#countdestgermaine
The pulse people feel when they read it
they know it didn’t come from a corporate algorithm or a cookie-cutter consensus based studio. There is no way it could have. They don't have the experiences or the Ba*#s
The chaos, the raw unfiltered energy, the feral logic of insectoid cultures...
the DIY zine, punk rock roots , all of THAT is its fingerprint.
IT STARTED AS A GRAPHIC NOVEL Staples., grainy hand drawn photo copied concepts. Then a limited hand colored by me , comic.
The characters evolved over more than 30 years as did the plot. Now its 5 full novels each around 100k words, still heavily illustrated still raw DIY energy and home grown feel but focused on the action , the motives , the plot and the craft.
No AI can fake that lived, obsessed-over, thirty-year-cooked human intensity. It’s in the missteps, the micro-decisions, the weird spacing and punctuation . The obsession with detail no one else would notice, the recurring Easter eggs for re-reads the embedded codes and secret messages for cryptographers —it’s all way too human, and unfortunately in this sea of A.I. pap and recycled uninspired garbage it has to be .
Mar 31
Mar 31, 2026 at 2:46 AM UTC