Michael Guy Bowman, more commonly known simply as Bowman, is a musician and songwriter based in California.
He first began producing music for Homestuck during its inception, and has been musical albums released under the What Pumpkin label. He is responsible for the Recurring Riff and closest song to main theme of the series, "Sburban Jungle
".
Bowman's individual works, apart from What Pumpkin, have been compiled in his albums, including Ithaca, Comfortable Bugs, and Hush.
Bowman often performs or appears at concerts and conventions around the SF Bay Area.
Albums published by What Pumpkin that Bowman has contributed to include:
- Homestuck Vol. 1-4
- Midnight Crew: Drawing Dead
- Homestuck Vol. 5
- Squiddles!note
- Homestuck Vol. 6
- Homestuck Vol. 7
- The Wanderersnote
- Homestuck Vol. 8
- Homestuck Vol. 9
- Cherubim
- Homestuck Vol. 10
Bowman's solo albums are:
- Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleidonote
- Ithaca
- Comfortable Bugs
- Hush
- Archive
- Electric Daydreams
- Look On My Works, Ye Mighty, And Despair
- Gravity Makes The Flame Rise
- Ulterior Motives
The works of Michael Guy Bowman include examples of:
- The All-Concealing "I": The lyrics of "I'm Seeing Everything" never reveal the gender, or any other personal features, of either the stalker nor of the object of their affections.
- Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Inspecting the list of solo album titles in chronological order above will reveal the initial letters spell out M-I-C-H-A-E-L-G-U-.
- Little Green Men: They're aboard the titular ship in "Mothership".
- Mad Scientist: "Mad Science" is about a fairly generic one, although the song does contain a few specific Shout Outs to Frankenstein.
- Recurring Riff: A few, most famously "Sburban Jungle"
- Stalker with a Crush: "I'm Seeing Everything" is about a stalker who creepily watches a person in their home, taking care never to be seen, out of some nebulous sense of affection. It ends with the stalker seeing them have a seizure and blowing their cover to rush them to the hospital.
- Stuff Blowing Up: "Explosion Force (They Do It Right)"
- Theme Tune Roll Call: Parodied in "Explosion Force (They Do It Right)""Arthur!" (Demolitions Expert)"Felix!" (Demolitions Expert)"David!" (Demolitions Expert)"Brian!" (Who's also a Demolitions Expert, YEAH!)
- Whole-Plot Reference: "Purgatory" is one to The Divine Comedy, specifically Purgatorio.
