The Gamma Universe is the main Felney universe, and is where most of the "bigger" stories take place. It's history is much the same as the Beta Universe (which is close to the real world) up until 1985, when a zombie-creating chemical is discovered. A few power-mad manipulators of the early 21st century are also considerably more power-mad in this world, and they send world politics off on a completely different, and somewhat disastrous course.
This universe also features stories set in the near and far future (some of the 'near future' ones are now in the past, they're taking so long to make!). The further into the future they go, the 'softer' the science fiction gets. Also numerous planets and star systems exist which are not present in real life (as we are now able to detect planets around other stars). All the extra towns and villages from the Beta Universe are also present
Several of the stories in this universe have been re-made at various points (some more than once!). The titles in Italics are "overwritten" by other stories and "didn't really happen", but are included for interest.
Ye Legend of Felney
Set in
1032
Created in
2002 - 2005
Type
Webcomic
Main Characters
Description
This is a spoof version of Felney set in the distant past, when the fens was a vast, untamed swampland filled with isolated, backwards villages and populated by semi-savage... oh wait, that's now! Most strips had fantasy elements, like dragons and magic, but we can pretend those are mis-remembered "legends" XD. This is set in a time when Christianity was new to Britain, Aaron is an early convert, despite the fact he is gay. Fortunately, he can't read, so doesn't know what the bible says. At one point I started a big "graphic novel" story based on Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, but it never got past a single page. I also planned a couple of videogames, one point-and-click adventure (with time travel, and based on that unfinished comic), and one called Felneytron 1032. I actually made a little bit of the latter in The Games Factory, but didn't know what I was doing. Maybe I'll make it properly one day.
Status
"Finished"
Location
It's mixed in with Classic Felney, with the first strip here.
Misc Note
This was originally just a one-off picture I drew as a joke, but I had writer's block, so started a strip based on it. Also I knew little to nothing about actual life in England in that age... not even who the king was! Until I asked my brother, who had a ruler with a list of British monarchs on it.
The Nobodies
Set in
1979 - 1985
Created in
2025 -
Type
Paperback / Print Comic
Main Characters
XXXXX
Description
Homeless veterans of the British army are re-recruited and given gruelling, SAS-type training (until not unless they pass!). They are then used for secret, deniable operations in the world's trouble spots, with nobody to mourn, or even notice, if they don't come home.
Status
Not made yet
Location
One to Four stories as paperbacks, last one in the RWB
Misc Note
The earlier stories will be full of gore and swearing, the last one kid-friendly. Oh well, kids will probably find their way to the paperbacks, too!
Rig Doom
Set in
1985
Created in
Not yet (never?)
Type
Doom Wad
Main Characters
Description
Garbled messages from a North Sea oil rig talk about something strange being drilled up with the oil, then an outbreak of a strange disease among the crew. The rig goes silent, and a rescue helicopter sent out with a doctor doesn't come back, though it appears to be sitting on the pad with the doors open. The player is an SAS soldier sent out to the rig by boat to investigate,
Status
Not made yet. And might never be as I can't be bothered with videogames. If it IS made, it's likely to be my "masterpiece", Doom wise.
Fortunately, it has entered the "Felney canon" in the form of the first two panels of The Gun.
Location
Not made yet
Misc Note
I tried to make a "base" human sprite I could later modify into all the characters for this, including a bunch of gore-soaked death animations. Then I put that sprite into Doom... it looked like a pipe walking around! Turns out the human enemies in Doom are really short and wide for a reason... Still, one day I'll bash my Asesprite skills into shape.
The Getaway Driver
Set in
1991
Created in
Not Yet
Type
Videogame
Main Characters
Description
A vaguely-planned videogame in the "Runabout" style (IE drive from point to point in a time limit, with loads of stuff you can destroy for points). You play as a young criminal in Middleford, and pull off a series of daring robberies, before going to prison. One mission was going to be more like the "Survival" mode in Jambuster EX, you'd have to speed through dense traffic on a motorbike before catching up with a camper van and jumping inside it. The bike would then go careering off on it's own and drop into Scum Slaughter via strip 28. Inadvertently starting off Sunita Shankar's killer career.
Status
Not made, unlikely to ever be made.
Location
Not made yet.
Misc Note
Listed to explain where that bike came from! Also the name is derived from The Getaway and Driver, two Playstation / Playstation 2-era freeroam drive-'em-up "GTA Ripoffs", neither of which was really anything like GTA, actually. In the original Driver you couldn't even "get out of the bloody car", and it was so much better that way!
Zombie Shock Massacre!
Set in
1996
Created in
2004
Type
Webcomic
Main Characters
John Gunn, Joyce Crayford, Reg Wilkinson, Ted, Other guy.
Description
A 19-year-old student and his 30-something lecturer are having a dirty weekend in her isolated static caravan in the fens. Then the zombies attack! They have to fight for survival as an army of apparently cloned zombies swells the undead ranks. This is basically a re-make of Zombie Attack, but with different characters.
Status
Finished
Location
Misc Note
This was originally going to be nothing but pointless sex and violence. Then suddenly turned into a major plot point in my entire fictional universe. There was a vague plan to make a live-action movie version. A woman of about 20 volunteered to be Joyce, and wanted me to add in more unsimulated sex scenes. I need to re-make friends with her, she was cool. Also she probably is really as old as Joyce was meant to be, now.
Zombie Shock Massacre 2
Set in
1996
Created in
2006 - (semi abandoned)
Type
Webcomic
Main Characters
Stuart (same guy as from Queer as Fuck, but with his birthdate adjusted), Eric, "Mr Wade", Pete
Description
The second story of ZSM (the original plan was for four), this time following some London gangsters working for "The Brent Road Mob". They are torturing a grass when the zombies attack them, they escape, but realise the area will soon be crawling with cops - who might find evidence of thier crimes. I think this has some of the best gore in any of my comics.
Status
Abandoned.
Location
Misc Note
This was done in a transitional period from my "manga like" art style (nothing like manga at all, really) and my current "British Adventure" style, so the faces look very wierd. The Brent Road Mob were also going to be the gang in The Getaway Driver, at the time.
Zombie Shock Massacre! (re-make)
Set in
1996
Created in
sometime
Type
Webcomic
Main Characters
Description
A re-make of the unfinished Zombie Shock Massacre! (and ZSM2, for some reason I gave them seperate names). As it's a major point in the overall continuity of the Gamma Universe, it really ought to not be a bunch of wobbly biro scribble.
Once again, it will have four episodes, each following a different set of characters, as they battle with a huge outbreak of apparently-cloned zombies, in an area of fenland near Felney.
Status
Not started yet.
Location
Not made yet, may appear in The Tigershark.
Misc Note
The episodes will be named after what the characters are, so it'll be like The Canterbury Tales. Only those didn't have quite so many cumshots and ribcages bursting open.
Invasion!
- 
Set in
1999
Created in
1995/6
Type
Text story
Main Characters
Description
A (very) short story about an alien invasion in 1999. Carter is an RAF pilot who flies a Tornado, he shoots down several small alien ships, then notices "a big one that they all swarmed around", shoots this down, and the rest of the invaders retreat.
When I say "short story", I mean if all the Sci-Fi stories were typed out in a normal font size they'd be about a paragraph each, all on one page! ...maybe I should do that one day.
Status
Offline, finished. No longer canon, let's just say it was a dream.
Location
"published" in Sci Fi issue 2
Misc Note
I started to re-make this as a comic strip, at one point, only it was a bit different - it had more of a worldwide perspective, and there was several motherships. The first part ended with one being nuked... and I never did any more.
'Arry The Anarchist
Set in
1999
Created in
1999
Type
Text story
Main Characters
Description
A short, unfinished text story about a teen anarchist in some suburban nightmare. It started with him sneaking up on a "lamer's" house at night and throwing snowballs at the door. That'll overthrow the government a treat, that will. It was probably going to end up being about an actual revolution, and probably an alien coverup, but I never finished it. Let's just say it 'actually' ended with him growing the fuck up.
Around this time, some games magazine started a "come up with game ideas" section, where they'd publish and reward the best one. Somebody suggested a game that was like The Parkie out of Viz, you had to murder people who walked on the grass and dump their bodies in the duck pond. I remember having an idea for an 'Arry the Anarchist videogame that would start out with you at about 12 years old, just doing graffiti in the local area, and would fast forward through "a level a year" until it had a whole English county and GTA-style mayhem to cause. All on the PS1!
Status
Unfinished, lost
Location
Lost
Misc Note
I may re-make it, one day. Possibly about Harry from Felney, with appearances of his girlfriend Annie, and Mike Smith. Any re-make will probably be set in the early 90's, when those characters were teens.
Also I guess you could say this "evolved" into Anarchy Doom, which was set in the future (at the time) and had an adult Harry as the main character... though I've since seperated out Felney Harry and 'Arry the Anarchist into seperate characters. Mainly because they had different hair colours.
Zombie Attack!
Set in
2000
Created in
1997
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
Some kids with mopeds, "Zombie watch", a woman looking for her friends, A mad scientist, SAS Soldiers
Description
When I was at secondary school, there were two proposals for a school newspaper, neither of which was ever made. This was a strip I created for the second one. Most of it was drawn in a strange 8-panel "landscape" format, I think with the idea that it would be scanned into a computer and re-arranged. Of course, I knew very little about such things in 1997! It was actually based on a dream I had, about a zombie with white eyes and a mouth full of maggots attacking a woman, who looked like one of the girls from my year, but was an adult in the dream. Quite a while after the newspaper plan fell through, I found the unfinished pages and finished it off in the style of The Gun, then promptly lost it. The last page was kicking about for ages after I lost the rest, but is now gone, too.
