The idea for Star Bleck came about when my friend Sara and I were in our high school band.
At one point on our band trip to Toronto, Canada, we were hanging out in a mall in Toronto called 'the Eaton's Centre'. It's a really huge mall and we got hopelessly lost. I was starting to get really upset since I'm not comfortable at all in Toronto to begin with so Sara made jokes about it. In that mall I became the captain that had no sense of direction, but could get people out of situations and she became the navigator. She eventually found our way back to our chaperone a half hour late.. but still we found him... then we got lost again..
While we were walking around lost she kept asking me "Captain.. what should we do? You've gotta pick a direction." and I'd shake my head back and forth saying "I don't know. I don't know.", but like I said we eventually figured our way around We took our names and turned them backward to make them sound spacy. So.. I'm Captain Zil and she's Navigator Aras.
In the story we make fun of everything, and the story almost seems to have the idea that evil conquers all. It's not true that the good guys always win. Sometimes out in the world the little bastards like Zil and Aras get ahead because they've taken advantage of something or not hesitated to do something to get what they want. Obviously we're not trying to encourage any behavour like that, we're just having fun writing up a story that defies authority. There is only a little order in the midst of all the chaos in the characters lives and that is the bond between Zil and Aras. The captain needs a navigator and the navigator needs a captain. Both have the violent tendencies and wouldn't tolerate others so easily or see eye to eye.
