As I am in the process of re-releasing Firebutt #1: The Gathering with new chapters and art, I thought I’d bestow upon you guys every month 1 chapter (episode) of the book itself to read on my site! Down below is the 1st. Enjoy!
Tag: Firebutt
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Writing Update! Firebutt #2 Changes!
Some of the best material written in comic books and manga have the rare occasional thing where they put a pause on the storytelling pace with a story or freeverse of sorts that has very little to do with the story at hand. The Watchmen by Alan Moore had Tales of the Black Freighter peppered throughout the graphic novel and had those segments never been inseminated within, the classic graphic novel we know today would likely be pages thinner and possibly to the measure of almost a whole chapter. In the Bleach manga by Tite Kubo, you had bits of freeverse poetry and phrases put between some of the manga volumes and chapters. I find that little things like that add value to those tales.
For this reason, I’ll be giving Firebutt #2 a bit of a modification. I had a particular way of writing Firebutt, especially considering the various characters in his team but alas it’s come to my attention that sometimes, you need something a little less direct to keep it fresh. I noticed this as I tried to continue writing the issue and yet I find myself with blank space…or do I? Of course the counter question is due to the fact that I found poems, freeverse and short stories completely unreleased, that I can inject in between chapters in the upcoming issue to freshen the pace.
Until next time Gunz Crew,
Ron Gunz
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Off the Radar! Upcoming stuff and other things.
I know, it’s been a slow few weeks and unfortunately, nothing of huge note to put up on the blog as of late. You could say it’s been a tad uneventful, kind of like last night’s Super Bowl scoreboard. Thankfully today, I have some announcements on what I’ve managed to start doing.
- Tribe By Noire Review Series! For those of you that know (or already knew), I had spent a good year under the tutelage of Remson Noire of Tribe By Noire — a Personal Trainer whose focus is on fitness, plantbased dieting and mindset training. I’ve wanted to eventually put on video my experience with him and how being under him has helped me sharpen up in preparation of tackling the world of personal training and fitness. Initially, I was attempting to do one big video however, upon 2 to 3 takes, it became clear that with the detail, along with how it impacted me, I would have to turn it into a video series on my Ron Gunz channel on YouTube. I’ve managed to record the first part and I have to still do parts regarding the training, techniques involved and how he helped me with the plantbased dieting, which initially can be somewhat of a daunting task.
- Firebutt #1 is now on paperback! Yes, it was an e-book only via Amazon but now it’s out in paperback form and I couldn’t be happier.
- Firebutt #2 writing is resuming. I will be sincere when I say that it is tricky when you try to write stories using a similar layout as Dante Alighieri’s work (Inferno/Purgatorio/Paradiso/VitaNuova) instead of regular paragraphs. Then consider that I am not even focusing on artwork yet, especially cover art as I am literally working off the last chapter of #1 in order to keep the story tightly knit going into #2 because the last thing a writer needs to do in a writing series is work on a followup that has zero connection to the previous and thus leaving the reader wondering about the transition and story flow. Even something as wild as Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure has the sense of continuity.
- Gunz Crew Vol. 1 is having a bit of a pause. I need to re-record guitars and bass on one track as I was unsatisfied with the mix even after I thought I was good to go. Yes folks, sometimes I can KO something with little effort but sometimes, when the audio anal in me kicks in, things go in a different direction. I ended up also starting another track with keyboards and it got me so sucked in that despite it not sounding like something that should be in the album…it’s staying, it simply is.
As more develops, the more you’ll see here but until next time, stay awesome Gunz Crew.
Ron Gunz
