FAQs

[trekrevbangmod]

What is Trek Reverse Bang?

Trek Reverse Bang is based on startrekbigbang, except here the art comes first. Artists create their art, send in their drafts and authors choose the pieces in a blind claims post. Then the authors write a minimum of 6K words based on the artwork and starting from the 12th of May, the fandom gets a whole bunch of delightful presents.

Comments

[scatter_muse]

Are comic prompts allowed?

[ileliberte]

Hi :) I'm not quite sure what you mean? Leaving a prompt for a comic book structure art piece or an image idea based on existing comic book characters/situations? If it's the former, sure. If it's the latter, that's perfectly fine too, but just keep in mind that it might not necessarily be as helpful to too many people if it's very specific with respect to characters since they might not be familiar with that particular comic.

[scatter_muse]

I meant the former. Thank you!

[chaosraven]

I assume this challenge is for TOS/AOS only but I didn't see anywhere that specified that other than artist/author sign-ups. I don't know if it's necessary to clarify that (it could just be me!) but it was something I noticed when signing up as a beta.

[ileliberte]

Hi :) Yes, it was kind of an oversight on our part since we just assumed it would be either TOS/AOS given current fannish trends (can you tell I haven't been in Trek fandom for too long?). I'll add it to the FAQ. Thanks for bringing it to our notice!

[anonymous]

Questions -

1. Can artists create multiple pieces of art, not after the story is written, but at the onset?

2. How do authors choose art? Is it through first-come-first-serve, lottery, forty two algorithms?

3. Can you link me to some old reverse bangs (if there are any)?

The reverse bang idea is really neat!

[ileliberte]

1. Ideally, we want the claiming process to be 1:1, so that one artist gets one author. However, since we don't know yet how many authors and artists we'll end up with, doing more than one piece might not work out if there are not enough authors as artists. Author signups end March 1, so if you're willing to gamble with it and make a second piece that's substantial enough to be submitted as a draft by March 6th, we will use both pieces as separate claims if it turns out that there are more authors than artists. Do remember that we strongly encourage collaboration between the artists and authors after the author claims, so please pace yourself accordingly

[anonymous]

1. There do appear to be more artists and authors. What I meant was, might an artist draw 2-3 pictures as part of the same claim for one story to be based on?

Also another random question (sorry for the hassle!) - what if we recognize the artist (since art is more distinctive than a word summary)? Is it still ok to claim it?

Thanks so much for answering all these questions! ^^;

[ileliberte]

1. For the claims part of the process, we want only one piece per story, so if someone has, say, 2 or 3 pieces already made for the same story, we'll ask them to make a collage of the pieces so that ultimately it's just one actual image we use for the authors to claim. We don't want to confuse the authors with multiple pieces when it's meant to be for a single story, and this is the best way to have the artist present all the pieces and the author to have a single number to choose when claiming. Does that make sense

[scatter_muse]

Have you pimped this around yet? I remember keeping an eye out for it in the kirk_mccoy community, but I only eventually managed to find it because I also subscribe to the Star Trek newsletter.

[zippitgood]

We've tried but we can't get to all the comms. Any help you could provide in advertising would be awesome!

[zippitgood]

Thanks for the heads up on startrekpromo. I hit up st_reboot a few days ago. I don't want to spam the comm but I'll post there again when artist sign ups close.

If you could help us advertise the comm in places we haven't reached yet, we'd really love that!