The Cusp

Bruno Drake began his career as a frustrated comic book writer in the 1960s Silver Age boom. He never felt like his storylines or characters captured the same level of drama as other writers. A literature major in college, Drake studied the classics, and later turned to classic Golden Age comic books still heralded as groundbreaking. In time his obsession revealed a pattern: across interviews and journals, all the great writers of the previous era hinted at the Source Panel, an ancient Mesopotamian pictogram that illustrates the Beginning, the End, and all things that come between—and in that glorious wheel of time, the ultimate secrets of pacing and character development were revealed.
Those Golden Age legends had hoarded sketches of the carving, or half-burned photographs. Some took their treasure to their graves while others passed them on to disciples, but each creator derived genius from an incomplete copy. Drake resolved to find the original— reviewing crumbling journals and asylum records—and become the greatest comic book writer in history.
On a forgotten mountain trapped between the grains of hourglass sand, he found it: the Source Panel. Looking upon it showed Drake the secrets of writing, but so much more. He saw the whole of the world as it was: ink and text on a page, nothing more than a passing diversion for careless readers to be consumed and tossed aside! Unhinged by his discovery and the true meaninglessness of creation, he has sought to prove to the rest of the world what they are, and uses his esoteric knowledge to “flip the pages” backwards and forwards, or tear individuals from the script.
In a sense, the Cusp is writing the greatest comic story ever told. And he’s rolling all the world into the narrative