writefag thread

I write Gravity Falls and Star vs. Stuff.

>>91926481
I haven't written anything in weeks. I literally just opened up Word.

>>91926481
Awesome! I was hoping one of these would come up. I just started working on a fan script for a Bayformers Beast Wars movie. I wanna know if it's too "cruel" or "meanspirited" to kill off the young bright eyed innocent Cheetor in the final battle scene. He's the only Maximal I don't really have a full arc for and I'd like to subvert the war story trope where the young newbie is the sole survivor.

>>91926481
I'm sorta trying to write a Doctor Doom Novel, in its own seperate continuity. It's purely a "passion project", as I do it to relax after studying/doing chores around my house/etc.

>>91926980
What's it about? That's what my script essentially is: just a little relaxation/escapism. I'm probably not going to even bother formatting it properly.

What does writing have to do with /co/?

>>91927096
Supergirl is interested

>>91927096
Despite what artists may say, comic's and cartoons have writing in them.

>>91927096
it's like a fanfiction thread

I'm trying to write something that fills in some gaps on Earth-3, specifically timetravel gaps, but it's not going all that well.

And it feels like my English keeps getting worse all the time, which doesn't help...

>>91926481

I've got a novel I'm working on, I started at the beginning of the year and I've committed myself to slamming out at least a thousand words every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I've gotten roughly 16 chapters down out of a planned 34 (I spent all of last fall and winter outlining the entire book) and I'm shooting to have the whole thing wrapped up by fall so I can ship my manuscript out to publishers/agents while going back to college. It's basically a cyberpunk vigilante thriller heavily inspired by the aesthetics of synthwave (mostly perturbator) and 80's action/scifi/horror movies in general. I put the first three chapters up on 8ch's /cyber/ board.

There's a few other projects I have that I've since shelved, including an alternate-history satire, an old-school superhero comic, and even a play.

>>91927096

Well where else is it going to go?

>>91926980
>Doctor Doom novel

Color me interested, anon. Care to give a short synopsis if there is one.

>>91927432
>I spent all of last fall and winter outlining the entire book
What exactly do you put in your outline?

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>>91927048

A proper "solo book" starring Doom. It starts with him as King of Latveria, dealing with all sorts of things (a traitor in the government, Mephisto, external politics, etc), and his backstory is slowly revealed through flashbacks.

I'm still making the basic structure, so I've not written anything, just writting down notes, setting up a timeline and whatnot.

Certain concepts I've played with:

>Giving Latveria some identity: Roman occupied, then Conquered by the Visigoths and later assimilated into the Byzantine Empire. Their Old Gods are the Eternals.

>Kristoff is his bastard from Valeria. He ends up killing her, when he finds out she's been keeping Kristoff a secret from him, and intends to use him to create a scandal. Humiliates her before he chokes her.

>Killgrave is a Latverian James Bond, working for Doom.

>Von Doom isn't his actual name, but rather an assumed one, which he took in an order to built a legend around himself. I got the inspiration from Black Sails' Captain Flint.

>Still a vain bastard, but not really an evil guy. Petty, jealous, a tad xenophobic, sexist and very nationalistic, but not Unthinkable levels. Something around Byrne's or Hickman's Doom, with a dash of the current one.

>No huge scarring, just a small one above his eye.

>Dreadknight becomes Latveria's "champion", but he's an emotional mess.

>He and the rest of the F4 are friends at college, but after the accident, he becomes more distant.

>Reed heads an Aperture/HALO-esque Science Company. Goes through the FF Origin Rocket, and destroyes the lives of Sue, Ben and Johnny.

>Vic has two main romantic interests: Wanda and Morgana Le Fay.

I've got some other stuff, but those are some rough examples. I'm treating it more as a comic book in the form of a novel.

PS: Honestly, I just wanna put this sculpt in a story.

>>91927432
>Well where else is it going to go?
/lit/?

>>91927466

Posted already, but if I had to give a synopsis, it'd be:

It's basically a cross between Shakespeare's themes and the Ancient Greek Tragedies. An obviously flawed character tries to reach a even grander status, and even though he does, he wrestles with his choices and his humanity.

I have a very certain depiction of Doom in my mind, which some may not like, as it has more "real-world" negative qualities, but is ultimately a truly noble person. He wants the best, but not for everyone, and certainly not before himself.

>>91927500
hey thats really good

>>91927500
Neat. But, uh,
>>91927605
>ultimately a truly noble person
Who humiliates and murders a woman? Tell me humiliates isn't code for rape.

>>91927744

Thanks anon! I've got a few more ideas, but they're even less developed than those. I still want to commit to a certain "truth" though, as far as the Cosmics are concerned. Hierarchy, nature of them, all that jazz. I've also got a Galactus revision I'd like to tackle in it.

PS: I found that sculpt randomly, but the guy who made it has put an insane amount of detail and lore into it. Search for "Caleb Nefzen" for more.

>>91927428

I've actually floated some ideas around with friends about our own take on an Earth-3/Crime Syndicate world. This was some of the stuff we came up with:

>Owlman is a master criminal and assassin whose only motivation is to cause terror in Gotham City. His archnemesis is detective Jack Napier, a witty, happy-go-lucky policeman and ace toxicologist who invented a non-lethal gas that causes criminals to incapacitate themselves via uncontrollable laughing.

>Ultraman is the last of the kryptonians are a race of warriors and conquerors whose radioactive planet material gives them super-powers, which are negated via sunlight. To get around his weakness, he uses a suit of kryptonian battle armor, which is infused with kyrptonite but also blocks out the effects of the sun. His opponent is billionare tech genius Alexander Luthor, also known as Overman, a superhero whose powers come from his own solar-powered set of armor.

>Highfather is a stern, dominating authoritarian who believes that free will is the cause of all suffering and evil in the universe. Thus, he seeks the anti-life equation, which he and his new gods believe to be the only way of creating a perfect world. Opposing him is Darkseid, the psychotic lord of chaos and misrule, who believes that all life must be free of any moral or ethical restrictions, and that "utopia" is an orgiastic universe of raw indulgence, passion, and hedonism. He seeks the "hyper-life equation" which he believes will mathematically erase any element of civilization in a person and revert them to their most bestial, basic urges.

>The Deep King is very much a tragic figure, lord of the barbaric undersea Atlanteans. Born half-man, half-atlantean, he was rejected as a freak and exiled to the sea. Possessed with unimaginable resentment and hatred to the surface world, he consistently schemes to end all life on the surface. Stopping him is White Ray, the /co/-/tg/ mutual creation, a hero of pure heart and honest goodwill.

>>91927470

literally everything. The outline covers virtually every plot detail so I don't have to worry about writer's block. and I know what I'm doing. It's actually over 140 pages long.

I've been writing the first act of a spec script about supervillains and an app that sets them jobs.

Getting some space, but going back to it eventually.

>>91926670
I know that fucking feel. I have til Sunday to write a story to submit to a fetish pornfic writing competition and I just threw out my first draft for being complete crap.

I want to write a fight between two Dragonball characters but I have no idea how to approach it, for example how to not fall into common fanfiction cancer traps. Also power levels, etc.
And who the fuck would be interested in reading such a story, anyway?

