My annual Halloween Self Portrait Monster face.

Celebrate yet celebrated

Years upon years gone by

Why oh why I see each

Agonizing moment contributing

And guilty of treason to

My dreams and childhood

Expectations. Deep down

I dwell in a pit, looking to

Find a step to step up, not

Only to the top, but jut maybe

Off of the bottom. I’ve been

Made aware of how to do

That, but it’s jnot so easy.

“Don’t set aside, but confront!”

She’d say, “Stop letting it

Hold you back. You must

Let go!” Oh, so easy to say.

Sometimes I think that it is

All I have to hang on to.

“Find new definitiions of who

You are, and different reasons

To feel.” Oh, so easy to say.

But September. September!

Every year, September. It

Used to be entertaining, then I had to

Face what I thought was fun, but

Really in hiding. But this month

Will pass, this September. This 

September blue.

P. Allan Fred.’s Idea’s for Graphic Novels

Moon Cowboy:  An unusual circumstance brings a Sheriff together with his estranged son of whom he hasn’t seen in ten years.  His son hasn’t aged a year in mind or body.  The problem during this futuristic story is that his son is also on the phone calling from the lunar colony asking for help to be rescued.  And that son is 25 and remembers the past ten years. This Sheriff takes the next commercial flight to the moon and finds that he has many opportunities to make up with his son and try to restore the relationship.  He meets his ex-wife on the moon who runs a genetic company splicing genes, or so he thought. He finds out that it is really a clone making company that is harvesting his son’s clones for live organs for transplant and the money involved in an outpatient same day surgery.  Getting new organs on earth is like getting a face lift today. It is highly popular and many people have only few of their original organs left. However, these organs are supposed to be coming from dead bodies or grown in a lab; not from a living person. The Sheriff who is now working as a security officer on the moon now has to do the moral thing and stop these people. His ex-wife sends out a death squad to chase him which takes place on the surface of the moon. Meanwhile every clone he runs into wants to reconcile with him. Emotionally he is torn every time he sees a new clone; and there are hundreds of them.  He finds shelter on the lunar surface in the old North American Lunar Colony and finally finds his real son. They start running from the death squad and the son shows him into a tunnel that leads INTO the moon which turns out to be almost hallow, but filled with ruins of an ancient civilization. Slowly they pick off the Death Squad and word gets back to the Leader of the Genetics Company, his ex-wife. She sends a small army of clones after them. Then end. Continued till the second GN.

Man-Wolf of Mars:  The Star Ship Messiah has arrived at Mars and the ship is going to be retired. As the crew settles down and their ship is turned into their new homes on the Martian country side, it is discovered that they imported a wolf along with their other livestock.  As the head of security discovers with the help of MarsNet, known and referred to as “Marcy”, that the wolf is not being caught by cameras and also that there is a underground movement to sell Silver Hex to Earth, the Lunar Colonies, and the Titan Colonies.  Marcy is the Ai and the Martian Internet and the planet wide security system. This human face to Marcy is a lone security officer and a Martian native, fifth generation. Along with the “Messiah’s” crew, they go on a wolf hunt. As we explore the Martian technology (for example each human has a cortex flash hook up and in order to have the MarsNet plugged into you, you must put in a small device put into the back of your head, in your flash drive. This device also works as a security controller in case “Marcy” sees you breaking the law. At that time she can control your brain as to letting you lose the feeling in your legs instead of running you simply drop to the floor until the officer can get there. Or you can be stunned on the spot as a justice system as well as a court system. Marcy is trusted by the people of Mars and there is only one person who can turn her off. The law officer. Somehow this wolf is not being detected by Marcy, yet people are seeing it for themselves. It has eaten several livestock since its arrival and people are worried. It is finally discovered by the Copilot of the Messiah as the ship’s Captain and as she confronts the Captain he bites her and Marcy renders him useless and he just disappears off of Marcy’s screen, but she can detect the crowds of Mars looking at where it is and responding to it, so she tracks it. She alarms the single officer to the point of contact and he fights this thing by throwing Silver Hex into its snout which kills it.  BTW, I mentioned it once before. Silver Hex is a mineral mined about forty meters from the top soil which causes humans, when ingested, to live longer, unless abused. But it does have silver in it. They call it hex because it is like a thing of magic. The head of security brings the copilot to the hospital and starts sneezing at the silver hex on his sleeve. And they were just starting to fall in love too.

