Armageddonquest has been published as a graphic novel (much more impressive & important than just a "big comic book"), but was originally a series of short stories which I'd intended to gather up as a novel. When I started drawing AQ as a comic book the energy of the story took over and thus it was TO BE. However, there is a tradition of AQ as prose which I would like to continue.

Comics are so compact by nature, that sometimes I was frustrated by how much I had to leave out of my 900-page story. So now I find myself writing text stories to fill in the gaps of the narrative, weaving them into the structure of AQ Mythology, free of the comic book structure.

Disciples, for instance, was one of the original Tazio stories I'd written while in college, structured upon my own travel-diary of Katmandu. When I started to transcribe it to computer I found that it was quite out of date with present mythology and had to completely rewrite everything about Tazio. It takes place in Tazio's "hitchhiking negasex superhero" period (Book 15), when he is 16 years old, and corresponds to our "present day" in time, since the finale of AQ is actually slightly in the future. "The Enlightenment of Immanuel" is, however, an entirely new story, starting out just after the finale of AQ, but filling in several holes of earlier history--such as: where did Immanuel come from? or Mariangela?

These stories are therefore a part of the Big Picture, there are explanations and expansions of concepts from the graphic novel, and together they round out a more "total" history. These text stories are, at present, only found here on my 3R Home Page and are not yet published elsewhere. So if you happen to be an actual AQ Fan, you've come to The Source, you lucky devil.