Many of the characters in my web series “Fury of Solace” have evolved along the lines of what I like to call the Cantina Effect.  We all know that when George Lucas shot the infamous “Star Wars” Mos Eisely Cantina scene back in 1977, he did not have names and exhaustive back stories for every single random alien in that …

The first episode of my web series “Fury of Solace” was release in October of 2008, and our first Twitter-based ARG (chronicled in the last post) went live in early July, 2009.  And the proximity to Comic-Con was not an accident.  Our first, purely virtual ARG was such a success that come Comic-Con, we were going to kick it up …

When I created the three-minute video that was to become the pilot episode for my web series “Fury of Solace,” I knew I had a larger story to tell with the character, but I didn’t know when or if I would ever get the chance to tell it.  That first video was actually a contest entry for the “Dr. Horrible” …

Back when I was a staff writer at Comic Book Resources, part of my job involved making the comic con circuit.  At San Diego Comic-Con back in 2007, I was dispatched by my editor to follow up on a Joker recruitment drive that was to take place across the street from the convention center.  What followed was an ingenious Alternate …

So as we were coming into the home stretch for the release of the new cycle of my web series “Fury of Solace,” I started kicking around the idea of starting a behind-the-scenes blog.  I wanted to give people an opportunity to peek behind the curtain, but I didn’t want to break the fourth wall by posting that kind of …