Posted by Joey Peters on Jan 29, 2025
Dissidents of Utopia
This month I finally released the ebook version of Dissidents of Utopia. I've already been hard at work at the sequel, Refugees From Utopia and have about 50% of a first draft. I have been noodling around with some ideas for videos related to DOU but have nothing concrete as yet.
Shop Floors & Supervisors
This is my table-top game. I have about 80% of a first draft ready for this. It's structured as three sub-books: Men & Materialism (functionally the player's guide and main rule book), which I have a draft of, Class Traitors & Capital (a monster manual and tables for treasure) which I very nearly have a draft of, and Workshops & Wilderness Adventures (a sample adventure and Parliamentarian advice) which is about 80% to a draft, and then I'll back port stuff I'm adding to that back to Class Traitors & Capital. I expect to publish early PDFs of the first two books in February. I'm hoping to make some edits in February and March and work on little bits of art for it, then make a full release in April.
Now You See My True Form
This is a Japanese style role playing game where you play as the boss and the heroes come to fight you. I want to hunker down and actually make a minimum viable product of it. I want to do this sometime this winter and then have occasional content releases from time to time. This will become my side project after SF&S is done.
Labor History of Comics
I’ve previously written some zines about the history of comics, specially about how the creators of Superman didn’t see their fair share of profit from the character’s insanely lucrative success. The comic book field is very fertile for issues of labor history. Here are some topics I want to delve deeper into: Neal Adams’ failed attempt to unionize comics, the difference between how Bill Finger and Bob Kane were treated by DC comics, and of course, the history of The King: Jack Kirby and the sharmat Stan Lee. Expect one of these in summer.
Movie Reviews
I just love weird movies and I want to share the strange things I find with my friends. I just wrote a review for Pervirella, a 1997 sexploitation comedy and I have some ideas for other obscure films which are similarly bizarre including The Dragon Lives Again and Hard Rock Zombies. These are easy to crank out (and if I write about something popular people care), so expect them fairly often.
The Gun That Shoots Tits
DOU is my serious face science fiction epic. TGTST is my weird new wave style science fiction project. It’s set in a nightmare future that’s midway between Burroughs’ The Zone from Naked Lunch and Terry Gilliam’s Brazil. The current plan is for it to be in the form of separate short stories in various formats and create them for sale at conventions either bundled together or as a blind bag. Expect pieces of this to start coming out by the fall.