Arc

Arc started over a decade as another generic superhero designed by the over-active (and not always all that original) imagination of a teenage boy looking to break in to comics. That Arc never reached past a few mere plot ideas and even then was vastly different. (To the point that Arc was a teenaged boy.)

After rereading much of Terry Moore’s always engaging Strangers of Paradise in 2006 and watching far too many episodes of Veronica Mars, that former teenager hit on the idea to reinvent his teenaged creation in to something new. The female Arc was born in the notebooks of Nicholas Ahlhelm.

But it would be another year of frustrating script writing and unfinished projects with flaky artists (many of which have since become stories at Metahuman Press) before Nick would feel his characters and his script writing were ready for a project he refused to let die.

It was through Digital Webbing that Nick met UK based Jay Rainford-Nash. Jay instantly brought great designs to the cast of our series that blew Nick away. And unlike those previous collaborators, both creators were willing to stick it out to the finish.

It has been nearly two years as higher paying work has kept the project at a slow but steady pace, but in September 2009, Arc makes it official debut… and brings two new voices to the comic page.