T Campbell's Blog

The last episode of my guest piece airs tonight. It's the most gleefully vulgar thing I've ever written. Even the story title is rated PG.

I really shouldn't, by my own rules, have taken this assignment. But when Joe Flood asked for guest writers... I couldn't stay away.

I mean, his story premise is: future society is slowly but surely moving into the sewers, and the alligators we all knew were there are now developing a taste for human flesh. The unpleasant and dangerous task of gator control falls to this society's outcasts: a talking duck, a Frankenstein monster, and a tough, reedy girl who's good with blunt instruments. The duck and girl have a violently like-hate relationship a la Ranma, with the near-mindless Frankenstein as friend to both and the unconscious mediator.

If there is a way to do characters and concepts like this, and not have fun, I don't know what it is. In "S--theap," we add to the pile the concept of an Alan Moore Swamp Thing riff, only using sewage pipes in place of vegetation. Please see the first sentence of this same paragraph.

Adding to the fun is Joe's accomplished artwork, which has been shooting up in sophistication by leaps and bounds since the series began. He executed all my ideas beautifully and added lots of touches of his own, especially in the facial expressions-- there is so much feeling in that final shot of Cricket.

I hope Graphic Smash subscribers have fun with it, too. They can get the full story from beginning to end, here.