Blank space (Patreon)

In the wake of my recent run-in with the Conan Industrial Complex and subsequent removal of the current story from my web presences, I have been forced to look at something I haven't had to examine for many years: a blank sheet of paper, in search of ideas. Because the old ideas in my train pad (which I write in on trains)... were insane. When I was low on ideas in the Letchworth Garden City years, I'd meet up with my friend Ian. Ian was at the time the deputy head of a school. A gracious and unassuming man, over a pizza, given two hours, he was somehow capable of drawing very elaborate and winning concepts out of me with the most innocuous of prompts. Sadly we have now both moved away from London, in opposite directions. But as he has also left teaching, I think the greatest loss may be to his students.

Last time I saw him, during the briefest of conversations, he fed me a concept so juicy that was Wicked Things still running, I think we could have had six issues out of it. I'm not sure I have another suitable vehicle for it. It would need an artist with more chops than me. It was truly international.

Anyway I can't draw more Steeple, more Bobbins.horse or any of that, those books closed for a reason and we must keep them that way. So it's back to the blank sheet of paper. Let's have another look...

Oh no, that's even worse. i think this was a Steeple idea that definitely wasn't ever going to be used.

More missives from the blank sheet of paper, soon. But not from THE DARK ZONE. We're never going back to THE DARK ZONE.