Teenage Angst has Paid Off Well…

Years and years ago I had an idea for a short story titled “Dear Diary, It’s Me, Starscream” about, yes, the trials and tribulations of that misunderstood Decepticon second-in-command, Starscream. I kept putting of working on it because I really didn’t think I could do the idea justice (get the teen-angst tone just right, etc.), and it ended up on the “indefinite hold” shelf in my brain (And I missed the boat a bit, a couple years later I saw Journal of a New Cobra Recruit!).

A couple of weeks ago my friend Kim Vo contacted me about doing a comic strip for the new issue of Tea Party, a local litterary magazine she works at… Well, the theme was “TRANS______”, as in “trans-gender”, “trans-portation”, “trans-fats”, and, yes, you guessed it, “Trans-formers!” I threw up my hands to Fate’s machinations, got over my fear of failing, and polished off a single page comic in less then a week! Click the image below to read:

Well, I’m pretty happy with it… I was super nervous about having to draw the various Transformers, what with all those various mechanical parts and what not, but it was actually a lot easier than I thought! I’m now totally ready to draw the comic’s adaptation of the film… Any takers? Anyone?

Keep an eye out for that issue of Tea Party, they say it will be out this Summer! My thanks to Kim for getting me to finish this little story.