The Abstruse Adventures of the Black Falcon and Sidekick is my creator-owned comic book series. It follows the titular super-heroes as they entangle themselves in the most absurd misadventures. My tagline pitch at comic conventions has basically boiled down to Batman and X-Men the Animated Series, if those shows were created for  Adult Swim. As a life-long fan of superhero comics and related media, this is my satirical love letter and sardonic parody of the genre I grew up with.  Kurzgesagt...I want to write and draw comics that I like reading.

I originally conceived the story of these characters as an animated series. After a college digital animation project, I began chronicling their adventures. I completed one animated short, The Water Bill voiced by myself and some friends and completed 1/4th of the full length pilot. Suffice to say that, as a one-man animation studio (and having an unrelated full-time job) progress was slow and overwhelming. At the end of 2018, I decided to forego the cartoon and develop it into a comic book series. I completed and self-published the first two issues in January 2021 and February 2022 with my publishing company SpitfirePirate Comics.  

Black Falcon is the altruistic legacy hero with an affinity for the classic super-hero chic (silly catchphrases and puns included) and no powers to boot. Sidekick (that's his name, not his title) is conversely a self-centered, short-tempered, super-powered  badass (self-proclaimed, of course). Together, they get themselves caught up in the insanity that is naturally associated with a world of super-heroes and super-villains. The comics is primarily a humor/adventure comic touching on and subverting common genre tropes. Its influences range everywhere from super-hero comics (obviously) to sci-fi movies, novels, video games, world mythologies and anything else that I deem cool. My intention is that the amalgamation of all these influences congeal into something with a unique narrative voice that doesn't take itself too seriously. Paired with kick-ass artwork (self-proclaimed, of course) hopefully this fosters a combination of something new and refreshing in a genre that's nearing a century in popular culture.