Still on hiatus, but I thought I would sporadically post some behind-the-scenes information to keep interest. Will probably post some concept art next week so stay tuned...


    I was leaving for a family vacation to Tennessee and had plenty of time stuck in a car, so I bought a notebook and started hatching out ideas.


    The core concept came to me pretty early on in the trip, and I kept penning ideas and characters from there.


    I originally conceived of the story as a manga (hence the My Hero Academia connection). The problem was, I had worked on webcomics before I just didn’t see any good way of monetizing that with my current income. So that led me to prose, which in turn led me to web-fiction . . . and now Royal Road. The narrative has been taken without authorization; if you see it on Amazon, report the incident.


    I briefly (okay, maybe not so briefly) flirted with the idea that Zack was a 90’s hero sent to the present day via time dilation. Even in this interaction, the characters stayed mostly the same - it was just the plot that changed the most. However, I didn’t feel like it ultimately had the legs that the first plot had, and I felt I could easily get bored with it.


    Icer was initially going to be called Amp, and have sound powers. However, I ultimately decided his ice powers could be more versatile in certain situations (like the ice cube trick in the beginning with the telepath). Amp still made a cameo as one of the villains vanquished by Max Mann, and the originator of the Power Amplifier Zack uses to repair his armor.


    I don’t have a playlist per se, but if the first volume had an anime-style theme song, it would probably be Top 10 staTues tHat CriEd bloOd by Bring Me The Horizon. I’ve included a link to the crazy awesome music video below.