origin story

so a few of you have axed me via e-mail, "why boy anachronsim? i thought you hated the word boy. or boi. or biy. or buoy. what sup?" (note: that was exaggerated questioning)

so here's the origin story of the term "boy anachronsim."

it all started my junior year in high school with my friends henry and james. we were all very into comic books. so we decided to start our own. so i wrote and henry and james drew. we decided to be very self-conscious (i don't think that's the word i was looking for, so it'll just have to do), and we based the main characters and villians on ourselves. loosely. my character was the anti-hero boy anachronism, so was literally an anachronism. originally from the year 3012, when he developed his uncontrollable time-traveling powers at the age of 12. he spent several years in the 1800s, a year in 2020 (where he worked as the assistant to a cyborg barbara walters), until finally arriving in 1997. his travels, however, made him a little crazy. and he tended to say things that others didn't understand or get the reference to. sound familiar?

james's character was called tourniquet. his power was to be able to do drugs and then transfer the feelings associated with the drug use to others. his drug of choice was heroin. both in print and real life.

henry's character was called guzzler. his power was to be able to guzzle large amounts or any liquid and turn it into large amounts of urine. so it really wasn't much of a power and more of a bladder problem, which henry really did have.

we produced about five comics and actually sold a couple of them at the local comic book establishment in brownsville. we probably would have stuck with it, but james killed himself in 98, and henry and i drifted apart after that. so yeah. no happy ending. no coming back from the dead as is ever so popular in comic books. just endings.

in fact, i had kinda buried the comic book away in the back of my head until recently when i got really into the dresden dolls and fell in love with their song "girl anachronism."

so yeah. that's it. tada?