1st Cube Farm

Hope everyone enjoyed their first week of the New Year.  I have had a crazy busy week and cannot wait for it to be over.  "One more Day", no that's not a reference to the controversial Spider-Man story that haunts every internet message board where Spidey's name is mentioned to this very day.  "One more Day" is what I keep telling myself on the way home from work every day this week.  

On to the matter at hand:

I first mentioned it a few weeks back, but am just getting around to posting it, and that's my 1^st Entry to Cube Farm.  Cube Farm is my feeble attempt at humor and is very (very, very, very, very) loosely based on some corporate office experiences of my own.  The names have been changed to protect the guilty and certain characters and situations have been exaggerated to obscene proportions.  It’s a little long, so I wouldn’t blame you for not being able to sit through it.  It is one of the first pieces of prose that I have written in a very long time.  I have become so used to writing comic book scripts and rough outlines that I felt I was forgetting how to write a proper prose, so ultimately this is good practice.

I am hard at work on a second edition, which delves into the inappropriateness of peers interviewing peers.  That will hopefully be up in a few weeks.

I’m also hard at work on a new comic book project.  The project, which the name is unrevealed, is in the scripting stage right now.  The first story arc will be told over the course of four issues, but this will not be penciled like a traditional comic.  One of my partners in crime, Chris (Pruisner), wants to try a format where we take photographs and convert them into line art and …as he explains the technical details to me I begin to dose off, but the part I do understand sound really cool.

The story is about four gorgeous young women that lead an exciting life of sex, drugs and rock n’ roll.  They ultimately learn their debauchery comes with severe, life altering consequences.  

This is unlike anything I have ever written before.  It is proving a challenge to get into the head of the opposite sex, but the pillow fights in their underwear that I imagine is awesome.  Just kidding, in actuality some of the images/scenes being scripted are completely surreal and very haunting.  I hope the images are as effective in the script as they are on the page.  I really hope to capture the essence of the young adult female trendsetter without coming off condescending and misogynistic.     

That's it for now, but if anything else comes up before next week you may be hearing from me again.