Legion World Forums LEGION OUTPOST Mission Monitor Board semi-official LMB Comic writing thread! - now with added crunch -

That's beautiful. Almost the opposite of the LSH origin story. It's that warped reflection of the DCverse that's so much fun with the LMB.

don't know what a DC Black Alice is.

don't know 80s Stevie Nicks? Okay...

http://www.bmi.com/images/musicworld/n/nicks_s_1_500.jpg
http://www.odinartcollectables.com/images/record%20Stevie%20nicks%20bella%20donna.jpg

couldn't find the images I was particularly thinking of, but those give a hint.

This one... With flaming red hair of course

"Assassins! they're going to kill Lone Star Ranger!"
"too bad."
"let 'em."

(later)

"you kids could have been heroes and saved him. Instead, you put politics and apathy first. I think you should band together, and inspire a legion, a legion of the self-absorbed."

(dead silence)

"...why bother?"

exactly! I was thinking with a little more black lace, too.

This is the current DC Black Alice ...

YK's taking a break, and I've got to go, too (might be back, but probably not).

We should set up an email loop to discuss some details, like my villain ideas.

g'nite!

That works...

Guys I think we scared everybody away...

Wusses.

Did you email Kent?.. or roundabout backwards?

I'm thinking, at the moment (frightening proposition isn't it?), that the Banned'em Zone might provide a handy source of opponents, skulldugery and a long standing implied threat to "all we hold dear".
Not that we need to go up against Daywalker for a long time but he could be the motivating force behind several stories.

Good Idea...

I e-mailed both of you... I got a reply from Kent.

I'm dealing with crappy hotel internet today (thru Thursday) I can receive e-mails but I can't send e-mails (I tried e-mailing Kent thru LW but he hasn't replied, yet.)

We've exchanged some ideas on the bad guys... If you tell me that you received the test e-mail I sent last night, I'll send you a copy thru LW... or copy it to a PM.

I'll go check -

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I hit ya back. Even sent a small attachment to be sure it's working right.

I haven't received anything. I sent you a copy of what Sean and I were discussing using a slightly different method...

let me know if you get the e-mail.

ok, got it too. You sent that one from my profile email link here at LW?

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How many characters do we want to pull in and how quickly? And who?
I know I don't want to step on anybody's toes but Cobie's history thread throws a lot of names down that we maybe ought to consider.


Things like:
Ya think Engine Joe would appreciate being part of a story?

As a minimum, other than our characters we'll need Lard Lad and cleome (Leader and Deputy) Cobalt Kid, (Chief of Security) and a couple of GenCars...

They won't appear "On Camera" immediately but they will be necessary for the first arc.

Yeah, that's what I mean. At first they're there as background but like you guys said, everybody's going to want some "screen time" so I figure we ought to be prepared for the cast to fluctuate numerically.

Just remember the key words were "At A Minimum"

The question now is when will any of them join us and "volunteer" their character in this worthwhile cause...

I PMed Cobie earlier so he may show up yet.

I'd really like to do a big sci-fi super hero fight scene with some of the characters toward the backside of the first 22 page comic.

There's something else to settle, how many pages do we shoot for in the first piece?

That's the huge difference between a web comic and a regular comic. How many pages does it take to tell the story? 22? 32? We take however many pages we need to do it right. If it is necessary later to fill space then we mix in pages of the next arc.

But that's all kind of getting ahead of ourselves considering we don't have a panel of art or a line of dialogue on paper yet...

Oh sure but that sets up pace and timing. I've written comics (never got anything published though) and I've always tried hard to make them fit a standard comic book format.

Open with a splash page - end with a cliff hanger (if appropriate) and fill in the middle pages with drama. It always works.

..and just who said I'd volunteer for this mission anyway?

Awfully nice of you to set ME up for a rough day. I have one major requirement for my character if I have to go adventuring, at the end of the day I want a nice big tub with lots and lots of really really hot water...and bubbles.
A girl has to take care of herself.

We Agree Bob, hopefully it's a big tub...

re: pace/ 'issue'

I would rather just go with the flow. I see no reason to adhere to a periodical format.

Interesting to see how things have evolved since I went out of town!

One thing I wanted to clarify: Is this going to be an alternate-LMB or not? You're talking about changing names for the sake of copyright and what-not, so that implies this might be an alternate version of our LMB. Yet Chuck recently mentioned the necessity of including Lardy and cleome because they're the current LMB Leadership administration! So color me a little confused!

As for Lardy, it's quite possible that name would have to be changed as well because of the Simpsons character/restaurant chain. There's also the possibility that I might change his real name somewhat to further distance him from real me.

So don't count me as uninterested because I happened to be out of town the past couple of days!

It pretty much has to be an alternate LMB because any derivative characters either cannot be used or need to be rewritten.

But that doesn't mean we don't want to stay as close as possible to the "real thing."

And the rest of your concerns illustrate why we want the creators of individual characters to be actively involved in the process. You know things about your character that we can only guess about.