>>91927823

Noble might have been the wrong word. Maybe "good-natured". Good intentions, sometimes baaad execution.

Heavens no, it's verbal. Basically Valeria has been using her magic and whatnot to enter the political scene of Latveria, and intends to use Kristoff as leverage to make Doom abandon the throne and turn the country into a complete Democratic one (in Doom's regime there is a voted-in government to ease the transition, but he has the final word).

She lords over that she was the one who took his virginity, truly understands him, all that jazz. And then Doom gives her the classic "DOOM does not mourn the insects he steps on" speech, albeit with a few alterations.

It all stems from me not liking Super x Normal ships that much. A guy who can move planets shouldn't be fucking a judge, but another powerful heroine.

Which is why I never liked the whole "I always loved Valeria" bit. To me, telling her that she was nothing more than a forgotten character in the grand epic that is his life, would be more appropriate for a man like himself.

Which is why my main Doom OTPs are Morgana and Wanda. One's definitely a bad influence, while the other could mellow him out a bit.

>>91928083
Ah, okay. I've been tainted by reading too much George RR Martin.

>>91927955
That's... not a bad idea. I think I'll try it.

>>91928215

Basically it means writing your story twice, first in outline form where you try to cover the plot as specifically as possible, and then actually formally writing it out. It means taking more time on the first part, but saving a ton of time on the second.

>>91928357
And it les you kinda write in a compartmentalized fashion and focus on whichever part you want to at any given time.

>>91927921
Those are some pretty nice ideas. I've been trying to work with characters who haven't had any major appearances, because I'm not too interested in writing more syndicate stuff. Some I've come up with so far:

>Booster Gold is a former college football player who had a comparatively bright future ahead of him until a rival of his framed him in a betting scandal. The outdrawn legal process and defamation drove Booster to steal a time travel machine in order to go back to the past to live out his dreams of fame and glory like he thought he deserved to. He's not entirely sure if that was the right choice, but is enjoying it.

>Garth Ranzz is the son of a poor couple on the failed farming colony Winath, a barren wasteland without much to offer. He decides to leave his home planet it in order to find something worth living for, but the death of industry mongul J.R Brande throws the failed United Planet alliance into another war that leaves him stranded on Earth with a bunch of other superpowered kids (Rokk, Imra, Querl and others). They decide to steal stuff and wreak havoc on the planet and its citizens in order to survive and take revenge on "the system" that caused all of the shit they are going through.

>Mekt Ranzz left Winath a few years before his brother and fell in with a clique of idealist who had decided to make the universe a better place. It doesn't work out and Garth probably kills him at some point.

>Querl Dox is the great great grandson of The Giver, an alien with an immense intellect who set out to spread knowledge and peace all through the universe. Querl isn't like that, and after serving as Brande's assistant/slave worker for several years he finds himself stuck on Earth with Ranzz et.al. as the war breaks out. Absolutely brilliant, knows that they will all die sooner rather than later, addicted to pain meds and very mentally absent.

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Is there a Name for Jack Kirby's sci-fi stuff like the New Gods and whatever stuff he did for Marvel?

>>91929238
I have no idea. It's a genre I've always wanted to write, but I keep just reverting to Star Wars/Trek big space ships and mostly normal people.

I've got a character chart already done and the bare bones of the story is done, however at the moment I am looking for a program to help me panel my comic pages.

If any anon could tell me what would be a good program, that'd be great.

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The year is 1962
Peter Parker stops the crook in the hallway and his uncle's life is sparred, and the responsibility speech falls on deaf ears. The young man becomes a muscle for hire for any goon who pays well enough around New York. Work then inadvertently begins to leak into his personal life, much to his dismay.

>>91929574
This picture always reminds me of this super cringe Mega Man fanfic I read close to 15 years ago about Mega Man fighting in a second Viet Nam War. Like, it opens with him fucking a girl in college and then he gets drafted to go to Nam where he just uses an M-16 and shit. Other than occasional references to Wily and mettools, as well as calling the protagonist Mega Man, there's nothing MM related in the fucking thing.
It's guided and shaped my fanfiction writing to this day. I constantly strive to never write something like it.

I'm working on the second book in a five-book fantasy series. It's about a powerful barbarian demigoddess whose bloodline makes her the only person able to stop a hyperpowered Roman Empire from conquering the entire cosmos. It's set in a fantastical version of Dark Ages Europe where all myths and legends are true.

When I'm done with that I'm going to start on another novel idea I have, this one a realistic novel about a coed at an Ivy League school who encounters terrible people and decides to start murdering them.

Been working on two stories, one heavily inspired by my love for Green Lantern & Doctor Fate (kind of a dual hybrid), the other a Metal Hurlant inspired cyberpunk story about a 60's style supercomputer god and his followers. I'm also in the process of writing a bronze age inspired team-up fan fic called "Captain America & Howard The Duck See America"

Hey guys. I've been writing for a /coc/ Rage Racer comic for a bit now. Slowly, yes, but surely. It seems that only a few are willing to help me out over there, so I was wondering if you would humor a look through babby's first comic strip. Or would you rather see it when it's "complete"?


>>91929369
I know the guy whose making the BQ comic is using Clip Studio Paint. It has tools for paneling plus a "batch" feature to keep all your pages together.

>>91930003
Postem

>>91929843
w-what about my fanfiction anon

>>91930069
Alright cool.

https://pastebin.com/hXEPn2p5

I'm basically making a full comic of this guy's origin story

http://the-conservatory.wikia.com/wiki/Rage_Racer

>>91929349
Maybe a sort of Swords and Sorcery?

>>91929574
Fuck. I want to read this.

>>91926481
A two sided war story set between union of republican states modeled after the Second French Republic against a(n) semi-absolute monarchy, empire modeled from the Japanese Empire in our 1950s w/ magic added in.

Then drafting up-stuff for a mecha thing.

>>91930218
I'll get back writing immediately!
after exams that is.

But in the story I just want it to focus on Marvel heroes in the year 1962, forward. So a characters first issue of publication is when they'd first hit the scene in universe.

>>91930164
I refuse to believe you're that guy. He looked like he was thirty back in like 2000/1.

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>>91930461
>oldfags
>on my neo-/co/

>>91930461
no im not. im talking about the spider-man one in the original post

>>91930743
It's whatever.

>>91930743

It's not bad, but I like the picture more, like a "what if Peter Parker got drafted?" story

>>91930882
I would have vietnam later on in the story

Most likely I'm just retarded, but motivations are hard. You'd think the question of "What does your protagonist want?" would be an easy one, but I keep getting stuck on generic meaningless bullshit like money or power. But money and power are a means to an end, and I got no idea what the hell that end should be.

>>91930743
I'm more interested in seeing other mildly bad ends for characters. This concept sounds like a more easily digested Ruins without all the over the top grim dark.

Have a batman horror story, a wolvie noir story and a OC I've been kicking around for a while. Starting in on the OC book lately trying to keep it street level, listening to a lot of that depressing jazz from like every movie set in NY in like the late 70s to early 90s (think taxi driver).

