Mission Statement

Our mission statement is:

To convey the virtues of thought, knowledge, tolerance, planning, diplomacy, determination, and action through quality entertainment; to convey the horrors of violence, rape, war, and genocide, whatever their motivations, through like means; to explore and ultimately expand the generally accepted potential of comics as a medium while maintaining a symbiotic harmony between the writing and visual art; to tell engaging, gripping, captivating, and well-thought-out stories via this medium; to present detailed, exquisite, developed, and consistent visual art; to present well-defined, multidimensional, emotional, developing characters; to almost exclusively use digital means of production; lastly, to build a greater, fully continuous and immersive universe around our stories.

We also have several more minor goals that aren't included in the mission statement above. They are:

• To create art that endures beyond the now and does not lose relevance as it ages.
• To present different species of intelligent creatures in complex ways with no single group as "good" or "right".
• To robustly explore religion and spirituality in a futuristic yet realistic setting, in a fair and even-handed manner.
• To inspire and encourage space exploration and, eventually, colonization.
• To spur the advent of rural and low-income data access throughout the world.
• To explore and hawk creative product ideas, from 8-foot-long comics to character gelatin molds.
• To support the development of communal tools and ideas, and to contribute the tools we develop to the commons.