Behold, A Man!

Update on My Comic Books and the Script for Issue 1 of My Wise Tales Comic Book

I’m in the process of starting 2 different comic books. This has been a dream of mine for a very long time and I’m finally pulling the trigger.

You may have heard me talk about Dorgo: Steppe Out of Time already. He’s my Mongolian Sword & Sorcery hero. I’ll be working with a very talented German artist who specializes in retro 1970s style comic book art for that series. I have the first series all planned out, it’ll be 5 issues concluding the origin story of Dorgo and setting up his future adventures.

Below is the artwork I commissioned from Frederik Hornung for the cover. More on that project later int he summer.

The second comic I’m going to be launching soon is called Wise Tales and it will be an anthology styled comic where I give speculative fiction takes on famous stories of philosophers, theologians, wizards, Bible stories, etc.

Sure, you’ve heard the ‘official’ narratives before, but I give you what really happened, aliens, magic daggars, werewolves, dragons, and all.

I’m not sure if I’ll use multiple artists or stick to one yet. But whatever the case, I’ll probably need to be crowd funding these on Kickstarter—though I do have a line on some benefactors who may be up for supporting stuff like this. We’ll see.

For now, here’s the initial script for my first Wise Tale. It’s more of a short story right now, I’ll have to learn how to write these for the artists to use.

Here’s the full story on what really happened between Plato and Diogenes the Cynic when Plato defined ‘Man’ as a featherless biped.

(Yes, it’s silly an fantastical alternative history, but I do include a lot of real historical philosophy because my goal, as always, is to trick people into learning philosophy)

Wise Tales

Issue 1. Story 1: Behold A Man!

Open to the narrator, Parker in a toga with an exaggerated handlebar mustache sitting on a white Greek Pillar.

Narrator Parker: “Many of you may have heard of the tale of Diogenes the Cynic confronting Plato the… Platonist, about his definition of ‘man’, but I’m sure none of you have heard the full story—the true story.