Like others it's more of a pastime. Not that I don't try to make it the best I can, I do. But who knows if I ever let any of it see the day of light.

I've been trying to get better at drawing to maybe be able to do one or two as a comic but the skill it would take is years down the road. I'd rather not delay my writing to wait for my art.

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>>91926481
In which Steven finds his life purpose.

>>91931040
Well a thought exercise I've used when having difficulty nailing down a solid bit of characterization is to kind of run them through their life up to the point where the story is set. Maybe just one or two major formative moments in each of the stages of life(childhood, teen, adulthood) before the start of the story.

>>91927500
Is that one of those japanese designs?

Doom's armor is over detailed.Doom needs not spiky bits to be fearsome.

The ideas arn't that ground breaking, but if well developed and written, they could be very, very interesting to read.

>>91926481
Some funky thing about a kid living in a dreary seaside town where it's always foggy and it's only sunny during the summer. But it's flooded to the brink with tourists during that season so the inhabitants are rather pale. The Kid is just a dude stuck in a ricky dink Middle School filled to the brink with bullies and assholes, with burned out teachers more or less tolerating their bad behavior so they can maintain order. He's not a 'alpha' badass Kung-Fu fighter, nor is he a hyper sensitive whiny pussy like Steven, oh no. In fact; Marco and Steven would get torn apart by the Bully gangs in this dump, with Jackie and Connie walking arm in arms with Jake Fulcher after he practically mauls those two.

This kid is a average Joe who just tries to get by. He's nicer than most, but he's stuck in a shitty educational environment that's doing a massive disservice to the students.

>>91931040
Most often it should tie into some internal importance even if it's just greed or megolomania which can come about in any number of ways. And there's nothing wrong with making a greedy megalomaniac just remember that their core motivation is only one aspect of a character and it's always good to have your story challenge it in some way i.e. "How will I get money/power" which is an external challenge or "Do I really need money/power" which is internal or "How far will I go for money/power" which is a bit of both.

>>91931040

>>91927432 here, this is partially the premise of my novel, the protagonist trying to get his shit together and find something to give a damn about. He achieves it by killing people he deems to be criminals. The final chapter is one big solipsistic rant about how being judge, jury, and executioner has finally brought him happiness and meaning in his life.

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>>91927432
>alternate-history satire
You got your own Draka, anon?

>>91931312
Yeah. Marco, Steven, and Dipper would get torn apart in real schools, colleges, or universities. Seriously. Marco will be seen as too dorky to even consider dating, and will be perpetually stuck in the 'friendzone' while the Jackies and Whotsfaces of the world run after the football team and the frat boys, saying that he's gay to put some distance between them. Steven would be that mental retard the bullies from my school used to sling rocks at during the weekends (seriously. They'd load gravel in slings and chase after him in bikes, pricks). Dipper would be that one alien-obsessed autist everyone would make fun of, bullying him till the point he goes fucking insane and withdraws from the outside world mentally.

The one exception would be Lincoln from Loud House. But he'd just be that one nerd you kind of know in C.C. or at work. He's also a NEET, but at least he kept his sanity unlike the others.

>>91931910
What the fuck kind of schools did you go to?

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>>91931910
>Steven Universe vs reality
>it was another day in Beach City, and Steven was in the gem shack getting ready for another adventure.
>"Hooray, I'm gonna save the day again!"
>"Yes you are, Steven." Pearl agreed, "yes you are-"
>"THIS IS THE POLICE!" A loudspeaker blared from outside the shack. "STEP AWAY FROM THE CHILD AND COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP!"
>the police had the shack surrounded, with SWAT even prepping to storm the building just in case the Gems weren't compliant..
>Steven was nervous. "Guys, we're surrounded! What are we going to do?"
>"Oh Steven," Pearl was smug, "these are humans. All we gotta do is just fuse and they'll scatter just like in the old days."
>"Wha-" It was too late for Steven to object as the Gems walked outside of the shack and all he could do was watch through the window. The police trained their pistols, SWAT aimed their rifles, and the single Chicago based PI cocked his revolver.
>"Ready girls!" Pearl shouted.
>"Ready!"
>"Lets-"
>"GOT A GUN, GOT GUN!" They didn't get a chance to fuse as the hellstorm of bullets shredded the gems into nothing but gravel. The hammer of Justice had striked, when the dust cleared and smoke came out of the nozzels the Gems were nothing but unrecognizable slumps of rock. Save for Pearl, she was vaguely humanoid but now lacked a mouth and had a desire to scream.
>"NO! WAAAHHH!" Steven cried as the police took him to protective services.
>Steven then got to spend the rest of his life as a modern day Quasimodo. He was adopted by the McBrides who had him... 'Play' with his 'uncles' every night. Steven was savagely bullied in school for not acting his age, and his step-brother would regularly hunt him down with his gang and... Well... Let's just say Flip got a discount those nights.
>Also Greg was arrested for child abandonment, tax fraud, and possession of inappropriate pictures of minors and sent to the big house for twenty years. Onion became the president of the united states.

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>>91926670
>Want to write
>Can never actually write anything when I actually do Word/Writer
It hurts.

>>91932472
A regular one. Just had a graduating class stuffed to the brink with kids from broken homes, upper middle class spawn with neglectful parents, some honest go god Psychos... And a kid who wore a fucking Nazi uniform every Friday. He was a good friend.

>>91931910

I mean "social satire by means of alternate history", anon. The book is called "Who Killed Heinrich Himmler? A Comedy of Ideology". The premise is that a group of time-travelers went back to Weimar Germany, and through a series of targeted assassinations (including the titular killing of Himmler) alter history so that the Strasserite faction takes control of the Nazi Party, with Ernst Rohm eventually becoming the new fuhrer of Germany. World War II plays out very differently, with the Allies teaming up with Strasserite Nazi Germany to fight Stalinist Russia. As a result, Bolshevism becomes the most reviled ideology in history, the Holodomor is the greatest tragedy of the 20th century, Joseph Stalin is seen as the most evil man in contemporary history.

In the present, disaffected young men find themselves embracing the growing "alt-left" movement, which critics claim is just a new re-branding of Bolshevism. Meanwhile, decadent intellectuals across America push an agenda of national socialism, pushing apologia for Rohm's atrocities with the excuse that "it wasn't TRUE national socialism".

Essentially the point is that radical ideology in the US is mostly a fashion statement rather than a matter of genuine belief rather than an actual, genuine guiding doctrine.

Working on a few things right now actually

>my theory on how Bloodborne connects with Dark Souls
>A Friday the 13th story in the modern age using reality TV

>>91932546
You didn't go to a normal school.

>>91932546
That's not a regular school. You went to some kind of cartoon school.

>>91931910
>Marco Dipper and Steven would get torn apart in real schools
Steven is the only one of those three who an argument could be made of that being true.

Dipper and Marco aren't that weird or socially useless. Hell Marco is actually fairly realistic in how Mexican he is.

Also what the fuck kind of place did you go to where those guys who chased the retard didn't get the shit kicked out of them?

>>91926481
When writing a comic script for something with a lot of fights, how much of the choreography is in the script.

