Long Time Coming

Sometimes it takes a minute for projects to come together.

Two years ago, my buddy Dave Bryant asked me if I wanted to do a book with him.  Dave has a rad ass barnstorming adventurer character called The Aviatrix.  I loved the short he'd done with her in the past and I convinced him to let me write an Aviatrix story.  And I did.  I wrote a 32 page story and knocked out a rough plot.

Here's the rub.

A few weeks later, I read back through the script to do some polishing before I sent it off to Dave.  It was busted.  Some of the stuff I wrote worked great but there were big plot problems and pacing issues I didn't know how to fix.  This was well before I revised my process and learned how to properly plot.  So, at the time, the project was broken in such a way that I didn't have the tools to fix it.

I told Dave it needed a rewrite and that I'd get back to it when I got some free time.  Shamefully that's the last we spoke of it.

Fast forward to last Saturday.

I was moving the comic folder from my old computer to my new computer and reading some scripts for old abandoned projects.  Most of them were fucking atrocious.  No wonder I abandoned some of that shit.    But, when I got to the Aviatrix script, I dug the shit out of a lot of things.  Not only that, but the plot problems I was so worried about 2 years ago are easily fixed.  What the F had I been waiting for?

I spent a few minutes polishing up my favorite scene and sent it over to Dave with a long apology and an enthusiastic message of Hope.  "We can make this fucker fly!"  The whole time, expecting Dave to tell me he has moved on and the project died the day I shelved it.  I put the man off forever and he had every right to tell me just that.

Instead, Dave sent me a kind reply explaining that he too has been busy and not to worry about it.  He said he'd read the script when he got a minute and let me know what he thought.  Today, I got this in my inbox:

How rad is that?

I don't know what will become of this thing.  Dave's still a busy guy and we need to talk about whether or not he has the time to do more.  But I'm glad I emailed him and I'm glad to know that some things are worth a shot even after years of putting them off.