Comics, Damn You!
As you discovered in the previous post, I write comics. I know. How much cooler could I get?
This much cooler, my friends: I’ve just added a new section to the site called Adam’s Comics, which, coincidentally, was the name of my very own comic store I ran as a teenager.
And, ladies, to answer your question here up front, no, I’m no longer available.
The first comic I want you to read is Planetside, written by me, with art by Dan Wong. Dan, like Sonny Andreotte from The Prince, has completely fallen off the face of the Earth. He lived in Canada at the time and, for all I know, could have been mauled and eaten by a Polar Bear. Planetside originally appeared on Nextcomics.com…which like many things I’ve been involved with in any way, no longer exists.
Planetside is a story about two young men and the day all their dreams finally came true.
Click here to read it.
Comic #2 is called S2K and symbolizes everything that has gone wrong in my life up to this point. I originally pitched it to one of the bigger comic companies sans artist to no result. The thing about specializing in comedy is that no one believes you’re funny. Saying, “this comic is a comedy about…” means nothing as there are virtually no (and using the word “virtually” is being generous here, trust me) genuinely funny writers in comics today.
(And for all the fanboys about to jump in here and tell me about some book or writer they find hilarious, let me just stop you right now. They probably aren’t. You’re probably wrong. Don’t waste your time. And guys famous from other mediums, like Brain Posehn, Patton Oswalt, Joss Whedon, and Kevin Smith don’t count. They’re professional writers and comedians and didn’t spend all of last week working up a Transformers vs. Plastic Man pitch just so they could buy a grocery cart-full of Ramen noodles.)
After receiving deafening silence, I decided to find an artist and present the first few chapters of S2K on the web, then get the whole thing published somewhere. This comic idea had an expiration date, November 2000. You’ll see why. I found a guy (an absolutely incredible artist from Mexico named Bachan), a website with a lot of traffic to run it and we were off.
Presented now for the first time in 5 years is S2K. You get the first three completed chapters, plus the never before-seen or produced scripts for chapters 4 and 5. S2K originally ran in Spring 2000 and should have made me very famous and rich.
Before you read any further, go ahead and check out S2K. Names have been slightly changed to protect the guilty…and the worry that I might have gotten sued. (which was fucking moronic, because nothing would have made me more money or garnered me more fame than a lawsuit from one of these fuckers. Man, I was an idiot.)
Click here to read S2K.
Back?
Bush was next. In a script that never got past the “I think I’ll do this and this” stage, our current president would have spent his section arguing about Satan’s entrance into the race while snorting cocaine off various hookers’ body parts, before finally O.D.ing and being brought back to life with a hypo full of epinephrine to the heart ala Pulp Fiction. See? Comedy.
Bachan was far too busy with his own comic (he works for Humanoids now) to keep doing S2K for free, so we made one more attempt at getting it published at DC/Vertigo. Again, only silence.
So S2K died right there. 12 pages of art. 5 chapters of script. And it never made anyone a dime.
Fast forward six months later to Election 2000 and the resulting fiasco. To imagine how huge a graphic novel like S2K from a major publisher like DC/Vertigo (a division of Time-Warner) would have been is maddening. I’m still pissed off about it.
This much cooler, my friends: I’ve just added a new section to the site called Adam’s Comics, which, coincidentally, was the name of my very own comic store I ran as a teenager.
And, ladies, to answer your question here up front, no, I’m no longer available.
The first comic I want you to read is Planetside, written by me, with art by Dan Wong. Dan, like Sonny Andreotte from The Prince, has completely fallen off the face of the Earth. He lived in Canada at the time and, for all I know, could have been mauled and eaten by a Polar Bear. Planetside originally appeared on Nextcomics.com…which like many things I’ve been involved with in any way, no longer exists.
Planetside is a story about two young men and the day all their dreams finally came true.
Click here to read it.
Comic #2 is called S2K and symbolizes everything that has gone wrong in my life up to this point. I originally pitched it to one of the bigger comic companies sans artist to no result. The thing about specializing in comedy is that no one believes you’re funny. Saying, “this comic is a comedy about…” means nothing as there are virtually no (and using the word “virtually” is being generous here, trust me) genuinely funny writers in comics today.
(And for all the fanboys about to jump in here and tell me about some book or writer they find hilarious, let me just stop you right now. They probably aren’t. You’re probably wrong. Don’t waste your time. And guys famous from other mediums, like Brain Posehn, Patton Oswalt, Joss Whedon, and Kevin Smith don’t count. They’re professional writers and comedians and didn’t spend all of last week working up a Transformers vs. Plastic Man pitch just so they could buy a grocery cart-full of Ramen noodles.)
After receiving deafening silence, I decided to find an artist and present the first few chapters of S2K on the web, then get the whole thing published somewhere. This comic idea had an expiration date, November 2000. You’ll see why. I found a guy (an absolutely incredible artist from Mexico named Bachan), a website with a lot of traffic to run it and we were off.
Presented now for the first time in 5 years is S2K. You get the first three completed chapters, plus the never before-seen or produced scripts for chapters 4 and 5. S2K originally ran in Spring 2000 and should have made me very famous and rich.
Before you read any further, go ahead and check out S2K. Names have been slightly changed to protect the guilty…and the worry that I might have gotten sued. (which was fucking moronic, because nothing would have made me more money or garnered me more fame than a lawsuit from one of these fuckers. Man, I was an idiot.)
Click here to read S2K.
Back?
Bush was next. In a script that never got past the “I think I’ll do this and this” stage, our current president would have spent his section arguing about Satan’s entrance into the race while snorting cocaine off various hookers’ body parts, before finally O.D.ing and being brought back to life with a hypo full of epinephrine to the heart ala Pulp Fiction. See? Comedy.
Bachan was far too busy with his own comic (he works for Humanoids now) to keep doing S2K for free, so we made one more attempt at getting it published at DC/Vertigo. Again, only silence.
So S2K died right there. 12 pages of art. 5 chapters of script. And it never made anyone a dime.
Fast forward six months later to Election 2000 and the resulting fiasco. To imagine how huge a graphic novel like S2K from a major publisher like DC/Vertigo (a division of Time-Warner) would have been is maddening. I’m still pissed off about it.
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