My Earliest Comics
During my teenage years, I made several amateur comic books. However, I’ll only be sharing a few pages because, honestly, I'm a bit embarrassed to show all of them—I feel like there are many things that could have been done better.
I’ll talk about the stories in a general way, without getting into too many details. There are certain ideas, concepts, and plot elements that I prefer not to reveal for now, since I plan to use them in future stories. For that exact reason, I’ll also be changing some of the original titles when I mention them.
Between 2022 and 2024, I scanned all the comics page by page, and now I have them in digital format: 1,170 pages in total.
One day I'll publish them in full, but that won't be until I'm on my deathbed, maybe.
I named this set of comics "Stories -1".
Excuse me for any typos, English is not my first language
Beijing 2008/Porkbelly 2010
In 2008, when I was 13 years old, a middle school teacher mentioned that a student from another class had made a comic about the swimming events at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. A few days later, I grabbed an unused notebook and started creating my own comic inspired by the Olympic Games, starring fictional characters based on most of the animated series I used to watch back then. I titled this comic "Beijing 2008."
When I started developing it, I didn't have a pre-planned story; a lot of the plot came from improvisation. As the story progressed, I decided to change the comic's name to 'Porkbelly 2010' to give it a more original identity. In my panels, I included many of the characters from the animated series I watched back then, though, curiously enough, I never included Ben 10. I don't know why I didn't, especially since I wouldn't miss a single episode on Cartoon Network at the time. It was probably for the best, because, let's be honest, he would have just beaten all the other participants. As for my technique, my drawings mostly consisted of stick figures and I almost always used close-up shots, although in a few specific panels I made more detailed illustrations.
After completing the ten main episodes of the comic, I created a four-episode sequel starring Johnny Test in a solo adventure. However, just a few weeks after finishing it, I was unsatisfied with the result. Because of that, I decided to throw it away completely—literally tossing it in the trash, something I regret—leaving the project composed once again solely of the original ten episodes.
Early 2008 - Early 2011
Newels Super Boys
In 2011, after finishing the comic "Porkbelly 2010," a classmate started making a soccer comic with superpowers. However, later that same year he abandoned the project and left it unfinished. After seeing what happened, I decided to take the core idea of his comic and develop it my own way.
I titled this new project "Newels Super Boys" (yes, it was misspelled), inspired by the Argentine soccer club "Newell's Old Boys". Furthermore, both the appearance and personality of the players on the main team were based on several of my classmates. I was also heavily inspired by Inazuma Eleven, which I watched on a local TV channel.
As I progressed with the story, I felt a bit dissatisfied with the visual aspect of the comic. Back then I was still drawing with stick figures, but I wanted to apply the knowledge and experience I had gained from my previous project to improve the quality of my drawings.
March 29, 2011 – September 13, 2011
Zero Super Boys (Remake)
While working on "Newels Super Boys," I felt dissatisfied with several aspects of the comic, especially the drawings. Because of that, I decided to redraw and rewrite the story almost from scratch. During this process, I also changed the name of the comic to "Zero Super Boys," though this isn't its real name, as I've modified it for the reasons I mentioned at the beginning of this post.
In this new version, I modified some scenes, removed others, and adjusted various details. Even so, the main story remained practically the same. My intention was to make the use of superpowers feel more believable within the plot and, at the same time, give more prominence to other characters.
However, as I progressed with the project, I realized that the story was drifting further and further away from its original soccer theme. After pausing the drawing for a few weeks to better figure out what I wanted to do with the comic, I came to the conclusion that the best thing to do would be to reimagine the story almost completely, while still keeping most of the characters I had already created.
Friday, February 3, 2012 – Friday, August 22, 2014
Zero
While i working on "Zero Super Boys", I came to the conclusion that I needed to almost completely reimagine the story, as I explained before. I also simplified the title to "Zero" (not the real name either) to differentiate it from the previous version, since the original name no longer made sense once it lost much of its connection to soccer.
The story was intended to be quite extensive. I planned to divide it into approximately six story arcs, in which the main characters would travel through different U.S. states and eventually to various countries around the world, as well as visiting fictional nations I created myself. My intention was to show their growth over time, from pre-adolescence to early adulthood.
However, I never got around to organizing these ideas in writing; everything stayed in my head. As the years went by, this ended up becoming a problem, since there are now elements of the story whose goals or outcomes I no longer remember.
As I progressed with the project, I also started thinking that dragging the story out over so many arcs was unnecessary. Therefore, I decided to turn the later arcs into standalone stories, each with its own protagonists. This way, the ideas I had imagined could be developed more autonomously.
Over time, the story of this comic was reimagined once again. Although I kept most of the characters, the project currently exists under a different codename.
2014 - 2016
In conclusion...
When all is said and done, what can I even say?
The first few comics were probably read by maybe three or four people if I was lucky. But with the last two, I went full hermit mode: barely one person other than myself saw them because I was dead set on the idea that no one should read a single page until the story was 100% finished. That day never came.
By the way, back then I used to call everything "chapters," which is dead giveaway that I hadn’t read many comics in my life, even though given the page count, they were practically full volumes or trade paperbacks.
And the funniest part of all this is that, looking back, the only comic I actually managed to finish from start to finish in my entire life so far was the very first one, "Porkbelly 2010." Everything else got abandoned halfway through, mutated into something else, or ended up rewritten a thousand times. But oh well, I guess that’s just part of learning as you go.
- Temporal Cricket (Friday, August 14, 2026)
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