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05-27-2022, 04:50 PM | #81 |
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Sounds cool. I kinda like the idea of a comic being weekly, like a TV show. A team of writers would work together on stories with a team of artists to produce a high quality, weekly series. Has anything like that been done before?
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05-27-2022, 05:09 PM | #82 |
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Closest I can think of are the Sunday strips or weekly Shonen Jump.
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05-27-2022, 05:53 PM | #83 |
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That's pretty much the conceit of the DC series 52.
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05-27-2022, 06:13 PM | #84 |
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If the quality was what fans wanted (deserved), I would be willing to wait for quarterly or bimonthly publications told and created at their best, 100-150 pages at a time. More creative teams working, as AWOL suggested, on anthologies that work together but are their own unique thing, too. Each terrain could rotate out characters/settings as necessary or at the same time too. Quote:
The 2-part cartoons that ran after school used to be excruciating to wait one day for the second part. Yep. Sometimes it worked, but it was easy to fall behind (in issues, quality, etc). |
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05-28-2022, 09:19 AM | #85 |
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Superman comics did this for like a decade through the 90s.
All the different Superman titles, like Action comics, Man of Steel, Superman, and Adventures of Superman, all told one continuous story that pretty much was weekly. This period of Superman comics is called "The Triangle Era" because each cover would include a second number in a little upside down triangle that would be the story continuity number. For example, Superman 490 might come out one week with 7 in a triangle and Man of Steel 30 would come out the next week with an 8 in a triangle. The triangle numbering would reset each year, so it would actually be the year, and the continuity number underneath it. Also, if there was a story, it might also include the number of that story, like "Metropolis Bloodbath: Part 2 of 4" The most famous storyline from this era was the Death of Superman, and all the accompanying stories like Funeral for a Friend and Reign of the Supermen. But it also included Superman and Lois's wedding and some other pretty good stuff.
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05-28-2022, 09:24 AM | #86 |
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Oh, and there was a period in the 80s where Action comics became Action Comics weekly. It wasn't quite what you're talking about, though.
The idea in that era was that Action comics had multiple, shorter storylines going. So you'd buy a comic and it would have a few pages of a Deadman story, a few pages of a Phantom Lady story, etc, and they'd continue each week. Like the old movie serials, but for comics. IIRC, storylines would start and end at different times so there would always be one that was To Be Continued to get you to buy the next issue.
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05-28-2022, 11:01 AM | #87 |
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05-28-2022, 11:05 AM | #88 |
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Here's an idea of what (I think) some of us are starting to agree upon:
A new publisher could announce themselves, say next month, then schedule the first issue of an anthology to be released, say, February 2023. This lets a creative team begin an immediate backlog of stories between now and then so there's less deadline pressure for a 70-80 page bimonthly title. Issue #1, part 1, could begin with the Joes' Space Force learning of Cobra's intentions to activate M.A.R.S. Industries' North Star defense satellite. The Joes decide to wreck the satellite but learn it's being protected by Shock Troopers and Space B.A.T.S. North Star falls and in I1-P2, the Joes' arctic team begins a pursuit to the predicted crash site while battling Destro and the Iron Grenadiers. But, Destro gets the advantage and sabotages his own hardware just before it crash lands, making the satellite drop into the sea, in I1-P3, so Baroness and a team of Eels use Cobra submarines to battle Deep Six and the Joes' naval fleet to retrieve North Star in an underwater battle. Issue #2, part 1, could begin with Cutter and the W.H.A.L.E. team securing a fragment of North Star (courtesy of Deep Six) to the Battle Platform, which a Cobra hydrofoil team attacks but Shipwreck and Leatherneck are able to get the fragment onto a Dragonfly. I2-P2 shows an aerial battle as Wild Weasel and the Cobra Air Force try to steal the fragment in mid-air. In I2-P3, Stalker takes ownership of the fragment at the docks and Clutch, Steeler, and an armored ground fleet guard the Mobile Battle Bunker as they race to the P.I.T. while Zartan and the Dreadnoks try to stop them from reaching the base. They make it, but Zandar (no need for thanks) infiltrates the motor pool disguised as Rock 'N Roll and finds a vulnerability that lets him give access to Firefly and two APCs filled with Cobra troops to attack the P.I.T. from inside, unaware that Lady Jaye has infiltrated Extensive Enterprises as a deep cover member of the Crimson Guard who is about to learn the true purpose for North Star. Something that sounds complex but keeps the energy moving forward, letting multiple characters -- and not one dang ninja -- flesh out a larger story. And, that's just me brainstorming, not a professional comic book writer whose mind probably plots and twists much better. Last edited by TheOverlordCorp; 05-28-2022 at 11:09 AM.. |
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05-28-2022, 11:08 AM | #89 |
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05-28-2022, 01:52 PM | #90 |
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Right?!? I wonder if Hama has become anti-gun in his old age and that’s why he prefers ninja and Wolverine type characters.
I’d be cool with Hama doing a Snake Eyes series, written in the same vein and his Wolverine stuff providing the art is top notch and leave the military stories to someone else. |
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