Zombie Justice: Harry and His Zombie Friend: In this Zombie Justice story we look at two men, who as children, were abused by their clergyman.  When adults, they decide to take vengeance on their old Pastor which turns bad and cost the life of both Harry’s friend and the pastor. Harry, who is torn apart, tries to raise his friend to life, and it works. But his friend isn’t living, just reanimated, i.e. a Zombie. Feeling inspired, they start a systematic method of Harry’s zombie friend relieving his pain from living, which can only be stifled by eating human flesh, by finding child sex offenders and murdering them and eating them while Harry has an alibi for each murder. A police detective starts to piece things together but cannot figure out how Harry is murdering these people who are being eaten. She draws close to Harry and is moved by his compassionate heart for children. After she falls in love and they start dating, Harry is moved by her compassion for the lost and wicked and her opinion that anybody can be reformed given enough time. He starts to feel remorse for killing all those people and confesses to her what is going on.  It all comes down to a pinnacle of the Detective and Harry verses the Zombie. Who dies and who lives? Also it should be known that this story is a series of stories all under the title of Zombie Justice.

Stick Figure: The Graphic Novel: follow along this tale of a stick figure living the simple life by modeling for children’s art, married to Scribble who spends her time modeling for bored office employees while they are on the phone. They live the simple life and that is the way that Scribble likes it. But one day when Stick Figure was going to work, he spies a charcoal illustration from a life drawing class. It changes his life and he has higher ambitions of becoming a detailed full figured illustration.  Every time he self realizes he becomes more filled out, becoming 3D and developing muscles and male anatomy of sorts.  Eventually he leaves his wife for the charcoal life class model and develops a fast paced life. His life becomes a series of regrets and poor decision making. Stress starts to demand some eraser marks and he starts to lose his paper quality.  Life gets crazy and he runs into his ex-wife Scribble and starts yearning for the simple life and sees that the trade off of success isn’t always the reward of life.

Journey’s End:  On a dare, comic book illustrator Jose’ decided to walk home alone in the streets of New York. He get’s mugged and has his wrist slit. He wakes in the hospital craving the taste of blood. He doesn’t know why. Later that night he dies in his bed at home. Four days later he rises and has to have blood to resuscitate his appearance and smell back to normal. He steals some from the hospital and it brings him back to looking like a human again. A few days later he needs it again. After several weeks of this, he actually takes a life to drain them of their blood. This alerts the Vampire Brotherhood of his presence. They want him to join their forces and organized hunting.  However, Jose finds that he is being haunted. He hears voices, items flying across the room, he becomes terrified. He sees a medium that informs him that he has a grander purpose in life. His purpose in life was to become a holy man and live for an eternity in the next life. But she informs him that he is earth bound and so is his soul. She suggests he find religion and redeem himself. He relies on an old friend who tells him to commit three acts of righteousness.  One, save someone who is committing suicide. Two, find a serial killer and stop him, and three, convert. He accomplishes his tasks, even with the opposition of the Vampire Brotherhood against him, and lastly, after facing all the adversity, he confesses, declares his faith, and gets baptized in the ocean. As he is baptized he turns to ash and the tide pulls away his remains. His soul is restored and heaven bound.

Citizen Jane:  A local vigilante becomes wanted by the police.  Why?  Because she is not a licensed vigilante.  In the near future, lawlessness reigns and the police and other law enforcement agencies need help.  All you need is to take a test, get your DNA registered, and not use a gun.  The not using a gun aspect makes these vigilantes get creative.  What does that mean?  Super heroes.  Sarah is young and pissed off at the crime level in town. So she takes action into her own hands and stops muggings, liquor store hold ups, gas station robberies, and little crimes like that. However, her reputation builds her up as to larger than life and she gets invited to join the biggest most powerful Superhero group in town. As a mixed martial artist she has some talent; however she doesn’t poses any special powers or technology. She finds that the group dynamic of the team is a dysfunctional family.  She hopes that her, not having a license, will not catch up to her, and needing the income and stability this job provides, she gives up her life as a regular person and takes on this life. She even starts to give in to the advances of the Super Team’s leader. In the end of this story, fighting bad guys and looking to help the police, she discovers that the leader of the team is the man who raped Sarah when she was ten. He knew who she was this whole time and it gives him pleasure to know this and having her live in ignorance. When she finds out, there is an epic battle between the two with others not knowing what to do. The team leader brings in a team of bad guys to kill Sarah, and when the good team finds out what happened, it is war. Two teams of power fighting it out. Sarah is doubting her abilities and her courage. But at the very end we see Sarah question wither or not to kill the Teams Leader.