>>91933013
Depends on the writer and their faith in the artist.

>>91933013
Depends on how much you want to entrust to your artist.

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>>91932590
>my theory on how Bloodborne connects with Dark Souls
So where do the Pthumerians fit into all of this

>>91932590
>A Friday the 13th story in the modern age using reality TV
So that Halloween with Busta Rhymes?

>>91933046
>>91933066
So strictly case by case depending on the artist and their patience.

Any good resources for comic script writing? Im going off stuff in the back of trades I have but that can take me only so far.

>>91933292
That's all I've ever used.

>>91933013
Oh yeah the actual idea related to this.

Before the start of the series the main character got a bracelet that gave him a magical/technological suit of armor to fight an evil invading force.

He wins and the story is about him wandering the world after fulfilling his purpose helping people and fighting evil.

In tone I want it to come off like a western or a samurai flick.

>>91933082
Probably ancestors of an echo from one of the six hunters that story revolves around, mind you, they are from a time before everything started to go so bad in Yharnam, most of the factions and their key players are still in double digit levels. I'm not really sure, I have less knowledge of Bloodborne than I'd like to be honest.
>>91933142
I don't think I saw that, no, the producer of said reality TV show knows about the legend of camp blood and Jason and sets up an emination show there to be aired live. However he fully expects Jason to appear and start killing people and when it happens his ratings go through the roof.

>>91933292
There's no real standard for comic script writing just do it the way you feel comfortable. The things you really need to familiarize yourself with is how your script will be translated visually. Even though you aren't an artist you should know things about panel layout, transitions, camera techniques, etc. because the writer always maintains some degree of control over that and it'll help you with scripting. Check out Scott McCloud's books for all that stuff.

>>91933500
>In tone I want it to come off like a western or a samurai flick.
Oh dude you should definitely watch some old school samurai flicks and spaghetti westerns.

>>91930003
Well what I need is something which helps me to draw the panels, not just a template.

>>91934501
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SrJ9LRR3qM

>>91932814
Man, what kind of school did YOU go to where the retards DIDN'T get targeted by the regular bully gangs? Seriously, my school was a generic suburban dump.

>>91932738
Looking back on it... I did. I really fucking did. Holy shit, no wonder why everyone in my graduating class never amounted to anything. No wonder I got problems. At least my family life was great.

>>91935312
Because social microcosms like school reward people who are socially literate and none of those characters are retards except maybe Dipper but even he is perfectly socially capable.

>>91932668
>>91932738
anon basically described my school as well.

>>91932546
fisk? the nazi?

>>91935436
Weird. Our envy your experience, anon.

>>91935458
Yep. We weren't allowed to wear hats, bandannas, beanies, have our hoods on in class, and phones weren't allowed in class... But apparently a Nazi uniform was perfectly reasonable. I once got in trouble for wearing a hippy tye-dye headband because 'it promoted gang activity.' But the fucking Nazi shit was fine.

Probably because he wasn't wearing the armband, but still. Fucking bullshit. That's it, I'm turning my experiences into a cartoon.

>>91935223
Thanks anon

Do we not have draw threads anymore?

>>91936052
Yeah.

>>91929238
I'd call it a cosmic epic. See, the one thing Kirby does well is that he combined the vastness of a universe, created vast and great technologies and mixed it with ideas that are consistent with myths

>>91936071
Thanks mods.

>>91937055
"Yeah" as in "we do still have art threads"

I have a question about writing fanfiction, does anyone have tips for staying in character or expanding on someone who didn't have much of a background story or personality? I've been reading a lot of marvel and dc comics lately, and there are lots of mino characters that can be fleshed out. And I'm loving what they did with the power ranger comics from boom. The original rangers didn't really have much going on either. So I wanted to see how other people write there stories.

>>91937190
Depends on the character. "Minor" I would say is less than ten separate appearances (so not concurrent). Over that you should stay well within the voice. Under that? I'd say respect the original intent but updating, amending isn't so bad when most people don't know the character's voice.

And even then, try to track down and read the appearances. You don't want to write something contradictory.

>>91931258

Yeah, the armour is a tad overly detailed, but it's mostly the throne that I feel in love with. Yeah, it's also overly detailed, but it does a good job of being an extension of Doom's character, and not just a glorified piece of furniture.

As for the ideas, yeah, the first ones are rather basic. I'm playing with some other more metaphysical concepts (see that Galactus take I mentioned), but I want to come up with a hierarchy first. Does THE God exist in my U? Is Galactus a force of Cosmic Balance, or just a delusioned survivor from the previous U? Is the Devil one being, or a bunch of Demons feeding that myth? What's the deal with the Chthons, the Shuma-Goraths, Sise-Negs and whatnot?

Plus, there's the world building aspect. Add too many Marvel characters an the whole thing becomes bloated. I've been playing with a "7 Sorcerers" concept for a while now. Basically there's a Sorcerer & Sanctum Sanctorum at each continent, with an 8th as the Sorcerer Supreme. I'm still working how to fit that in, but it's there.

How do I empathize with "bad guys"? I can wrap my head around what makes a "good," person tick, flaws and all, but not so much the villains.

>>91938237

Well, there are two roads:

-Give them some sappy backstory. "Oh no, Mistah J was abused by hid dad, his mom, his uncle, his dog and even his pigeon, that's why he tortures people for fun".

-Or give them noble goals, and make their evil a result of their actions, hubris, ego, etc, etc.

Although I'd say there's a clear difference between sympathizing with a villain and simply understanding his POV. Take Deathstroke for example. Yeah, he has family stuff. But he's still a giant asshole who fucks around, cheats, kills, maims, etc, etc. You can't really sympathize with him, because he's not doing it for a higher purpose. But, you can still see his POV. You get what makes him tick, and because he's not a deranged lunatic, he doesn't bother you that much. He's a bad guy, but not someone out of a B-Slasher flick. He's a... "business" man of sorts.

Aside from a couple of short stories I should been writing for publishing, I was making some RWBY fanfic, but the fanbase became so autistic I had to stop. It's a shame.
Now I'm just writing a little greentext for Little Witch Academia

Just finished a mini for my portfolio a couple days ago with an artist who lives near me.

We are probably going to do a Kickstarter for another comic I am writing, and then another mini for my portfolio after that.

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Writing an Open Legend campaign about being a hover-bike gang on an alien prison planet.

I don't want this thread to die.

If you are writing a script and want someone to look at it, I'd be happy to.

>inb4 ewe'll steel mai eye-deers!"

You've obviously never pitched something before in your life if you think this way. Either way, if this is what truly worries you, there a few bigger problems that need to be addressed first.

>>91938772
Me neither. Anyway, shall we post the basic idea of our stories?

I'll start.

>A re-imagining of Tomboy, an Old Golden Age Comic
>The idea of it is that a young girl, nicknamed Tomboy is beating the shit out of lower end criminals.
>However, she is not a force of good or anything like that, instead it's her way of letting out rage
>The rest of the book is about the rest of the cast, her family, the police and criminals reacting to her
>The main theme of it is expression of one's self as all of the cast have problems on that front.
>The story is also a reconstruction of the Batman style stuff, as it shows Tomboy's progress for a violent vigilante to a good person.
>It also shows the criminals she works with as bad people who ultimately choose to do bad rather than doing it by choice.

