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WHO WANTS TO HEAR ALL OF COLIN'S RETARDED IDEAS FOR COMICS HE HAS HAD IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS
TOO BAD I'M DOING IT ANYWAY BECAUSE I HAVE TIME TO KILL
Breakable/Unstoppable: The initial plot might as well be ripped straight from a kung fu movie - and practically is, as this series would be heavily influenced on them. Basic premise: A woman and her friend train in martial arts since childhood - however, after once accidentally breaking her arm during sparring when she was still a child, she developed a new fighting style out of frustration of not being able to train or fight while she was down a limb. Essentially training in how to fight with limited use of her limbs - only able to use one arm, only able to use the legs, only able to use ONE leg, etc - she develops a fluid, adapative style. FAST FORWARD TO BLATANT KUNG FU PLOT, her partner is kidnapped by a group of people working on upgrading/brainwashing people to make their own army - think Cyborg 009. Woman, naturally, not standing for this shit, goes to rescue said friend and beat up many a person along the way, all in creative ways, often after losing the ability to use one limb or another.
The inspiration for this idea was: Mainly, frustration with so many aspects of action manga. I was tired of the lack of genuinely strong female characters, lead or otherwise, and I was also dead sick of so many fights in comics just getting solved by ACTIVATE NEW POWERS or HRGGGH CHARGING UP MY SUPERPOWER RARRRRHH. I wanted a character who never got superpowers. Who was constantly out matched in raw power. Who would take beatings in a fight, and yet, through sheer endurance and sharp use of strategy and adaptation, would win in the end. Plus, with my fascination with martial arts, I really liked the idea of assigning each fight the main character would have to get into as up against a distinctive, different style, that she'd have to adapt to, instead of outright overpowering them. Particular in my mind would be a Tai Chi or Aikido styled opponent who, while not fast or RARRRH STRONGEST IN THE WORLD, would be so incredibly effective at graceful defense and countering, it'd force the character into a dramatically different mindset of how to approach a fight.
Irresistible Superplex: Very simple premise - well, simpler to explain, at least. MEXICAN WRESTLING GAY ROMANCE. Yes. There's a longer plot to this, but you get the idea right there.
The inspiration for this idea was: Frustration with the yaoi genre and romance comics in general, go figure. A lot of my ideas are born outta frustration, WHOULDA THUNK IT. Basically, I wanted a chance to depict actual gay relationships, beyond the overblown, melodramatic aspect that is the defining feature of many comics featuring it. What a lotta yaoi comics do just doesn't represent what gay dudes or the gay community is like at all, though I figure we all know that. HOWEVER. I didn't want it to be a boring preachy comic where nothing happens ever, either. And FINALLY, I wanted something that would allow for different body types, as I was sick of just the two TALL AN' THIN and SHORT AN' THIN body types that seems to define all gaybos in comics. THUS: A SETTING IN MEXICAN WRESTLING. Allows a fusion of pure, over the top action, combined with gay romance, comedy, and all that good times.
Would, Could, Should: A series dissecting the concept of freedom, and how we as humanity react to it. Lead characters would be one quiet, isolated, academic girl, and a slightly older woman who has no feelings of obligation and does anything she damn well feels like. The world's physics, or indeed, reality itself, does not seem to be binded to any real law or rule, and exists in more of a dreamlike state, responding to the philosophies of the respective characters that show up and changing accordingly.
The inspiration for this idea was: PHILOSOPHYYYYYY. Reading through the philosophers of before, I became really interested with how they suggested we handle human freedom and the desire thereof, in regards to its interaction with the rest of humanity and the Earth. This started with studying some of Jean Paul Sartre's philosophies, particularly in that he believes there is no inherent 'must' in anything humanity does - that we only assign value or importance to whatever it is we do and some of these become wider social values, but there is nothing we absolutely have to do. Branching out from there, reading about John Locke's and Thomas Hobbes' very different ideas on how a government should be run in regards to the individual freedoms of its people, as well as dipping my foot into eastern philosophy regarding the issue, I really wanted to create a comic where individual characters could embrace these philosophies to their logical extremes and see how they would actually affect real life were we to take them in their whole, instead of bits and pieces, mixing around.
Penetration: A shapeshifter of unknown origin takes on different identities, of different genders, ages, ethnicity, the whole kit and kaboodle. Specifically, we get to see these identities in the context of the relationship that identity is in at the time - heterosexual, homosexual, and in all kinds of different social standings, personalities, so on and so forth. There would not be many continuing characters, as most stories would be one shots about the individual relationship building up to a cohesive story.
The inspiration for this idea was: Gender roles, and sex. I was fascinated by the subconscious power and implications we generally assign to penetration in sex - how we feel a need to see a relationship defined by who is in hold of this 'power', and what it means when they're not, specifically when they subvert traditional gender roles. When a man is penetrated, traditionally, we see them as weak, for example - we often don't see penetration so much as an act of trust as an act of assigning roles, who does what. All based on one little thing. The astounding societal power and implications of sex just fascinates me, here. I also got some of the idea from the whole J'onn J'onnz business of taking on several identities, all to become more familiar with the human condition and in order to understand more people instead of being limited to one perspective.
