Luke Bane

Writing

Writing

Essays, personal narratives, and creative experiments.

Mar 11, 2026

Justice League Lunch Break: Episode 1

The first episode of my own personal series, Justice League Lunch Break. I love superheroes in all capacities, but none more than Batman. Ever since playing Arkham Asylum as a child, I have always loved Batman. He's everything you could ever want a hero to be. He's kind, he's sometimes funny, sometimes scary, and best of all he has no superpowers, so somewhere inside we can all aspire to be like him. In 2023, I started thinking about what it must be like to be Batman when he isn't saving the world. What does Batman order from Uber Eats? What is Batman's favorite flavor of Pop Tart? All these little questions. So I had the idea to showcase those things in a series about Batman and Superman having lunch together at Wayne Tower. That was the idea, but after years ideating and finally putting the thing to text, it has grown to be so much more. I'm very proud of JLLB and what it has become, and if you want to read or listen to what's been made of the series, you can at www.justiceleaguelunchbreak.com

Mar 9, 2026

A Blackened Heart

A final project for a class in my first semester of college. We had been studying story telling for ten weeks, and how one physically constructs a narrative. The twelve steps of the heroes journey, experimenting with mediums, basic things. Our job then was to create our own story, proving that we understand the principles of making a story now. This is what I wrote. I enjoy it, it got a good grade, and I'm particularly proud of it's length. I had never attempted to make anything at this kind of scale before. I had never attempted to make something just for me before, either. I always thought that either a parent or a sibling would read the piece, so I couldn't include things like profanity. This was the first time I really let go, made something I would like, and made it big enough to realize what I thought was it's full potential.

Mar 9, 2026

Batman Being Skeptical

It's almost shocking how much of a Batman fan I am. I think about Batman stories all the time. This is likely due to how much I played Batman: Arkham Asylum as a kid. Only in the past three years however has this love manifested into a real project. I've finally had enough writing experience and exposed myself to enough Batman material that I feel comfortable making my own stories about him. I've made an entire series about him and Superman having lunch together over on www.justiceleaguelunchbreak.com and this is a spin-off from that. I love the real moments for superheroes. The times where they have to wait for a bus, the times when they have to contact DoorDash because their order was wrong, that's all amazing to me. Today, we see Batman have to meet Superman's parents for the first time, while coincidentally having to get them out of the house and into a safe place.

Mar 9, 2026

December 12th: Aurora Borealis

Every December, my girlfriend and I give each other 31 prompts of things to write or draw about each day of the month. One of mine was Aurora Borealis. I had no earthily clue what to write, so I wrote a piece about writer's block and let my mind wander. I have to assume that in one form or another every writer has written Aurora Borealis when they get stumped. I have to assume that, because if I don't than I'm just very weird.

Mar 9, 2026

December 7th: Paul Revere

My girlfriend gave me this prompt as a collection of prompts every day for the month of December. This prompt, "Paul Revere" was a reference to a song by Noah Kahan by the same name. It's one of my favorites and this work echoes a lot of the central themes in that song. It strikes a cord with me as an artist, and a young man. The need to escape and make something of yourself, battled by the warmth of your mother's cooking and your childhood bed. It's sort of a different vibe for me, but after all that's what writing prompts are for.

Mar 9, 2026

Charity?

I've always loved Batman. Superheroes in all forms, but especially Batman. If Batman has zero fans, I must be dead. I have an entire series of Batman stories I've written and published on a separate website that you can look at now (www.justiceleaguelunchbreak.com). This is one of my earlier works of Batman fiction. One of my first times actually putting keys to text document about the subject. It's vengeful, it's infuriating, it's non-canonical, and it's got one of the most viscerally terrifying acts of violence I can think of. Everything a good Batman story should be.

Mar 9, 2026

December 1st: Christmas Tree

Every December, me and my girlfriend both give each other 31 prompts. For her, its something to draw, for me its something to write. This was my first prompt for 2025. I usually write fantasy stories, my first experiences having come from Dungeons and Dragons, so it was different to write one set in the real world. Though to be honest, this one sometimes feels more fantastical than elves and dragons. It's a pocket of perfection to me. A loving wife, bills fully paid for, a house the two of you own, and Christmas plans made entirely by you. I can't wait to look back on these in ten years and see how much my pocket of perfection has changed.

Mar 9, 2026

Figure Eight

This was a piece I wrote about a fiction character named Lliam for a challenge with my girlfriend. In December she gives me a prompt of something to write about every day, and I give her a prompt for something to draw every day. On Dec. 24, the prompt for me was figure skating. The work used to go on after the point where it ends here, but in my editing I found that the following section wasn't necessary. I like the subject matter in this, all though it was pretty challenging to write. I don't like the idea of leaving without discussing it, if I were Lliam I would have told her I was breaking up with her first. But Lliam's not me, he doesn't do things the way I would, and writing that distinction was challenging, but fun.

Mar 9, 2026

Burning Bridges

This is another work about my character Lliam. He was an antagonist in a Dungeons and Dragons campaign I DM'd for ten weeks, and he ended up being a sort of fan favorite. I wrote quite a few more little tidbits about him, and this is one that I particularly enjoy. It's an older piece for me, and if I were to redo it today I might put it in first person perspective, now that I have more experience with that. But on the whole I still like it and think it represents what I like to write pretty well.

Mar 2, 2026

December 16th: Day of the Dead

It is paramount that anyone serious about being creative does something for their creative passion every single day. I try as hard as I can to make sure I've written something every day. Eleven months out of the year, I come up with what to write myself. In December however, I have a challenge to do. In 2024, my girlfriend and I decided to give each other a prompt every day of December. I would give her a prompt to draw, she would give me a prompt to write. This pushed me to do things out of my usual, and not just write about the same characters I got stuck on during the rest of the year. This was my prompt for December 16th, and I wrote it journal style about a character I've discussed earlier, Lliam. It turned out alright I think, especially for someone who doesn't usually work with darker themes.

Mar 2, 2026

The Unforgiven

This was a work I made back in 2024. I had written a character named Lliam for a Dungeons and Dragons campaign, who was meant to be an antagonist. But of course, there's no better way to make a D&D party love a character than by writing them to be hated. So naturally he became a fan favorite. I enjoyed writing him because he got to be a little darker, and he got to have a fun character voice. This was an exercise in exploring his deeper history. The campaign didn't get to see much of Lliam, so I thought I'd write more about him myself, just to see where he goes. I figured it was always good to have spare characters lying around anyway.