Status
Finished - Overwritten in the continuity by Zombie Shock Massacre!
Location
One or two pages may be on the back of other stories (and on the other side of the world), but most of it is lost.
Misc Note
One scene involved a an SAS soldier cramming a grenade in a zombie's mouth, saying "eat this", then pulling the pin out.
Felney
Set in
2001 - 2005 / 2006 - ongoing
Created in
2001 - 2005 / 2006 - "ongoing", slowly!
Type
Webcomic / some print
Main Characters
Mike Smith, Aaron Anderson, Tina Wright, Ann Morgan, Vince Jones, Julia Yellow-Spart, Sunita Shankar, Steve.
Description
This was originally a very left-wing webcomic, which I started in 2001 to make my local area "the laughing stock of the internet", and generally satirise "backwards" Fenland attitudes. It ran fairly reliably through 2001 - 02, being made at the (at the time, four-day) weekends. To begin with, it was running alongside Insanity Please, but I ran out of ideas for that, so scrapped it, and made Felney the main focus of my website. It started off with two gay people meeting an anarchist, who for some reason lives in a 3-bedroom house on his own, so they move in with him. Then ridiculous things happen involving the Conservative Party, racists, homophobes and even zombies. There was also some background plots about Aaron's mum trying to kill him (better to be a murderer than to have the "shame" of a gay son), and Ann questioning her sexuality in reverse (she thinks she's a lesbian, but actually likes Mike too). Mike was "straight", but in a later storyline he got a boyfriend anyway.
The comics dropped off through 2003, being replaced by Private Eye-style "newspaper cuttings", and deliberately sick and offensive pictures. I was desperately trying to "shock" people, and get the local paper to write about it. There was very little made in 2004, and in 2005 I tried to revive it, after the boss of the Commission for Racial Equality suggested creating segregated schools (well, we can't all be good at our jobs). That didn't last very long, and it returned to scribbled nonsense. Then ended.
In 2006, I was going to University, and just assumed there would be a weekly on-campus paper with an active cartoons section, like the University of Alberta's "Gateway" (where the webcomic Deathworld, now Fudda Comix, first appeared), so I created a new version of Felney to publish in it. Actually, the student paper was called The Linc, and managed to produce about four issues in the three years I was there. I sent them the first issue of New Felney (which was also the second or third thing I'd ever drawn in my current art style, it's a bit of a mess). They didn't even reply to me XD.
LOTS of New Felney scripts have been written. Hopefully I will draw them one day, alongside "flashback" strips, re-telling the story from 2001 - 2005. The latter will probably be a print exclusive.
Status
Old one finished. New one "ongoing", slowly! The older strips ("Classic Felney") are overwritten in the continuity by re-told 2001 - 2005 strips, which are being made even more slowly. I might put them out as a book one day.
Location
Misc Note
In the very first Old Felney strip, Felney was a totally fictional village. In all others, it "replaced" the real village of Little Downham, about 5 miles west of Ely. From strip 17 of New Felney onwards, it is again fictional, this time located down Quanea Drove, to the east of Ely, and roughly "opposite" Stuntney, on the Soham Road. The area is 'rearranged' a little, and there's a big dyke that runs past Felney which is not there in real life.
Felney remains the "main" strip of The Felney Universe (as you can tell from the name). As well as being the home of Mike, Aaron and Tina, it was also the nearest "major" built-up area to the 1996 zombie outbreak. Also Steve Gunn lives down Kitchener Drove, which leads to the village. When I was making Sexton Blake stories, I was going to reveal that he originally came from Felney (apparently the original stories hinted that he came from 'rural Cambridgeshire', but they were written by 200-odd different people over 70-odd years). Also, in XXput here laterXX, Andy Fox lives down Cauliflower Drove, which is another road leading out of Felney.
Cauliflower Drove is also the setting of a famous(ish) story around Cambridgeshire called Cauliflower Drove (not surprisingly), which was originally serialised on the ely.org.uk website. I think it was paywalled back in the day (heady stuff for 1998!) but can now be read in all it's, erm, glory for free! The original story was always a bit vague about where Cauliflower Drove actually is, so I just "claimed" it for Felney!
Felney 2
Set in
2001
Created in
2000-01
Type
Text Story
Main Characters
Mike Smith, Aaron Anderson, Tina Wright, Ann Morgan, Vince Jones, Yaxley Farcett D.I. (Drainage Inspector), Posh Spice, David Beckham
Description
A stupid text story I started to write, but swiftly abandoned. It was a crossover of Felney and Cauliflower Drove (very without the original author's knowledge or consent!). The Felney characters and Yaxley Farcett win a trip to the south of France, and mayhem ensues. Shame I had no ideas for what that mayhem would actually be!
"Posh 'n Becks" were all over the papers at the time, so one idea I did have was for them to be killed in a gruesome accident, after impatiently trying to overtake the slow-moving tour bus in a Ferrari.
Status
Unfinished, will never be finished.
Location
Misc Note
I saw an advert for Cauliflower Drove 2, and made a parody advertising Felney 2...then actually began to write it, though I had no real ideas for the story. I'm pretty sure Cauliflower Drove 2 also never got made, mind you.
The Felney Games Pack
Set in
2001
Created in
2001
Type
Videogame
Main Characters
Description
A bunch of very simple videogames made in a cracked version of The Games Factory (a few years later they gave away the pro version for free on a magazine, so I'm not fussed). There's four sections...
Zombie attack! - A platformer where you travel over rooftops, down the main street, and finally reach a disused yard, fighting rather non-threatening zombies. The final boss is a cacodemon ripped straight out of Doom.
UFO Blaster - Tina shoots at flying saucers that drift in from the side of the screen in a lame imitation of Space Invaders. You can get an upgraded laser gun with incredibly obnoxious sound effects.
Microlight Blaster - A very lame and nearly impossible-to-lose-at game where Aaron shoots fireworks at microlight aircraft.
Volley-out - A bizarre hybrid of volleyball and breakout. The other characters have no AI, they just walk backwards and forwards on path movements. You have to touch the ball to change it to your colour, then bounce it up to get points from breaking the blocks above you. This one's even more impossible to lose at, you can press no buttons at all and still win by accident!
Status
Finished
Location
Misc Note
The Volley-out section doesn't even have a working instructions screen, brilliant. The best thing about this crap is the game over screen on the zombie section... which I vaguely recall was based on a game advert from the PS1 era.
Felney UFO Blaster 2
Set in
2001
Created in
2002
Type
Videogame
Main Characters
Description
A re-make of the UFO blaster section from the Felney Games Pack (see above). It has one new weapon, mildly-improved graphics and less annoying sound effects.
Status
Finished
Location
Misc Note
None
Oo-Arr Farmer!
Set in
2001
Created in
2026
Type
Videogame
Main Characters
None named
Description
A simple and buggy (some of the items you need to collect are invisible!) videogame I made with The 3D Gamemaker, as part of the 25th anniversary of Felney
Status
Finished
Location
Misc Note
May be re-made in a more advanced engine to get me eye in on car handling etc.
Scum Slaughter
Set in
2001
Created in
2005
Type
Webcomic
Main Characters
Description
After a lot of whinging in the press about how the game "Manhunt" had supposedly been used by someone to "train" for a real-life murder, I decided to make my own version! But as it would have to be done in Multimedia Fusion II, with cartoony, top-down graphics, I had to make it sick and offensive in other ways.I decided to make the main character a transsexual Asian, called Sunita. Initially she was going to be an asylum seeker too, but I later decided it would also offend damp lefties if I made her a patriotic Brit. The levels would see you killing Foxhunters, Freemasons and quack, gay-curing "Doctors", in order to rescue your boyfriend. After I discovered the comic High Maintenance, I decided to create a Scum Slaughter comic instead, based loosely on a low-budget film called "Hunting Humans". The first 20 pages where the result. Then I saw "Sin City"...
Status
Online and readable, overwritten in the continuity by the re-re-make. The "final" (and unfinished) storyline is probably the best, and most sick, one out of both original versions. An EDL-type dad, who obviously hates Islamic "honour killings", finds out his son is dating an Indian transsexual, so decides to drag him down his mate's grotty farm and batter him with lead pipes until he turns straight. Sunita starts to infiltrate the farm and massacre everybody. Later the son was going to be taken to a "pray away the gay" church and finally a vivisection lab.
Partially lost! Several pages are currently missing!
Location
Misc Note
I periodically get the urge to make the original videogame anyway, even though the Scum Slaughter comic has been 'overwritten' in the storyline by the new one. The unfinished boyfriend-rescuing story was going to read like it was a videogame, which was a bit crap. I ought to have written it better! In fact, it was the meandering nature of (the) Scum Slaughter(s) that finally persuaded me that I ought to be writing scripts for my comics and not just making them up as I go along.
