season one
At this point, I had been doing the journal comics for a long
time and was itching to tell a longer story. Not that I
had anything in particular in mind, but I didn't get into this
to be Gary Larson.
A long time ago I had an idea about a character who would be
a god who walked among men. I wanted to call him "Paul",
as an alternative to Agamennon or something weighty like that.
Anyway, Paul could open this portal in mid-air and throw
stuff in it. Like people. Then simply close it
behind them. Nobody knew where it would lead, and that
would make Paul a judge/jury/executioner in a sense.
Society, religion, government, and everybody else would freak
out if someone could actually do this.
After a couple of attempts to introduce Paul, I never could
get the character right. So he has a brief appearance at
the beginning as MV's couch mate, but I ended up giving the
power to MV.
So this first ongoing storyline ran from July to October of
2007. Then I stopped. I didn't know what I was doing
and just walked away for a bit.
In August of 2008, I returned to finish the story.