Blood Moon Freedom:  How to get rid of the curse of the Werewolf lies in an ancient Book found by two teenagers shopping in an antique shop.  According to the Book, there are certain rules that must be obeyed during a blood moon in order to rid themselves of the curse.  Things are all fun and games until they start being hunted by not just one werewolf, but a whole society of them. The basic idea for the story is that if a werewolf hasn’t killed yet, and drinks this potion of Wolvesbaine and other gross stuff, found only in some ancient book that someone found in a box of civil war items at an antiques store.  This book has several old “Tonics and Teas” from the old country of Eastern Europe which really came from the Roman era which really came from Ancient Egypt…where they got it?  Nobody knows!!  I digress, if the werewolf that hasn’t killed, drinks the potion during a “Blood Moon”, which is a Red Full Moon, will be cured of his curse.  The wolf part stays, but he will be able to control it without the moons influence and will stay his own personality even as a wolf.  : Then there will be opportunity to have a super powered person as it were. Power hungry to defeat this Lupine society, the two teens come up with the plan to find this power provided by this ancient book in both becoming werewolves and on an up and coming blood moon they will drink the potion, read the incantation and have the wolf power whenever they want and can kill and hunt other werewolves during the month. I haven’t yet decided how it will end, but I think not so good.

Jimmy:  Jimmy wakes to a dream where his telepathic power kills his parents.  Waking up abruptly from this nightmare he runs into his parents’ room only to find them dead.  He screams.  His older sister runs in and sees what happened and Jimmy is taking responsibility.  His sister sobers him up to where they come up quickly with a plan.  Having Pyrokinesis, his older sister concentrates and puts the house on fire.  Jimmy is broken up, but understands that his sister has always been the one to watch over him when their jet setting parents were out of town. His sister Margaret knew that their parents worked for the CIA. She had known that they had trained her for this day.   Leaning on each other, they decide to go see their only living relative they know—their Uncle Max out on the west coast somewhere.  They think LA but don’t know. The journey is the story as these two you people run from the Agency to stay alive and run to find an Uncle who turns out to be a Hydrokinetic.  The try to find the grandmother who actually turns out to be the villain of the story. She is a telepath and telekinetic and planted that dram in Jimmy the whole time and she has been the mind behind their whole struggle and difficulty in finding their Uncle. It ends in a climactic battle between the agency and the Grandmother, versus Jimmy, Margaret, Uncle, and the friends they accumulated during their cross country voyage. But somebody if going to die. Definitely a good guy,, and most certainly a bad guy or two.

T.H.E.M.: Do you believe a shiny chrome basket ball sized orb when it telepathically tells you that it is crucial to the history of the United States of America that you commit acts of terrorism? This is what happens to a High School art teacher when this ultra futuristic machine called “Time Hyperbola Equiangular Machine” or THEM approaches him in the size and similar shape as a basketball telling him that it is from the future and sent by his son’s, son’s, son’s, son. He is informed that the THEM is attuned to his DNA and he needs to stop his own brother from becoming President. We meet trouble when this pliable Plastic-man type chrome thing which when worn on the body allows you to run all electronics mentally, surf the web mentally, it can work to be a breathing apparatuses when diving through water, it can act as a suit of armor to become bullet proof, protects from radiation poisoning, and can cover a wound of which it hyper stimulates the growth process and speeds up healing by measurable amount. Problem is that this High School teacher’s sister is a pilot for the Marines and also works for the CIA in other countries and sees this THEM as a powerful aid in espionage. His brother works for a US Senator of West Virginia and when he finds out about it he wants to tear it apart and build many of them. Being that they all have the almost same DNA. This unfolds when the teacher convinces the pilot why they need to do what they need to do and the brother who over the course of the story becomes a presidential candidate. It all works out in the end but the school teacher dies. THEM, now changed in its personality appreciating beauty and the more quality issues in life which it will bring back to the future, goes into the teachers lungs and throat, in seconds he is healed and brought back to life. He comes to, to find his killer in handcuffs and his family and the President around him in the White House. THEM can’t stay because it only has enough power to get back to the future. It is a hard departure but it is done. It disappears. Later, a year later, a student pulls a gun on the High School teacher and pulls the trigger. A small tennis ball sized chrome orb blocks the bullet and he is saved.  He just smiles and knows he will always be watched over. Besides, how does his great, great, great grandson invent the thing?

