Dan Membiela is a comic creator who worked as a writer in the nineties on several obscure indie books and was having trouble breaking into working for mainstream comics. Frustrated with the barriers he was facing in securing work at any of the large conventional publishers at the time, Membiela walked away from the comic book industry for years. Until the year 2016 when he decided to create his own comic book, Good Agent, in reaction to political events that were occurring in the United States. In May, Membiela is set to launch another project on the crowdfunding platform Zoop. Under God is a Handmaid’s Tale like story set in a totalitarian like future where the U. S. has seen itself come under theocratic rule. In Under God a young woman who believes she is part of a system that is doing good discovers that her mission of mercy is actually harming the people she is attempting to help. This week on Part-Time Fanboy, Kristian talks to Dan about his new crowdsourcing project launching in May, how it touches on the concepts of incremental good and the paradox of tolerance, and why he chose Zoop as the platform to launch his latest graphic novel.
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