![]() How did you go about creating the poem first? I'm interested to see how the storytelling evolved over time. I'm releasing the book in serial format, so it's an ongoing process. My friend argues that telling an interesting story without environment is overly limiting. You see how he reacts to his world, but you don't get to see it. I want to turn that on its head by creating a book where environment doesn't play any role other than to create some form of context you are basically only inhabiting the mind of someone living in the apocalypse. "Brains" are obviously a big part of the zombie genre so is the environment. Ultimately, the debate came down to whether or not you can tell a story devoid of environment. It was more of a defense of the concept and the execution. The debate actually occurred well into the project, so it didn't spawn the idea. What was the debate about, and how did that spawn the idea for Lockjaw? You told me the concept came from a debate you had with a friend. Lockjaw is a project that has been in the back of mind for a long time. He works for a studio, and said that if you have the security to pursue your own IP like Mike Mignola ( Hellboy), Skottie Young ( I Hate Fairyland), Ryan Ottley ( Invincible) and dudes like that, then I should do it. A good friend of mine who is an artist that works in the industry encouraged me to create my own IP. ![]() I had a couple of opportunities to stay in California, but I decided to come back to Utah and work on my own project. I realized that animation isn't really my thing. The thing that made me decide to do a comic book is actually the work I did in California. Getting to the topic, what made you decide you wanted to do a comic book-like project? ![]() All my time right now is devoted to my book. I've done everything from album/merch art for bands to political campaign design to corporate logos. I do pick up freelance work from time-to-time. I'm lucky in that I have the security to really pursue personal projects in ways that I wouldn't be able to otherwise. I wouldn't really call myself freelance, honestly. Returned to his own time as suddenly and unexpectedly as he came, he is left to wonder whether any of it was real.How are things going for you being a freelance artist? Any recent work we'd recognize? Stone meets various weird and wonderful characters along the way, including the crazed polar bear Pole-Axe and the psychic eagle Kinita. Their revolution is a complete success and results in the downfall of Leeshar, ironically partly due to the final heroic sacrifice of his own Tiger Commander. Stone's band of Yujee rebels include cat girl Liana, wolfman Gruff, bull-man T-Bone, Louis the Lionman and dog-man Billy the Pup (who originally worked for Leeshar, but switched sides). Quickly orienting himself to this strange reality, the newcomer pits himself against the corrupt humans and their regime, in particular the vile overseer Leeshar and his Yujee henchmen the Tiger Commander and the psychic, hypnotic-powered cobra King Seth. In this future, in a neat reversal of the classic Planet of the Apes scenario, sadistic humans oppress downtrodden genetically-altered animals (called 'Yujees') whom they keep as slaves! officer apparently blasted into a possible future by a nuclear explosion. It told the tale of Nick Stone, a former S.A.S. Created by writer Alan Hebden and artist Massimo Belardinelli, Meltdown Man ran in 2000 AD from prog 178 to prog 227 (50 episodes in total).
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