GOOD LORD I THINK TOO MUCH
TOO BAD I'M DOING IT ANYWAY BECAUSE I HAVE TIME TO KILL
Breakable/Unstoppable: The initial plot might as well be ripped straight from a kung fu movie - and practically is, as this series would be heavily influenced on them. Basic premise: A woman and her friend train in martial arts since childhood - however, after once accidentally breaking her arm during sparring when she was still a child, she developed a new fighting style out of frustration of not being able to train or fight while she was down a limb. Essentially training in how to fight with limited use of her limbs - only able to use one arm, only able to use the legs, only able to use ONE leg, etc - she develops a fluid, adapative style. FAST FORWARD TO BLATANT KUNG FU PLOT, her partner is kidnapped by a group of people working on upgrading/brainwashing people to make their own army - think Cyborg 009. Woman, naturally, not standing for this shit, goes to rescue said friend and beat up many a person along the way, all in creative ways, often after losing the ability to use one limb or another.
The inspiration for this idea was: Mainly, frustration with so many aspects of action manga. I was tired of the lack of genuinely strong female characters, lead or otherwise, and I was also dead sick of so many fights in comics just getting solved by ACTIVATE NEW POWERS or HRGGGH CHARGING UP MY SUPERPOWER RARRRRHH. I wanted a character who never got superpowers. Who was constantly out matched in raw power. Who would take beatings in a fight, and yet, through sheer endurance and sharp use of strategy and adaptation, would win in the end. Plus, with my fascination with martial arts, I really liked the idea of assigning each fight the main character would have to get into as up against a distinctive, different style, that she'd have to adapt to, instead of outright overpowering them. Particular in my mind would be a Tai Chi or Aikido styled opponent who, while not fast or RARRRH STRONGEST IN THE WORLD, would be so incredibly effective at graceful defense and countering, it'd force the character into a dramatically different mindset of how to approach a fight.
Irresistible Superplex: Very simple premise - well, simpler to explain, at least. MEXICAN WRESTLING GAY ROMANCE. Yes. There's a longer plot to this, but you get the idea right there.
The inspiration for this idea was: Frustration with the yaoi genre and romance comics in general, go figure. A lot of my ideas are born outta frustration, WHOULDA THUNK IT. Basically, I wanted a chance to depict actual gay relationships, beyond the overblown, melodramatic aspect that is the defining feature of many comics featuring it. What a lotta yaoi comics do just doesn't represent what gay dudes or the gay community is like at all, though I figure we all know that. HOWEVER. I didn't want it to be a boring preachy comic where nothing happens ever, either. And FINALLY, I wanted something that would allow for different body types, as I was sick of just the two TALL AN' THIN and SHORT AN' THIN body types that seems to define all gaybos in comics. THUS: A SETTING IN MEXICAN WRESTLING. Allows a fusion of pure, over the top action, combined with gay romance, comedy, and all that good times.
Would, Could, Should: A series dissecting the concept of freedom, and how we as humanity react to it. Lead characters would be one quiet, isolated, academic girl, and a slightly older woman who has no feelings of obligation and does anything she damn well feels like. The world's physics, or indeed, reality itself, does not seem to be binded to any real law or rule, and exists in more of a dreamlike state, responding to the philosophies of the respective characters that show up and changing accordingly.
The inspiration for this idea was: PHILOSOPHYYYYYY. Reading through the philosophers of before, I became really interested with how they suggested we handle human freedom and the desire thereof, in regards to its interaction with the rest of humanity and the Earth. This started with studying some of Jean Paul Sartre's philosophies, particularly in that he believes there is no inherent 'must' in anything humanity does - that we only assign value or importance to whatever it is we do and some of these become wider social values, but there is nothing we absolutely have to do. Branching out from there, reading about John Locke's and Thomas Hobbes' very different ideas on how a government should be run in regards to the individual freedoms of its people, as well as dipping my foot into eastern philosophy regarding the issue, I really wanted to create a comic where individual characters could embrace these philosophies to their logical extremes and see how they would actually affect real life were we to take them in their whole, instead of bits and pieces, mixing around.
Penetration: A shapeshifter of unknown origin takes on different identities, of different genders, ages, ethnicity, the whole kit and kaboodle. Specifically, we get to see these identities in the context of the relationship that identity is in at the time - heterosexual, homosexual, and in all kinds of different social standings, personalities, so on and so forth. There would not be many continuing characters, as most stories would be one shots about the individual relationship building up to a cohesive story.
The inspiration for this idea was: Gender roles, and sex. I was fascinated by the subconscious power and implications we generally assign to penetration in sex - how we feel a need to see a relationship defined by who is in hold of this 'power', and what it means when they're not, specifically when they subvert traditional gender roles. When a man is penetrated, traditionally, we see them as weak, for example - we often don't see penetration so much as an act of trust as an act of assigning roles, who does what. All based on one little thing. The astounding societal power and implications of sex just fascinates me, here. I also got some of the idea from the whole J'onn J'onnz business of taking on several identities, all to become more familiar with the human condition and in order to understand more people instead of being limited to one perspective.
GOOD LORD I THINK TOO MUCH