Gosh, it's been a while, huh? No I'm not dead. I've been writing my little heart out several story-lines, plots and characters for the long-awaited non-fancomic I've wanted to do for years. I shall start putting it up once I've decided which one to go for, once I've moved away from home and can dedicate the time to it, and once I've written at least the first five chapters, and drawn ten pages. That way I can hopefully update without falling too far behind.

Feedback to this journal would be nice. There are several comics I've written and I need help with which one I will start. Basically I plan to do at least three of them before I die and which one I choose first will be my stereotype if you will. The Luke to my Mark Hamill. So here are the main ones I've chosen.

One story which covers the whole evil vs good, what makes us human la-dee-da etc. Very dark, very violent at times, covers squirmy issues (well, squirmy for the 'normal' people) like homosexuality, child abuse, murder, incest and so forth. My main worry with this comic is that while I really want to do it, I do get bored of depressing work quite quickly and I might find creating it to be too much of a chore. It does have it's lighter moments, but not often enough.

The second is a school comedy, but it mostly focuses on a love pentagon between four guys and a girl, with two guys being the key characters. Light and funny, with it's sad moments and some explicit gay scenes. This one will be easiest to write but I don't want to be typecast as a gay comic writer. Although gay characters do wriggle their way into every story I write, being gay is usually just part of their character and often it has no meaning to the storyline at all. They're just people, who are gay.

The third is totally epic and will be stupidly long, because it's basically two stories in one. The main story is a fun adventure with dragons and romance and becoming an adult. The back story is very dark and disturbing and covers issues we don't want to tread in normal conversation. I'm still not entirely sure how this one will work. My main idea is that I will have the main comic running up to a certain point and then release the back story and have them run side by side. But this will be a lot of work and I don't know if I will cope.

So any ideas as to which one you'd like to see would be welcome.