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