San Sangre:  In 1879, we follow a nun, a friar, a priest; two ex-slaves, a confederate col., and a gun slinger find salvation in the journey of an exploration of a wild mystical world of the small town San Sangre.  They thought the trip to that small New Mexican town was rough, wait till they get into town; that’s when the real action starts.  While our party is rebuilding a church by day, they notice that the town’s people all leave town at night looking like zombies or possessed men.  A few of them follow them out one night to witness the town’s people working in mines for odd looking people. (Keep in mind that I wrote this idea two maybe three years before “Cowboys and Aliens” GN came out. This is an older story of mine but I still love it.).  But more importantly we see the corruption of a priest in his perversion; we find a nun whose faith changes into greater realism and less legalistic thinking and more freedoms in Christ. We see a gun slinger, who is also sent by the US Army Intelligence to keep an eye on the leader of the group who has spoke in the past of resurrecting the Confederate army. And it is also about a confederate southerner who learns to respect African Americans as people because of the two hired day laborers, a married couple, who at one time were enslaved in the southern states.  And the ground for all of this craziness is our couple who emotionally are probably more self aware than any of them. Plus the sheriff of this small mystical town called San Sangre is a vampire, from a long line of vampires, and wanted by the US Marshall Agency.  This is a western tale of faith and fantasy. This movie is basically a sword and sorcery story done in the American Southwest during the end of the nineteenth century.

The Image: We are still in the 2030 Universe and a University of Arizona Grad Student discovers a moving projectile that has corrected its course towards Earth.  In this time, there is a small colony on Titan, a larger colony on Mars, a larger one on the Lunar Surface; but it is the new lunar telescope that finds this object moving intently towards earth. It is decided by the North American Government that an international team must be sent on the new spaceship design. However the astronomer that found it, this grad student from UofA was NOT chosen to go on this ship. He is quite upset but knows that there is nothing he can do about it. Then he is contacted by a UK Trillionaire who has his own ship docked on Earth and not the moon. He wants his private company to reach the object first and is inviting the student to come along.  He says that he has a skeleton crew and will need an astronomer and he chooses him.                But what this graphic novel will really be is a discussion and balanced conversations about the dilemma of believing in God and Aliens at the same time. How does the Christian faith fit into the entire concept of exploring space and leaving the earth when there is no biblical guarantee that we will be safe from evil in the “Heavens”, only the earth.  Also there will be discussions concerning quantum physics and how it is possible to exist in two different places at the same time for just a few seconds when traversing the planes and dimensions that we live in.  I will thoroughly represent Carl Sagan and his point of view to find balance in the discussions, but I will also represent the traditional conservative Christian view, and I will also represent MY point of view and the concepts of Celestial Beings and Heavenly Creatures. I will represent the concept of human behavior in a controlled environment. When the two ships who are racing to this “Craft” both breakdown and need each other to survive I will explore the Government’s rights to space, space travel versus corporate enterprise. I will discuss the Martian rebellion that one “Man-Wolf of Mars” discusses.  Corporate ownership on the moon and how they are self governing. We explore that into “Moon Cowboy” also and it will be revisited here or vise versa.  This is the heart of this book…to explore these questions and to revisit the questions that will be discussed in other books.

