Intro Post #3!


Hey guys--as my colleagues have been posting in the wee hours of the morning, so too shall I! My name is Alice Hunt, and this collective was my idea, but it took all of us to make it happen, so special thanks to David for donating the name and Sarah Davis for making the logo. I hope you've been enjoying the proffered comics so far, and will continue to do so into the near and distant futures.

Now that that's been laid down, my comic is Goodbye Chains, which I write and letter but don't draw (that is left to my friend, the lovely and talented Aishath Nasir). Goodbye Chains is the story of a young Irishman, a Communist before it was cool OR dangerous, who makes his way to Colorado in 1884 in order to prevent the westward spread of capitalism by blowing stuff up. Regrettably, since our poor Colin here is on the sheltered side despite his facility with high explosives, he has the unfortunate tendency to get tied up, but he has thus far had the immense good fortune to get saved by a mean-spirited, bad-tempered thief named Banquo. Now that Dame Fortune's forced the two of them together, they must learn to live with each other before Banquo gets fed up with the whole thing and slits Colin's throat.

And to make things more interesting, Colin's unusual orientations do not stop with his politics.

Goodbye Chains updates Tuesdays and Thursdays, but it has a sister strip called Venus in Points that is entirely my fault and which updates on Sundays. Where Goodbye Chains is an action historodramedy (I coined that!), Venus in Points is my stab at a gag strip. While still fully human, everyone is drawn as a sort of strange and stylized pointy dog, because that is the only thing I can draw with any regularity. You can see Pointy Colin above--kinda cute, isn't he? The gag strip doesn't follow the main plot, but the characters are the same, so you'll definitely learn something about them that you wouldn't otherwise glean from the main narrative. I'll be posting a preview of each Sunday's strip with my Thursday updates here.

So, that's me! If you like, click here to get started on Goodbye Chains--this'll take you to page 1. Thanks for reading, and I hope you like it!