Description

Running Out is not a graphic novel that can be easily defined. Its genres, in order from most prominent to least, are thriller/drama/comedy/romance. It is a giant departure from my last novel, Heroguy, which was a bunch of wacky jokes, celebrity cameos and superhero spoofs wrapped around a political and contemporary plot. Running Out is a serious (But not too serious) suspense novel whose main themes are how events affect certain people in different ways and every different person's view of death. Here is the summary:

Vincent Donovan, while at a party, is told by a mysterious person that he has been poisoned and will die in two and a half hours. The stranger then forces him to ride with him to Bransway (A fictional town), Maine, where he claims that he is about to prevent someone from leaking extremely controversial and deadly information to the world. On the way, Vincent discovers more and more about his past and finds that he has more of a purpose to this than he had imagined. At Bransway, he finds someone who, because of her disappearance, has caused him to live the way he does and that he must overcome his emotions to set things right.

The entire novel takes place in 2 1/2 hours, excluding credits. Like Heroguy, there are four main characters. In Heroguy, they were: Tim Goffel aka Heroguy, Eileen Grobamateets, Mr. Vandershteebenhoeben and Wilson Burgoyne. In Running Out they are: Vincent Donovan, Fifty-Two (The mysterious stranger), Gabrielle Stoddard and Ermanno Marcello. I'll be posting more information as the novel goes along.