Haunted Sword:  This fantasy, Sword and Sorcery, story starts with our protagonist running from land owners of whom he just stole a chicken from.  This week minded thief has finally been caught. Even though he wasn’t stealing the chicken for himself, he still stole the chicken. Five men are chasing him and his impending doom seems to arise when he faces a far drop on the side of a cliff (not too cliché yet) but he stops to find a burial spot of a pile of rocks with a old dingy sword driven into the ground.  He stops and thinking he will have to fight it out now that he has found a weapon. He knows he is not good with something so big, but his c'est la vie attitude of “why not, what the heck” and he pulls it out of the ground and is instantly drawn into a dream like effect and he is schooled by the previous person who owned the sword and he sees generations of this sword bearers who were all before him.  Many of them are described to him, which will be a place in which I will use some foreshadowing, and they speak warnings to him. But they also prepare him for the haunting effect. He will have the power and wisdom of all of these forbearers and the sword will never leave him. Its magic will bring the sword back to him no matter what.  And, finally, when he can stop the curse of this sword is when he is finally worthy of possessing it; at that time the sword can be released.   When he comes to, it was as if no time has passed and the five men who are seeking him approach. He, now possessing the strength of dozens of men before him asks them to leave him alone. He will return the chicken but if they attempt to detain them he will be forced to kill them.  Anyway, he has several friends and makes new allies during this story and finds himself at odds with the Queen of the City below with its two towers and one castle. As a reward for faithfulness, there is a lottery, every week, of people who can go and (I made up this part of the story before the Hunger Games were even written) and live in the castle for the rest of their lives.  It is the high life and the life of filthy rich livin’.  It is the dream of the entire city. They have been told that this is to adjust to the constant growth of the city. Anyway they discover that these people are actually being eaten by the dark masters that dwell in the city.  I digress, there are sword fights, sorcery fights, illusionists, clerics, and dark wizards, thieves and action, action, action. Very exciting. Oh and monsters, I need to mention the monsters. The barer of the sword after this guy is a women on the team who is a young apprentice of a Witch.  It ends with the thief’s death, and when he sacrifices his life for the good of the others, he is finally worthy of ending the swords curse.

T.A.G.Z. (Teen Age Girl Zombies):  You don’t want to know what the initiation rights are to get into this social click.  They’re the coolest kids in school!  Pasty white, emotionally dead, wear the best clothes and never get ruffled.  Joanie wants in, and she’ll do anything they ask her to do.  When she finds out their secret, she wants to run, but of course, they can’t let her do that…they want her life, THEN she can be one of them.  What?  That’s right, the oldest click in school are actually, the oldest click in school.  Voo Doo is huge in this New Orleans school, and becoming a T.A.G.Z. is the coolest thing to do.   The voodoo rite of passage is to lose your virginity while drinking a special potion which stops your heart…just for a few minutes, but it is what happens when you are dead that makes these “sisters” what they are.  They go to hell for two minutes, and come back changed for life.  Marie befriends Joannie during her time of trying to figure out what she wants.  Marie leads a Morning Prayer group on campus, every morning in the Library.  Marie is vaguely familiar with T.A.G.Z. as far as ceremony is concerned and is trying to get Joanie to NOT do it.  However, it backfires on her and being the new kid, Joanie wants in all the more.  The initiation rites seem mystical and mysterious.  To Joanie, it seems fun.   After the rights are explained to Joanie, she has one day to think about it.  She is freaked out because she hadn’t counted on losing her virginity.  That is something that she didn’t want to put on the table.  It is something she promised her mom on her death bed just a few months earlier.  Umm, okay, a little history.  Joanie just moved to this New Orleans from Los Angeles because her dad just got a new job after her mom died.  He wanted a fresh start…wait, have I seen that before…oh, yeah, in every horror movie ever.  Okay, let’s see…Joanie just moved there to New Orleans from Honolulu HI to live with her Grandmother.  She was having a hard time in Honolulu with her parents, so her grandmother said she could stay there.  Joanie was glad to leave her old school because of her reputation of being a goodie two-shoes ….no a whore, even though she had never done anything with any boy.  That’s the problem.  Her girl friends were cruel and …no that’s not like the Hawaii people.  Let’s see…

