Blast-Off Minus 15 Days

I, Byron Barnett, needed my brother to draw me a picture of myself on the Moon.

It all started last Saturday at the comic book store …

I had a brainwave: I should be a character in a comic book!

In 15 days I’ll be living on the Moon where I’ll be having multitudinous space-adventures—perfect to put into comics.

(Or some people spell that “comix.” It’s a big debate.)

So I went straight home and started writing up my idea. I worked on it till dinner. It was spinach lasagna with a side of garlic bread and you couldn’t even taste the spinach.

Then I went back upstairs to finish my outline instead of watching Saturday Evening Cinema in the den. I kept working all the way to bedtime, even with José Ignacio being highly annoying by asking why anybody would want to read a comic book about me. 

He’s not what you’d call an optimist. I pretty much ignore his so-called “opinions.”

Anyhow, I wanted to send the outline to Mr. Berkenbosch for his expert advice. Mr. Berkenbosch owns the comic book store. But I thought I’d better include a picture. People tend to need visual aids to wrap their heads around a fresh idea.

So when I woke up Sunday morning I asked Taji for help.

He was pretty busy that day. There was a car show downtown he was going to. He’s quite obsessed with cars and hovercrafts. He actually subscrives to “Car & Hovercraft.” The magazine.

He thinks he could be a car and hovercraft designer for his job after high school and college, since he’s good at drawing and he loves all things vehicular. Personally I think his future is more artistic than automotive, but to each his own.

In the afternoon, between the car show and a date he was going on, he squoze in enough drawing time to finish a picture for me to send to Mr. Berkenbosch. It’s called “Boon On The Moon.” Which’d be the title of the comic book too. 

It’s a little dark for my taste. And it doesn’t look exactly like me. But’s it’s not too bad.

Here it is:

More soon,
Boon