his death. Oh, and a fatwa on Spy vs. Spy. You'll have to read it to understand. Also featuring a doctor that throws babies out of planes (The abortion clinic bomber) and a battle to the death with Jesus.
The Eternal City is a comic set in Seattle I'm working on about life in the city through the eyes of a homeless man, a rich man, and a middle class man. I'm anticipating six issue arcs with each set of characters before moving to critically examine another set of characters and the way finance effects our morality and living. In the first arc, a homeless man has an accident with a friend and finds an opportunity to exploit, a way to make his world better.
Majestic Comics is an imprint I'm working with along with a set of buddies I met through the Superman Homepage. I'm taking an editorial role and writing one of the comics, about an alien exile from a war-like culture, the S'Drac. Other projects include Protoarmor, Knight's Legacy, Anomaly, Enhancement High, The Locke, and Specialists. We're hoping to go big with this one, and I'm really excited to be a part of the team.
One For Gina is a comic that I wrote in response to the death of my dog, Gina, of renal failure. It's not a happy comic, and it's definitely for adults, and I'm not responsible if you commit suicide after reading it.
Benjamin's Dream is an adaption of my fourth novel, which I'm sending around right now. It's the story of a world post-apocalypse, and one young man who bucks the farming life to try and find education, only to learn that the powers that be still have all the pre-apocalypse technology, and have regressed back to slavery, assigned wives, and the spirit of the 1950s. Think The Handmaid's Tale meets Gladiator.
The New Patriot is a long-standing cape project needing an artist...it's a satire of America, the government, the armed forces, superheroes... and feminists. Among other things. Plus the occasional great battle scene and fart joke. I've completed six scripts, and I have the next arc half mapped. New Patriot concept sketches. No current assigned artist.
Justify is the story of a man who discovers that he gains powers every time he does evil. Ergo, he must do many small evils (kicking old ladies, stealing from babies, etc) in order to save the world. His counterpart, The Means, gets power for doing good. Their names are derived from the phrase, "The ends Justify the Means". Get it? Eh. If you're interested, it's an ongoing.
Earlier work:
Superman Unlimited is a Superman fan comic book I made with the extremely talented Alessandro Gianna (pencils and inks, some colors) and George M. Cwiro-Godycki (colorist) in 2001.