It all began.... (part 2)

 

 🧵 World Ender series Part 2

It all began when I was born in 1977.... JUST KIDDING. I wouldn't do that to you. But seriously, this story had its origins in 1999, when I had moved in with two old high school friends to begin a guerilla style free-press comic book to tell the stories we developed while being the quiet nerdy outcasts that comic book readers were in the 90's. We spent 9 months in 1999 creating multiple issues of an anthology series of college-age humor, satire, parody and hi-jinx called Hub City. Those were the Salad Days! 

During that time I created a one-page strip called "Zero Mass". (In a future book, you'll learn more about that title and the story associated with it.)  The foundations of the novel you now have read... or at least will be able to read... were born in that strip. It really began the entire Punk City saga, becoming one of several stories in the series. 

By early 2000, that wonderful collaboration had come to an end. I moved back to my home state of South Carolina and eventually married my girlfriend, joined the military, had children and continued working on that story as it grew into an epic tale of characters (some created before 1999) before and after the character of Zero in that first comic strip.

When that book is finished, I'll tell you more about how I came up with that story, the influences behind it and what themes were present even as far back as 1999. For now, I can dive a little deeper into the origins of this story.