Scum Slaughter (re-make)
Set in
2001 - 2015 ('currently' in 2002)
Created in
2005
Type
Webcomic
Main Characters
Description
...and started this instead! Still following the idea of an Asian transsexual patriotic serial killer, this time it's in grim black, white and red. Also she's mostly switched from guns to bladed weapons, so she can look her victims in the eye, and let them know why they're being 'done'! Also her boyfriend has been replaced by a semi-retired prostitute called Bev. It has no real storyline, it's just a series of self-contained brutal killings. The story was planned to move through the years, with Sunita getting older and more "sought after" by the police. Eventually it was going to end up in the 2014 revolution. The story of that will now be told in Felney instead... eventually!
Status
Online and readable. I also made a print comic, though it had nothing extra (and was fully black and white, so the gore didn't look as cool). That comic was initially £1.10, reduced within a few hours to £1. Later it was sold at cons for 50p, 20p and finally 10p. I still ended up with loads left over, so slung them in the recycling bins at work.
Overwritten in the continuity by the re-re-make
Location
Misc Note
I later had a vague idea for a videogame which would be like a black-and-white GTA3, only you'd have to Manhunt-style stalk-'n-kill various people in locations around the city to get at the bosses. The bosses would be real-life celebrities and politicians, such as TV hosts Richard and Judy, who I hated because they criticised TATU, and obviously any criticism must have been motivated by homophobia and not by, say, the fact they sound like a crappier Birthday Massacre.
Though I doubt Richard and Judy even know who The Birthday Massacre are, let's be honest here.
Scum Slaughter re-re-make
Set in
2001-2015
Created in
2025 -
Type
Paperback
Main Characters
Description
I wanted to re-make Scum Slaughter as a comic, but then I started to make Kestrel paperbacks, which about special forces operators and cowboys blowing away baddies... but I also found about about Sean Hutson and his gore-soaked tomes, so why not do Scum Slaughter as a Kestrel, too? At least it'll be out of me system.
Once again, it will feature Sunita Shankar fighting with her gender identity and murdering scummy people with a variety of bladed weapons. Though I have, in the intervening years, become incredibly transphobic, so she will probably presented more in the light of those characters in woke webcomics who turn into demons and burn people to death for saying "I support women's rights but do you have to-", or something innocuous like that. Only presented as if that was happening in the real world, with attendant "am I the baddie?" vibes.
("Vibes" is scummy tekiseigo that that kind of people use.)
(Also none of them have the self-awareness to wonder if they are the baddies, let's be honest, here.)
The plot will likely be a mixture of both comics, it opens with Sunita killing a random guy just because he had bumper stickers she doesn't like. Then she'll rub out a chav, then her boyfriend will get kidnapped to be beaten straight, so she'll rescue him.
Status
Being made
Location
In a Kestrel paperback
Misc Note
Third time's the charm!
Grand Theft Felney
Set in
2001
Created in
Not yet, depends on Clickteam and/or my patience
Type
Videogame
Main Characters
Description
GTA3, But set in the fens! Once upon a time several of my stories revolved around the assumption this would be made, but I've since moved away from it, as that's incredibly unlikely. Originally, I planned to create it in a programme called Multimedia Fusion 3D, which was due for release in "2006". However, the 2D Multimedia Fusion 2 was delayed until 2006, and MMF3D appears to have been cancelled. If this does get made at all it will probably be done in Unity, a 3D game engine that I purchased for £150, about a month before the same version was released for free (>.<), or perhaps this new Unreal 4 engine you can "rent". Anyway, you play as the same character from The Getaway Driver, who goes to prison for 10 years at the end of that game. You get out in 2001 and head to the fens, to hide from your vengeful former gang. Soon you meet Stu out of Zombie Shock Massacre, who now lives in Ely, and start working for him. Also, some missions revolve around Sunita and Bev from Scum Slaughter, who come on Holiday in Felney, and fall in love during thier stay (which explains why they are suddenly a couple between stories 3 and 4 of Scum Slaughter!). The main characters of Felney, and "The Agency" who are incompetently hunting Aaron, also make appearances.
Status
Not started.
Location
Not started. There used to be an extensive website about it, but that's been deleted
Misc Note
It won't ever be made, will it? Shame, it was gonna be mega-gory!
The Zoo
Set in
2010 (guess)
Created in
1996 - 7
Type
Game played with Lego / written story
Main Characters
None named
Description
This could be forgiven for being "my ripoff of Jurassic Park". But it was actually based on a dream I had (which was probably inspired by watching Jurassic Park). Basically there's a giant zoo on an island, it's opening day and all happy people are strolling around, then suddenly a software bug makes all the cages open, letting out all sorts of lions and alligators to massacre people. There was also some sort of highly-unethical experimenting going on. Or at least that was my reasoning for why one of the tigers could talk.
Anyway the next day at school I started designing videogames I could make, based on this dream. One had a couple of platform levels, with a driving section in the middle, using Battlezone-like wireframe. It also introduced "Betmunks", giant beetle-like creatures with the intelligence and dexterity of monkeys. And a propensity for killing humans on sight. One of the "Learning Support Assistants" (the spare teachers who helped special needs kids, a bunch of us nerds used to hide in their office at playtime, to avoid the bullies) asked what I was drawing, so I had to describe the game in non-violent terms, saying the animals were simply "scared of the engine" of the tank. Also, I had absolutely no ability to make videogames at the time.
Later on, we had to do a test in English, where the last part was to write our own continuation of a passage, which was obviously about a guy trying to catch a runaway, dangerous horse in Victorian times. I just wrote a The Zoo story, where I was a lone survivor and got rescued by a helicopter during a massive stampede of assorted animals (including some horses). I still remember the teacher's comment being "This didn't continue the passage at all"!
Status
Nothing being done with it.
Location
Offline, mostly lost (a scrawling or two may be kicking around in the UK)
Misc Note
I was slap-bang in the middle of the target audience for Harry Potter, when that first came out. I wonder what I'd have made of the bit where he inadvertently magics away the glass at a zoo?
BBFC Smash!
Set in
2014
Created in
2001/2 - 2007
Type
Videogame
Main Characters
Description
A stupid platform game I created in 2001, then forgot about. In 2007 the BBFC announced that they were going to ban Manhunt 2 from the UK, so I hurriedly updated it and released it as a "protest". Let's just pretend it's actually set in the great revolution of 2014. Whenever Britain does rise, no prisoners will be taken at the BBFC.
Status
Finished
Location
Misc Note
The in-game text still implies it's set in 2007. Maybe I should do a third version.
Anarchy Doom
Set in
2015
Created in
2000
Type
Doom Wad
Main Characters
Description
A stupid Partial Conversion for Doom I started making once I'd figured out the rudiments of editing that game. In the dystopian nightmare of 2015 Britain (the police were armed and David Blunkett was PM), you played as an Anarchist called Harry. You and your friends Jack (a stoner), Annie (a hacker) and Tina (a teenage girl who hangs out with you) have to fight the police and army after you accidentally kill loads of cops during a botched "sabotage" mission against a polluting oil company. It turns out the army and FBI (who are operating in Britain for some reason) have captured a flying saucer, and are planning to use derived alien technology to invade the alien planet (the aliens are, of course, peaceful and utopian... and have super-powerful weapons).
The wad was very nearly finished (it needed one more level and a few extra graphics) when I used a thing called Inkworks to change some of the colour schemes (not because I needed to, but because I could). I then saved the edited Inkworks wad "over" the Anarchy Doom wad, thinking it would "put the colourmap in". Instead it just overwrote it, so I lost all my work. Naturally I hadn't backed anything up!
I decided to transfer Anarchy Doom to the Gamma Universe today (that is, the 14th of August 2014!). 2015 is after "The Great Revolution", which leads to the British police being regularly armed, tougher prison sentences, mass crackdowns on petty crime and gang violence, a return of the death penalty and a points-based immigration system. Anarchists would understandably be unhappy with such policies, and want to overthrow the government. Anarchy Doom was originally going to end with you defeating the new deadly police robot and having sex with Annie, but now I'll say it ended with the main character being executed, Jack going to prison and Tina and Annie renouncing anarchism and running away (they never did anything illegal in the wad). And the aliens? Well... Jack can get some gooood shit.
Status
I almost finished it, then screwed up and deleted it. I aim to re-make it three times. One "directly", which much the same plot, just better sprite work and levels. The second re-make will be more realistic and will have totally different characters, and the third will be a Genshiken fanfic, only set in England in 2010. It'll make sense when you play it!
Location
deleted... 23 years ago.
Misc Note
Actually, I found a few of the files from the old website about it, and it was supposed to be set in 2005, not 2015, but let's retcon that. Also David Blunkett and the rest of the warmongering traitors from New Labour had all twitched their last, slumped-against a blood-soaked wall, by the end of 2014.
Anarchy Doom - Basic re-make
Set in
2015
Created in
2019 - 20
Type
Doom Wad
Main Characters
Description
A re-make of the above with better mapping, graphics and dehacked work. This time with Boris Johnson as PM... though he too is likely to have been left as a stain on a wall by the end of the 2014 revolution (he did cause a frivolous court case against Babestation, a porn channel that was being taken to court for showing porn, to be thrown out, though - and may have been rewarded with his life for such signal service to the nation).
Status
Not started yet, I hope to try and make it as a "speed TC" in late 2019 / early 2020 (added in Feb 2021 - well, that went well). Not canon.
Location
Not started
Misc Note
Well, sometimes it's fun to LARP as your 16 year old self. And the British police have hardly lived up to their promise of late.
