Dean Trippe's pitch for Lois Lane: Girl Reporter
Once upon a time ( last year's ECCC), I asked Dean Trippe for a Lois Lane sketch. He was lovely enough to drew her for me but it's not the picture you see there. See, he was nice enough to geek out with me about the awesome that is Lois Lane & while he did so, he told me about this awesome pitch he & Daniel Krall had for her. He called it "Project 77." I fawned over it, of course, which was probably why he was nice enough to draw me a Young Lois Lane from said project.
I couldn't post the drawing or say anything because it was a pitch & thus suprsekrt. (Not that I believe I was the only one he talked to about this but I like to think I was THE MOST EXCITED right after Trippe & Krall themselves.) So I've sat on this info, waiting & waiting & waiting & waiting & waiting for news that DC would soon print "Project 77."
But it looks like, we'll all have to keep on waiting.
"Project 77" is actually Lois Lane: Girl Reporter. The premise is [a]t eleven years old, Lois has discovered her calling: investigative journalism. She sets out to right wrongs and help out her friends. This series explores Lois’s character, reveals her surprising early influence on the future Man of Steel, and introduces fun new elements into this enduring character’s back story.
In each book, Lois will tackle a problem or mystery affecting the members of the community she finds herself in as she travels around the country. The investigations in this series will not be mystical or supernatural (though some characters may suspect such sources), but real world problems that Lois works to set right.
Doesn't that sound AMAZING?! You all have to read the notes, especially the part where [t]he story ends by another appearance by twelve year old Clark Kent, who helps the people of Smallville in secret, but never openly, due to his parents’ fears of his being discovered. But Clark reads Lois’s article reprinted in the Smallville Star, laying on his stomach on the living room rug. He looks over his shoulder, smiling at Martha and says, "Golly, that’s some girl, huh, Ma?" Here’s this girl fighting for Truth, Justice, and the American Way with no superpowers and no secret identity. Clark enrolls in his school’s journalism class the next day. That’s why Clark Kent is a reporter. Lois Lane is his hero.
But apparently, TPTB at DC aren't currently interested. How could you not be interested this this awesome?
HEY DC. HEY, HEY, HEY DC. HEY, DC!!! YOU WANNA MAKE MONEY!? HIRE THESE GUYS FOR THIS STORY.
I couldn't post the drawing or say anything because it was a pitch & thus suprsekrt. (Not that I believe I was the only one he talked to about this but I like to think I was THE MOST EXCITED right after Trippe & Krall themselves.) So I've sat on this info, waiting & waiting & waiting & waiting & waiting for news that DC would soon print "Project 77."
But it looks like, we'll all have to keep on waiting.
"Project 77" is actually Lois Lane: Girl Reporter. The premise is [a]t eleven years old, Lois has discovered her calling: investigative journalism. She sets out to right wrongs and help out her friends. This series explores Lois’s character, reveals her surprising early influence on the future Man of Steel, and introduces fun new elements into this enduring character’s back story.
In each book, Lois will tackle a problem or mystery affecting the members of the community she finds herself in as she travels around the country. The investigations in this series will not be mystical or supernatural (though some characters may suspect such sources), but real world problems that Lois works to set right.
Doesn't that sound AMAZING?! You all have to read the notes, especially the part where [t]he story ends by another appearance by twelve year old Clark Kent, who helps the people of Smallville in secret, but never openly, due to his parents’ fears of his being discovered. But Clark reads Lois’s article reprinted in the Smallville Star, laying on his stomach on the living room rug. He looks over his shoulder, smiling at Martha and says, "Golly, that’s some girl, huh, Ma?" Here’s this girl fighting for Truth, Justice, and the American Way with no superpowers and no secret identity. Clark enrolls in his school’s journalism class the next day. That’s why Clark Kent is a reporter. Lois Lane is his hero.
But apparently, TPTB at DC aren't currently interested. How could you not be interested this this awesome?
HEY DC. HEY, HEY, HEY DC. HEY, DC!!! YOU WANNA MAKE MONEY!? HIRE THESE GUYS FOR THIS STORY.