"What Has She Done?"

Recently, my all-girl English class finished studying Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale", and the final unit project called for continuing the end of the novel. (For those of you whom haven't read the book, it pretty much goes like, "I have to go now. My home planet needs me.")

Most of the girls made videos for the project, two groups made radio dramas, and I made a comic. I am above bragging, but after I finished screening the whole thing, everybody was absolutely awestruck. Here's Handmaid's End, five pages in total, with cameos throughout. I warn you that one of the characters is heavily implied to have been shot in the head on page two.

On an extra note...the Commander was oddly my favourite character in the book, mostly because I liked how he was a bit of a doofy guy in his off-time. Atwood tends to put Older Creeper Men in her books, however, and anybody who's read the book probably knows about how he lets the main character put lotion on her hands...and just watches her quietly. It retrospect, it was weird as hell.

Also, Quinn will be coming to a formal end within the month. The quality has risen and dropped throughout the series run (this comes from the past tradition of only drawing the strips when inspired at school), and after the gap in updates, I've come to realize that Quinn needs closure. I'm going to ask my fans on deviantART what they've been waiting to happen, and then, I'll make sure the whole series comes to a happy ending. Quinn's been with me since 10th grade, and he's a pretty important - although neglected - character to me.

That's Just Wrong

In the spring of 2007, I attempted to write "Hannar", based on a recorded script of Revolution Nine played backwards. It was a nice project at first, until it turned into this demented story of a satanic murderer somehow coming back from the dead and plaguing a small town's police department. So then, I found it almost three years afterwards and wrote some more, and the story got even more twisted, and then Westbury Detectives showed up and filled the place of "gritty experimental detective drama". After that, I dropped Hannar, until now.

What I'm wondering is whether or not I should keep poking at Hannar. I'm seriously not kidding when I say that this is the most gruesome thing I've ever created, and I don't know what to do with it. There's four years of effort in it, so I can't destroy it. But the story contains ultraviolence, elaborate hallucination sequences, and multiple characters slowly going insane. There isn't a solid demographic it appeals to, so what the hell do I do with it?

At the moment, there's only four lines of the Revolution Nine script left, so where's this going to go? I might figure out where to post it when the whole thing is finished, but some stuff in it is pretty rancid, so it might only be tolerated on Livejournal.