Anarchy Doom - Actual re-make
Set in
2015
Created in
Dunno
Type
Doom Wad
Main Characters
Tom Parker, Ms Annie Archly, Archibald Wyreigh-Dingleberry, Paul Scouse, Marianne Gaevesse, Candace Butch.
Description
A re-make of Anarchy Doom with a far more realistic portrayal of how anarchists and other far-leftists would respond to the glorious revolution of 2014. Will feature missions like spraying out "nazi runes" (Old English written with Futhorc) from bilingual road signs, and firebombing middle-class establishments like McDonald's because they moved into the building once occupied by working class, POC-run shisha boutiqueries.
Status
Not started yet. Will be the "canon" Anarchy Doom
Location
Not started
Misc Note
None
The Gun (Original Version)
Set in
2020-2023
Created in
1997 - 2000
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
Description
My first "serious and adult" comic. Those two terms being used very relatively! It is about World War 3, fought between 2020 and 2023 by two huge multinational armies named Wolf Force and Stealth Force. These were inspired by numerous 80's / 90's toy ranges with multinational "goodies" and "baddies" - the main direct inspiration being the factions of Airfix Junior. I knew basically nothing about modern weapons or geopolitics, so most of these comics were basically "WW2-with-modern-tech" stories mixed with whatever action movie my brother and I had just watched (usually James Bond). There was also some wierd sci-fi in there like orbital lasers, mecha, huge hover-ships, zombies and giant mutant ants - these parts inspired mostly by the Command and Conquer games.
It actually evolved out of a "game" I played where I rode up and down the street, shooting water at swarms of mosquitoes. Later I'd pretend to be a "mecha" and march up the garden, shooting at set-up toy soldiers with a water pistol, which knocked them flying and was thus a "rapid fire grenade launcher". Once the comic got going Robert (of Anti-Bully fame), my brother and I would also play "The Gun" the garden, which mostly involved shooting endless rounds at hordes of imaginary baddies, who were apparently just banzai charging us. Sometimes we'd be "wounded" for about 2 minutes, recovering from gunshot wounds with amazing rapidity! These games also introduced pistol-sized laser guns called "vaporisers", which could destroy a tank or plane in one shot, but those never made it into the comic.
As my knowledge of the military mostly came from spy movies and videogames, these two armies are completely bizarre, with soldiers fighting as infantry one day and jumping into jets to be fighter pilots the next. Steve Gunn, the main character, flies planes and helicopters, serves on a ship and fights as a footsoldier throughout the stories, switching branches at the drop of a hat. He also pilots a mecha in two stories. In most stories he ends up behind enemy lines alone, so just goes around randomly shooting people and blowing things up until he stumbles upon his own side again. The soldiers of both sides arm themselves with whatever random weaponary they want, with micro-uzis, desert eagles, pump shotguns and many M-16's and AK-47's in evidence (No SA-80's, oddly, I guess they aren't in enough action movies!). A few guys even carry chainsaws into battle! Steve Gunn himself carries The Gun of the title, a machine pistol with a bottomless cli-(offended American noises) ...magazine, a grenade launcher and a flamethrower with a supply of impossibly-compressed napalm in a container the size of a Jetboil tank. It even has a sword stashed inside it! This weapon was inspired by that piece of cinematic brilliance, Robocop 3!
I also had no knowledge of military ranks, beyond Private - Corporal - Sergeant, so Steve Gunn receives a nebulous promotion to "officer", at the end of a story where he's in command of 2000 men charged with invading a major city! Also those are army ranks, but in these stories all branches use them. I made 11 books in all, with several other stories started and either abandoned or lost (odd pages of a few survive). One story which I did want to continue (it was about zombies in a swamp!) found it's way into my mum's possession, so she read it out in this fake-awestruck voice, then gave it to my art teacher so they could "analyse" me. Silence of The Lambs ruined an entire generation of middle-aged women, didn't it? Book 12 (numbered 11) was going to be the last one, and was to end with Steve Gunn sword fighting the "tyrant" in charge of Stealth Force. But it never got made.
Status
Abandoned. Overwritten in the continuity by the final re-make.
Location
In a folder somewhere. Text reviews of the stories can be found here
Misc Note
My first comic with a "proper" "plot", though that was still wafer-thin. Also one of my first with an original, named character who wasn't directly based on me, or somebody I knew. When I showed my brother the first book, he said it was the best comic he'd ever read. He needed to read more comics, evidently.
The logo of "Wolf Force" coincidentally looked very similar to the logo of Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, which the bullies at school just loved. Me, the kid who "didn't care about football" "secretly supported" a "crap" team (read: one not named "Manchester United")! Quite how putting their logo in a crappy comic was "support", I don't know. (Actually I'm West Ham if anything).
The Gun re-(re-)make
Set in
2020-2023
Created in
2004 (cancelled) / 2005 (cancelled again)
Type
Web / Print comic
Main Characters
Description
Two re-makes of The Gun, which were both pretty similar. They were intended to be in full colour, and sold as "graphic novels", as well as put online. The only real difference was that the first one was semi-parodic, and the second a bit more serious. I got quite far along with the second one, before I lost a lot of work in a crash. It may even have become the "definitive edition", if I'd carried on!
Both versions had only a very vague backstory (just like the original). The two multinational armies were still called Wolf Force and Stealth Force, the former being "Anarchist" or "Socialist", who had won a revolution, and the latter being capitalists wanting to take the world back. The first story was going to follow the plot of the first book of the original The Gun pretty closely.
Status
Abandoned. Overwritten in the continuity by the final re-make
Location
XXXXLINK HERE LATERXXX
Misc Note
The first of these was going to be 30+ pages, in full colour, and given away for free!
The Gun re-re-re-make
Set in
2020-2023
Created in
2010
Type
Print comic
Main Characters
Description
This was a significantly altered attempt at creating the definitive version of The Gun. I originally planned to create two versions - one in black and white, "Commando" style, for an A5 comic called The Dragonfly. There was also going to be a gory, sweary and more political full-colour version for an A4 comic called The Tigershark. This one had a significantly more detailed back-story, where the "great revolution" of 2014 overthrows the government of the orwellian European Union. The leaders of this government go into hiding in the Middle East and, through pandering to radical Islam (and brainwashing), manage to raise a new army, obeying thier own "religion" of national unification. This army becomes known as Stealth Force, and it carves out a huge empire in Asia and Africa, before the United Nations Army (UNA, no more Wolf Force!) is formed, to oppose it. Steve Gunn is a soldier in this army.
Status
Abandoned. Overwritten in the continuity by the final re-make
Location
I'll upload what was done, one day.
Misc Note
Some of the art from this was re-used in the final version. The first few episodes of the final version were also heavily based on the script for this version.
Though "Wolf Force" was done away with, I paid tribute to it by having The Great Revolution of 2014 kick off in Wolverhampton, and people adopting a corrupted logo of the town's football team as the logo of the revolution.
The Gun
Set in
2020-2023
Created in
2011 - Ongoing
Type
Print / Webcomic
Main Characters
Description
The final version of The Gun. This time told in 5 - page episodes, broken up into "books". The backstory is similar to the re-re-re-make, except the enemy are now called Intersoc (International Society - standing for the abolition of the nation-state), and evolved from Eurosoc, the orwellian government which ruled the European Union from 2008 - 2014. Steve Gunn is again a soldier in the British Army, and finds "The Gun" while out on a scouting patrol. He continues to use it, in favour of the standard UNA "Ripper" rifle, in order to prove it's worth to his superiors. This just leads to him being seen as a troublemaker and rebel.
Status
Ongoing. The web version will be two epsiodes "behind" the print version.
Location
Misc Note
To release the individual "books" as books, or to wait until the whole thing is finished?
The J Zone
Set in
2020 - 2023
Created in
1998 (probably)
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
Description
The first of many spinoffs from The Gun (and one of the few to actually be finished!). This follows Sue Jackson, Steve Gunn's friend, as she goes on a solo mission, like a secret agent (even though they're both just in the infantry ((well, usually))). The plot is a barely-sensical ripoff of Goldeneye, with even more action scenes. Stealth Force steal an experimental helicopter (Sue finds out about this because some totally unrelated enemy soldiers drop a tape out of the window of thier car as it crashes), and copy it. Sue goes to Russia, is attacked by the helicopters, and shoots down these "experimental advanced new ewapons" with amazing ease. Then she totally coincidentally stumbles upon a satellite-based laser weapon called Goldshark, which was a Russian secret weapon that Stealth Force took over. They are controlling it from a tropical island, and are planning to use it to blow up London. Sue goes to the island, is captured straight away, but is totally coincidentally put in a cell with another secret agent, who has been there for years (she was captured before WW3 even started). They easily escape, shoot the two other people in the huge base, and press the satellite's self destruct button. What a mess!
Status
Finished. Overwritten in the continuity by the new version of The Gun
Location
In the folder with the original version of The Gun
Misc Note
The plot for The Gun does call for Steve and Sue to be separated for a time, maybe one day I'll do a story about what happens to her. It won't be much like this though!
The War
Set in
2020-2023
Created in
1998/9
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
No names
Description
A spinoff from The Gun, in "colour". Well, some colour. Some soldiers attack an enemy base and... that's it.
Status
Unfinished. A re-make was made, and deliberately unfinished. Overwritten in the continuity by the new version of The Gun.
