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• What is The Sword and the Fish Comic?

  It became apparent that after years of meticulous creation and careful testing that the Sword and the Fish game was inevitably held back by its roots. "Borrowing" music and a variety of chipsets from the community created ownership difficulties and the video game medium forced interested parties into hours of play just to recognize what was special about the project in the first place. Games take a long time to get through, and therefore, best material is often left unfound. Couple this with low visual appeal and The Sword and the Fish game, though great, cannot fully encompass the world of the Sword and the Fish.
  
  Animation was still a long ways away and is a tough nut to crack. You need lots of people and lots of money and the people involved need to believe in your mad creation. Well, it's probably best to get it some cred before reaching that stage. Something a producer could really sink their teeth into. Something I have the means of producing. Something like a comic.
  
  

  
  The comic Sword and the Fish is a new beginning. It takes the characters and universe I spent the game fleshing out and puts them square in your lap from the get go, in a much more interesting and focused narrative. All I needed to do was a quick rewrite of my pilot TV script and voila, we've got humble beginnings. I didn't have to look for for an artist because I'd already been working on some drawings for another TV project with Alex Row, who quickly agreed to work with me on the much more visually-intensive and action-packed Sword and the Fish comic pilot: "Oops."
  
  With Alex on board, character sketches appeared, mostly excellent. Since the templates for the characters were pixcel graphics, it wasn't too difficult to adopt them into Row's style without missing a beat. Over the winter I drew up a storyboard and presented it to Row who in turn used it to begin his own good copy of the rough. We finished the storyboard in mid June 2008, wherein I completed a 2nd draft of the dialogue. Satisfied, we began work on the finished product in mid July, finishing the 40 page epic in November, 2009. The art looks great, the script looks great, and I think we're going to have a hot independant comic on our hands (if such a thing exists. It's 2008, not 1985 after all). It is now for sale through this site!
  
  Delicious!
  -Joel-