When issue #2 ended I observed it was only four pages shorter than my book, WHICH SHALL REMAIN NAMELESS. At sixty-three pages, issue #4 of Joe Bivins: Man Genius, "Planet of the Squirrels", is actually two pages LONGER than my book. But I don't want to talk about my book anymore. I want to talk about happy things.
This issue takes some pot-shots at religion and abuses conjugations of the word squirrel throughout, but mainly ends up being constructed around a time paradox. I love a good time travel story, and there are two kinds of time travel stories, the kind that are about visiting the past or future and appreciating the progress that mankind has made or will make or illustrating the mistakes of the past or possible mistakes of possible futures, and the good kind, which are about accidentally screwing up history and having to deal with the fallout from that.
While nerds (and I am no exception) abhor remakes, the time paradox in this story is loosely based on the central plot twist in Tim Burton's remake of Planet of the Apes, which was better fodder for a parody than the original because I wanted to do a time paradox story and also the remake actually almost makes sense. But not quite.
I started writing "Planet of the Squirrels" in 2008, just after I finished writing "Vampires at Ford's Theatre". I came up with the basic concept of a time paradox and my original, non-suicidal, solution to it (which I realized later is actually the same solution Data keeps trying in TNG: "Cause and Effect" that keeps getting the Enterprise exploded.), and wrote about a quarter of a script before abandoning it. When I got near the end of actually posting VAFT I picked it back up and devised the current ending, a parody of time travel logic, which I thought would be more interesting and a better twist. The ending also, I'm quite proud to say, eradicates this whole issue from continuity! DIDN'T HAPPEN!
So the question now is, when is the comic coming back? No idea. I don't think I'm going to go back to the page-a-day five-days-a-week updates again, but I haven't come to a decision of if I'm going to switch to some other regular update schedule or just play it fast and loose (as I seem to get out more pages that way anyway.) I'm hoping to do an issue this Fall, and if I have time I still want to do one for Christmas. At any rate I have to write both those issues before I get to actually making them. Stay tuned to the Twitter for updates (if you can wade through my rambling incoherence) or just wait for your RSS reader to tell you there's new pages.
As always, here's a bunch of random bonus pictures:
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