Anyway, Joanie promised somebody important that she wouldn’t lose her virginity until she was married, and she is going to break that promise tonight.  She has met the boy in her new school already, and is looking forward to it.  She’s nervous, but looking forward to it.  Meanwhile, Marie has heard everything, and is trying to talk Joanie out of it.  She tries to tell Joanie that she only has this gift to give once, and it should be with the person she will spend the rest of her life with.  It should be something that should be between a man and wife and an act of love.  Joanie is willing to pay that price to get into the Zombie club.  The closer it gets to the time, the more nervous she becomes.  She is at the party and is about to drink the potion, when all of a sudden; she hates the idea and wants nothing to do with it.  Cut to Marie who is having all of her Christian friends praying for Joanie.  They have a prayer chain going on and Marie is begging God to change Joanie heart and mind and not want to do it.  Joanie, in the middle of the circle with chanting going on, with the potion in front of her, and the boy in skimpy clothes waiting for her, she totally freaks out.  She starts to run.  The girls force Joanie to drink the potion (poison) and she sees the boy smiling at her and he gets fuzzy and then she is transported into a horror house of hell.  She actually goes to hellish looking thing where what is really happening is that the poison makes you think you go to hell.  While the boy is raping her, she thinks God is punishing her for all of her wickedness and that she will stay there.  Then she blacks out.  The next morning, she is in her room at her mammy’s house.  She is bruised all over, and yes, she is no longer a virgin.  She smells like gunpowder and her mammy knocks, “Joanie, dear are you all right?”  “Yes.” She mumbles, “I’m sick, I’ll be out after a shower.”  “Okay dear.  I’ll makes eggs and orange juice.”  Joanie starts bawling.  She is miserable.  What’s more, she feels like she literally died.  Her skin is pasty, a side effect of the poison, and she feels emotionally dead inside.  It all seems like a nightmare.  Then she starts remembering hell, and then she snaps out of her sorrow, and calls Marie.  It’s Sunday, so Marie is in Church, but comes right away anyway.  Mammy is glad to see Marie.  She knows that Marie can be a good influence on Joanie, and although Mammy can’t “g’t tah Chuch no mo’” she still is a woman of faith, to some degree.  Okay, so Marie comes over and lets Joanie cry on her shoulder.  This is where Marie takes off some foundation and blush and stuff and shows Joanie that she is really pasty, not that she’s trying to weird out Joanie, then she shares her testimony with Joanie, the truth is that Marie also did that ritual and hated it, but she turned her life around and now she tries to stop people from doing it too.  Joanie starts crying and asked Marie if she can be baptized.  Mammy is at the door and has been there for a few minutes.  She is also crying, “I’ve been prayin’ for you girl,” she says, “and I’m glad it finally is stickin’”  Outside, Mammy is sitting in the back yard on some lounge furniture…it has to be wooden to hold her girth, and in the pool is Marie and Joanie, with all of Marie’s prayer friends and church members.  Marie asked Joanie if she has anything to confess, Joanie says, “Jesus is the Lord of my life, and the Lord of all!”  Marie says, “Because of that confession, I can now baptize you in the name of God the Father, God the Son who is Jesus Christ, and God the Spirit.  This will add you to God’s kingdom and give you the gift of  the Holy Spirit, and all your sins will be forgiven.”  Everybody applauds and hugs all around.

Return to Eden:  Four hundred years from now, in the developed countries, selective genetic breeding and eugenics have brought the world’s population to only the same five people genetically. All people will look and think and act exactly like five of the most awesome people ever.  Physically, mentally, health wise, everything; these people are freakin’ awesome.  Disease, poverty, war, all of it gone, the world is a better place because of selective genetic breeding…or is it.  Legally, your child can only be one of the five, and in some countries, you don’t have a choice.  Supposedly, the human mind is so pure that there is no ambition, or even transgression.  However, secretly, there are those who want to boil down all of mankind to just two types of people, genetically: one type of man, and one type of woman.  They want to restore the way mankind was before the fall of mankind in the Garden of Eden.  There are people that DO have ambition and think that if mankind has only one type of man and woman, they will fall back into God’s graces and he will save a very overly populated planet with little resources left to sustain it.  Meanwhile, there are a few people who have heard rumors about a tribe of people somewhere on the earth that has been saved from the selective breeding.  The people who aren’t genetically mutated at all are being hidden away by someone, and this hero wants to find out.  He wants a child with one of them and wants to bring back the sanity of a life that once the earth had: a life of variety, creativity, art, music, and yes, a life of transgression.  Of course this seems crazy at the time due to life being so peaceful and harmonizing.  But this hero doesn’t want the perfect life.  He wants life to be full, not dull.  It isn’t God’s plan for us to have no options in life other than what seems to be planned out for us.  He wants us to live.  This hero seems to be a villain at first, but later seems to be the good guy while the perfectionists seem to be the crazy ones.  The story ends with the hero finding this tribe living in an old ….section of both a small town in the middle of the South Dakota badlands and a long forgotten moon colony that survives by running  a black market trading post for trans earth transportation to mars and corporate exploring and mining. 

