FAQ
1. What happened to the comic book series?
After a few years of losing money on every issue, I decided to discontinue it before the hole could be dug any deeper. It took many years to recover from the whole project, and that’s the main reason I’m no longer interested in doing a comic series. In addition, the amount of work involved in creating comics is staggering. I’d rather figure out another way to tell this story.
UPDATE: To clarify, I still love comics and plan to incorporate some into the new stuff. What I’m actually not interested in, at this point, is publishing a dead tree serialization.
10-SEP-2004
2. What happened to Adam?
Adam is my cousin and my co-creator for the first 9 issues of Greymatter. He was never really happy working under a deadline, and the length of time between issues got longer as his artwork became more elaborate. After living in poverty for 4 years, he decided to take his creativity in another direction. He moved to Los Angeles to be with his fiancee, and left the book to me to continue. He’s currently working towards a degree in architecture at Cal Poly Pomona, where the deadlines are many and absolute.
3. Why so slow?
Laziness, pure and simple. I mean, there are a hundred reasons, none of them worth a damn. Excuses are irrelevant. If the story doesn’t get told in a timely manner, mea culpa.
4. What IS this?
Good question. Most simply, it is a Web web site. It is a repository for fiction and illustration I choose to share with the random wanderers who stop by. I’m still working on it, so we’ll come back to this question.
5. Why a horse-head?
I’m tempted to be a smartass and say “Why not?” But in truth, there is a reason, it figures prominently in the O’Shea storyline, and it’s quite a long way off in the narrative.
6. Why did you change the spelling of O’Shea’s name?
I know, who do I think I am, George Lucas? I decided that being weird for the sake of being weird was a distraction from the storyline. “O’Sea” didn’t always look right even to me. If I get thrown when I write and read my own dialogue, and now prose, a strong case can be made for adding in the “h”. The new name is easy to pronounce on sight, and the discrepancy is easier for me to handle than the nagging thought that virtually all my readers are saying “Oh-SEE” in their heads. And, regarding Lucas, I think the creator has the right to retcon his own work. I also think the audience has the right to say it sucks. Make your judgement as you will.
11-SEP-2004
