Eat Magazine

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The fog lifted and twenty years had passed. The world looked the same but some how it changed, I found myself in a barren waste land filled with doubt and fear. Turns out that while the fog was over my eyes I was existing as a drone…however I left clues for myself. Consciously I was controlled by Dagon, however subconsciously I knew that his desires weren’t my own and the trail of clues were left for me in hopes that one day I would wake from my sleep walk. What woke me up and how? I’m not entirely sure.
I went back through my website and it now looked fully organized…no longer was it the site that I was used to…on the surface it looked like an artistic portfolio…but underneath it had details of my transition from mild mannered artist to sleep walking drone. It looks like it all started with a book that I worked on 10 years ago called Me and Euphoria. The fog had eclipsed my memories…I started going through all my old papers I finally found my manuscript for Me and Euphoria. Right behind Me and Euphoria were some old comics I made called Eat Magazine, I made an issue for each year of school from high school through film school five issues total. They were sardonic in nature and they were very rough…going from the manuscript to the comic was like night and day. Behind the comics were some unfinished stories and comics and random journal entries. In these pieces of paper I see the portrait of a lost younger version of me who was picked on and relentlessly called a nerd and random other things. In response to this I made a comic in which I owned my nerdy title…I called myself the Nerd Knight and I guess I drew every one I knew who picked on as a monster. The comic was going for quite a while but then it just stopped abruptly and I wasn’t exactly sure why. Behind the comic I found a journal entry talking about the darkness…I wasn’t exactly sure what It meant. I kept thumbing through my old work and i discovered papers from when I was in elementary school. Through out all of it there were hints of darkness but it was subtle. Through out my journal entries and elementary school papers I discovered that Dagon didn’t emerge with Me and Euphoria…I had fear haunting me my entire life. I also had specific goals when I was younger…all of which I seemed to have accomplished by looking at my website… Without even realizing it I woke up and I was the person I always wanted to be and did everything I wanted to do. I looked at my site and I felt like I had no where else to go nothing else to do. The movie I wanted to make was made, the girl that I dreamed of was who I was dating, the fears that I had when I was younger subsided, I’m living where I wanted to live, and, the fog had lifted. What else could I possibly have to do or say. I continued to rummage through my old papers and I found some things that I must have over looked. In high school I made a map for my life, making a movie was simply just the beginning…I guess I wasn’t even close toward being done. I kept rummaging through lost ideas, forgotten memories, discarded sketches, and random phrases until I found something shocking. I found a letter post marked 2020 and sent to my old address in Montana. it was still sealed, I opened it up only to feel like i came face to face with a ghost. It read.
Dear Myk,
If you’re reading this then it’s 2012. You may be under the impression that you won the war, but the true war hasn’t even started yet. You were weak and allowed Dagon to infect your heart and take control of you for the last twenty years, he doesn’t need you any more he is slowly enveloping the entire planet in a shadow. The shadowlands started out as a state of your mind but it’s much more then that now. Overcoming your own shadows isn’t merely enough. You must become a beacon of light to help wash out the darkness that Dagon wants to infect into the heart of the world. Keep your heart strong or he’ll return. There was a point when everyone could be satisfied with simplicity, but as time progresses everyone wants more of everything. There is no cut off point and this is what Dagon feeds off of. That’s all that I can tell you right now. I’ll be there when you need me. If you ever get lost take a look at your past.
you can do it M Y K
y o n
s u o
t t w
e h l
r e
y d
-A Friend g
e
I looked outside to see darkness filling the sky, the letter even though it was sent to me years ago, seemed to be correct. The sky was a strange dark purple, I remembered the doubts and insecurities that held me captive they were now dancing about in the sky. Since I know Dagon well, I felt that I was the one to combat him. I opened the door to see people walking around as if in a daze…the letter was right, the war had just begun.

The fog lifted and twenty years had passed. The world looked the same but some how it changed, I found myself in a barren waste land filled with doubt and fear. Turns out that while the fog was over my eyes I was existing as a drone…however I left clues for myself. Consciously I was controlled by Dagon, however subconsciously I knew that his desires weren’t my own and the trail of clues were left for me in hopes that one day I would wake from my sleep walk. What woke me up and how? I’m not entirely sure.

I went back through my website and it now looked fully organized…no longer was it the site that I was used to…on the surface it looked like an artistic portfolio…but underneath it had details of my transition from mild mannered artist to sleep walking drone. It looks like it all started with a book that I worked on 10 years ago called Me and Euphoria. The fog had eclipsed my memories…I started going through all my old papers I finally found my manuscript for Me and Euphoria. Right behind Me and Euphoria were some old comics I made called Eat Magazine, I made an issue for each year of school from high school through film school five issues total. They were sardonic in nature and they were very rough…going from the manuscript to the comic was like night and day. Behind the comics were some unfinished stories and comics and random journal entries. In these pieces of paper I see the portrait of a lost younger version of me who was picked on and relentlessly called a nerd and random other things. In response to this I made a comic in which I owned my nerdy title…I called myself the Nerd Knight and I guess I drew every one I knew who picked on as a monster. The comic was going for quite a while but then it just stopped abruptly and I wasn’t exactly sure why. Behind the comic I found a journal entry talking about the darkness…I wasn’t exactly sure what It meant. I kept thumbing through my old work and i discovered papers from when I was in elementary school. Through out all of it there were hints of darkness but it was subtle. Through out my journal entries and elementary school papers I discovered that Dagon didn’t emerge with Me and Euphoria…I had fear haunting me my entire life. I also had specific goals when I was younger…all of which I seemed to have accomplished by looking at my website… Without even realizing it I woke up and I was the person I always wanted to be and did everything I wanted to do. I looked at my site and I felt like I had no where else to go nothing else to do. The movie I wanted to make was made, the girl that I dreamed of was who I was dating, the fears that I had when I was younger subsided, I’m living where I wanted to live, and, the fog had lifted. What else could I possibly have to do or say. I continued to rummage through my old papers and I found some things that I must have over looked. In high school I made a map for my life, making a movie was simply just the beginning…I guess I wasn’t even close toward being done. I kept rummaging through lost ideas, forgotten memories, discarded sketches, and random phrases until I found something shocking. I found a letter post marked 2020 and sent to my old address in Montana. it was still sealed, I opened it up only to feel like i came face to face with a ghost. It read.

Dear Myk,

If you’re reading this then it’s 2012. You may be under the impression that you won the war, but the true war hasn’t even started yet. You were weak and allowed Dagon to infect your heart and take control of you for the last twenty years, he doesn’t need you any more he is slowly enveloping the entire planet in a shadow. The shadowlands started out as a state of your mind but it’s much more then that now. Overcoming your own shadows isn’t merely enough. You must become a beacon of light to help wash out the darkness that Dagon wants to infect into the heart of the world. Keep your heart strong or he’ll return. There was a point when everyone could be satisfied with simplicity, but as time progresses everyone wants more of everything. There is no cut off point and this is what Dagon feeds off of. That’s all that I can tell you right now. I’ll be there when you need me. If you ever get lost take a look at your past.

you can do it M Y K

y o n

s u o

t t w

e h l

r e

y d

-A Friend g

e

I looked outside to see darkness filling the sky, the letter even though it was sent to me years ago, seemed to be correct. The sky was a strange dark purple, I remembered the doubts and insecurities that held me captive they were now dancing about in the sky. Since I know Dagon well, I felt that I was the one to combat him. I opened the door to see people walking around as if in a daze…the letter was right, the war had just begun.