Writing Over Time

As I mentioned in my last post, I like to keep multiple projects in the air. I tend to bounce around from one thing to another, and that means some stuff stays on the backburner for a long time, and I mean a really long time. That’s the case with Megalomania, a comic book I am creating and co-writing with my fiancee Emily. I originally wrote the concept to be a TV series, but seeing as netflix hasn’t returned my calls…

There is a funny side effect of nursing a story for this long, though. As I’ve gotten older, more context has been added. The story was always intended to be a self-audit. The main character is someone who, like me and many others, struggles with the frailty of life. He finds it difficult to anchor himself morally after those he relied on let him down, at least as he sees it.

With time, though, the story has become more critical of itself and not just me. While we still deal with issues of mistrust and heartache, we also investigate how we react to those things, and the wounds those reactions can leave behind. Tucker is flawed. Extremely so. In fact, he rarely seems to make the right decision at all and it’s unclear if he is even trying to. He’s an image of this psuedo-sympathetic catharsis character that angry young men tend to latch themselves to.

I won’t get into specifics until I release some issues, (first one is coming March 1st!) but this story started as me trying to create one of those characters in earnest as a way to work out some of my frustrations, and over 10 years of self-reflection and rewriting, it transformed into a critique of that very phenomenon. I’m very proud of the story that Emily and I have written together, and I hope you enjoy it. I am about 1/3 of the way through “inking” the first 20 page issue and I have more on the way. There will be a limited print run, but I will also be putting the comic up on the website for easier access. The first issue will be free, subsequent issues will not be, I am still working on a price.

Thanks for reading! See you in the next one.