Marvel-time
Jun. 22nd, 2008 11:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
seriousficOn the plus side, I had a great idea for a creator-owned comic series. Basically, it's There Will Be Blood with superheroes. Set over about a decade, but with the proceedings in Marvel-time so that the story falls over the RL seventies, eighties, nineties, and aught-aughts. That's basically so I could play with cameo appearances from the Professor Hulk, black-suit Spidey and his partner Black Cat, the Claremont X-Men, the Byrne FF, Simonson Thor, Miller Daredevil (is it just me or did the eighties fucking rock?)... Plus, it'd make the series pretty much immune from company-wide crossover events, unless you want to see the subjective future version of the heroes (that would be cool too, though. "Wait, how did Dick Dig-Dug get that scar? Who's that chick in the power armor and why is he so friendly with her? WAIT, IS THAT A WEDDING RING!?").
So, over the course of ten years these two heroes -- one's a quippy, light-hearted trickster like Spider-Man and the other's a moody, angsty billionaire like Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark -- set out to clean up the city of... Townsville or whatever, and go from being outlaw vigilantes to pillars of the community, get married, have kids, and so on. And the very first cover, in the vein of Action Comics 1 and Amazing Fantasy 27, would be the trickster saving a girl. That's his first heroic act, this seed he plants. It's Year One, he's seventeen, she's thirteen or so. And as time passes, she grows up, goes to college, takes the experience as an inspiration and eventually (with a lot of hard work and trial and error) becomes a hero herself and joins the "family". In effect, creating her own stories.
By contrast, the villain wants to relive his "glory days," so he keeps sabotaging the heroes. Framing them for crimes so that they'll go back to being fugitives from the law, gunning for their significant others so they can be single again... that kind of thing.
I hope I'm getting across the subtle metacommentary here.
PS. Every time I see a long post of recs in a fandom I'm in, I feel the irrational urge to comment and say "Hey, why didn't you rec anything I did?" just to make things really awkward and uncomfortable. I don't, though, because I know the answer will be "Oh, you write gen/het/femslash? How bourgeois."
So, over the course of ten years these two heroes -- one's a quippy, light-hearted trickster like Spider-Man and the other's a moody, angsty billionaire like Bruce Wayne or Tony Stark -- set out to clean up the city of... Townsville or whatever, and go from being outlaw vigilantes to pillars of the community, get married, have kids, and so on. And the very first cover, in the vein of Action Comics 1 and Amazing Fantasy 27, would be the trickster saving a girl. That's his first heroic act, this seed he plants. It's Year One, he's seventeen, she's thirteen or so. And as time passes, she grows up, goes to college, takes the experience as an inspiration and eventually (with a lot of hard work and trial and error) becomes a hero herself and joins the "family". In effect, creating her own stories.
By contrast, the villain wants to relive his "glory days," so he keeps sabotaging the heroes. Framing them for crimes so that they'll go back to being fugitives from the law, gunning for their significant others so they can be single again... that kind of thing.
I hope I'm getting across the subtle metacommentary here.
PS. Every time I see a long post of recs in a fandom I'm in, I feel the irrational urge to comment and say "Hey, why didn't you rec anything I did?" just to make things really awkward and uncomfortable. I don't, though, because I know the answer will be "Oh, you write gen/het/femslash? How bourgeois."
