Heroes

I used to want to be a hero. I sometimes thought I was one. Now I'm fucking over it.

This is a lot of what's behind Madman. A story of the darkness overcoming a young man and turning him into a force for madness and chaos. Their are a few paradoxes along the way, but I won't cause any spoilers.

Fuck someone over. Betray them. Hurt them. Ruin the person they are and want to be, and no matter how strong they are, they'll break eventually. The Madman breaks, but instead of becoming a weak sniveling creature, hiding in a corner. He gets stronger, and by a twist of fate, inadvertently does good.

That was the original idea behind the Madman novella. To create an anti-villain, in a style that is similar to a comic book, but without the pictures. Eventually it evolved to become the beginnings of a full book, blog and comic series.

Hopefully, it turns out to be pretty original.