Pages from an old comic (and notes on same)
Here are some old comics pages I never got around to finishing! Eee! (Be aware that the art is pretty bad, but whatever. Sometimes it's nice just to do things for the sake of doing them.)
Anyway like a lot of people I've long nursed an 'original' story in a post-apocalypse setting where modern technology can't be used. Of course Revolution is all over the media right now, but before that was Stirling's Dies the Fire, and I don't think you'd have to dig too far to find other stories with that same premise.In my much younger days it was generic nuclear armaggeddon, but then I thought technological apocalypse was so much more fun, and also much more earth-friendly.
In the case of this story, I started off with a comedy sensibility, veered briefly (it was High School) through drama, and came around to comedy again. Though being that it's a post-apocalypse setting, it still includes billions of dead people, refugee camps, and was always intended to be hyper-violent with lots of cool martial arts.
Things that wound up in the story without my intending:
-All the fighter characters are female, with the exception of the main character's brother.
-All the other male characters can't fight. They have other roles.
This is how it always goes with my original characters. I never plan it that way. It just always happens.
The pages!
Liz and Marc are siblings. They show their affection through constantly fighting.
The first chapter was basically meant as an excuse to inflict magical-girl powers on Liz, who most emphatically doesn't want them. She spends the rest of the story unaware that since she never transformed back to her unpowered self, she's been a magical girl the entire time.
Hiding in a tree...
Her 'powers' come from aliens. No really. It makes sense in context.
Marc throws his sister our of the tree because he knows she can handle fighting three Mad Max rejects. But he does help later.
The story isn't actually about being a magical girl--it's about how many cliches I can cram in, and then later it's about Liz fighting her way through a massive stronghold full of evil robots and assassins to get to her brother (and save or kill him). It's kinda too bad I'll never get around to doing this.
Anyway like a lot of people I've long nursed an 'original' story in a post-apocalypse setting where modern technology can't be used. Of course Revolution is all over the media right now, but before that was Stirling's Dies the Fire, and I don't think you'd have to dig too far to find other stories with that same premise.In my much younger days it was generic nuclear armaggeddon, but then I thought technological apocalypse was so much more fun, and also much more earth-friendly.
In the case of this story, I started off with a comedy sensibility, veered briefly (it was High School) through drama, and came around to comedy again. Though being that it's a post-apocalypse setting, it still includes billions of dead people, refugee camps, and was always intended to be hyper-violent with lots of cool martial arts.
Things that wound up in the story without my intending:
-All the fighter characters are female, with the exception of the main character's brother.
-All the other male characters can't fight. They have other roles.
This is how it always goes with my original characters. I never plan it that way. It just always happens.
The pages!
Liz and Marc are siblings. They show their affection through constantly fighting.
The first chapter was basically meant as an excuse to inflict magical-girl powers on Liz, who most emphatically doesn't want them. She spends the rest of the story unaware that since she never transformed back to her unpowered self, she's been a magical girl the entire time.
Hiding in a tree...
Her 'powers' come from aliens. No really. It makes sense in context.
Marc throws his sister our of the tree because he knows she can handle fighting three Mad Max rejects. But he does help later.
The story isn't actually about being a magical girl--it's about how many cliches I can cram in, and then later it's about Liz fighting her way through a massive stronghold full of evil robots and assassins to get to her brother (and save or kill him). It's kinda too bad I'll never get around to doing this.