Graves & MacGuffin unveiled

So, probably time to reveal a little project myself and artist Adam Reed (of Nine Planets Without Intelligent Life fame) have been working on for the past few months - a video game-themed graphic novel named 'Graves & MacGuffin'.

Well, it's not just game-related - as the info page explains, G&MacG is '...a noir-ish murder mystery series set in the world of video game development. It features Graves, a video game tester, who rather falls into solving a cornucopia of gruesome or bizarre games industry crimes... He does this with the help of MacGuffin, a sardonic virtual pet rodent who exists inside Graves' handheld gaming system.'

So far, we've got the first 8 pages or so plotted and drawn, and we thought we'd stop, put them online, and gauge interest. Are you a graphic novel publisher or know a publisher who might be crazy and/or shrewd enough to get involved in putting this out? If so, then contact us, and we can chat about it further.

If not then, well, fair enough - we're going to get the comic its own domain, finish up this story on the web, anyhow, and see who enjoys it all the same. Oh, and as for the story concept and setting, this is all just a little odd, maybe. But heck, it twins my experience in the video game industry with my love of the classic detective story and Adam's inspirational art. And I don't wish any of my former colleagues extreme violence, for those wondering. Besides, who doesn't like to see Seaman-like virtual pets solving devious game development murders?

[Actually, this initial tale is based partly on a slightly more 'unrefined' short story (warning, swearing alert!) that I wrote, anonymously, for Insert Credit a couple of years back. Apologies that I didn't get back to respondents suggesting a murder weapon (the interactive part of the story), incidentally - of the 15 or so replies, I would have picked the guy who suggested a crystal Sonic the Hedgehog statue. But then the project veered into leftfield, and as you can see, a sharpened game disc is the culprit in this rebooted version.]