Living With Insanity

Okay, so you guys probably saw this on the Wednesday update, but it wasn’t up long enough, so I decided to post it on the main blog. I finally had a comic published! You can buy it from Indyplanet and also from comics monkey.

Here’s the credits and synopsis from the site if you guys don’t want to click:

Jeremy Scully – Story
Ryan Kent Paul – Pencils
Bill Nichols – Inks
Lizz Beunaventura – Colors
David Herbert – Letters

Hitman Kenneth Brynes is leaving a trail of destruction in his wake. Pulling out all the stops he takes on two hits in one night! As he works hard for his paycheck FBI agents Kevin Fries and Dana Jones investigate his latest rounds of chaos. Can they piece together the pieces of the puzzle before the bodycount rises?

FBI Agent Kevin Fries relentlessly pursues an elusive assassin. He now comes closer than ever before but at what costs? In the last five years he has chased this unknown hitman while his personal life has fallen to pieces. Kevin is about to get in much deeper than he ever realized. Political conspiracies and competing hitmen are just the tip of this very unstable iceberg!

So yeah, my first published work. It’s a pretty good comic actually, really makes me wish it wouldn’t cost a fortune to ship some indy titles over here. Oh well, please buy it online, or go to your local comic shop and tell them to order it from Comics Monkey. This is my first work and it’s a good series, so I would love it if it did really well. But if you can afford it, just head over to the comic shop and ask them to get some copies. You won’t have to spend a cent and you’d be helping out just by getting the comic onto the shelves.

Until next time, take care.

~ David

So, I had this idea for a comic, right? It was called Demonic. It was about a paranoid schizophrenic who believes he’s a superhero. He goes out and kills people, thinking they’re criminals. A woman borrows a cup of sugar, he thinks it’s coke and throws her out the window. Stuff like that. You can see more about it here.

Recently, I have been putting that comic together with a bunch of talented individuals. You can see some of the concepts here, scroll down the for the final design and you can see the pencils for one of the pages here. We had an inker and colourist, were ready to go to Image, and then today the colourist sends me a bomb shell.

Here’s a link to Robert Kirkman’s new series.

FUCK! (Repeated ad nauseam)

It gets worse. While the concept may be that this guy actually is inhabited by a demon, while my guy acts like one, I have friends who swear they can see that this will end up being all in the guy’s head. If that’s the case, which part of me doubts it is but you never know, I have a big problem.

My idea was so awesome, Robert Kirkman stole it. (Kidding)

I have so got to get that made as a t-shirt if it turns out to be true, but in all likelihood it’s just great minds thinking alike.

For those of you wondering, I’m just going to change the name of my guy and leave everything else. It’s still my original idea and if anyone wants to accuse me of ripping off Kirkman, I have the proof that I had my idea first. I’m not calling him a plagiarist, I’m just a little pissed off he had to use that name, because I freakin’ loved the name ‘Demonic’. Sure, I don’t own it, but still, FUCK!

Here’s hoping we can still get Image, Dark Horse, Avatar or one of those places to take us.

In conclusion: FUCK!

~ David

Wow, been a while since I posted here. I meant to do this last week, but forgot about it. Sorry. Also, I’ve moved from only naming my blogs after prose novels to graphic ones as well. I write comics, I should probably show them some love.

So, as some of you may have noticed from the latest arc, things are developing around here. I put it off for a little while, but I’ve finally thrown in some drama and character development into the mix. These are the marks of good writing, but as many webcomic fans know, they can quickly kill a comedy.

As I said in my little notes below each strip, the ‘Epiphany’ arc was directed at me as much as it was to other people. Before writing this story, I was suffering from severe writer’s block while coming up for an ending to the ‘Nell’ arc. Around this time, Brad Guigar came out and claimed Writer’s Block didn’t exist, it was just something from laziness. Now, the type of block he was describing is sort of fake, but he completely mis-interpretted the definition of Writer’s Block. It’s when you come to a point where you cannot see what happens next. I got a little angry at him, dismissing a problem I was having as me being an amateur, but it did make me realise something. I was running low on insane, amusing antics. He wasn’t right about his argument, but he did get me thinking.

