Rapid City is a comic about music.
It’s about super heroes, and werewolves, and robots and stuff, but it is really about music.
What I am saying about super powers in the comic, I am really saying about music. Music gave me a way to think about super powers, and super powers gave me a way to write about music.
One of my biggest inspirations has been the band Rancid. Their music has inspired me, and their progression and development as a band has helped me to plot out the arcs of the major characters in Rapid City.
This comic is really important to me, and this band is really important to the comic book.
So, when I saw that they were booked to play two nights in Boston, I got a ticket and headed down there.
Before the show I saw guitarist and singer Lars Fredrickson outside. I spoke to him briefly and gave him a copy of our teaser comic. He seemed to like it.
The show that night was amazing.
Wednesday, I bought my weekly comic books and headed back down to the show venue. I was hanging around reading my comics when I noticed a small commotion among the other…ummm…among the other stalkers.
Frontman Tim Armstrong was talking to the fans. Cool! I tried to play it cool. I tried to not be a grinning fan boy. But this was the guy who wrote my favorite songs.
I played it as cool as I could.
I showed him the comic and told him about it as best as I could mutter through. He seemed impressed and asked me about it. And I told him more.
Then he asked “You hooked up for tonight?”
He was asking if I had tickets for that night’s show. I didn’t. And I played it cool.
“Not yet.”
And then he turns to the woman who has been filming him and says “Put him on the list.”
Yeah, that was cool.
The show was great. I spent the train ride home scribbling notes in my Rapid City notebook.
What will come of it? Who cares? I just think it’s neat that they were flattered by the comic they inspired me to write.
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