I'm trying to balance the 1983 flashback story with the 2007 story. Tell me if this might be hard to follow.
The events of 1983 are in essence the beginning of who Stinkyman becomes. The scenes in 2007 are more or less the end, which is fine because it tells a complete story. If we decide to tell more stories of the adventures of Stinkyman, I see those happening in the span between 83 and 07. Again, that's fine, except the audience will already know the outcome of the initial story, which maybe takes away some of the suspense of anything else we do (Hey, I know Stinkyman will escape this predicament because he's alive in 2007). In reality that's probably not a real concern, because the audience expects the hero to survive, the payoff is in the method of his escape. And while it maybe appealed to me at first, I don't really want a situation where Stinkyman is always on the run, like the cheesy Incredible Hulk TV show from the 70s.
To make things even a bit more convoluted, I want to throw in another flashback to this initial story. Issue No. 1 starts off with 1983 and zooms forward to 2007 and then back to 83.
I plan Issue No. 2 to be all 1983.
Issue No. 3 will be all 2007, except it will have a mini flash-forward-flashback to show the events immediately preceding what we saw in Issue No. 1.
No. 3 will end where the first 2007 scene (in No. 1) started (with Stinkyman chained in the cell).
No. 4 will likely be mostly 1983.
Nos. 5 and 6 will split, using the formula similar to No. 1.
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Two guys in separate parts of the country melding their talents to resurrect a comic book hero first created over 20 years ago.
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- Watchmen
- New Avengers
- Iron Man, Vol. 1
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3 comments:
lalalalalalalalalalalalalala (covering ears).
don't tell me so much. if i know what's going to happen, i stop paying attention :P
kidding. the more convoluted, the better.
I always say.
I got a whole pile of old comic books for $5 at the Hartville Flea Market today. Iron Man, Transformers, Howard the Duck, The Human Fly, and some other weird shit.
Transformers #1 is in the pile.. flipping through it, I remembered I used to have it when it first came out , probably because of the Bill Sienkiewicz cover. Bill Sienkiewicz is the fucking man. He's doing the new 30 Days of Night stuff with Steve Niles.
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What issues of Iron Man did you get?
I haven't figured out where to put the ninjas yet. You know how ninjas are, they'll just show up. Your house could be a mess, kids' toys all over the place, no food in the fridge, dried cat puke in the corner that you've put off cleaning up for a week. And THEN the ninjas come. They don't give a shit. They don't call. They don't say, "Hey we'll be in town over the weekend." No. Boom! Ninjas all over the place. Last time they didn't even knock on the door. I'm standing there taking a pee and I turn around -- Whoa! Ninja with a dagger to my throat! I said, "You goddamn ninjas!"
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