What is The Lonely Spaceman?

The basics: The Lonely Spaceman is afull-color, 128-page comic written by me and illustrated by MattHope. It will be published to the web at LonelySpaceman.com (sitecurrently under construction) at the rate of 3 pages per week -- apage will publish every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. It will golive in mid-November and run for nearly a year.
So, what's the story? Well, it's sortof a SF fable. I also remember Joss Whedon mentioning about someepisodes of Buffy that the metaphor was very thin. You could say thatThe Lonely Spaceman is a very thin metaphor It's about anastronaut who returns to Earth after a 200-year long mission to findthe planet changed beyond recognition. The only way he can deal withit is to wear his pressure suit, his protective shell, everywhere hegoes. The story is about how he learns to live without his protectivecovering. It has space pirates, romance, and a character based onChristina Hendricks in the Broken Bells music video "The GhostInside." So it's got that going for it.
Broken Bells "The Ghost Inside" from Jacob Gentry on Vimeo.


I found references to The LonelySpaceman in various notebooks going back at least two years. Thestory hasn't changed much in that time, except that it used to bedarker (and that it used to be called The Loneliest Spaceman). I decided to make it more whimsical because I thought thatwould be more palatable, and because I thought it would be more funto write. I think everything I write starts out darker than it endsup in the final version. I am working on my issues, thank you verymuch...
As we get closer to the web site'sactual go-live date, I'll be posting reminders. Many, many reminders,so you can check out the final product for yourself.
Next time: Why a web comic now?