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It's been a long time since I've written a journal. But I thought it would be worth it to share some really big news!

My team and I have started a Patreon for StarHammer!

What's StarHammer you ask?

Let me explain!




TL;DW: StarHammer is an all-ages comic by Vondell Swain, Clay Lindvall and myself that blends superheroes, science-fiction, and alternate history to create new characters and stories for today's audiences. 

The comic will be launching on Hiveworks this fall! But backers will have early access to pages!

Pages like these: 
SH style test patreon comic v1 by aerostarmonk

And that's just a style test!

We'd really appreciate you helping out and spreading the word!

You can follow us on twitter and tumblr too and find out more!

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this!

We hope you can join us for the ride
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There are some rather big things coming down the line.

So stay tuned!
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I don't tell many people this, but Westwood Investigations is heavily based on true events. I don't say anything because I don't want to seem like I'm just snatching from history and contributing nothing of my own.

Take the Montrose family. Valerie, the girl who can fly, is a fictional member of that family. Back in the day that name was huge. Like Bill Gates huge. At least around these parts. The Montroses made everything you can imagine and more. Now the family is too poor to really sue anybody. Hard times hit everyone.  And besides who's going to come after me for saying their granddaughter can fly?

My grandfather, William "Nick" Nicholson tried to be an announcer for the newsreels the company would put out in local cinema for their own PR purposes. He wasn't that good at it. I don't think he had the job long. Though he did go on to have several more jobs as a voice-over guy. I never met him, he died long before I was born, but I still hear his voice to this day in various things around here.

While looking through some of his stuff that my ma found while cleaning recently, I came across one of those old newsreels that focused on the 1939 World's Fair in New York. It focused on the Montrose Corp's exhibit in particular. The Perisphere.

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The place was kind of impossibly amazing. It was fucking huge. It had the world's largest escalator and try to imagine an IMAX theatre projected on something the size of a skyscraper and you have a bit of an idea of the exhibit on the inside of it.

Here's a look at one of those cool cities of tomorrow, Democracity:

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I was able to record the audio from the reel. But I don't really have anything to film it. Besides the image was really muddy to begin with. Not even all of the sound came out alright. Big Z's speech made it nearly impossible to understand what he was saying. I was able to figure it out to the best of my ability though:

   " Yes,  it truly is the dawn of a new day. Inside this titanic structure you will have a first hand look at the future of urban centers. A better tomorrow for every man, woman and child! An era of peace and prosperity is upon us and I hope to help lead the way! By the end of the century everyone will be living in the world I've imagined. I give you the Perisphere!"

This wasn't my grandfather's best work as you can hear. It's probably why he didn't get to keep the job very long. But I do think it's rather cool that some of this shit did exist

I hope you think so too. And not just think I'm just some giant rip off artist!

Here's the audio: tindeck.com/listen/msbt
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So I've been complaining a lot to anyone who would listen about my troubles with my comic. From being too broke to afford artwork to being afraid of being accused of ripping off a few other comics to feeling like I just might not be up to the task especially when there's other things doing it so well.

Well, those days are over for now. I've come up with a great new idea. If I can't work with the medium I'd prefer for the time being, why not work with a medium that still allows me to tell a great story?

You may be thinking I'm going to write it as a prose novel instead. No, that's the rational and sane way of thinking. I was thinking radio show!

That's right. I have a microphone and high end production software and oddles of time. Why not a radio show? I'd take the vocals, polish them up a bit, put in some sound effects, and voila, it's story time!

I'd get the exposure I'm not getting from just hammering out pretty poorly written comic script. I'd be using software that I'm really starting to love. And it all seems like a whole lot of fun. Maybe it might attract some attention somehow. In the end I could do an adaptation of the show when it's finished. By then I should be on steadier financial ground. If not, at least I still told my story. It's a can't lose situation.

But wait! There's more! I know there are some friends out there who also have microphones and maybe a little bit of time on their hands. Perhaps they would like to get in on this as well. Actually, I'm not posing hypotheticals. I would really like your help on this. I have a few people in mind for certain roles. Though I don't think that all of them will be able to fulfill them for a variety of reasons. Still, I'd like to have some others on board so it isn't just one guy with terrible range talking to himself every episode.

Before you go and make your decisions, let me add that this project won't go completely forward until late spring/early summer. There's a lot of pre-production I have to do first. Namely, write/convert scripts for the program, cast the characters, and get a much better handle on the production software. For the next few months I'll probably be doing lots of demo and temp tracks with myself and anyone else who wants to lend their time or come onboard early. I don't want to rush this. I really want this to be good. Or at the very least moderately entertaining.

This could end up being the most fun I've ever had!
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For some reason, the part of myself that I try to promote the most is the part that gets the least amount of traffic. As such I hereby designate it my personal space.

This is the area that's least likely to get any attention when it comes to my digital persona. My digital persona being quite frankly, the only part of me I give a damn about. I have no ties to the outside world at the moment. Other than my parents, I've effectively ceased to exist in physical form to just about everyone I've ever known. There is no more me, there is simply "e"

The problem with e is that I (pun partially intended) have much the same problems that I had in my former life. People find me way too intense and can't deal with me for extended periods of time. There's absolutely nothing I can do about that. I'm either a plain and shy lurker who never says anything except the occasional stammering of trivial bullshit that nobody cares about or I'm the guy people avoid now. Someone so intense and overbearing that you just can't take too much of them in one sitting.

It's very depressing. You think there'd be a happy medium. But there doesn't seem to be. I can't seem to correctly gauge what people want from me nor how they feel about me. So all that's left is a lot of wild guessing.

I hate myself when I'm confident, because I really have no idea what's so damn good about me that it has to be shared with the entire world. And i feel awful for feeling like I should be heard. But I hate myself when I'm unconfident because I'm such a pathetic sorry sack louse.

Right now I'm feeling incredibly low. I want to want to watch Groundhog Day with Bill Murray but I doubt even that will cheer me up.

I just want to lie in bed and stare up at the ceiling. But I don't even have a bed. There's nothing on television to drone off to. I'm in just such a bad place right now.

This combined with the events explained in the last two journal entries make me question continuing on with anything at all.
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