It’s my hope that as readers follow Henry Henry’s exploits, they begin to wonder what made him the way he is. There is a lot of humour in Fearscape, but there is also a fair amount of emotion.
(Comic reviewers being the obvious exception.) One of the most important things that a writer discovers in the early days of their career is that their readers are just as intelligent as them, if not moreso. Unlike Henry Henry, Fearscape’s protagonist, I know how deviously intelligent readers can be. Well then clearly the story is going to end with…”, type reactions from readers. I’d rather avoid “Oh that was his inspiration. RO: The risk in answering this question too directly would be to give the game away. OM: What were your inspirations that are at work within this story? It’s very much a story aware of itself and its own literary pretensions, in a humorous way. OM: You’re playing with some well-worn literary genres and tropes, but in a very different way? Sadly, it seems most of modern comics have only sought to replicate his parlour tricks. If you remove all the formalist experiments and literary intertext in his work, his stories still have a beating, human, heart underneath. I’ve always admired Alan Moore’s ability to craft such layered comics with his collaborators. RO: Fearscape is certainly the most ambitious story I’ve written. OM: Is it fair to say that Fearscape seems to be your most ambitious book yet, dealing with some pretty heavy literary ideas? A fake man in a fake land…this is the story of the wrong person answering the call to adventure, and the doom that followed. Mistaking him for our greatest Storyteller, she ushers him into the Fearscape. All has been well for eons, until The Muse encounters Henry Henry-a plagiarist with delusions of literary grandeur. Once per generation, The Muse travels to Earth, discovers our greatest Storyteller, and takes them with her to the Fearscape to battle these fear-creatures on our behalf.
The Fearscape is a world beyond our own, populated by the manifestations of our greatest fears. As for what it’s about in a more pragmatic sense, allow me to refer you to the blurb:
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