Issue 1

This is the script for the first issue of my monthly superhero comic book, Rapid City.

Read Issue 1 here.

Panel 5: Rampart powering down and looking around all exhausted. Similar high angle shot, but this time there is much more disarray. People are scrambling and cars are trying to back up or leave somehow. Some people are abandoning their cars if they are blocked in.

RAMPART

When people hear it, they'll be relieved. Like, "ok, BLANK is here."

I began this as an experiment in "jumping in". There are things that will need to be changed before print publication, but I wanted to preserve in the interest of the experiment.

Older entries.

This had been my comics review blog.
That was something I started doing to keep myself thinking about comics in a critical way, and writing. I stopped doing that because I fell behind on the schedule and was just not motivated to keep it up.

Then, a few months ago I read something on the editorial page of a recent "overnight sensation" comic book.

I don't even remember what it actually said, but I remember it made me feel like an idiot.

This guy was writing comics. I wanted to write comics, but I wasn't. Why not? Regardless of what the answer was at that particular moment....it was just another excuse. I wanted to write, but I wasn't writing.

That's when i got the idea to start this project. I don't need to worry about the drawing, or the marketing, or publishing...or any of that. I want to write. So I am writing.

...and, posting a issue's worth of script here in this blog.

First script test

This is a short piece that I wrote a while back a favor for a friend.

Red Lion: B-Sides

It is based on some characters from our Rapid City comic book and some of his daughter's toys. The germ of the idea came from her suggestion of "Red Lion vs Blue Zebra"

If you follow this link, please let me know if it works.

I would, of course, appreciate comments on the script itself, but I am mostly just testing to see if the basic set-up work.

Re-Launch

Everyone loves a re-launch, right?

I am re-purposing this blog to be a place in which I can publish my work on a regular basis.

I will explain as I go along. Right now I am just working out the mechanics of it.