TRANSMISSION #14 // A FEW OF MY FAVORITE THINGS (that I like to write)

 

 

MONSTERS

Always.  Ever since I was a kid (I kept all my notebooks from elementary and high school – jammed packed with creature features).  I wrote (and still write) about them all – werewolves, zombies, sea creatures, vampires (not the kind that sparkle, swoon and pout – the kind that rip throats out and guzzle blood) and varieties of my own monster creations.

I find there’s something liberating about crafting a tale around something that I was convinced was in my closet, under my bed and waiting outside my window when I was a kid.

 

 

ROBOTS

Mine are never there to help humanity, only enslave it.  I prefer the old school kind with full blown retro styling and no facial expressions.  My first real robot influences were the DALEKS (!!!EXTERMINATE!!!) and that means the bar was set pretty high.

Later in life I actually took all my pencil sketches of robotic hordes (most created during grade 7 math class) and mapped out an idea for a future series of retro Sci-Fi novels featuring BUSTER ZACK: ROCKET MARINE. 

Remember.  Robots are not, nor will they ever be, our friends.

 

Robot walks into a bar.

Bartender says “We don’t serve your kind.”

Robot says “Not yet…”

 

 

 MILITARY

Big action.  Big scenarios.  I’m a self proclaimed military gear/history nut and having served in the Armed Forces myself I couldn’t help but absorb everything around me and come up with a ton of ideas.

One of my favorite past Planet Fiction projects features a very high tech unit of Special Forces troopers squaring off against a pack of blood thirsty and powerful demons from Hell.

A new project happening over the next two months, MONTANA’S MARAUDERS, is set in WW2 and features high adventure, weird happenings and all manner of the strange.

Soldiers vs. monsters.

Like chocolate and peanut butter.

Bourbon and coke.

 

 

 

SCIENCE FICTION

Star Wars laid the ground work for what I thought Sci-Fi was supposed to be.

From that point on everything had to be big and epic; space battles, invasions, weird and wonderful lost planets – all influenced with a heavy dose of Flash Gordon, Buck Rogers and John Carter (I don’t care what anyone says, Andrew Stanton…I’d like to shake your hand).

Some people are complaining there’s already too much hype and merchandising for the upcoming Star Wars films.  I see it as way too much fun for one person.

Stoked to be doing what I do.

 

END TRANSMISSION.

– SEAN