Author: Joseph D. Newcomer

DADA/Author/Podcaster Currently promoting my latest novel, Diminishing Return, while working on my next and curating an insane comic book collection for my toddler.

Vocational Advocation

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Every so often, not nearly often enough, I try to consider all of the things I’ve done, choices I’ve made, paths I’ve chosen for the better or worse; all of the terrible and wonderful bullshit which has built this life and those which have chipped away at its meaning. I consider the irrational and grounded [...]

Perception is Purgatory

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How long before we become so callous that we no longer recognize hell?  Sometimes, life is the gift we would like to believe we deserve.  Other times, it is the most elegantly designed of all the tortures; the one which we actually, wrongfully believe we deserve.

Unfathomable Versions

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How much you know or learn is not a measure of your depth. Depth resides in remembering and empathizing with who and how you were before you knew what you now know; before you learned how valid or invalid what it was you believed while giving the same respect to the limitless versions of what [...]

The Dynamics of Static

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What it must take to remain a static character in your own story! How harrowing, the task of fending off change, growth, and self-actualization! How pitiful, the reason for such a desire! How defeating, the triumph; how trivial, the fortune when you feign to believe you are content being the person you were yesterday while [...]