Friday, May 21, 2010
The young student just stood there, staring at them. She held her body tense with her fists clenched, her head was cocked to the side. The strange material that covered her body made her look like a strange, alien creature. The tension in the air was so tight it felt like their lungs would give out. Then weird lining of her space suit
Thursday, May 20, 2010
SUPER HERO STORY
When I think about writing a comic, I want to make my stories deep. But I'm wondering how different people feel about reading a comic. I know comics are suppose to be entertaining, but if you think about The Watchmen, it is more of a deep, serious story verses a for-your-entertainment type comic. I love to read manga and comics, and I usually find Eastern stories to be more entertainment, while Western stories tend to be more serious with deep themes (I'm thinking along the lines of Marvel's X-Men and DC's Batman). I'm not saying Eastern doesn't have depth and I'm not saying Western isn't entertaining, I'm just saying what I find more often than the other.
Like the manga Naruto Shippuden, it's entertaining, yet it has deep themes that are running through it all the time. It's an allegory that younger children and more mature readers can follow and love. I'll be honest: I have always read it because I liked it, but once it got serious, I really started to love it. I tend to really love a story that has conflicts in morals and ethics, and NS has received that a lot. But it still isn't 100% serious.
I'm far more interested into serious type stories, and I'm wondering if others are as well. Would my story interest you?
I want to make a serious super-hero type story in which the 'school' (loose term here) is the 'government'. It involves separating the students from society at a young age and they are put behind the walls of the school to be trained to protect the people and civilization. The Earth is run over by 'monsters' that stay away from the bigger cities (with few exceptions). When the students are close to graduation, they are allowed to roam away from the school on missions in singles or small groups, which usually just involves being something like a mall cop, roam around and stop trouble when spotted or called upon. The students are highly censored, to be 'built' and trained in the most top efficient manner without access to art, culture, literature or music. There have been groups of students who have had access to such things, and wished to rebel against the Headmistress. But all the rebellions have failed, and in response the Headmistress had the students slaughtered. The rules in the academy are tight, very tight, and the punishments are so harsh that students dieing from them is not all that common. The school doesn't know whats going on the outside, and the common don't know whats going on in the inside.
The plot of the story is loose, but it's about one of top students who gets assigned a mission on the outside, and gets caught in a mass landslide with a group and she ends up doing her duty to protect them, and has to lead them out of an underground cavern. From there, she seems to keep running into one of the girls from the group and develops a strange relationship with her. From there develops problems as she slowly learns of the outside and wishes to escape, but unfortunately, shes too scared to disobey the Headmistress.
But, what are your opinions on make a story serious vs. entertaining? A serious story that has random gags, or a funnier story that gets serious at some parts? Allegories? What are people's opinions on bringing in government into comics?
Like the manga Naruto Shippuden, it's entertaining, yet it has deep themes that are running through it all the time. It's an allegory that younger children and more mature readers can follow and love. I'll be honest: I have always read it because I liked it, but once it got serious, I really started to love it. I tend to really love a story that has conflicts in morals and ethics, and NS has received that a lot. But it still isn't 100% serious.
I'm far more interested into serious type stories, and I'm wondering if others are as well. Would my story interest you?
I want to make a serious super-hero type story in which the 'school' (loose term here) is the 'government'. It involves separating the students from society at a young age and they are put behind the walls of the school to be trained to protect the people and civilization. The Earth is run over by 'monsters' that stay away from the bigger cities (with few exceptions). When the students are close to graduation, they are allowed to roam away from the school on missions in singles or small groups, which usually just involves being something like a mall cop, roam around and stop trouble when spotted or called upon. The students are highly censored, to be 'built' and trained in the most top efficient manner without access to art, culture, literature or music. There have been groups of students who have had access to such things, and wished to rebel against the Headmistress. But all the rebellions have failed, and in response the Headmistress had the students slaughtered. The rules in the academy are tight, very tight, and the punishments are so harsh that students dieing from them is not all that common. The school doesn't know whats going on the outside, and the common don't know whats going on in the inside.
The plot of the story is loose, but it's about one of top students who gets assigned a mission on the outside, and gets caught in a mass landslide with a group and she ends up doing her duty to protect them, and has to lead them out of an underground cavern. From there, she seems to keep running into one of the girls from the group and develops a strange relationship with her. From there develops problems as she slowly learns of the outside and wishes to escape, but unfortunately, shes too scared to disobey the Headmistress.
But, what are your opinions on make a story serious vs. entertaining? A serious story that has random gags, or a funnier story that gets serious at some parts? Allegories? What are people's opinions on bringing in government into comics?
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Adventures of Ian and Alexandria
Ian---
Ian is a young gentleman who has a deep taste of adventure and a intense love for his girlfriend. He's a sharp, yet clumsy, young man who can sneak around very diligently, especially on the hunt for treasure. He avoids the lobster colony (since they have a warrant for his arrest on accounts of slander towards them involving communism) but has a soft spot for the lonely yeti that resides at the top of the Yeti Pass. The young princess of Chateau au Corail considers Ian a big brother and would love to go adventuring with him and Alexandria. Ian has an intense fear of Dinosaur Swamp, and he loves to go swimming at Mermaid Cove.
Alexandria---
Alex is a mature young women who dresses punk and loves exploring for treasure. She lives with her Ian. A very intelligent girl who has a strength superior to Ian's, she's quiet and shy around strangers yet has a heart of gold and is a very caring individual. She helps out Ian quite a bit during their adventures, to the point that he's just an embarrassment, yet she stays faithfully by his side every day as they travel Emily Island in the hopes of finding something great that will put them down in the history books. She's very good with the bigger and far more wilder animals on the island. She has many hidden talents, and a dark past, that slowly comes out bit by bit as her relationship with Ian deepens.
Ian is a young gentleman who has a deep taste of adventure and a intense love for his girlfriend. He's a sharp, yet clumsy, young man who can sneak around very diligently, especially on the hunt for treasure. He avoids the lobster colony (since they have a warrant for his arrest on accounts of slander towards them involving communism) but has a soft spot for the lonely yeti that resides at the top of the Yeti Pass. The young princess of Chateau au Corail considers Ian a big brother and would love to go adventuring with him and Alexandria. Ian has an intense fear of Dinosaur Swamp, and he loves to go swimming at Mermaid Cove.
Alexandria---
Alex is a mature young women who dresses punk and loves exploring for treasure. She lives with her Ian. A very intelligent girl who has a strength superior to Ian's, she's quiet and shy around strangers yet has a heart of gold and is a very caring individual. She helps out Ian quite a bit during their adventures, to the point that he's just an embarrassment, yet she stays faithfully by his side every day as they travel Emily Island in the hopes of finding something great that will put them down in the history books. She's very good with the bigger and far more wilder animals on the island. She has many hidden talents, and a dark past, that slowly comes out bit by bit as her relationship with Ian deepens.
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