"A Deviant Mind", 1980
houseofmuses on April 25, 2010
A lot of people have asked me what I'll be doing when House of the Muses wraps up in 2012. I've always answered that I'm not sure–I've invested a lot of emotion and time into this current series and found it inconceivable to consider switching gears at this time.
Here's a scene from near the end of the first issue of a series I was muddling through the creation of back when I was still in high school in 1980. It went through numerous stupid names back then (Galaxy Guardians, Operation MindCrime–yes, that's the title of a Queensrÿche album), and I finally settled on a title for the first story as “A Deviant Mind”, but to this day I have still not come up with a title for this series that I like.
Holy crap. I just realized that this particular story just turned 30 years. I am one heck of a late bloomer.
So there you have it….the telling factor of what I'll be doing sits entirely on readership interest. And no, that's not Dika in the cryotube…or IS it?
No, really it's not. I was just joking. If I get enough actual comments from interested readers, and not just a lot of rubbernecking, I might consider dragging this series out of the storypile.
houseofmuses at 4:32AM, April 27, 2010
[url]http://www.drunkduck.com/A_Deviant_Mind/[/url]
skewered_viewpoint at 3:08AM, April 27, 2010
(Glides out of the shadowed corner) As El Cid has said, it's hard to tell how a single picture will predict the success of a whole series. HOWEVER, after all this time reading your story of Sappho and the quality of art and storytelling, I'm confident that whatever you do with this will work very well. (Glides back into the shadowed corner)
royduncan100 at 2:54AM, April 27, 2010
i liked the star trek comunicator. why not do a st based story. it's a big universe and kirk can't be every where.
houseofmuses at 8:13PM, April 26, 2010
HEY! Believe it or not, I just spent an hour on Facebook chatting with Stephen, a guy I went to high school with and later college, and we rehashed this story for awhile. He's an excellent writer and a sci-fi fan from way back, and after going over the plotline and storyarc--and he pointed out that the other girl in the pic is holding a Star Trek communicator, which I promised to get rid of--we've decided this series will work. Expect to see the debut of A Deviant Mind by July 2010.
houseofmuses at 4:09PM, April 26, 2010
No fan service...I don't think I have enough smut to carry an Adult rated site. As a matter of fact I redid the pic as soon as I finished painting my dining room this evening. I'm such a rebellious maverick.
dragonrider at 3:51PM, April 26, 2010
If it takes full frontal nudity then somewhere along the line you picked up the fanboys who are sitting drooling and chanting Boooooobies! I was rather surprised to see the nudity when the page loaded, your stories have been so interesting in and of themselves that the superb art has been icing on the cake. If you write it I will read, with or with out the fan service.
houseofmuses at 2:55PM, April 26, 2010
Wow, 400 hits on clips previews and outtakes in one afternoon...that's a record. But with the number of comments I'm getting, maybe I should have opted for full frontal nudity. :P
houseofmuses at 10:57AM, April 26, 2010
...And over the past 30 years, I've watched a LOT of it come true....
houseofmuses at 10:56AM, April 26, 2010
Creepy thing about it is, looking over the old drafts of Deviant Mind, I never published it before now because I was AFRAID to. It's dark, ugly, allegorical, and makes House of the Muses look like a preschool story.
houseofmuses at 9:55AM, April 26, 2010
Yep, been thinking about it all day. I'll dig out the manuscript and set up a few sample pages.
El Cid at 9:02AM, April 26, 2010
Honestly, it's hard to tell much from just the picture, except that the comic probably won't look bad, so the visual element shouldn't be much of a hurdle. If it's a good story that you think deserves telling, then I say go for it.
houseofmuses at 8:17AM, April 26, 2010
You said it. I never thought HotM would be the success it has, either. Thanks for commenting, and let's see what the future holds. :)
rmccool at 8:12AM, April 26, 2010
fascinating picture.. 2012 to far away to think on in any great depth.. the best laid plots of dragons and men ofter go astray.. for good to ill and we end up in places we never expected..