Depending on the ease of it, I would try and get the art style to change issue to issue, depending on what character had the POV. For example, the police cop dad would have a noirlike art, the 'love rival' would have a dramatic, almost shojou like art work. Tomboy would be gritty, almost Daredevil Millar style art and the brother would have much more 'heroic' artwork.

Also, like the original there is a lot of incestuous subtext between Tomboy and her brother.

>>91926481
Unfortunately none of my writing is /co/ related at the moment, fanfiction or otherwise.
In fact, as far as I can recall I've not written any fanfiction at all.

>>91938753

>Open Legend

This just looks like a lazy attempt to ape FATE with standard DND dice.

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>>91939890
Probably, but it's what my friend wanted to play for his birthday and it's much easier to get busy people to read a couple web pages than a book.

Nothing super crazy, just a few ideas I had bouncing around in my head.

Modern'ish setting, best known heroine in the world secretly works as a college professor. Early to mid 30s.

Spends most of her time 'in class' sleeping or resting, the only time that she can really get away with being able to recover from fighting crime and saving the world during her exploits.

Relies heavily on her TAs and assistants to 'carry' her class for her.

Being one of the best known/recognized heroines, she has multiple brand deals, marketing, merchandising, etc, etc (read: not really struggling for money/finances but not Bruce Wayne/Tony Stark stupid rich).

Decides that it's becoming too much and she's not getting any younger, reaches out and starts looking for individuals with their own powers. Contacts them as her superheroine identity and offers them the opportunity to 'apprentice' under her. The only catch is, they have to attend the college she happens to work at, though she offers to pay for their tuition and expenses.

Ends up turning her 'apprentices' into TAs to help run and carry her classes and students ontop of teaching them ropes and honing their own abilities as heroes in training.

>>91933500
I think I remember this idea from a pitch a comic thread.

I kind of liked it but wasn't the main character like sixteen?

Bumping because I don't want this thread to die.

>>91938772
Might you humor me?>>91930193

>>91926481
I'm writing a comic about a former gang member with anger issues who has been released from prison after serving a six year sentence for manslaughter, he returns to his home and we see him meet with his former gang members, old friends and his ex who is currently in an abusive relationship. There's also flashbacks telling about how he ended up being the way he is, how he joined his gang and how he met his ex.

Originally, it was going to be a film script, but if I can't do that, I'm just gonna have my friend draw a comic version of it.

I've got approximately 5 months until my job/schooling occupies too much of my time to be able to devote any to writing. I want to get started on another big comic project but I can't really seem to decide which idea to go with.

I've got plans for a comic set in the same universe as my current ongoing comic. It would focus on a young girl who discovers she's actually an exiled tyrant from a distant star system who's been inserted into the body of a young girl. She now wants to make her way back home and take revenge. But it will require her to take over Earth and drag it into a sufficiently advanced technological age.

Another idea about piracy on the Great Lakes in a post post apocalyptic world where the landscape is broken up into floating islands.

Teens getting addicted to drugs that give them magic powers as a side effect.

An Eerie Indiana meets Goosebumps type anthology that focuses on various kids growing up in the low class areas of a lakeside Rust Belt metropolis.

A world where the supernatural suddenly started to exist when somebody made the brilliant decision to run away from the light after they died. Now over 20 years later, everyone's adjusted to the overall weirdness, but some of the undead still need means of emotional support in the form of group therapy.

And finally, a girl trying to fix a tiny mistake in her past finds that each proceeding jump back in time to correct it leads to unforeseen consequences that spiral out of control. Now the universe is trying to purge her entirely to keep reality from shaking itself apart.

Maybe I'll just do a short comic though and simply focus on my damn day job for now.

>>91940899
Maybe he's going to be sixteen. Im still debating where from sixteen to twenty to put him.

Old enough to be somewhat mature but young enough to still be somewhat impressionable and naive about the world.

He's hyper specialized for combat having been doing it since he was eleven and some of his adventures are also about just learning shit.

>>91941952

Sure, I will look this over.

>>91930193

I'll be critiquing this as I read it.

You need to cut out the words such as "pan", "zoom", "tilt", etc. That sort of direction is actually useless in writing a comic, and most artists cringe when they see it because a comic panel is a device capable of showing a time-slice. It is not a camera capable of zooming in, or panning, or anything else. Basically if you want to "move" the shot, you need to imagine each panel as a scene where the camera is completely locked down.

For instance, if you want to zoom in on something you just say "Push-in" or "Cut-in". This tells the writer/editor what type of shot it is you want. Another example, pg. 1, p. 2. If you want to look down at something, depending on the perspective, you might write: "Top-down shot. V. Wide." Or if you were to do the same thing, but it's because we're seeing what a guy floating in the air is seeing you first need to establish this.

For instance. Pg. 1 p. 1: "Very Low-Angle. V. Wide. MAN is floating in the air. Generic white-blue sky behind him."

Pg. 1 p. 2: "Reverse shot. PoV. High-Angle. A few city blocks, stretching on into the background, are bustling with activity (people walking, bikers, cars, and trucks, moving or hurrying up to wait at traffic lights) far down below from our MAN's view as he continues to float in the air."

Also, get yourself a writing program. Not CeltX. That's a shitty meme. This will help you format the scripts better, and you can make them into a PDF. Which is far more enjoyable to read over than just a pastebin.

I am going to spend 10 more minutes reading, and then I have to leave for about an hour, but I will come back and go through it some more.

>>91930193

>A 72 word long box.

Oh baby what is you doing? On an already cluttered page, you are just asking to piss off the line artist, colorist, and the letterer. If you want all that dialogue, you need to break it up over several panels. Or you devote pretty much an entire page to it.

Your first panel should actually be it's own panel. This is what we call a splash page, or establishing shot. It should have a lot of detail, so trying to cram in another three highly detailed panels with a considerable amount of exposition is pretty much a nonstarter.

>>91944497
>Point 1
Fair enough. It's more for describing it to me since the closet to paneling I've done is film so I just used that to tell myself the general direction the scene moves. Any other lingo I should keep in mind? Is there a book to look at for it? I already have a couple of books, but more knowledge on the subject never hurts.

>Point 2
I was afraid of that. I have reading ASM to help with how a story should flow, but I remember them being pretty cluttered, especially the early stuff. Also not sure what you mean by CeltX. I've been using Word for the whole of my writing so far. But I'm more than willing to look at any software recommended.

>>91944651
Fair enough. Since the end of semester is closing in I can spend more time shaving down the script.

I'm appreciating the feedback. Now I can start writing with a bit more structure and not have to worry about changing it later.

>>91942186
>He's hyper specialized for combat having been doing it since he was eleven and some of his adventures are also about just learning shit.
Are we talking African child soldier here?