Location
Misc Note
This was based on a part in one of the (many) 90's books about the SAS, in which they talked about making a complicated and detailed plan to rescue some hostages from an enemy base, only to learn they had been moved at the last minute. Only in this, the attack actually starts.
Desert Attack
Set in
2020 - 2023
Created in
1998/9
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
No names
Description
Another colour spinoff from The Gun, this one's set in a desert, so it's all yellows and oranges. Anyway, some woman drives a missile-launching truck in an attack on a Stealth Force base. It gets blown up, and she carries on fighting on foot. That's all that got done.
Status
Unfinished. Overwritten in the continuity by the new version of The Gun
Location
In an old drawing pad somewhere
Misc Note
This was drawn in a "more realistic" style, reminiscent of the style used in Insanity Please Classic. The truck was based on an actual "truck of the future" I saw demonstrated on Top Gear.
Rush
Set in
2020 - 2023
Created in
1998/9
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
No names
Description
This one got as far as The War did, less than half a page! It was supposed to be based on the real-life Battle of Mirbat, which I read an account of in a 90's SAS book. It was, at the time, a secret operation, so they couldn't give Sergeant Talaiasi Labalaba the Victoria Cross he surely deserves.
Status
Unfinished. Overwritten in the continuity by the new version of The Gun
Location
In a drawing pad, somewhere
Misc Note
None
Combat Ridge
Set in
2020 - 2023
Created in
1998/9
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
No names
Description
Yet another The Gun spinoff. This one was unusual in that it was actually finished! Though it only had two hyper-violent pages. Basically a big landing platform for "queens" (big hover ship things, prominent in the original version of The Gun) gets attacked by enemy queens and jetpack soldiers. One guy survives, shoots a jetpack soldier, who crashes into the bridge of a queen. The enemy ship loses control and crashes into the mountains, in a glorious display of explosions and people being ripped apart.
Status
Offline, and lost.
Location
Lost.
Misc Note
I started to re-make this around my friend Robert's house, but left it round there. The re-make was going to be longer, and maybe some of the characters would have been given names!
Ninja Nonsense
Set in
2020 - 2023
Created in
1998/9
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
Some ninja bloke
Description
I can't remember what this was actually called. Anyway, some Ninja BlokeTM infiltrates a Stealth Force base, kills some people with a sword, and is attacked by a mech. He uses the sword to cut some cables on it, so it goes crazy, mows down loads of it's own side, and blows up. The artwork in my memory looks way better than what it would have actually looked like.
Status
Offline and lost
Location
Lost
Misc Note
This was almost certainly inspired by the game Tenchu: Stealth Assasins. Maybe the main character was supposed to be Japanese (because Edo-period ninja tactics still work in modern wars), I really don't remember. Mind you, I probably would have been as likely to say Tehchu was set in China, the east was the east to me, at the time. Even on my first visit to Japan, I kept getting it mixed up with Hong Kong in my head, and assuming it was a really small country. To be fair, most of Japanese TV takes place on a few streets in Tokyo!
Obligatory note about how one UK gaming magazine reported that, as Tenchu was so violent, it would be given a "Restricted 18" rating, and only sold in licensed sex shops. Back then anything related to ninja, samurai and other historical things from Japan got censored to fuck in the UK. Even the Turtles! Oh well, just remember that when Britain rises, no prisoners are to be taken at the BBFC.
Underwater Strike
Set in
2020-2023
Created in
1997/8
Type
Drawn Comic
Main Characters
Not named
Description
Two Wolf Force special forces soldiers use a small submarine to investigate a flooded, abandoned Stealth Force base. They sail through a lengthy series of flooded tunnels and rooms, shooting harpoons at monsters that look like giant mosquito larvae. They finally find a "dry" part of the base... and get attacked by a giant humanoid monster... and I ran out of ideas.
I was openly calling it a "Doom ripoff", right there in the story! ...It was more of a Descent ripoff than anything.
Status
Unfinished because I ran out of ideas.
Location
Bits of it survive... in a folder on the other side of the world.
Misc Note
My mum got some big, water-filled flower pots to grow pond plants in. Mosquito larvae appeared in them, and I became fascinated by these floating, wiggling creatures. I didn't know what they actually were, so the ones in the comic didn't turn into giant mosquitoes later... though that might have been cool.
Strike by Night
- 
Set in
2020-2023
Created in
2015 - (ongoing)
Type
Print text story
Main Characters
Description
A spinoff from the modern version of The Gun. This follows a Eurofighter pilot who disobeys orders, but does the right thing. She is "got rid of" with a transfer to an experimental squadron, flying the heavy HSSSB bomber.
Status
To be serialised in The Trident (new series).
Location
In The Trident, from issue 1 onwards
Misc Note
I would have been named Ruth if I was a girl
The V Zone
Set in
Late 2023
Created in
1997/8
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
Description
A spinoff from The Gun made by my friend Robert. His writing was actually better than mine, though his art was a bit worse (which isn't saying much). These were set after World War 3, so presumably in late 2023. Steve Gunn was still in the army, and aliens were secretly invading the Earth. From what I remember, at first Wolf Force were fighting a new faction of humans who had arisen. On one mission Gunn was betrayed by one of his comrades, but was able to escape by shooting the guy 20-odd times and throwing him out of the door of a plane. Said guy somehow survived and and reported Gunn AWOL. Gunn was able to find out the new enemy and the betrayers in Wolf Force were actually aliens. Then Wolf Force started fighting them instead.
Status
Offline, likely lost. Absolutely not canon!
Location
Was at Robert's house
Misc Note
Robert's The Gun spinoffs had two names, actually. Some were The V Zone, others were called something else, but I can't remember what.
The Gun 2
Set in
2023 - 2030
Created in
1997 - 2000
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
Steve Gunn, Sue Jackson etc
Description
My brother created spinoffs from The Gun, too. This was the first of his. After World War 3, Steve Gunn leaves the army and joins the NYPD... because. There follows lots of shootouts with criminals, which bore more than a little resemblance to whatever cop / action film my brother had most recently seen. I did a few of my own, one of them was based on an FPS-style dream I had, which had the graphics of Wolfenstein 3D (only blood decals splatted on the walls and floors, and bullets could pass through certain things, like crates). I didn't finish that one (it got VERY stupid), neither did I finish the one that was a ripoff of Die Hard 3. We also did one together, which was basically Steve Gunn VS Predator, because the shops were full of X VS Predator / Aliens comics, at the time.
Status
Offline, all but one of them is lost, and that's the predator one. Overwritten in the continuity by the re-make.
Location
In a folder somewhere
Misc Note
At one point, Steve Gunn goes to Afghanistan to fight a gang called C.R.I.M.E., in an NYPD tank! What had C.R.I.M.E. done to deserve such a thing? Send them an email saying "Die cops!".
Stealth Force, the enemy army from The Gun, also put in occasional apperances. Apparently after their defeat in World War 3 they "turned to crime", and so no longer merited the attention of the army, only the police.
The Gun 2 (Re-make)
Set in
2023-2035
Created in
Not started yet
Type
Print / Webcomic
Main Characters
Steve Gunn, Sue Jackson, etc
Description
After World war 3, Steve Gunn joins the police in... Cambridge, this time. It makes a bit more sense. It's not the Cambridge we know in real life, though. After the revolution it became a very "establishment" city, dedicated to actual progress in science and industry, and not SJW-style "progress". It got an extensive underground railway network (with through trains running out to the surrounding villages, the (dual carriageway, of course) A10 is empty!). It also has numerous skyscrapers and is connected to the HS4 line. Oh, and the White, male "Subbuteo" statue, commemorating the writing of the FA rules, did get put up in the end, just a little late. Also engraved plaques depicting the development of that shameful story in the Cambridge News were put up on plinths around it, as a warning to the future.
Status
Not started yet
Location
It will be serialised in the Red, White & Blue, and also online. The online version will be two episodes behind the print version.
Misc Note
I might very well be a naturalised Japanese citizen, and living in Kyoto, when I write this. Oh well, Kyoto is like Japan's Cambridge, anyway. Only it has loads of tiny live music venues, old book shops, an underground railway, a 99% homogenous ethnic makeup and constant, openly-racist protests by the far right outside the station. So it's better than Cambridge.
2023 addition - lol nah fuck Kyoto, bunch of snobs.
Agent Smoke (alternate?)
Set in
2059 - 2063
Created in
Not yet (2019?)
Type
Print comic
Main Characters
Description
A possible comic which is just like Agent Smoke, only better-drawn and in colour. It will depict the story of Sarah Millman moving to Homonia, and her early days in the police. Also she'll have her head between the legs of hot women while her back gets coated in jizz like, all the time.
Status
Not started yet
Location
If I ever make my adult comic, The Tigershark, this will appear in it.
Misc Note
This will probably fuck off absolutely everybody who isn't me.
3½
- 
Set in
2061
Created in
2023 - 6
Type
Comic strip
Main Characters
Description
Sarah Millman is assigned to show a new guy in Homonia the ropes.
Status
Finished.
Location
going to be pinned to a board at K- Junior High School, Osaka, Japan. But it wasn't finished in time. So, it's Here
Misc Note
I didn't really have any idea what to write about (given that I had to include sentences suitable for Japanese Jr High grade 3 students), so this [ is ] lame and crap.
