Introduction

Introduction

Welcome to the first iteration of the Continuing Story of Captain Flanagan. I'll give you some groundwork, then update the story regularly. How regularly? Well, given my inability to stick to a regular writing schedule, that is impossible to say. Perhaps a few times a week, perhaps every other week, perhaps once a month. The important part to note is that there are more on the way. Occasionally, they may contain images as well, as a sort of visual aid.

Now for a little introduction to what this project actually is. Besides a way for me to indulge the overly confident voice in my head that says "Hey, you could be a writer!" (the very same voice that is one hundred percent confident I could survive (and not just survive, but kick ass) in Skyrim, rather than being the villager that runs up to the dragon with a pitchfork and is promptly roasted to a crisp, or that is sure I'd be an expert swordsman given the chance, and definitely wouldn't get stabbed in the shoulder immediately), the point of this space is to develop an idea I've had building for awhile. That idea is, without giving too much away, what if instead of the endless cycle of deaths and rebirths, and reboots, and characters that have increasingly insane reasons for not having aged since the 70s, and a seemingly endless number of continuities, what if instead of all that, there was a comics line that was one, (mostly) coherent universe, that's chronology actually made sense, that didn't need regular retcons, and that characters actually aged and died and were replaced by new characters that weren't necessarily carbon copies (or literal clones) of them. i digress now. Anyways, I know this isn't exactly the most original idea (I'm sure that I'm far from the first to try it either, and that it's been tried on a much larger scale than I'm going for initially!). However, this is my shot at it, to see what kind of a world I can create. It should also be noted that, while taking influence from comics, these won't be actual comics--they'll be written stories, with occasional visual aids mixed in. I lack the talent to be able to consistently produce enough of my own images for a true comics series, and not knowing anyone that has that ability to collaborate with, this is my solution.

Pieces of my stories may look familiar to people, and that's because, well, they probably are. I expect this story will pull from several different sources and archetypes, sometimes more directly than others. That in mind, the stories are my own, rather than straight re-tellings of someone else's!

Initially, my story will follow one character, rather than trying to tell eight different stories at one time. At a later date, if I'm inspired to, I may go back and tell stories centered around other characters, but for now this character is my focus, and this character's name is Cathair Bartholomew Flanagan. Tolly, for short. 

Each entry is considered a "book," even if it picks up directly from where the last one left off. Making this the excerpt you stumbled across by accident while trying to read the paper online, I suppose.

Hopefully some of you follow along with me as I explore and uncover Tolly's exploits!