Joey Peters is a writer, cartoonist, community safety organizer. He’s a weird crank who has been off in his own world making weird crank stuff. He has been writing things for decades at this point and has a sizable back catalog of work. Slowly, he plans on adding all this stuff back on here.
If you want to follow him on social media, the only one he uses is Bsky at current and he's not too interested in moving to any of the other ones. FOllow him at
@joeypeters.bsky.social.
Current Works
DOU is Joey’s new science fiction novel. By 2260 mankind has worked out all it’s problems, both on our home world of Earth and our sister society on Mars. The time has come for a new great mission to guide the future of mankind and that is Project Gagarin.
The goal of Project Gagarin is to send a crewed starship out into the cosmos to find and befriend alien civilizations. Dissidents of Utopia follows the crew of Gagarin on this important mission. It is administered by Chairman Thomas Kafando, the hero of the Battle of the Citadel and the Aphrodite Coup. He is joined by four hundred of Earth and Mars’ greatest scientists, diplomats, bartenders and soldiers, including Lucy Drummond, a refugee from the Citadel trying to live up to Kafando’s example; Emily Malex, a Martian engineer; and Conroy, the ships’ mixologist and distiller.
New chapters are released monthly. As of this writing about half of book one has been released here. He is currently hard at work on Refugees From Utopia, DOU Book 2.
Classic Works
Stardust the Super-Wizard
Stardust the Super-Wizard is a bizarre alien god that sprang from the mind of Golden Age of Comics creator Fletcher Hanks. He was a real character who really appeared in Fantastic Comics and Big Three Comics in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s. The thing about comics in that era is that while Superman and Batman became massive franciseses that persist to this day, most of the comics created in that time were orphaned and forgotten. And such it went for Stardust, a minor curiosity completely forgotten and orphaned away from any copyright ownership. However, his bizarre stories were reprinted in the modern era (most famously by Paul Karasik) and have sparked new interest in the creations of Fletcher Hanks.
And that’s where Joey came in. He created several graphic novels inspired by Hanks’ original creations. In fact, he has produced more pages featuring Stardust the Super Wizard (and Hanks’ lumberjack vigilante Big Red McLane) than t he original creator himself.
A completely bold face serious take on Stardust. What if this mad alien god really came to Earth in 1940 and then, as quickly as he appeared disappeared back into the void. How would the world be different and how would this strange alien monster’s contact with humanity change it?
A history of American comic books told through the distorted lens of Stardust the Super Wizard. What if Stardust the Super-Wizard continued to exist through history? This is a collection of short stories that explore what would have happened if Stardust survived into the silver age of comics, the bronze age, was ripped off, parodied and ultimately reimagined.
WGL reimagines Hanks' other creation, Big Red McLane, as a lumber vigilante protecting Pacific City. He has an extensive secret base, lumber themed cars and planes and a rogue's gallery that threatens the stability of his chosen city. When his brothers Blue and Yellow McLane restart the World's Greatest Lumberjack competition all of his old villains come crawling out of the woodwork; Liver Eatin' Johnson, the Sasquatch, Johnny Murderseed and the Paul Bunyan Cult.
It is more an attempt to create a base version of Big Red McLane and his mythology as a base to build upon for the future.
When Santa Claus disappears it's up to the second string Christmas gift delivering deities to figure out where he went and how to save him: Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Grandfather Frost and the Kristkinder. Together they are the Santa Corps. You didn't think just one being delivered all those presents to all good Christian children, did you? Of course not. These winter gods must race against the clock through the world of mythology or Christmas will be ruined forever.
Joey has worked on many other comics. He'll get around to uploading them here eventually.
The original Stardust the Super Wizard comics have lapsed into the public domain. It's slightly complicated, but basically during the period they were produced you had to consciously renew a copyrighted work. The companies that published Fletcher Hanks' original work went out of business and no one bothered to buy the rights to the Stardust comics (and Hanks other work). As per the modern works, Joey Peters is an anti-copyright crank. You can do as you want with my contributions to the Fletcher Hanks universe; the name Rosemary Redgrave, Sunspot, Sirius the Star Dog, Black Hole/Nebula and all the rest. Use my works as the basis for any future works you like. I politely ask that you do not directly republish my comics pages, pending exceptions, in a commercial manner. Otherwise, go hog wild.
Bsky