Justice City Recovery Center is a webcomic about a halfway house for supervillains. The drawings are by Christian Hayes and the words are by Charles Smith. Everything else is a purple colaborative haze.
iFAQ:
Q: What's a halfway house?
A: Halfway House, NOUN:
1. A rehabilitation center where people who have left an institution, such as a hospital or prison [or SUPER-prison], are helped to readjust to the outside world.
Q: When are new comics posted?
A: Every Tuesday and Thursday. On very, very, very rare occasion if for some reason we want to post a comic on a specific day that isn't an update day, we may post additional comics then. We're not going to let The Man keep us down with his oppressive updating "rules".
Q: Can I directly link to images on your site?
A: For the time being, I'm going to say yes as long as you place a link back here somewhere on the place where you direct link our images. If you have a problem with that, then with all due respect (ie, none) you can use your own fucking bandwidth.
Q: Who writes the news posts?
A: Pretty much every word you see on this site, unless it is handwritten and in the comic, was written by me (that is, Charles, the writer). If Christian writes something he'll point out specifically that it's him.
Q: Where did you get the idea to do a webcomic about a halfway house for supervillains?
A: Funny you should ask, imaginary person. After I ended me first webcomic (The Best Medicine, an autobiographical comic that documented my college years and ended when they did) I was complaining to Christian about how the new comic I was working on was hard on account of I actually had to draw pictures instead of just cut and paste like I did with The Best Medicine. Christian said he'd draw a webcomic if I wrote it, and JCRC was born.
Q: That wasn't my question.
A: Oh yeah. Well we both just brainstormed what kinds of comics we would want to do, and this is what we came up with. Christian came up with the actual idea of a halfway house, riffing off my suggestion of an asylum for supervillains (something I had wanted to do long before DC comics stole my thoughts with their thought stealing ray and made Arkham Asylum).
Q: How do you guys make your comics?
A: First Christian and I decide on the general direction the plot is going to go. Okay, plot is a strong word, but for lack of a better one that's what I'll use. Next I write about 20-30 scripts all at once, and send them to Christian. Christian then draws the comic on computer paper in pencil, scans it onto his computer, darkens the lines, and colors it in photoshop. He then sends the coloured picture to me. I add the speech bubbles and the speech inside the bubbles, plus that hansome link back to us at the bottom of the comic.
Sometimes I have to colour some or all of the comic for whatever reason, sometimes Christian will write lines of dialogue, and this one time I drew a sketch for Christian to use to draw a character. It's all a crazy collaboration ball.
Q: I like the cut of your jib, how can I support this wonderful comic?
A: Tell other people about it.
If you're really lazy or have no friends, you could also just donate money towards our hosting:
