John I really like what you're doing with this Johnny Appleseed comic! I'm glad the word balloons are opaque, and the art is digital but clear. This is the kind of digital comic I can read and understand. And the spiral format will make Scott McCloud happy ( I think it's kind of cool too ).

Good Work!

Thanks, David! After all the complexity and convolution of THE SILENT PULSE brought that project to a standstill, I was eager to create a comic that a "normal person" could understand and enjoy. The story is something that I've been developing with the creative inquisition of my daughter at bedtime, and we have been having a lot of fun with it!

The spiral format was inspired by a book I've been reading about the golden ratio, and as you will soon see, it has something to do with the plot as well. I've been struggling with some kind of illness for about a week now, and I have actually been afflicted with a handful of mathematical/golden ratio nightmares.

When the idea came to me, I did remember McCloud's remark that his panels in THE RIGHT NUMBER were juxtaposed along the "z-axis." The spiral is one alternative that combines x, y, and z juxtopositions.

THE SILENT PULSE taught me a lot, and maybe I'll complete it one day. I think the most important lesson, though, was the value of simplicity.

Thanks again for looking it over!

Hi John, I've been to the campus and have seen your "peacenick" flyers. I keep telling you, peace isnt possible but recolonoization is. If you want a safe planet to leave to your children let those destine to rule, rule. We simply take over all these piddly little trouble making countries and give control back to the European country that first brought civilization to it. The European county can take all the resources, including labor, in exchange for a fairly benign dictorial government. The cost of fuel and labor would drop, and disease would be eliminated through mandatory birth control. This in turn would bring about the birth of creative well fed people, and possibly the opportunity for whirled peas.

Did you hear about the IRA formally renouncing violence?