Welcome, to Faultline 42. A comic that follows 12-year-old Cerussite “Ru” Jones, who’s a bit of a rough cut gem and mad that her dorky geologist parents named her after a mineral. Also, like a lot of 12-year-olds, she wishes her parents would just leave her alone. Unfortunately, that’s exactly what happens when her parents vanish into a stray rift to another dimension on their cross-country road trip.

My work here tells the story of Ru as she stumbles upon a hotel with doors to other worlds that sits on the universe's biggest dimensional rift. She enlists the help of the human family and monstrous staff that run it to help find her lost parents amongst the weird, wondrous, and sometimes dangerous worlds ours connects to.

...That sounds pretty good, right? It's because it's taken from a pitch for the story I spent an entire school semester on.

This is a story I developed as an animated TV show for a class but with, y'know, the film industry, an actual show might not happen for a very long time. But I still want to tell it. So here I am, drawing it as a comic.

Do I have the artistic skills to make a good comic?
Probably not.
Do I know how to make a comic?
Not really.
Am I going to do this anyway?
Absolutely.

Because then it's out in the world and you wouldn't be here reading this if you didn't want to see it too.

It’s a story with a soul, kids who can handle things, the strength of a family, scary monsters, extra-dimensional aliens, a bit of neat geology, and a world where anything you could imagine probably exists.