I finished of the Nell arc and as Paul started sending the strips, I started to get nervous. I had nothing to send him and it looked like I never would. I asked myself why I couldn’t come up with anything, and got no answer. Then, one night as insomnia gripped me, I tried thinking to the ending I had planned out for LWI, and then working backwards. I realised how much character development there would need to be, and as I lay there for three hours, I had a conversation with myself similar to the one David had in his dream.

It brings me to recall the Order of the Stick reference I mentioned in part three. Belkar was ill, due to a curse, and saw in a dream that he needed to become more. But it’s the passcode that is most relevant. “Evolve or Die.” That was pretty much what seemed to be the future of me writing the strip. If I wanted it to continue, it had to rise another level, gain some interesting characters and be more.

Now, some of you might be worried, understandably, that this means the entire strip will change and suck. Hopefully, that won’t be the case. I’m making sure I take this slowly. It will still be the LWI you know and love, just with more depth. Everyone’s still crazy, weird shit will still be happening, but hopefully it’ll be something everyone will enjoy very much.

I said that this is either going to be the end or the beginning, but I hope this will be so seamless you won’t even know the difference.

~ David

Site update guys. As part of some friendly advice, I’ve changed the comment proccess. You now have to log in to make a comment. This is not something I like doing, since I wanted to have it so that all of you could say your piece easily, but with the bots filling up the comments, I’ve realised I have no choice. So yeah, please register you guys and say whatever it is you want. Hopefully everything will be better now.

~ David

First off, I should apologise for those of you leaving comments and finding them mysteriously disappeared. Recently, I’ve been hit with the spam bots so badly that I get more than a hundred posts an hour. When it wasn’t so bad, I used to just look over each comment and get rid of the ones that were evil, but these days if I do that I find myself spending an extra couple of hours getting rid of more that popped up when I wasn’t looking. God damn I hate spammers! So yeah, sorry if I’ve deleted your comment and you were a real reader.

What’s new with me? Well, I have a new favourite author. Fabian Nicieza. I got into him when I picked up “Resurrection of Ra’s Al Ghul” and he was writing the Nightwing arcs. Also, a lot of people said he was awesome for writing Cable and Deadpool, so I picked those up and am now addicted. Yesterday I bought Robin: Search For a Hero and I have to admit I’m hooked.

How hooked? Much like Neil Gaiman inspired me to write a fantasy series (That’s the Image title I mentioned. Found a new artist, so yay me, I might be selling comic books soon) I have gained an urge to write for Deadpool. But, since Ryan Sohmer already has a petition out to get him on the writing job, along with the fact that I’m too unknown to write for Marvel, it’s time to create my own character. I find that more fun, don’t you?

Here’s the basic idea: In a futuristic world, the galaxy has been colonised and everyone is mostly happy. However, future tech means powerful baddies. Because of this, the Galactic Order has a law that states every police district (Over a million in total) has to have a champion, a superhero who works seperately from the chief, but can still use police resources and is answerable to the government when they do something wrong. They don’t have superhero names, so no Superman or anything like that. They’re all named after the districts they protect.

One of these champions is a girl named Nancy. She’s pretty much the love child of Deadpool and Abbey from NCIS, with some extra ADHD thrown in. She does a good job, but is easily distracted by cute kittens, her breasts, or kittens who like to nap on her breasts. She has friends too, like Sandra, who takes the older sister role, and also the fan service magnet. There’s also Rick, who prefers to be called Ultra Fuck. His weapons are a pair of cannons on his arm which he uses to shoot dildos at his enemies. Am I kidding? In all honesty, I haven’t got a clue. Anyway, they have some crazy fun together, kill some bad guys and voice my opinions while the people against me make poor arguments (Watched Clerks II again last night, if you’re wondering).

So yeah, hopefully before the end of October, I’ll have this lauched as a webcomic. Here’s hoping you guys like it when it starts.

~ David