Love Letters:  Two heroes in love but kept apart by their assignments from their team leader. Together however, it is revealed that one of the letter writers might not be as honest as the other, and their leader that is keeping them apart may be their worst enemy. We open with a letter written by our female superhero addressed to her boyfriend super hero who is across the world in a foreign country working on a top secret assignment there. Chapter Two brings us a response letter written by the male hero who can only say so much. They are writing letters because the only way to find a private and anonymous method of communication is a good old fashion postal delivery service. His response is filled with love talk taken straight out of the English romantic period like a long William Wordsworth of John Keats poem. It is flowery and over the top. Then the reader will have to figure out that he is actually speaking in code. The reader WILL figure that out by the time the GN is over, but it will be possible before it is revealed in the book.  In each letter will be the code as to where to mail the next letter. As she conveys what her life is like without him, she explains the awkward questions and suggestions that the Group leader says concerning her budding relationship with her boyfriend. She finds that the lead hero and leader of their team intended to pair him and her up in the spirit of watching out for her during their local missions. This makes her uncomfortable.  By the end of the GN, she will be speaking in code in her letters while the boyfriend will be far more revealing. The GN ends with a mutual letter from the two of them to their children so that their legacy and the lessons learned will not go to waste. In this letter it is revealed that the team leader had intended to have the boyfriend killed and have the female hero all to his own.  It is a retelling of King David and Uriah but this time the Uriah character lives to tell about it. I will explore the human heart and that it wants what it wants. I am going to explore the dealings of temptation and the depth and width of love overcoming all. I might even stick closer to the Uriah story and see where the love letters go from there as a wife wants to win her husband back.

Paroxysm: There is a creature or person that pulls out people just a millisecond before death, and are asked if they would want to live.  But in order to make that choice, they must watch the outcome of both choices.  Sometimes there is more pain for those around you if you live. But, for the man who commits suicide finds out from this mystical creature or person that surviving means a life of pain for self but a lifelong release of pain for those around him. Or perhaps the suicidal person dies to find out that he is ruining the lives of those around him and a painless solution to him as he live in spirit to roam the earth as a free spirit. This story is potentially a risk of Dickens Christmas Carol and the classic Jimmy Steward movie of “It’s a Wonderful Life”.  However, these series of Graphic novels will each explore the intent of life and the whole repercussion of living, even to the point of a child yet to be born who creates a cure for HIV; or, perhaps a grandchild that solves the energy crisis or the starvation and poverty problem.  One is rarely given the privilege to see and understand what the repercussions are of our death and influences and responsibilities there are in dying. What if we are young and get into an auto accident and upon certain death you are asked if you would like to live. The knee jerk reaction would be a certain yes, but first the Paroxysm must first show you that your child will be the most ruthless tyrant that this world has ever known; but you will live happily till you die in your golden years because your child protects you from his regime. What do you do, and what choice do you make and why. I want to explore human nature and the motivations of man. I want to use real life interviews from real people and present them with these dilemmas and see where their response leads me as a story teller. I think it would be a fantastic read.  With awesome art, this could really be something.

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Jonathan Bartlett

Sadly I have to put both of these pieces up for sale. These pictures were just taken in my living room.  I’m out of dough and need to sell these award winning pieces of art.  As for price…well I don’t want to price myself out of a sale, but I normally would ask $1,100 for Rage and $745 for abide. But right now I will just take the best offer you can make. Thank you.

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THE GATE (CUTDOWN VERSION) by Joyrider Films

When an outbreak of mutant activity becomes a citywide epidemic, a team of researchers struggles to pinpoint the cause. Brace yourself for some fantastic FX work!