These 10 pages were done during the months of March to April 1999.
Having done A Heart Made of Glass, I was interested in trying
to do the perspective of another human being other than myself, a
teenage girl.
The broader story behind it, was a woman who gives herself to the man
she loves, then realizes that he doesn't view the losing of her
virginity with quite the same importance as she did. She overhears
a conversation between her boyfriend and her friends about the event,
and, if you know guy talk, it wasn't anything she needed to hear.
She has a heated argument with her boyfriend, which ends badly. She
runs off and makes the declaration "I hope no one ever gets close to
me again."
As it is, her declaration comes true. Eminating from her body "psychic
spikes" come forth whenever she gets close to anyone. These spikes,
which at first, aren't visible, make people who get close to her
nauseous. Hence the name "Spike". Anyways, it was to be an
exploration of loneliness when one cannot get close to people, the
"powerful imprisonment of losing the ability to feel the warm
contact of those you care about." I still kind of like the premise,
but lack the motivation to do it, like every other project I think
of except Sexy Losers.
Although Sexy Losers took my focus away from Spike!
permanently, this comic was important to me as a transition from
A Heart Made of Glass to Sexy Losers.
