A History of False Starts

Oh hey, what’s that? No, it’s not R6:8, my new strip. This was one I actually had sitting around that was poised to go somewhere, but burned out as I spun the idea in a totally different direction after this little ‘proof of concept’ prologue. This would have been T3RTION, a sci-fi odyssey, but soon after it turned into a cyberpunk conspiracy tale that I’ve ultimately put on the backburner.

I do this a lot – start something, change it, and then shelve it. In this case, it was because I became indecisive about the core of the cyberpunk iteration’s story; I was treading amongst so many derivative genre cliches that I couldn’t pick a solid twist. I loved the artistic style of the world, though, and that was driving my enthusiasm. In the end, I decided that if I had to pick just one side-project for a comic this year, it’d be one with a more original hook. R6:8 had that hook.

I plan to do something with both iterations of T3RTION (the former one under another name, of course), but they won’t be soon. One probably won’t even be a comic; I was toying with the idea of writing the cyberpunk one as a blog-published novella, with single illustrations.

Anyways, I’ll find more stuff I did recently to post up for anyone who might be curious. I have a habit of doing some stuff and letting it sit on my photobucket.