Seron: An Origin Story

Seron was an idea I came up with a long time ago, in August 2014.

At this time I was writing comic reviews for the Inter-Comics website, under my column ‘Out of the Long Box’. Whilst writing this column I was also speaking to the people who hosted the Inter-Comics podcast, one of whom was working on their own scripts.

Whilst trying to work on script writing, I wanted to challenge myself. I thought that the best challenge would be to write a silent sequence; having been in awe of the silent issue of Batman and Robin #18, by Peter Tomasi.

The sequence I thought of was an armed SWAT team breaching a house. I imagined it being in the snow, their movements both being hidden by snowfall, and betrayed by their footprints.

Having shared the idea, I was advised that snowstorms was very cliché, which made me have to think of an alternative. I substituted a snowstorm for a sandstorm, originally thinking of abandoned suburbs on the edge of Las Vegas.

The idea of abandoned suburbs seemed too limiting, and the sandstorm in that setting felt very transitory. This made me think of how a sandstorm could perpetually rage, without ever moving or diminishing.

With this simple question, the floating city of Seron was born.