>>91945081

A lot of the vernacular really varies from person to person, but one thing remains consistent. Everyone treats their eye as a camera for photography, not filmography. Find a book, really any, that talks about photos and how to shoot them. Crib the terminology from there, but continue to block out shots like you would a storyboard. Once you've done that, you've more or less got it. I will keep reading now that I am back. I am making this post to keep the thread from dying.

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>>91936857
>A Cosmic Epic

That has a nice right to it. I wonder why we don't see more of those now a days?

>>91930193

I've skimmed the rest of this.

You are trying to slam what is probably closer to 20-22 pages worth of stuff into 12 pages. A bad move. Your artist is going to want to choke you out for asking them to draw and then figure out how to layout that much shit in area where real-estate is already scarce. And then your letterer is going want to break your fingers for typing so much dialogue for such small panels. Finally, once your colorist sees what the letterer has done, they'll turn around and shoot you in the face for ruining their work because of the hole punch you just asked someone to take to their painting.

I don't want to dissuade you, really, that's the last thing I wish for. However, you are going to need to retool pretty much the entire script for it work mechanically. You need to look into what page reveals are, how left-to-right structure works, how to pace dialogue, how many panels you can realistically get away with without dealing with too much data compression.

Find comics that people laud as being great, and then analyze them. Don't watch (read) them, pick them apart. Imagine you are a director watching another director's movie. You are going to be interested in how they blocked out shots, what is and isn't CGI, the pacing, how much information is being conveyed in a scene, etc.

I also almost want to tell you to just avoid the /co/ universe. It isn't good for you as a creator, but if it is what you want to do, who am I to put the kibosh to those plans?

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A boy falls in love with a girl.

Unable to confess, he is gifted by a deus ex machina with the girl's phone number. Never minding the strange area code, he immediately calls her, and is overjoyed to find out that she has a crush on him as well.

But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day's confessions to the girl, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the girl he called is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn't exist in this universe at all. She is the girl's alternate universe counterpart, who has fallen in love with the MC's own AU self, who too is blissfully unaware of her crush.

Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, DRAMA ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of LOVE.

PV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcVGDV67L-g
EP 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_rz1bluG_k
EP 13: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLUjMWRCzic
OP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycfdfinG_P8
ED1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXDNGS9V4Us
ED2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4DyTjrruVo

>>91946618
>>>/a/

>>91945196
No. He's just minmaxed poorly.

He's never had an actual job. He's poorly versed in average everyday life things. He went from being eleven to bouncing around the world from place to place.

The moments of levity to give the story breathing room instead of being jokes or moments of comedy would be him learning to work a cash register at a convince store and sitting on a gym mat learning how to open a bank account.

>>91946618
Already a thing.

https://www.fictionpress.com/s/3206139/1/
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/keit-ai-finds-a-way/
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WebOriginal/KeitAi
http://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge/keit-ai/list?title_no=36825

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>>91946618
FINDS

>>91946492
Alright. Thanks for the advice. As stated before this is a first attempt so I was sure there were some major problems. I'm gonna read some comic writing books I got. Any comics you think are good for me to try and deconstruct?

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>>91946618

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>>91946618
>Bombs Away

A Muslim falls in love with a girl.

Unable to confess, he joins ISIS. Never minding the strange area, he immediately gets there, and is overjoyed to find out that the girl has found Allah as well.

But, the next day, when he recounts the previous day's bombing with the girl, she only looks at him with a perplexed expression. After some investigation, he finds out that the girl is not the same girl he fell in love with. In fact, she doesn't exist in this universe at all. She is Mohhammad himself, who has fallen in love with the MC's own AU self, who too is blissfully unaware of her crush.

Hijinks ensue as the two strike up a deal to give each other their darkest, most private secrets in order to equip the other with the weapons they need to conquer the heart of their other selves. While the two chase their respective loved ones, JIHAD ensues as they begin to fall in love with each other instead and question the NATURE of SHARIA.

Can someone draw C-4 with lipstick?

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>>91946618
KEIT-AI WILL (FIND A WAY)
YOU SHOULD GO (BACK TO /a/)
LET ME OFF
THIS FUCKING RIIIIIIIIIIIIIDE

>>91946058
The problem i have is scope. Everytime i start in on some cosmic epic, it grows too big.

>galaxy full of life sustaining planets
>thousands of years of war
>main is cocky telemechanic kid who joins military
>father uses influence to keep kid in the mech bay and off the battlefield
>he resists and ends up on battlefield anyway
>is nearly killed and left to die by supposed friend
>kid dies betrayed and pissed
>wakes up in the afterlife
>is immediately engaged in physical combat with a harbinger of death
>kills harbinger with its own sword
>more harbingers arrive and are defeated
>kid sees some kind of portal
>goes through
>returned to body
>he is now immortal
>assumes new identity
>works space salvage

Does any of this even sound interesting?

>>91947773
that last plot point needs to change.

You could have him be set against the father somehow, maybe. IMO there needs to be a connecting force or reason that the main was "chosen" and why he's back.

You could do a monster of the week thing and kick the can down the road for a while but eventually there needs to be an arc about that particular "why".

Otherwise it's interesting enough. The devil is in the details but the plot is solid enough.

Some things to keep in mind
>is he always "powered"
>why are there an army of harbingers? do people regularly best them and return to life?
>does the harbingers sword have any significance? will the main use it in the future?
>does he return with any feelings towards the war? is he on the other side now, apathetic, or still remain on the side he was on?

>>91946703
How the fuck does this guy travel the world if he never had a day job?

>>91947929
Pretty much every question you asked has an answer. Also, you brought up some good points Ill try to explain.

>is he always "powered"
He has the ability to telepathically communicate with machines. Its what makes him a gifted mechanic and inventor like his father, but he lacks the artistic eye to do what his father had done, which is create elegant machines or war
>why are there an army of harbingers? do people regularly best them and return to life?
The harbingers work for death. Ultimately, he was chosen to assume the mantle, but he keeps refusing, despite the inevitability of it. They are not often bested, but they can be and have been. More immortals emerge down the line.
>does the harbingers sword have any significance? will the main use it in the future? Yes. It is bound to him. He can call upon it at will. Despite living in a world full of power armor and mechanized war machines, the sword it powerful.
>does he return with any feelings towards the war? is he on the other side now, apathetic, or still remain on the side he was on?
He is in fact opposed to the side he once fought for. The friend who left him for dead told everyone he had died. The family sees through his bullshit story, and he admits to the dad he shamefully left him to die. The guy is kind of a selfish fuck though, and to make sure the issue was no longer pressed by the mains family, he has the father discredited and ruins his reputation.

Other shit that comes up
>and old manufacturing facility located under a junk yard
>main can regenerate from next to nothing
>accidentally atomizes himself, creating a planet full of clones
>becomes weapons manufacturer

>>91948274
>the other immortals who escaped harbingers are of various alignments
>they actually capture other immortals and use thier lifeforce like unlimited batteries
>they seeks to collect thousands of pieces of a gate that will open the door to the death realm

Geez... this is why the fucking outline for the story arcs is so crazy. When writing long lived characters, the span of time is so great so much shit happens

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>>91926481
Well...
I'm in deep deep shit now. After 4 years of hard work I still can't finish my masterfic. I just can't find correct words for endshpil. All advises from my beta - "rocks falls, everybody dies". And now I lost all hope and run to another fics. Like a adventure of that guy in ALTA world just after the Search comics end.

