Where did the idea for Mordecai Crow originally come from?

Bill Slavin Hi Alexander,
I was banging around ideas for a graphic novel, and as a lover of medieval history I sort of knew that I wanted to set it in a similar world to that after the fall of Rome - visually, as much as anything, because I hate drawing straight lines! The early medieval period must have been a time when people were wandering around in the ruins of a lost civilization, seeing crumbling buildings that they had no idea how they were constructed (fun fact, we lost the ability to make proper cement for a millennium!) and thinking, who were those people that built these colossal structures?
Then, one day our electrical grid went down and stayed down for a few days, and I began thinking, that world could easily be ours. We inhabit a world that few of us really understand how it works anymore, we have become disconnected from such basic things as growing our own food. What if the power stayed down? What if we lost the Internet? Hmmm...
Best wishes,
Bill

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