Agent Smoke
Set in
2062 onwards
Created in
2007 - (semi-ongoing)
Type
Webcomic
Main Characters
Description
A scribbed porn comic, nominally for practice at drawing anatomy and expressions, though the panels are too small to do them well, anyway. It's set in Homonia, and follows Sarah Millman as she investigates the sex orgy parks for evidence of any corruption, rape, intentional STD spreading, and so on. This part of the story is over now, and it's stalled in the middle of an orgy. Turns out, they're pretty boring to draw if you're also nofapping.
Status
"On hold". The hold may last for years.
Location
Misc Note
It's stalled on page 49, maybe I'll do something special for page 50...
The name "Agent Smoke" comes from a Hacking and Phreaking website my friend at school found and told me about.
Sarah Millman
Set in
2063
Created in
2010 - 2012, to be re-made later.
Type
Print comic
Main Characters
Description
A non political, porny, gory or sweary story of Sarah Millman. Where's the fun in that? Well it does feature sky pirates robbing people in a transforming airship. Anyway, when Sarah gets back to the city, it will be a mixed tale of futuristic crimes in a deliberately old-fashioned setting. It will likely be redrawn and slightly rewritten when the RWB re-launches.
Status
Being made
Location
Serialised in The Red, White & Blue from issue 3 - in series 1 and 2. Series 3 may have it from issue 1.
Misc Note
Actually, there will be little hints at fascism slipped in to the story. The first story owes more than a little to The Iron Pirate, a serial from the first volume of Chums (though it was also published in an easier-to-find hardback book between the world wars).
Shag Shack / Shag Shack 2
Set in
2066
Created in
1997/8
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
Don't remember. Joanna Crayne, though not yet named, was in one of them.
Description
There was actually several of these, as well as a bunch of pictures. They were all porn comics I created as horny young teen, with no internet. The Shag Shack is a building where people can go and have orgies. I first saw it in a dream, where it was in central London, towering over most of the other buildings. Some old granny was complaining about it on the news, and you could see it from the window of her flat. Mind you, it was also blasting out eyebeefer club choons at festival volume all night, that would tend to piss people off.
Anyway, most of these comics were drawn during a fap, then destroyed before my parents found them. Some were saved for a bit longer, but the artwork was so bad, I slung them anyway.
Status
Lost
Location
Lost
Misc Note
If I remember rightly, there wasn't any male homosexuality or under age characters in these ones. They were primarily inspired by the odd bit of late-night softcore I managed to catch on Sky.
Shag Shack Extreme
Set in
2066
Created in
1998/9 - 2000/1
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
Description
An EXTREEEMEEE version of Shag Shack, with male homosexuality, loli, shota, hinted-at SM, and, most shocking of all, a vague attempt at a coherent plot (imagine that, eh?)! It also made it beyond 3 pages. In fact, it's surprising how much I did do, considering it was the best possible artwork I could do, at that time (which isn't saying much). Anyway, it's about the rivalry and spying between the Shag Shack and Luv Tower, two sex orgy parks. The boss of the "bad guys", the Luv Tower, looks hotter than the Shag Shack guy.
Status
Offline, all the pages with under-age characters have been incinerated (with clincal waste out of a lab, no less). Overwritten in the continuity by Agent Smoke.
Location
In a folder somewhere. Well, bits of it are
Misc Note
One of the "main characters" (it jumps around) was a prototypical "Qeueing Woman", who was a prototypical Sarah Millman, who is the main character of Agent Smoke. The boss of the Luv Tower was a prototypical Andy Crayne.
Robojacked
Set in
2081
Created in
1994 / 5
Type
Mooted videogame
Main Characters
None named
Description
A plan for a videogame I had, based on the early Doom-inspired FPS craze (Duke Nukem 3D, Alien Triology etc). You are on a huge hovering cruise ship thing, which gets taken over by crazed robots. The ideas got pretty ridiculous. Everything was going to be destructible, so you could use explosives to blow holes in the decks, and could even fall out. There would also be friendly security guards who could help you / would react to what you did. And it would have a text block that would make sarcastic commentary on what you were doing.
The most ridiculous part of it, though, was the number of weapons it was going to have - including about 5 different kinds of swords, 3 types of taser, and vast numbers of firearms and explosives. There was even going to be magical weapons that would summon giant bees, and so on.
Instead of a status bar, like Doom, the game was to have had a "status block", taking up about a third of the top of the screen. This had pictures of every weapon, showing if you had them, and how much ammo they had.
Once when my brother and I were sleeping in the same room for some reason, he said "up comes the status block" in his sleep, which I took the piss out of. Another time I dreamed of this game really existing myself, the player was strafing into a glass-partitioned side-room (with a wolfenstein-like sliding door, only it was glass) and shooting a robot with the 3-barrel machine gun off Duke Nukem 3D. This dream made me beleive the game was *destined* to be made. Guess how well that turned out?
Status
Never made.
Location
A few pictures survive somewhere.
Misc Note
Planned when the only "computer" we had access to was a Megadrive. If you take out the destructible scenery, and dumb down the guards, this could be made as an EDGE wad. If I was nuts.
Time Travel Patrol
Set in
2100 (also 1968 and 1888)
Created in
1997/8
Type
Comic strip
Main Characters
Don't remember. One may have been Veronica, Valerie... something V anyway.
Description
A very stupid story I came up with because I dreamed of random scenes from it. I still regard it as the worst strip I've ever made. It wasn't finished (of course), and I was kind of bored of everything, drifting and purposeless, at that time of my life (I was basically just waiting for the internet to happen. Well it existed, but we didn't have a computer). It wasn't even called "Time Travel Patrol", that's a retcon. It was called "Something".
Anyway, it was about time travel agents, with a spaceship that could turn into things. They went back to the Vietnam war, to fetch a female American soldier who looked like Vasquez off of Aliens. Their ship turned into a phone box (owing more to Bill and Ted than Doctor Who). To travel in time, it went into the ground. It also passed a subterrenian civilisation with comfortable, well-lit cities and high technology, located beneath war-torn Vietnam. Nobody commented on this at all. They came out near London in 1888, and after some mucking about in a big railway station, got back in the time ship, which now looked like an ornate wardrobe.
Status
Offline, mostly lost.
Location
A page or two might be kicking about somewhere.
Misc Note
Niagra Falls!
Set in
2120 (guess)
Created in
1995/6
Type
Written story
Main Characters
Description
A very short, and very stupid story about a NASA spaceship in the early days of Human FTL travel (in my old timeline, it was invented in 2100. In the new one, we are 'given' it in 2173). It flies past an alien planet, gets shot down, and two members of the crew survive. They trek across the planet, shooting anything that moves (the inhabitants are four-armed, green humanoids), get into a base, steal an alien ship (which they magically know how to fly), and escape.
Status
Offline, finished. Overwritten in the continuity by Rocket Redferne.
Location
"Published" in Sci Fi issue 1
Misc Note
I used to have quite the knack for coming up with strange-sounding, alien names. Expect Nersilan to show up again!
In the 90's, I drew up a timeline document which represented my first attempt at putting all my stories in a shared universe (also The Spice Girls were still going, and still mega-famous, in 2003... until terrorists blew up the plane they were on). It's been lost for years, now, so I can't remember when all these old space stories were supposed to have happened, though most were in the 23rd and 24th centuries. I do remember that FTL travel was invented in 2100 though, so Niagra Falls, being an "early" story, was probably in the 22nd. The actual dates are just guesswork, though!
Star Avengers
Set in
2150 (guess)
Created in
1995 / 1998
Type
Drawn comic, two mooted videogames
Main Characters
One may have been called Jack. He had a baseball cap and we always called characters with baseball caps Jack.
Description
In the mid-90's, my cousin who had every console excitedly showed off his latest game, Starwing! (aka Starfox). I got home and immediately started designing a game of my own, called Star Avengers. It had 3 characters, who all looked the same, only one had a baseball cap. The game was going to have a one-player mode, flying in a fighter, and a two-player mode, where one player flies and the other shoots, from a ball turret.
Later, my cousin, who now had all of the next-generation consoles, showed me his latest game, Lylat Wars! I also re-found the old Star Avengers title screen picture I had done (I'd otherwise completely forgotten about it), and revived the idea, only this time, I did a comic too! In it, a guy loses all his friends when thier fleet gets attacked by the Dracs (a ripoff of the name of the aliens from Enemy Mine). He hopes Humanity starts a war against them, but the government votes 90% against it. He decides to "go rogue" in a single fighter and defeat them all on his own, roping in two other friends with a two-man ship. They took off aaand... that's as far as it got. I think the plan for the videogame was going to reveal that a corrupt human was "behind it all along". Though I don't really know how.
Status
Offline, unfinished. Some pages survive somewhere.
Location
In a folder somewhere
Misc Note
The Dracs were not supposed to look like the aliens from Enemy Mine, but more like the stereotypical apperance of Count Dracula and other vampires. They will probably turn up in Galactic Conquest as a race called the Draka. They also had cool bat-like fighters I'll probably re-use.
I've just guessed the date this was set, I don't really remember
Rocket Redferne
Set in
2173
Created in
2015 - (ongoing)
Type
Print comic
Main Characters
Description
A fairly hard sci-fi story about human colonisation on the Moon and Mars, which "softens" into a tale of interstellar exploration at faster-than-light speeds. It will have an underbelly of tensions between different human factions and, later, humans and aliens.
