But it\u2019s September in an odd-numbered year, and that means there\u2019s a new Lazy & Entitled Fiction Project coming out this year! For anyone unfamiliar with Lazy & Entitled Fiction Projects, these are collaborative novel(la)s that Brendan and I write together. Back in 2023, we released VINE<\/a><\/em>, a roughly 300-page novel-in-stories. We published it as a blog, releasing one chapter every weekday. This year\u2019s project is much shorter, hovering around 130 pages, and we still intend to publish it as a blog\u2014one chapter per day, Monday through Friday. The only thing I want to say about it right now is that it\u2019s a slasher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Before I get into that, though, lemme tell you another art-outside-of-capitalism project. The timing and phrasing there might make it sound like this is a sponsored hit, but it\u2019s very much the opposite. I just want to talk about a cool project that’s on Kickstarter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Bijhan Agha is a queer and Muslim comics creator out of Seattle, aiming to create exciting comics for adults and kids. I got to read a preview of the new comic, Time Wars: The Adventure of Zero & One<\/em>, and my first thought was about how this would be a great one to share with my kid (we are currently working up to reading comics). The colors are vivid and bright, the lines bold, the adventure afoot, and a lot of the description is short sentences with exclamation points, which gives the story a charming Pokemonesque feel. Zero and One, the characters, are different species. Zero crash-lands on One’s planet, and the two have to figure out how to communicate. It’s a touching portrait of how first contact can<\/em> go\u2014that first contact does not always have to be bloodthirsty clashes of civilizations. Sometimes, it’s good to remember that cooperation is a necessary part of existence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n You can back the Kickstarter here<\/a>. You can also check out more from Bijhan at the Jamsheed Studios Patreon<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And now, back to Subgenre Slam!<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"a](\"https:\/\/www.lazyandentitled.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-12.png\")