damianhussey

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 other projects,...

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 can make films. And...

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 permanent. And...