Hi hi, love your work! While I see you don’t post about them much anymore, I love your work on Atticus Alley and the Seven Gates to Hell and was introduced to you through that project. I was always curious on the actual story with those characters though!
If interested, could you give us a summary of the story premise and lead characters?
Aw gee, this is real nice to hear! I'm always blown away when any of my original stuff makes a dent with anyone. Thanks so much for asking about it!
Atticus Alley and the Seven Gates to Hell is about this gal, Atticus Alley, whose the type of girl that when anyone who knew her found out she got hit by a car and died, they wanted to thank the driver.
The driver was Weston Roads. He's the kind of guy that stands on street corners handing out pamphlets with cracking titles like: "THE END IS NEAR" "YOU, AND THE APOCALYPSE" "THIS TIME, IT'S REAL!" So when he hit a girl with his car while driving to his family's doomsday bunker he didn't have the time to take her to the hospital. No one had that kind of time anymore.
Except the world didn't end.
A year later he runs into this girl that looks exactly like the one he creamed with his car, and she's even got her name, too (he checked her ID). She mentions how she went to Hell, came back, and how the world is going to end soon. For real this time.
Yadda yadda, they end up on a road trip to go kill THE DEVIL because when the world does end, Alley doesn't want to go back to Hell, and Roads is certain he has a one-way ticket there himself.
AA7GH is an idea I had to take a break from when Real Life became so hellish that thinking about hell so much felt tiring. I still like the characters, though, and I hope to revisit them and rework the story into something I can jive with more one day.
