COLONY ON A DIME
2022
Taking his knowledge and personality as an architectural engineer for AECOM, Stantec, and NASA, Chet Andreyko made a household name for himself in pioneering the construction of Earth's first off-world settlement on Mars.
And now, as the host of HGTV's "Colony on a Dime", Andreyko, alongside his crew, renovate and outfit units while guiding colonizer hopefuls towards the home of their dreams amongst the stars.
Sadly, "Colony on a Dime" was abruptly cancelled after its second season due to the habitat's catastrophic failure in the wake of a tragic and unforeseeable collapse of its proprietary energy and temperature control system - known as "SpLORT".
My thoughts and prayers go out to all whose lives were lost, including Chet and several cherished colleagues from the network.
Story by Fletcher Aleckson
TRICKY
2022
Late for work, unassuming lab technician Tracy Lomax clocks in at Lombardy North Research Facility. Today is the final test in an unprecedented attempt to swap human consciousness with an animal.
A rat.
Internal company dysfunction and administrative incompetence should be the least of her troubles.
Because today, Tracy may just bite off more than she can chew.
“Tricky” is a new book and accompanied playlist of music supplied by a range of musicians in digital and cassette form. The book and music are available for purchase through the link below.
Story by Fletcher Aleckson
wunderkammer
2021
We return to the splintered oasis of Sandomir to discover it's under underworld: a metropolis dedicated to total sexual gratification for humans and android alike. But what becomes of a society when its sole purpose for pleasure is torn away? When you can’t feel, you can’t love, and within Sandomir's torrid orifices, a virus is spreading.
Gli - a sensory neural network - is responsible for delivering limitless erotic pleasure to its users. However a recent spate of software glitches has resulted in a series of traumatizing accidents and deaths.
Following mysterious clues left behind in the app's corrupted code, Gli repair technician Gallipoli finds himself unwittingly drawn further into the city's throbbing heart - the cabaret Wunderkammer. At turns deceived and seduced by Brecht, Wunderkammer's master of ceremonies, Gallipoli slowly unravels the cabaret's connections to a terrorist sect determined to eradicate all forms of desire.
“Wunderkammer” exists in its truest form as a full-cast audio-drama featured on Montez Press Radio (6/25/21). Over a dozen actors participated in its extravagance.
More info through the link below.
Story by Yve Bee
Art by Yve Bee and Fletcher Aleckson
THE WRECK AGE
2019
The years have passed, but not too many. Rapid urban expansion led to cities becoming interconnected by a new infrastructure system called the Interway. Towering high above the Lowroads below, the Interway acts as both a pathway between affluent urban pockets & a physical divide between the working-class population on the ground. Those above have erected enormous mechanical gods at the center of their cities, which communicate to them via constant low electric hums—subconscious orders to increase productivity. These advancements in industry have accelerated unchecked, consequently leaving much of the lower world toxic, uninhabitable. “Stragglers,” as those on the ground are referred to by the wealthy, have turned away from their miserable realities in favor of HACK—a communal hallucinogenic experience brought on by listening to chips infused with frequencies designed to scramble the mind. Those talented enough to create these chips are known as Saints; the device used to play them called Oracles. Life continued on in this way for some years. But that was before the Reclaiming…
Nature had become animated—violently & indiscriminately overgrowing the new urban areas, reclaiming itself & anyone unfortunate enough to be caught in the way. In a desperate attempt to fend off the approach of the Arbres, as the animated trees were called, humans of both worlds, above & below, established Machine Factions to combat the Reclaiming. Mankind succeeded in scarring the earth back into submission, but at a high cost. Now, in this new age, everyone is equalized, living among the wreckage of their destroyed urban complexes.
Story by Cea Jones
Art by Fletcher Aleckson
intraterrestrial
2018
A race of shapeshifting interstellar beings lands on the planet Earth. Ignoring all human life and structures, they approach the largest fungoid on the continent and shake spores.
Pleased to have come across a worthy intelligence, they are willing to provide it with technology to help it reach its ultimate potential. But the fungus has a problem. Its home is infested with a virus. And the only solution... total annihilation.
Infamous horror/sci-fi director Miguelano-Nao Tatara in association with Musselman Films brings you a twisted tragicomedy that will have you retching and groaning as the gruesome hardcore fungus-based gore unfolds. Guaranteed to have you walk away from the film in an intoxicated daze.
Story by Francis Ximenez
Art by Brigitte Wang and Fletcher Aleckson
Sandomir
2018
500 years after rising tides have left what little land remains arid and hostile to life, the last of humanity clings to its ark Jøm. Once an egalitarian community, Jøm’s class structure is now starkly divided between the bottom-dwelling Bîlos, the hedonist Gests, and a small council of Navigators who rarely are seen outside the bridge.
Ta-Rek and Nur, two Bîlos from the engine works, find themselves trapped in a restricted part of the ship as a glitch in its GPS sets Jøm on a course towards the center of a violent storm. In the ensuing tumult, the pair are thrown from the ship and they struggle to stay adrift in an ocean they’ve never before touched.
