Lou McGill told me that if I was doing #ds106 this year, I had to do some of the visual assignments. Make art, dammit – these were the words she used. But the nice thing about ds106 is that you can do something you felt like doing anyway and then claim it as an assignment – so, inspired by GuiliaForsythe’s beautiful narrative about the #dailycreate and tagging, I wanted to do something visual with a narrative.

Immediately I thought of a super-hero origins strip. I know very little about graphic narrative, but I love and have always loved origin strips – those background stories that tell you how Jim Groom became The Bava and got his powe (kudos, Cogdog!) or whatever. So, I thought I’d make an origin strip for the Followers of the Apocalypse, with more than a hint of the story of ds106 and edublogging in there too. I used Pixton which is an absolutely beautiful tool and I would recommend it to everyone.

Here’s the assignment.