Writer Tim Morgan talks about his project...

TORTURED is my first comic - I like to think the genesis of the comic makes an interesting story, but you can decide that for yourself. I was looking through some listings in the AbsoluteWrite.com newsletter and saw a contest looking for short cliche vampire stories. I did a little research and settled on an old Scottish legend about the Baobhan Sith. The story didn't place in the contest, but I really liked the story and decided to rework it as a comic. (This wasn't the first time I'd tried something like this - originally I'd seen it as something similar to the X-Files in 1995, in a 4-issue series. Unfortunately the web hadn't penetrated popular culture at the time, so I couldn't find an artist and wound up shelving the project. I tried various incarnations as film scripts, but none of those worked, either.) When I started out, I was planning on going 8 pages - but cut that back to its current length while I was converting from short story to comic. I cold-queried Kurt Belcher with the idea, he liked it, and the rest as we say, is history...Kurt also had connections with Peter (Simeti - letterer) and Levi (Skeen - inker)...I'm really happy with the result and honored I got to work with such a talented team on my first time out. I think the story works because puberty can be downright scary. The changes going on not only with our bodies, but our minds can be terrifying...and once you have kids (I've got two), it moves to a completely different level. It's a scary time, and like it or not, we all go through it.