#brainwreck

So, I’ve been working on BRAINWRECK!

BRAINWRECK is a short action-comedy webcomic that I’ve been putting together since around June of last year! Set during the psychotechnology bubble of 2072, a psychic detective on her morning commute receives a vision of the future; A bomb has been planted somewhere on the train, and she has 15 minutes to find it, disarm it, and catch the culprit who placed it there.

I aim to have it completed by late 2026/early 2027. When that comes around, it’ll be posted on here under the tag #brainwreck as well as on itchio as a pdf!

First up on the list of introductions is none other than our main protagonist herself, the Detective! She was born psychic, but with abilities on the lower end of the ESP strength spectrum the detective was raised to trust her intuition above all else, and as a result her determination can pay off in droves. Sharp, headstrong, and unwilling to give up, she got into the detective business because she found the work came naturally to her, despite the clash in personalities with her boss.

It's been a while since I posted a BRAINWRECK update! Meet the Detective's boss! 59. Brash, self-obsessed, and sharp as a knife. A former arms dealer affiliated with a network of backstreet criminals, she opened a detective office early on into her retirement in order to keep tabs on her old rivals. Believes herself to have an eye for talent, and is banking on Elijah to make good on that investment.

PSYCHOTECHNOLOGY is a catch-all term referring to any and all technology that interfaces with the psychic center of the brain.

BRAINWRECK takes place in the middle of a psychotechnology bubble. First harnessed by the R&D department at Spider Burger just under a year prior to the events of Brainwreck, their assets were liquidated and trade secrets exposed following a historic series of car accidents caused by the combination of subliminal messaging technology and a billboard facing the busiest interchange in the city.

Once their documentation became available to the public, an economic arms race began to see who could capitalize off of the new technology the fastest before regulations come and sweep it out of the hands of eager investors.

I will dwell with the little Looney Tunes centurion guy and eat popcorn chicken.

But then I remember that I told my CF-clinic psychiatric doc that I think I sort of dissociate sometimes

And he said, "yeah sometimes that can happen with brains when you're dealing with the kind of very stressful stuff that's 'everyday' to a chronic condition, our minds have an interesting collection of defence tactics and not all of them make sense to us and some of them are a pain in the backside in the aftermath-but they're built in as a protection system and they're working as intended. When we know what they are we can work with them, so they don't get in the way of us living well."