Here’s a script my man Andrew (aka GLover) submitted to a contest over at comicbookresources.com. I guess he’s to shy to post here, or maybe he’s afraid of being off topic… but hey, we’re off topic most of the time! I think his superhero style is on point.
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Following is the piece that Andrew wrote for the “On History” page that I’m about to post. I like how he brings direction and intelligence to my cheesecake art
-Joe

Throughout the course of our lives we make a countless number of decisions. Each and every one, to its own degree paving the way towards our destiny. Every choice affecting the direction of our lives in one way or another.

The consequences of our actions play themselves out every moment of our lives, constantly unfolding into reality.

Into history.

Not history as in that elective course you took sophomore year of college to fulfill your humanities requirement.

History as in what really went down in the past History as in what in the world happened to get things the way they are. How do things all add up to the present?

It is not given life simply by us having knowledge of it, though. History lives despite our knowledge of or interest in it, because it is given life through our actions. History has a life all of its own, apart from the facts contained in the stacks of books which record its progress. We have a responsibility though, not only to monitor the progress of history, to be aware of this mountain of knowledge, but also to understand its implications, to grasp the relationship between one event and another within it, to acknowledge the patterns.

If we can just learn enough about what came before us, then maybe we can understand how it all added up to what we have now.

Maybe if we knew more things for sure about our past, the present would make that much more sense to us, because then we would understand that the present is constantly creating itself out of the past. That each moment is a product of the last. And that each one becomes only what you make of it. What we look at as the future is constantly becoming the present, and the present is all too quickly becoming the past.

If you want to understand the present you have to examine the past. The present is the echo of time and events passed by.

Knowledge of the past is the key It is the key to understanding the present It is the key to preparing for the future.

I love a mystery. In fact, i believe that it’s the mystery in comics that fuels my compulsion to collect as many as possible. It’s not so much the actual finding out, but more the excitement of speculating with fellow fans as to what the outcome might be, and of waiting to have the next issue in my trembling hands. I enjoy the idea that what I am beholding is an important part of comic book history.That being said, one might understand our approach to the opening pages of issue #1. We kind of intentionally dropped right into the meat of the story in order to immediateley achieve this feeling of anticipation for what comes next, while at the same time effectively conveying the sense of confusion being felt among the characters.For all of these reasons (and just because) Joe and I never intended to tell this story from the beginning, but without spoiling to many cliffhanngers we wanted to try to clarify just what in the hell is going on.