Working on some porn featuring The Web and the Green Spider called "Scandalous Spider-boys."
They're based on the Andrew Garfield and Tom Holland versions of Spidey respectively.

I just slept and had a dream of a strange series that was a mix of Spider-Man, Kamen Rider, and Devilman about a being who lost his agency and turns into a insect monster to fight other monsters with the revealing theme later being manipulated by a Mojo-esque tyrant and he goes on a spree slaughtering both the stunt actor versions of the enemies he previously defeated, only to be put down by a human detective noting he lost his humanity and was no longer any better. There was a mix of weaponized narrative aspects like skipping ahead to a later episode and using information gathered to change the resulting future, abusing the fuck out of the mechanics of the world to exist in multiple places and states at once, and tacked on demonology symbolism in the other dimension.

Would this be worth pursuing as an actual thing? I'm not sure if I can convey the sureal feeling of the dream such as the main character becoming aware that his human body and monster body were not the same and has been asleep 40 episodes, being pulled by strings or teaming up with many other instances of himself.

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>want to write
>not fluent enough to do it well in English
>writing in my native language means nobody will read it, especially not with the subject matters that actually interest me.

>>91950401
most people suck about writing in eng

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I've had the idea for a Doctor character who travels around healing peoples supernatural illnesses with equally supernatural cures, currently working on a short 5 page practice comic but i've got no clue how to construct a script

>>91951059
>this donkey punch will cleanse your soul.
>Right before I refill it with muh chickennoodle

>>91947773
>>91948274
With all that explained it sounds really good to me. I'd read a long term comic with that premise assuming you had the pacing and characterization down. However, it seems like something that could easily grow out of hand depending on the number of characters, and I'd suggest making a long form outline of every detail to ensure things have a proper resolution.

>>91951059
This also sounds fun. There's a lot you could do with it ranging from a webcomic in the vein of Oglaf or a longer form comedy comic. What's your plan?

>>91952307
>What's your plan?

Truth be told I've never been good at writing comedy, if anything it would be short form horror and occult stories following the doctor, then eventually expanding into full paranormal arcs

Anyone wanna comment on this? >>91941994

Perhaps provide tips or something?

Right now I have three plots swirling around in my mind. One I'm fairly unsure on mainly because I'm unsure how political I want to be. The other I'm just unsure on presentation.
Story one involves the life of the first detective robot. He as well as a legion of police robots were created with the sole purpose of being able to deal out justice without bias due to rising concerns about police brutality. However, these robots were also given emotions in order to properly deal with victims experiencing loss. Because they express emotion, guilty parties often accuse them of being bias and hating humans. Tensions rise between the robots and humans as an initiative to replace the current police force with emotionless droids is put forward. The detective must handle a volatile political landscape while ensuring justice is upheld.

Story two is about a young necromancer girl whose sister goes missing after she enters the dying woods near their house. She goes after her sister only to unravel several supernatural plots in her small southern town. Along the way she is accompanied by a man seeking immortality through a magical camera, which he was meant to buy from the now missing local pawn shop owner; anyone who has their picture taken is left alive in the photograph forever. As the two look for the missing sister more and more of the towns folk disappear. Eventually, the young necromancer is kidnapped by her best friend who has used the camera to capture the entire town. Her best friend's mother died recently leaving her afraid of death; she plans to protect the people of the town by entrapping them and plans to have the final photo be of her and the young necromancer. The man of course interrupts the picture and everyone is set free.

>>91952713
How does it end? Also how stylized is your friend's art style? You've got a sin city story basically and a stylish presentation could easily sell the simple premise.

>>91952610
A horror based approach reminds me of that one manga about the Frankenstein girl who always fucks people over with the body alterations she makes.

>>91953204
The ending sees him finally convincing members of the gang to leave after a botched robbery, the leader of the gang used to be friends with the protagonist, but instigated a fight in a bar that led to his manslaughter charge. After the gang members leave, and after seeing his ex and her child (implied to be the protagonist's) with cuts and bruises, leaving the protagonist angry once again. Realizing he doesn't have much of a purpose in the world anymore, and wanting his love to be happy, he waits at the abusive boyfriend's home, and kills him when he arrives.

My friend's art style tends to change, but he's does a lot of chiaroscuro drawings, noir-esque. I feel like that can fit with the general tone of the story.

>>91927823
>Who humiliates and murders a woman?
Would he still be noble if it was a man he humiliated and murdered?

>>91953713
No.

>>91953760
Good.

I'm writing a story about a kid who feels like his life in a small town is boring and unchanging and doesn't stimulate his intellect, but at the same time he likes the comfort and is scared of taking charge of his life. His father died at a young age and this is the single greatest event in his life. One day he visits his fathers grave and his father shows up out of the timestream to help him and through flash sideways and backs you realize a character you have been seeing was his father the whole time. As they go through you realize that the quantum mechanics of time travel have been taken over by a corporation who basically runs time travel from the future to horde dwindling resoruces on a near-apocalypse earth and the line of men in his families are a part of a rebellion to stop them.

>>91932500
>Onion became the president of the united states.
Good End

I'm writing about existential crises and paranoia, it's partially based on OK Computer.

>>91938237
You make a "good" person then you look at them through the eyes of another character who hates them.

>>91939836
You invalidated your whole idea with that spoilered line at the end. Congratulations.

>>91951059
Mushishi was kinda like that

>>91955904
Never heard of it, looked it up and it says its an anthology series, might be cool to watch, is it good anon?

Got a Spider-retcon that splits off right before Civil War kicks off. Gets rid of OMD, Civil War and every shitty event in one fell swoop. Also serves as a middle finger to Slott and proves that Spider-Man can have stories that can have him be married but still have drama.

>Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man
>3 years after Stanford, Peter, aged 33, and MJ are still together and are raising a daughter, Annie. Peter works a well-paying job at Horizon Labs while having gained the public's trust as Spider-Man.
>Harry is alive (It's revealed in a later arc that the Goblin formula has a regenerative effect that repaired the damage to his body and mind that caused him to die as a failsafe.) and he's working on the slow but steady work of repairing his relationship with Liz.
>Flash has just returned from a tour in the Middle East. He becomes Agent Venom later on in the run after the Symbiotes commence a mass invasion of New York that the heroes are barely able to stop.
>Cindy Moon is no longer bitten by the same spider, but is instead a 19 year old in the Physics class Peter is a guest lecturer for. After a freak accident, Peter gives her his powers to save her life and she becomes Silk, under the role of Peter's sidekick.
>Kaine was healed by Peter and cured of his cellular degeneration, and operates in Houston as Scarlet Spider with Hummingbird as his ward.
>Captain Carlie Cooper is Spidey's strongest advocate in the NYPD. Her girlfriend, fellow captain Yuri Watanabe, is in the opposite extreme, going so far as to become the Wraith to take Spidey and his rogues out of the equation.
>Tony still leads the Mighty Avengers, and Cap leads the Secret Avengers from the streets. While not on the best of terms, they aren't on the "Eye contact=fight" level that Millar had them on.
>Most of Spidey's rogues have practically vanished or incarcerated (Spidey kills Doc Ock, who was imprisoned early on, to save his daughter) but Venom comes back to blitz Earth with Symbiotes.

