FROM THE ARCHIVE #2 — College Comics: No Justice!

FROM THE ARCHIVE #2 — No Justice! (College Comics)

Found these old hand-drawn comics while digging through folders this week.

I made them years ago for a creative writing class, and I’d completely forgotten how elaborate they got.

The series was called No Justice!, and it followed this strange sci-fi/superhero story about a mysterious being called The Phantom—a force no one could fully understand or stop—while scientists and military officials scrambled to explain what was happening around him.

Looking back now, it’s funny how familiar it feels.

Even then I was apparently writing about:

• unexplained phenomena
• fractured reality
• institutions trying and failing to control chaos
• beings crossing dimensions
• the tension between science and myth
• and people trying to understand things larger than themselves

Which… feels suspiciously connected to a lot of what I still write now.

There’s humor in it. Weirdness. Big dramatic speeches. Messy drawings. Interdimensional machines. Coffee stains. Bad handwriting. Way too much ambition for the number of pages I had.

Basically: very on brand.

What I love most about finding old work like this isn’t whether it’s polished.

It’s seeing the breadcrumbs.

The early obsessions.
The repeated imagery.
The ideas that keep returning long before you realize they’re your ideas.

Reading these now feels less like finding something forgotten and more like meeting an earlier version of myself halfway through the trail.

Still weird.
Still dramatic.
Still overcommitted to the bit.

Just with worse drawing skills and less sleep.