Storm to Me

Storm to Me by Ryan Scales

The Furniture is flying.

I’m playing dodgeball with a lamp, a telephone,

And a TV Remote. I think you’re upset.

You mouth is a gail-force hurricane of 4-letter words

And I have no hope of surviving. A terrible cloud of venom-laced needles,

The insults fall on me like hail and I find myself saying

“Come closer. Bring your storm to me.”

“Hell hath no fury….” So they say,

And here I am still in the middle,

With the wind and the waves and every ounce of your rage.

Your elements batter me every which way and still I say,

“Come closer. Bring your storm to me”

Ironically, I only endure this madness for you,

Because of you and in spite of you,

Remembering the gentle flow of your river and the comfort

Found in the shelter of your mountains as the thunder dies away

And the storm is weathered.

Stay with me. Give your storm to me.

R.I.P. AL WILLIAMSON

Al Williamson was said to be one the best draftsmen I comics. I first discovered his work on my 13^th birthday when my mom bought Marvel Comics’ Daredevil: The Man without Fear miniseries. I’ll be honest; his work didn’t exactly wow me at first glance. It wasn’t until high school when I finally started to take inking seriously that I started studying a lot of inkers and the way they work. Williamson’s name came up in that mix a lot. His works and credits are many but I will always remember him best from his inking on the previously mention Daredevil mini with penciler John Romita, Jr., as well as his extensive run with Rick Leonardi on Marvel’s 1992 series Spider-Man 2099 Daredevil: The Man Without Fear #3

Spider-Man 2099 #3

Finding a Home

I'm starting to think that the best way to get my work noticed is to join a studio. It's working for a lot of my favorites, I mean look at the guys at Udon and Comicraft. Image Comics started out the same way, just a bunch of guys who got together to do their own thing. Problem is these days, everybody's so busy tryin to do their own thing as opposed to a team effort. I tried it once and it opened me to new forms of art, but my passion was for comics and theirs wasn't.

The second time I tried it, I thought found a team that had some fire in their bellies. But they were apart of that generation that was looking for that quick hit. The cash cow. Seriously ADD when it came to the production aspect. They could dream up characters and one-piece visuals but when came time for story-telling they were seriously ADD; over-analyzing their own work, or just had better things to do. They would worry over things like marketability and the animated movie adaptation when their characters haven't even made it off that one scrap of paper they put it on!

Recently I've found one individual that seems to be on the same wavelenth as me(We're rolling down the same highway but not necessarily the same lanes! :)) We've been corresponding for three years and keep each other motivated on the project we started back then. But it doesn't change the fact that I want to be a part of a studio, part of a team that loves to produce great stories, great art and great comics! And who will push me to produce it as well. Until I find it, or they find me or we stumble across each other, I'll keep posting and I hope you all keep viewing. I enjoy the love!.

-Ryan