I've been writing a series of adventure novels for three months now. So far, it's been going well. I can't draw to save my life, though. Some advice is to plan your story, characters and elements out long-term. And just write. Write, write, write. I very rarely do second drafts of my work. What I write down, is what comes out. Sometimes I edit/add a sentence or two when checking for grammatical/spelling errors. It helps that I've had some things planned out for years on end before finally writing, so maybe that's why I don't struggle as much.

Currently at volume three.

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>>91956858

Mushishi is amazing.

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I write shipping fanfiction about superheroes and cartoons
I'm a guy in my twenties

>>91946618
im surprise it took so long to find a way

>>91965516
hey so do i
be honest do you write anything gay?

>>91926638
Give us some exam, anon.

>>91969770
Am I allowed to link them?

The Doomfag from earlier here. I also had a few scribbles for an Iron Man novel/script.

Alright, like with Doom, it's set in its own continuity, so we're going back to the start. Also, you should expect changes.

>Due to Howard's alcoholism, Stark Industries goes from a well-respected munitions company to pretty much a wreck. So it's all Tony's doing when it reaches International status and becomes a global tech juggernaut.

>Tony himself is a rather serious and stern fellow with a fun side, akin to the original books. A heavy drinker, arrogant, a tad sexist, but with good intentions.

>I'm gonna go with the MCU Origin, but this time the real Mandarin is truly behind everything. As for him, he's a Eurasian bussinessman whose lineage can be traced to Ghengis Khan. The rings follow the same origin as the books, but the "dragon" is Fing-Fang-Foom (there'll be a name change though).

>There would be a small selection of customed villains. The majority of the plots would be based around groing Stark International's sphere of influence, conspiracy plots, corporate espionage, that jazz.

>The book would also deal with themes such as deism, transhumanism and really go into the whole "ghost in the machine" story. It'd really not read like a cape-related book.

Admittedly that's even less developed, but I figured I'd put that out there as well.

>>91969874
I'm not sure why you wouldn't.

>>91955164
Why? I said there was subtext, I never said that it would go into text. There wouldn't be anything like the two of them kissing or anything of the sort.

It would be more of the lines that brother would find Tomboy to be a beauitful person while Tomboy found herself envious of her brother, finding his persona to be the example of great man, one she'd be happy with.

>>91971989
>>91972096
>>91972203

Nice story, man. I hope you don't mind if I steal it and make a movie out of it.

>>91937686

Cool I think I understand what your trying to say. I'm still trying to figure out how to learn the voice of a character thats not your own. But I guess its something you have to practice. I'll try reading about there appearances and look into how they acted. Might give me ideas for my writing.

gotta admit i didn't expect this thread to live so long
why did this one succeed where the other failed?

>What are you writing
Character sheets
Forever.
Writing.
CHARACTER SHEETS.

I'm writing an autobiography about the shitstain of a cyber-nomad, art-student-hipster-faggot, life I lead as I hop from cybercube to datasphere as I pass down shitty obscure music recs to all those I come across, get involved with drunk chicks in bars, and dodge homosexual predators as I clumsily traverse the weapon and drug laden economical industrial wasteland we call America.

fun fact: it's all written in the style of one gigantic run-on sentence

>>91971843
Links get deleted on co

How do you keep the comedic elements of a horror-based villain from destroying villain's credibility?
I've seen that happening so many times, I want to know what to avoid.

>>91978834
I'd think you'd accomplish this by not having the comedy get in the way of their effectiveness. Or by having the comedy give them an advantage that they're not quite in control of

So the humor either doesn't impede them or makes all their actions worse but in ways the protagonist or the villain didn't plan for or expect.

>>91978834

In the case of Freddy Kreuger, the ur-example, the wisecracks and pop culture references serve to accentuate the powerlessness of his victims. It helps establish how Freddy is in total control to the degree that this is just a game for him, some sick joke. That strikes me as a pretty good jumping-off point.

Outlining and plotting a few comics of various shapes, sizes, and flavors.
>Modern witch helping cops deal with demons and cults and shit.
6-10 issues.
>Park rangers tending to a magical forest and the creatures/spirits within it.
Loosely connected vignettes, currently at like, 10 arcs.
>Retellings of Grimm Fairy Tales with slight twists through a child lens.
Loosely connected vignettes.
>Robot detective noir mystery
4-5 issues.

Also spitballing ideas for a bunch of short stories for an anthology book set during a post atomic-war world. Some stories are:
>Cloning conspiracy onboard an aging super-submarine.
>Grouchy mercenary cowboy slave traders.
>Children inductees into the local crazy cult.
>Children inadvertently finding a gang's cave-side hideout.
>A kidnapped blind song-singer, and her rescue attempt.
>A day dreaming bar owner.

I have not been working as hard as I should have, but my classes have kept me very busy this semester. Hoping to get more done this summer and get at least one comic made. Need to find artists, though, which sucks.

>>91979072
To be fair, Freddy got worse and worse as a villain the more clownish he got.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd7FX-
This is chilling because it's the kind of a humor I'd expect from Ted Bundy, had he been given superpowers.

Now anything in, say, Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare is neither funny nor scary and doesn't make me care about the suffering of his victims at all.

>>91980078
Nice link.

>>91980078
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sd7FX-EiEns
Fuck, messed up the link.

I had a Ragnarok idea, that would mostly follow the story of Ragnarok itself, with just a few additions and adjustments.
It wouldn't be a Marvel comic, that's for sure.

>>91927921
I feel like Owlman is too close to generic Anti-Batmen like Wrath and Prometheus. "If Batman never kills and is a cool gadgets acrobat guy, my acrobat guy will kill, making him the mirror Batman!"

What I want is for someone to take Batman's No Kill rule and turn it on its head. Like, Owlman specifically keeps his foes alive and suffering through most excruciating pain to make a point, driving them insane. Keeps them in his personal prison, instead of allowing the authorities to have justice. Uses Indian philosophy on conflict, turning his enemies against each other and making sure they kill themselves.

>>91979520
>post atomic-war world
I've actually been meaning to ask, what's the best way to use this setting without it turning into a Fallout rip-off?

>>91981207
What about anti-Batman who captures villains to brainwash them into killing more people a la Johan Liebert, all to mock the consequences of Batman's no-kill-rule?
That made more sense in my head than when I was writing it

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Any anons into TFA? Been writing some gay shit for pic related.

>>91981499
Actually, that could work for Prometheus. Though, he'd brainwash heroes instead of villains, I think.

>>91981207

Well no, my proposed Owlman is less "Batman, but lethal," and plays more on the classic "master criminal" aspect, in the vein of Rocambole, Diablolik and Fantomas.

>>91950401
Trust me anon, there's professional writers out there with worse English skills than a Russian.

If you're making fanfics there'll be a bunch of people willing to proofread and edit your stuff for free.