When Ta-rek awakes, it is on the shore of a strange island and the only trace of a Nur is a cryptic diagram drawn in the sand. Strange figures emerge from the heat shimmer and reveal themselves to be the android inhabitants of the fabled artificial island of Sandomir. Thinking these hosts will bring her closer to finding Nur, Ta-rek finds herself the only human inhabitant of a eerie sprawling metropolis intended for human resettlement. Though her treatment on Sandomir is favorable compared to the dark and cramped quarters on the ship, something has come undone, and she begins to suspect that all is not well on the island. A chance encounter with two Gests also cast off in the storm - the nearly identical Zigi and Îno - confirm her suspicions: Each night, more and more androids have been vanishing down into the dark heart of the island. Could this be where Nur has gone?
As the Jøm looms on the horizon in an answer to înos distress call, Ta-rek must leap blind into depths of Sandomir to find her friend and to find answers.
Story by Yve Bee
Art by Fletcher Aleckson
Zeal
2018
Waking from yet another midday fever sweat at 3:00 PM, middle-aged desert casino employee Zeke pries himself from a warped dream post night shift. Tearing open the curtains and blinking alive the television, a pharmaceutical ad whispers at full volume.
”Haven’t we all been told to not act out when too angry or sad for fear of clouded judgement? Imagine life without that emotional factor entirely. Evolve. Experience Emotia from Somatix Corporation.”
Zeke finds himself plagued with sudden unrecognizable bouts of extreme sensory turbulence and displaced memories.
Emotia, seemingly doing the exact opposite as advertised, offers nothing but aggressive manic behavior to both Zeke and countless others at the casino.
Newly hired poker dealer Bev may have the cure.
As an ex Somatix Corp pharmaceutical engineer, she reveals that Emotia is in fact a placebo but that also, the casino water supply has been tainted with a dangerous neurotoxin. Everyone working or staying at the casino have been first trial guinea pigs in a major government operation.
Can Zeke and Bev rid the lonely desert casino of the dreaded Somatix neurotoxin, and discover why it's there in the first place?
Story by Fletcher Aleckson
Art by Armando Terrazas and Fletcher Aleckson
VHD
2017
In an alternate 1997, a tower looms over Glasgow. At the top sits Mick Tremere, the CEO of popular home robotics corporation Dibella Systems. Specializing in pleasure-oriented "sexbots" for the last decade, they've solidified their place in the global community's modern pursuit for affection. Three women are about to change that. The trio: Vites, Hites, and Dites - and their assembled group of ragtag outcasts - aim to kill the Dibella CEO and reinstate a dwindling form of love.
Regarded as the greatest heist film since The Killing, VHD also reigns alone as an influential work of science fiction.
Story by Fletcher Aleckson
Art by Melissa Kitty Jarram
mount real
2016
It's the year 2653.
Under an overpass outside of United States controlled Montreal lies an eight year old Japanese girl in a white leotard. She has no limbs.
Chasing an escaped pet snake, a reclusive elderly Frenchman finds her. Starving and with amnesia, the young girl requests his help.
Strict global law allows little support for the old, diseased, and disabled. Government controlled genetics now prevent the human being to live past the age of thirty.
There is a hope for physical augmentation but the child soon discovers that her rare blood type prevents the implementation of cybernetic prostheses.
Together, the two search for a memory, a comfort, and a future on a planet that lacks patience or compassion.
Mount Real caters to the lonely mind as a masterwork dedicated to exploring the struggles in adapting to a strange place.
Story and Art by Fletcher Aleckson
DEAD AUNT
2014
Following the highly publicized passing of his aunt, and last remaining relative, fearful scientist Devon Mork encases himself in a self-sustained capsule to prolong his own life indefinitely.
Against his intentions, Mork is now left immortal and forced to watch all he knows fade and die around him. Over time, through his acute isolation, the once fearful scientist begins to find himself more conscious, more aware, of how he defines what exists in the hologram of his life.
Composing a meditative, eerie clarity on interior reality, Dead Aunt beacons as a portrait of the emotional blur between intention and actualization.
Story and Art by Fletcher Aleckson
BIX-QT
2013
It’s a warm shimmering day in rural Illinois and you’ve just witnessed a murder.
Victim: Curled in the prairie before you lies a 33 year-old Nigerian woman. She is clutching a portrait of Malcolm X.
Wound: Malcolm's left eye exists as a bullet hole. Her left lung seeps blood.
Killer: A gaunt, bald, male android stands above her gripping a pistol. He’s dented and thrashed. He’s motionless. His back reads “BIX-QT”.
Considered the decade’s greatest cult sci-fi crime drama, the cinematic masterpiece BIX-QT gyrates with dazzling visual bravado and bracing emotional impact.
Story and Art by Fletcher Aleckson