THE JOURNEY

Gunpowder: A Twelve‑Year Journey to the Page (and Beyond) I’ve spoken elsewhere about how Gunpowder  began life as a screenplay and slowly evolved over time. The first draft was written in 2011, a concept trailer was filmed in 2016, and the comic journey officially began in 2023. That’s a twelve‑year span. A lot can happen in twelve years. A Story That Wouldn’t Stay Buried During that time, I wasn’t sitting at a desk endlessly rewriting Gunpowder . Life moved on. I worked on

The idea for The Lost One  had been rattling around in my head for years. It came from a frustration I could not shake. Corruption, cover ups, and the way scandals at the highest levels of society seem to quietly disappear. Why are some people untouchable? Why does accountability so often stop short? And why does it feel like no one is doing anything about it? That question eventually turned inward. If no one else was doing something, why was I not? I'm no vigilante, but I ca

When people hear the phrase “creator owned,” they often assume it’s about money, rights, or leverage. Those things matter, of course. But for Gunpowder , ownership was never about control for its own sake. It was about protection. From the earliest days of this story, back when Gunpowder  existed only as a screenplay I wrote after graduating film school in 2011, I knew it wouldn’t survive compromise. The world is severe. The characters are morally fractured. The outcomes are

The Early Days Growing up, I never had a clear idea of what I wanted to do with my life. I had no career goals and probably did not even understand what that meant. I was told I could choose anything. That sounds freeing, but for a directionless, introverted kid, it was anything but helpful. When I was around fifteen, I became a Christian at a youth camp. From that point on, I knew that God was real. That belief, however, stayed separate from how I lived my everyday life. Soo

When I first wrote Gunpowder  after graduating film school in 2011, I had no roadmap for where it would eventually land. There was no pitch deck, no market strategy, and no plan to turn it into a “franchise.” There was only a story that refused to leave me alone. Back then, Gunpowder  existed purely as a screenplay. It was raw, uncompromising, and unapologetically cinematic. I was heavily influenced by films like The Road , Mad Max , and The Book of Eli . And like a lot of ki