Issues 1 and 2 available at Guapo Comics

Issues 1 and 2 of Super-Hero Shared Housing are available at Portland's very own Guapo Comics. Keeping in mind that print is the intended medium of these stories, we are obviously quite proud.

When this site was first set up, a "place-holder" front page was devised, consisting of some graphics and an "Origins of Super! Hero! Shared! Housing!" blurb. We've since nuked that page but I wanted to re-print that blurb. Here it is:

The true origin of Super-Hero Shared Housing lies in co-collaborator Chris Collision mentioning one night, a long, long time ago, that he'd been dicking around with a story about a foursome of superheroes who lived in a huge, old, rented house together, and would tear around town on evenings in this p.o.s. van, then maybe just end up at the bar.

Fast forward a year or two (or three), and Collision and I are sitting at Billy Rays (in the upstairs, in a corner) on a slow night and for some reason, this idea of his came up, and one of us gave the heroes "useless, stupid powers" like being made out of electricity, or forever covered in mud, or being from a planet owned by Todd McFarlane, or inventing shrinking furniture.

I'd been watching The Young Ones a lot at the time (which would date this to about '03-'04, if I recall correctly) and we'd both been watching Evangelion and G Gundam and Cowboy Bebop and so we had episodic storytelling on the brain so we cooked up an "episode" right there on the spot, most of which is the subject matter of the first issue.

From there it's the usual story of false starts. Some discussion about SHSH being a puppet show. Maybe poorly animated Stikfa figures with crappy cardboard and sharpie dioramas for "sets" and "backgrounds" (this is still kind of appealing)(tho' I think the missus would think me completely retarded).

Then Collision re-imagined the SHSH team a bit (as villains!) for his collaboration with Tyler Stripes, who sketched a few of the team out. When Collison txted me that said sketches were online over at their production blog, I was all like "fuk man, now I GOTTA sketch out the team as I envision them before I see Tyler's, in order to prevent creative cross-contamination." So I did, and once I had, that old script finally had a medium.