Beginning February 29, former Newsarama editor Troy Brownfield and artist/web designer Sarah Vaughn will launch a new webcomic, titled Sparkshooter, capping a month of build-up on the part of the creators that includes not just teasing the strip to the comics press, but Brownfield briefly resurrecting Shotgun Reviews, the popular comics and pop culture review site that he used to head up.Full disclosure, here: Brownfield was my direct editor during my days at Blog@Newsarama, and I wrote briefly for Shotgun. Brownfield has additionally worked on a Buck Rogers annual for Dynamite and a Batmananthology project at DC, both with co-writer Matt Brady, his former boss at Newsarama, the site Brady founded.With an active Facebook page and a Zazzle shop already set up to support the webcomic, Brownfield and Vaughn are already branding their property–something that surely seems a little odd to Brownfield, whose day job until recently was as a college professor. It was in that capacity that he first encountered Sarah Vaughn, who was one of his students before his enthusiasm for sequential art rubbed off on her and the pair decided to make a go of Sparkshooter. I wasn’t there at the time, but I imagine it went something like this:Troy: Call it fate, call it luck, call it karma…I believe that everything happens for a reason. I believe that we were destined to get thrown out of this dump!Sarah: For what reason?Troy: To go into business for ourselves!(Note: To my knowledge, neither of the two were actually kicked out of the school. Hopefully some of you see what I did there.)Luckily for all involved, Sarah didn’t need to mortgate the family home in order to get the business off the ground. After all, in this day and age, all you need is a website and a dream.Troy and Sarah have given ComicBook.com this exclusive peek at the upcoming webcomic, and were kind enough to give us a little of their time–interviewing one another to ensure that I have to do as little work as possible. Which I truly appreciate…!
