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Hi, everyone!

I'm Aaron Reed, a former Alpha-Omega participant who's glad to be connected again to the CCAS since it's grown by leaps and bounds since the old days.

Back in my A-O days I developed different amateur comics that, for whatever reason, I never felt fully committed to. I guess the main reason was that I was not very mainstream and the majority were all kinda old-school.

My comics were manga/anime influenced and I was once of maybe 2-3 who were really into that stuff then. 

Now I'm working for fun on a comic that's in a state of redevelopment, at the writing stage for the moment. I had already produced 4 chapters of a comic I called AJ's Café, about a new friendship between an android girl known as AJ and Allen, a middle aged manga fan. The inspiration for AJ's Café was a manga series called Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, about a café owning robot girl in a post-apocalyptic future. AJ's Café was intended to be a partial parody of YKK, with AJ and Allen as fans of that manga.

Anyway, feel free to check out the 4 chapters I produced of AJ's Café at the Japanese illustrators' site Pixiv:

http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=3131198

I also posted there some Peanuts inspired YKK fan comics and YKK fan art. For anyone who's never seen the manga Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, the entire series can be read at anymanga.com .

It's funny how a comic can make one want to get back to drawing. Urusei Yatsura (LUM) motivated me the same way back in the 80s.

I look forward to hearing from some of you!

Would be nice to have some friends with similar interests I can communicate with. I find when I have contact with other Christian otaku, I have impetus to continue what I'm doing. When I don't have such fellowship, I feel like my efforts are for nought. 

I live with my wife Chris in southern Massachusetts, though we're hoping to relocate to Arizona. Chris is handicapped, and there's a near total lack of affordable handicapped accessible houses available for rent. On the other hand, Phoenix and Tucson each have an ample supply of handicapped accessible house rentals.

Why not live in an apartment? Rude neighbors often took our parking spot and too much loud music at night. Aside from that, Massachusetts is a spiritual desert. Not many churches here on fire for God, and worse if you're a city dweller like myself. Most Spirit-led churches where English is the language used are in the suburbs.

Apologies if I sound negative, but my wife's health and our living in a house where the rent is $500 more than it should be and the lack of good fellowship have taken a toll on us. We really could use prayers.

God bless!