Status
Being made
Location
To be serialised in The Red, White & Blue from issue 5
Misc Note
The first part was going to be a blatant ripoff of an old DC Thomson story, but I changed my mind and re-started it. Now it's a story of interplanetary intrigue and terrorism, and technically a "fan"fic of Harold Covington's White seperatist-themed Northwest Quintet... with heavy ripping-off of The Expanse, to boot.
Star Cops
Set in
2215 (guess)
Created in
1997/8
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
None named
Description
A story that was pretty similar to Galactic Conquest, while also taking more than a little inspiration from Space Precinct. It wasn't about the Starkill war, but about cops, who were based on a station orbiting an ocean planet, stopping smugglers. The smugglers had a submarine disguised as a huge 'shark', which had a double-layered hull full of ants (so it will show up on a life form scanner, ya see). The cops were all human, though the planet was inhabited by "fish men", only one of these is seen, wearing a water-filled suit.
One of the ships used, called a Tri-Gun (because it has 3 guns, though otherwise it's like a space van), shows up again in UFO War, where it's an old piece of junk. So this story must be set before then.
Status
Offline, finished. No longer canon.
Location
In a folder somewhere
Misc Note
These twats at school, who were like nerd bullies, saw me drawing it, and droned "Star Cops?? Isn't that a take-off of Blast Corps?". Yeah, that's it, my comic about cops in space is ripping off an N64 game about smashing shit with mechs, and not a contemporary TV show about cops in space. You thick cunts. And they pronounced it "Blast Corpse", too.
I've just guessed the date this was set, I don't really remember
Galactic Police
Set in
2216
Created in
1997 / 8
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
Dunno
Description
"Actually" called "Galtic Pocil", this was a sci-fi cops comic my brother made, doubtless heavily inspired by the Playstation game G Police. I remember nothing about it, so am just going to headcanon it as a sequel to Star Cops.
Status
Offline, lost
Location
Lost
Misc Note
A "coming soon" teaser image from it, with a very WW1-looking boxy armoured car shooting at something, does survive.
How Did Forest Warriors Start?
Set in
2219 (guess)
Created in
1995/6
Type
Written story
Main Characters
None named.
Description
A story based on a dream I had, in which I was on a spaceship, watching a recording of an escape pod being launched. This was in blue-and-white wireframe, and animated at maybe 7fps. Welcome to the future! Anyway, this uncomfortably retcons the creation of "FW" (Forest Warriors, originally Forest Warders), an alliance of Humans and and the natives of a planet called Nirisan, to almost immediately before Galactic Conquest. Also, the humans discover the planet Nirisan almost by accident, and the Nirisonians have more advanced technology than they do.
Anyway, the main gist of the story is that an exploration ship is sucked into a wormhole, emerges near Nirisan, and is shot by an ion cannon (which shuts down the ship's electrical systems). Somehow the ship "lands perfectly" (though the illustration shows it snapped in half), after the crew all took to escape pods. Unfortunately "the professor" is missing. But luckily he escaped in his own cryogenic freezing escape pod. He is pulled in on a tractor beam, makes an alliance with the Nirisonians, and everything is fine.
Status
Offline, finished. Overwritten in the continuity by Rocket Redferne.
Location
"published" in Sci Fi issue 3
Misc Note
I lost my old timeline document, so I've just guessed when these old space stories were set.
Galactic Conquest
Set in
2220 - 2320 / 2361(guess)
Created in
1995 - 1998 / 2001 / 2004
Type
Drawn comics, a few text stories
Main Characters
Naraki... is the only named character in any of the stories. There was tons of others.
Description
Galactic Conquest was the overarching name for a whole load of pictures, comics and stories I did. The first bunch were done alongside latter-day Cart Wars, around 1995, but they really got going from 1996 onwards, when I was at secondary school. The early ones were just general space battles, but it eventually evolved into "FW", from the planet Nirisan, fighting against Starkill, who were aliens from another galaxy, invading the Milky Way.
Very few of the characters had names, the comics just sort of jumped around different people who were fighting in space battles. The text stories also jumped around, but (at least sometimes) tried to name the characters they jumped to. We (as in, my cousin and I) also planned on making a film. In the film we'd play ourselves, as the astronauts we were inevitably going to be in the year 2000 (aged 16!), somehow we end up travelling to the future (Russian space pirates are involved), becoming the captains of our own star ships. My cousin insisted that his ship should be an Excelsior Class from Star Trek, so for years Galactic Conquest was awkwardly slotted in alongside the original series of Star Trek, supposedly the Romulans, Klingons, Borg etc were all on "one side" of the Federation and my stories were happening on the other. One comic I drew at school even had a cameo of the Enterprise in it, The "nerd bullies" mentioned above just loved that, eagerly declaring their knowledge of "where" I'd "got that" "idea". Also all of the Lego Space ranges such as M-Tron, Spyrius, Exploriens etc were part of Galactic Conquest, too. Putting the Lego "sides" in it was mostly Robert's idea, though I was more enthusiastic about that one.
The "main" comic strip must have been about 30 pages of barely-sensical space battles, with very heavy inspiration from Star Wars. I mainly did that strip at school, then lost it. A lot of the ones I still have are about what happened after the Starkill war, with various factions of space pirates and other enemies. I also did a lot of "technical files" about the spacecraft and planets involved.
Around 2001, I started to make a slightly better story, about Starkill capturing one of FW's biggest ships (while it was mostly deserted during a refit). This one actually had a named character! She was called Naraki, and was one of the green-skinned natives of Nirisan. In 2004, I started to make "the definitive story", which I intended to computer colour and put online. I finished one page.
Status
Offline, mostly lost. Overwritten in the continuity by the re-make
Location
In a bunch of folders
Misc Note
The folder with the Naraki story was used for YEARS as my A4-sized pad for drawing Insanity Please, Felney and a lot of the Red, White & Blue on. That story was also going to be made into a Doom wad. I made a bit of it, but I'm pretty sure it's lost. There was also a Vitalize! Galactic Conquest game, but Vitalize! no longer works. I should recompile the game into a download, maybe...
I've just had to guess when this was set, It was definitely the 23rd and 24th centuries, though.
Animal Cruiser: Raven
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Set in
2229 (guess)
Created in
1993 / 4
Type
Game played as kids, some pictures
Main Characters
My brother and me
Description
We pretended my bunk bed was a spaceship, and flew in it, shooting at hordes of imaginary enemies that were attacking us. It bore more than a little resemblance to Bucky O' Hare, now that I think about it. There was presumably a whole fleet of animal cruisers (the size of the ship was more like a rivergoing "cabin cruiser" boat, than a warship). I also drew a few pictures of it. It was drawn to look like a light brown bird with a yellow beak. You know, just like a raven.
It ended when my brother stuffed a bright green, glow-in-the-dark skull up in the "ceiling", going "wow, that was a near miss!". I asked him what the green thing was meant to be. He faltered a few moments, then screwed his courage to the sticking place and just came out with it: a "laser bullet". Lauging and punching followed.
Status
Finished
Location
The one surviving picture might still be around. On the other side of the world.
Misc Note
The concept was revived for Captain Sunset, over in the Omicron universe. By "revived" I mean Captain Sunset's yacht is called The Raven, pretty much everything else is different.
Galactic Conquest (Re-make)
Set in
2315 - 2333
Created in
Not yet
Type
Print comic
Main Characters
XXput here laterXX
Description
A re-make of Galactic Conquest is on the cards. It ought to clear up the mess of unfinished, contradictory and nonsensical stories by pulling them all together and setting them all in a Starkill war with a solidly-defined beginning and end. Also I'll knock the Star Trek and Lego elements on the head, and set it entirely in it's own universe (though the Earth Empire's ship designs will probably be fairly Federation-ey). It will probably incorporate all the main elements from the old GC strips, and the UFO Wars too. Oh, and the characters will actually have names!
Status
Not started yet
Location
Not made yet
Misc Note
No doubt it will have plenty of ripped-off plot elements from Trek, Wars, Who and LOGH - Especially if I've learned enough Japanese to understand the box set by then.
The Gun 3
Set in
2320
Created in
1998
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
Steve Gunn, Tanya Urovsky
Description
"At the end of" The Gun 2 (we didn't make that in order, so my brother drew the ending story before the rest of the books were finished), Steve Gunn died while fighting off a zombie invasion. I said he ought to be killed by being shot in the neck, but avoiding spinal damage, so his brain and organs would be intact. But my brother had him ripped apart by an explosion, instead. Anyway, he was cryogenically frozen and woken up in 2320 (initially it was 3020, but the technology in the story looked too 90's for it to have been that far ahead). He then proceeds to shoot the doctor who revived him, and a cop, for absolutely no reason, and escapes. Fortunately the future turns out to be a dictatorship, so he's justified in joining the "resistance", and fighting against it.
I also tried to make the dictatorship look bad by depicting future London as really smoggy, but by the end of the first story the resistance build a bunch of "Anti Smog" ships, which suck up pollution and pump out clean air. By the second story, the sky is completely clean. Mostly becuse drawing all the smog was annoying. Also somehow it appears the people still side with the government against the resistance, even though they cleaned up all the pollutin.
Status
Offline, unfinished. Overwritten in the continuity by the re-make
Location
In a folder somewhere
Misc Note
I did so many World War 3 stories, that I always automatically drew two badges on people, indicating they were in one of the two WW3 armies. The dead Gunn on the cover of the first book was supposed to have been a cop, by that time, but he's wearing an army uniform.
