| TEXT ADVENTURE #1 | CRASH ORIGIN |
[Dec. 23rd, 2009|01:14 am] |
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| THE ABANDONMENT OF CRUELTY |
[Sep. 7th, 2009|07:07 pm] |
Six years into this project, I give up.
I'm finding it increasingly difficult to reconnect with that self who... cared to explain.
  abandoned taoc pages, circa 2005
The cruelty serves nothing and no one. A human being cannot be talked into, or out of, anything. People are going to do what they're going to do. Opportunists position themselves to reap the rewards of the illusion of causality.
Thomas is not that guy.
 from actron #242, circa 2006, still in progress
Actron was created in 1986 by me and my cousin Brandon. We never explored his early life in those comics we made back in grade school. In fact, we picked up his story at age forty-seven. The very first issue featured Actron/Thomas being brought back to life after a full career as an adventurer. His friends and teammates missed him very much.
 from actron vol. 1, #1, circa 1986
My ongoing prose novel, 1OCT1993, explores much of Thomas' childhood, and provides some background for the events of The Abandonment Of Cruelty. Though I like to think each small piece of the story can also stand on its own. As an exercise in texture, if nothing else.
As I say, explaining anything verbally is useless. And I've explained with the best. Nowadays, I find fiction much more interesting than grasping at control. Sorry, Mom.
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| SL/fiction 04.13.07 | VISOR TECHNOLOGY |
[Apr. 13th, 2007|12:42 am] |
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VISOR TECHNOLOGY
571 words by Stanley Lieber
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creative.commons.attribution-noncommercial-noderivs.2.5
1OCT1993 | INDEX
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| NOT the Actron I'm working on |
[Aug. 13th, 2006|05:00 pm] |
As 2006 marks the 20th anniversary of publication of the very first issue of Actron, I have elected to begin work on issue #242. That would be roughly, chronologically accurate -- where I would be at -- if I'd actually been putting the book out monthly since 1986. Of course, I haven't been putting the book out monthly since 1986. In fact, I haven't even completed a full Actron story since sometime in 1990.
It's exceedingly unlikely that I'll go back and fill in all the missing issues leading up to #242.
And no, these are not examples of the current work in progress.
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I expect this new issue will be about thirty pages long, including fake advertisements and character biographical information in the back. The script is mostly laid out, but I'm still plugging pages into the middle.
There is a possibility the whole thing will be colored by silenceinspades, if we can pry our lawyers off of each other long enough to let us sign the damned paperwork. (Our lawyers are in love.)
Rupert Murdoch and MySpace.com will hold no interest in the finished intellectual property.
Pictured at right is the cover to the 1990 reboot of Actron. That was volume 3, and it lasted for six issues (only one of which -- the first -- survives). As you can see, my pen ran out of ink partway through finishing up the logo. Since chances to photocopy my work were few and far between in those days, I had to paste up the cover and reproduce it as-is (as-was?).
Come to think of it, a lot of my old projects ended up that way, circulated in an unfinished state.
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As usual, none of the other people named on the cover actually contributed any work to the issue.
I've located what appears to be a fairly decent print-on-demand operation that specializes in comic books. In a few months time, this 20th anniversary commemorative farse wil probably be available for purchase.
Here is a sample of the first page, in progress:
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| Sketchbook 06.26.06 |
[Jun. 26th, 2006|02:24 am] |
This last drawing is a homosexual bodybuilder character I created in the 2nd grade.
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