Your Source of Violence

February 8, 2008 - I think it's the future - the boat was painted blue. Kent Wood stood on the dock, Memphis was there, I almost didn't recognize her, she had Shirley Temple hair. Others stood and watched. She told me my name was Tom, but that didn't sound right. I looked puzzled standing on the boat and questioning, "Tom Violence?" She would just nod, but no, my name is Mye, and she would just say, "Mye Violence". And I raised myself above the boat and with my mind I pushed it down, and I pushed it down again, and there was creeking and snapping, fiberglass cracking. And again I pushed it down and it started to take on water and pushed it down again and it went under ready or not. The people were shocked. I don't even know if there were any people on the boat, and Kent Wood, stood on the corner and yelled to me, "Is that your higher morale ground?" I looked at Kent Wood and I looked at Memphis, I didn't have anything to say.

January 2, 2008 - Kent Wood, he will be the newest member of YSOV. As I was adding Mye's stories to the site, "The Fishman Rules" and "9 15 15" I read those two stories over, and it reminded me of another characther who largely was dropped from YSOV. It was the scientist that was in charge of the whole "Mye" experiment. Well, as I said, he was largely dropped from the story, we do see Dr. Fists sending reports off to somewhere, but that is about it. I've been thinking that I want to add him back, not a big part, but to put a face on the monster and to add a psychological twist to it as well. So what character was a reminded of? Who could this monster be? The Red Truck Man of course. Anyways, I don't think I could get away with just calling him "The Red Truck Man" so I've recently come up with the name of "Kent Wood", it fits perfectly into my little nightmare that I've created. Does the name have any significance? If you know me, you will know this.

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December 20, 2007 - Started sketching on an image of Dr. Fists, then it led to another, so now I sort of have this panel, it's in pieces, but it does give you a short timeline.

December 5, 2007 - "The numbers, they dance for me..." One of my favorite parts of the story, the long night on the bridge, where Mye takes the turn from us to them, he'll now start down the long road to who he will become, by changing the course of the ship, and going where he needs to go, to have the experiements that were started on him finished.

December 3, 2007 - I'm sure some of you have noticed my newest banner honoring YSOV. It's about time it had a more permanent place amongst the site. I will add the original sketch to the sketch page soon. I also have another new sketch here for everyone. With more on the way. This is a sketch of Memphis and Morrison recovering Mye from the planet. There is also a Falcon in the background still in search mode. Enjoy!

November 27, 2007 - Back in the saddle again, been doing some sketching, helps free up the mind from school work. Anyways, here's a sketch of Memphis in pursuit, with the added bonus: I colored it!

September 4, 2007 - Had some spare time today, and was thinking about the docking bay on the Magellan and what it would look like. Well as I started sketching the Falcon's, I got kinda stuck, I wasn't happy with what I had done last time, and knew that I wanted to re-design them so I came up with this...

side view and a top view, I have three inports, and the two thrust ports. I wanted to make it somewhat but looking, big 'ole bug eyes up front, and thought of making the wings more like a bug, instead of the fixed wings that I had before. There are four wings, a pair on top of each other on each side. There is also a docking port on the top, so that it would hang inside the Magellan vs. sitting on some sort of landing gear. Yeah, I like where this is going.

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Everyone has a story to tell, you know, the "Great American Novel" well, so do I. It'll probably never live up to that kind of hype, but it is story (o.k. I notice I keep using the term "story", but it's really a comic book/graphic novel) I've been working on for many years. It goes back to my college days, lot's of Star Trek and Phillip K. Dick novels, and a lot of college imagination. It started really rough, very surreal, and slowly over the years has evolved into the bits and pieces you see here.

My friend Jeff and I really started working on it back in '95. We really started developing the story, giving it a beginning, middle and end. We also started do more sketches on the characters and ships. Unfortunately, we kinda slowed down on it and eventually stopped working on it altogether.

Since then, I've picked it up every now and then and worked on it for a couple of days here and there until recently. I've always thought it would be cool if the internet community could have an input, and maybe we could get this story finished once and for all. Of course if I gave it out to the internet, it would stop being my story, and I never really cared for that. So I guess I decided, that I would post it, and let it be read by anyone who could find it, and then we'll go from there.

As for now, I guess the dream is that I will finish writing this comic/graphic novel, and find someone (Ian) to illustrate it for me. I probably will never rest until it is finished.

So if you have any thoughts, questions or ideas, let me know, I'll be glad to hear any comments you might have.