The Gun 3 (Re-make)
Set in
2338
Created in
Not yet
Type
Print comic
Main Characters
Steve Gunn, Tania Urovsky
Description
A re-make of The Gun 3, now set just after Galactic Conquest, where the Earth has decided it would be "safer" to become a military dictatorship (most of the people who lived there during the war were also enslaved by Starkill for at least part of thier lives). The resistance is using old-style guerilla tactics against them, and is able to beat the empire's forces in a number of battles (those forces being used to Starkill's "stand up" fighting). They un-cryogenically freeze Steve Gunn, and get him to help fight the resistance, but he defects.
Status
Not made yet
Location
Not made yet
Misc Note
Tania and Tanya will be considerably different characters!
Star Disc
Set in
2323 (guess)
Created in
1996 / 7
Type
Written story
Main Characters
They had names, but I can't remember any.
Description
A pair of text stories set around a large space station, based loosely on one of the levels from Starwing / Starfox. The Star Disc is a huge space station with two discs on top of a big asteroid. One side is a flat "landing field" for ships, the other is a giant city with skyscrapers, apparently just exposed to space. Anyway in the two stories the Star Disc comes under attack from pirates who are somewhat easily defeated. They read like videogame levels, one is about the crews of "mega turrets", which are gun emplacements with all sorts of varied weapons on them. The pirates use fighters which look like cheesy old rockets from retro sci-fi (or Elon Musk's Starship!).
Status
Finished, "published" in two issues of Sci-Fi
Location
In a folder somewhere
Misc Note
The location of the Star Disc will probably be re-used in Galactic Conquest. It'll probably look very different, mind you.
UFO War
Set in
2345-2350 (guess)
Created in
1997/8/9
Type
Drawn comics
Main Characters
Description
Stories set "after" the Starkill war (apart from one GC strip in which a new Starkill war started). UFO War 1 and 3 were about the Lego UFO's (a new range they had launched, my friend Robert insisted on incorporating the various Lego space ranges, like Spyrius and M-tron, into the Galactic Conquest universe) attacking Nirisan. UFO War 2 was about, erm, well...
The Teletubbies. Yes, the Teletubbies were an evil race of aliens who cobbled together spaceships and tried to conquer the universe, starting by diverting a comet so it will crash into a planet called Inflisha. UFO War 2 and 3 bucked the trend of these sci-fi comics by having characters with names! UFO War 2 had Lucy, a woman with a scar on her face, who had apparently been almost killed by the Teletubbies before (I intended to do a story about this, but didn't). UFO War 3 had a guy called Paul, and some other woman who was apparently a plant. She was inspired by a dream I had, where she kissed a bad guy, putting seeds in his mouth, and bamboo immediately burst out of his stomach. Readers of Norman Saxon may find that a little familiar!
Status
Offline, Finished. No longer canon, will be incorporated into the Galactic Conquest re-make
Location
in a folder somewhere
Misc Note
As well as the Lego designs, the aliens also had bombers, which had a big, stylised exclamation mark on the tail fins. This was also inspired by a dream I had. The aliens' big ships looked like primitive copies of ships from Star Trek.
As with the other old space comics, I've just guessed the setting date, I really can't remember when it was supposed to be
Crazy Jim's Meat Co
Set in
2345-2350
Created in
1997 / 8 / 9
Type
Drawn comics
Main Characters
I think some had names, but I don't remember now
Description
There was two of these, one made by me and one by my brother. Actually, my one wasn't called "Crazy Jim's Meat Co", but I don't remember it's actual name. Either way, Crazy Jim's was a company that had a redneck-looking alien as it's logo, and procured and delivered meat around interstellar space. They used ships with 4-5 decks, which were otherwise like space "trucks", towing a line of "trailers". Inspired by a crappy B-movie we rented once called Space Truckers. In the first one they fought against the evil Teletubbies from UFO War 2 (who seemed far more animalistic). In the second, the crew of a ship found a strange, dead alien on board and... that's as far as it got.
Status
Offline
Location
in folders or drawing pads somewhere
Misc Note
Made at the tail end of the "Galactic Conquest is around the fringes of the TOS-era Federation idea, the first one features a cameo by a Miranda class ship from Star Trek. Yes, of course it gets blown up.
Scorpio Spaceport
Set in
2345 (guess)
Created in
1998/9
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
No names
Description
This was really a side story in the UFO Wars. The UFO's attack Scorpio Spaceport, which was a thing I'd built out of lego. It had two "machine gun" emplacements (much like those on the Millenium Falcon), and one heavy gun. I had been inspired to build it by watching the film Outland. I wanted to do a comic strip like the movie, with intrigue and conspiracies inside the base - but that was well beyond my writing and drawing abilities of the time (still is!), as it would have required distinctive characters with different names! Anyway, this threatened to turn into yet another space battle between nameless people in fighters, so I canned it.
Status
Offline, unfinished. Overwritten in the continuity by the Galactic Conquest re-make
Location
In a drawing pad somewhere
Misc Note
The name Scorpio Spaceport will probably be used in the Galactic Conquest re-make, but that's it XD.
Space Race
Set in
2350 (wild guess)
Created in
1996 / 7
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
None named
Description
A semi-serious comic about various spaceships having a race. I think my friend Robert described the idea to me down the phone, and much later I made my own comic about it, with what I could remember. The racetrack is made of forcefields. There's also mines in it to blow up unwary competitors. At one point a big cargo ship gets "locked in the track" by the one-way forcefields, but hits a mine and blows up. Two of the competitors are using an X-Wing and a TIE Interceptor.
Status
Offline, unfinished
Location
In a folder or drawing pad somewhere.
Misc Note
As well as integrating my old space stories with Star Trek TOS, Star Wars was also supposed to have "really happened" there, but still in a far-away galaxy, so they only "knew a little about" the "far-off conflict".
Planet Felney - Asteroid Racer
Set in
2406
Created in
2002
Type
Videogame
Main Characters
Description
A very simple videogame, fly through an asteroid field and don't crash. I've now decided this is the sort of antics TIN-4 got up to with her previous owner's car. After she crashed it she was recovered and dumped on a scrap heap. Aaron and Vinny trash picked her, fixed her up and made her their servant-bot. Only they don't want to be seen as lazy, so she doesn't really do much.
Status
Finished
Location
Misc Note
The only thing I ever made with Game Maker. Remember when there was a Game Maker community hub thing? People could finish their game and directly upload it to a big central website. Those were the days, eh?
Asteroid Racer 3D
Set in
2406
Created in
2003
Type
Videogame
Main Characters
Description
A very crappy re-make of Asteroid Racer, only I made it with Darkbasic and encountered no end of ridiculous, nonsensical errors and restrictions. For instance:
I could only use a small, square tiled image for the background.
When I initially set it up, I put the first asteroid at 1000 in-game units away from the spaceship, only the asteroid spawned inside the spaceship. Even the Darkbasic forums were baffled by this one
The title screen logo decided to flash on and off in an epilepsy-inducing manner even though I'd only programmed it to simply appear, nothing else
Making a MIDI file play in the background made the whole game turn into a festival of blurry trails and run too fast. All I did was entered the code to make it play a midi, I'd done NOTHING to the rest of the code.
Status
Finished
Location
Misc Note
£25 well spent on getting Darkbasic, eh? What a heap of shit.
Planet Felney
Set in
2407
Created in
2001-2
Type
Webcomic
Main Characters
Mikesmith, Aaron Anderson, Kitty Vinny, TIN-4 href="/storyinfo/characters/minor_characters.html#futuremei">Mei Yonghong
Description
Like Ye Legend of Felney, this was originally just a picture, which I turned into a strip. Future versions of Mike, Aaron and Vinny live together on Planet Felney, only in this they're students. Also Vinny is a cat, Tina is a robot and Ann is completely replaced by a girl called Mei.
Status
Finished
Location
Mixed in with Classic Felney, with the first strip here.
Misc Note
A third print book of Felney will probably feature a re-make of this.
The Gun 4
Set in
5000
Created in
1998/9
Type
Drawn comic
Main Characters
Description
A sequel to The Gun 3, which my brother made. Steve Gunn got cryogenically frozen again, woke up in the year 5000 and found his old sword from Book 3 of The Gun. He steals it from a museum, but is arrested and sent to prison. One of the guards gave another prisoner an old 9mm pistol, as a joke. The prisoners don't understand how to use such ancient technology. Steve Gunn does know, and leads a break out. Also one guy called Kain is an "enchanter", and able to use magic.
Status
Offline and lost. Overwritten in the continuity by the re-make.
Location
Lost
Misc Note
At one point they shot a guy with an "electric gun", his hair sticking up and cap on top looked like a chef's hat. I kept annoying my brother by saying "why did they shoot the chef?".
The Gun 4 (Re-make) / The Watchers
Set in
15586
Created in
Not yet
Type
Print comic
Main Characters
Steve Gunn, Karn, Zarn
Description
Steve Gunn somehow ends up in the far-distant future, where humans live in a dyson sphere and are all really small, pale and peaceful. This will probably be a pretty short story! I know how it's roughly going to go, but that'd be a spoiler! It's just going to "tie up" the Steve Gunn saga.
Status
Not made yet... maybe 2040?
Location
Might only be in the end of a "complete The Gun" collected print book.
Misc Note
May or may not end up leading into something totally different. My brother DID also start to create a The Gun 5...