The First Roadblock

THE FIRST ROADBLOCK

“Your idea is good, Vic”, Andy addressed me after having read my synopsis. “But its obviously more of a horror story than just a “straight” fantasy which, as you know, is really the format of Silangan Komiks. And besides, I think its too intense—our readers may not be ready yet for such kind of materials.” In short, my synopsis was REJECTED by the editor. And that, folks, was the very first real attempt to ‘kill’ Devil Car.

I wasn’t very disappointed by that rejection though because I had a lot of their fish to fry during those times. And besides, Andy had asked me afterwards to submit another storyline which he no longer turned down and was eventually approved. I didn’t even bother to get the rejected synopsis back from him since it was just a duplicate anyway. So what he did was just dump the thing on a shelf they reserved for ‘dead” materials, dooming it to languish there for eternity.