seriously.
I mean a comicthemed blog with no pictures?
Bad idea.
much better.
See what I did there? I continued the previous themes of monkey mayhem and made this seem more readable.
And without picture of a naked female, despite the fact that this is internet.
But lets continue the bad ideas.
Unlike in real life where there are bad ideas abundance( invading Russia in wintertime, teasing predatory animals, dating, marriage, picking a fight with motor cycle clubs etc) in comics there is no such thing as a bad idea.
there is only poor execution.
No, not the capital punishment kind, but as being boring.
It's the same as with books and movies: you can have all the elements necessary to craft a grabbing interest of a reader/watcher but every now and then no matter how promising the subject matter it just fails.
Consider Zombie strippers, a hilarious movie starring Jenna Jameson and Robert Englund. Cheesy horror movie that revels in gratituous self-irony.
and think that Zombies!Zombies!Zombies! a.k.a. Strippers VS Zombies has exactly the same premise but is one of most brainnumbingly stupid and vapid bad movies.
So bad it is stinking bad.
it is as always how much heart one is willing to put in the thing.
And I am growing to like the comic piece discussed previously.
I love monsters and I like action and mixing those with gallows humor is most definately my thing.
But..I also have rampant imagination and hunger for stories. Both are fact that every now and then make me think that I have un-diagnosed case of ADD.
As today I thought once more about Vampires.
Yeah.
Those over-used monsters that have suffered at hands of Anne Rice and Twilight most effectively de-fanging them.
I am a werewolf kinda guy.
They represent duality, savagery, grace, primal insticts and sexuality in ways I feel the vampire as a monster just cannot reach.
But there is allure in the figure of the vampire.
And while there are loads of vampire comics out there only few are readable: 30 days of night, Impaler, some of Buffyverse, Life sucks, Boy vampire and Bonelli's Dampyr and stories in Dylan Dog.
these are a minority on stuff trying to cash in on the popularity the vampire is now revelling in.
And they do the mistake of target marketing this for women/girls.
Making comics geared to women is a great thing.
Underestimating their intelligence and what they want to read is terrible.
The vampire is a romantic figure but not in cheesy way.
Romance in vampirism is so much more than Megan Ryan romcom with sunlight allergy and dental props.
I am developing something along lines of doomed love but also in separately the spiritual and sociological aspects of vampirism.
One thing was reading about Survivalist movement.
Yes, the apocalypse awaiting armed up to the teeth people. they werent such then and arent mainly so now either.
At first they dropped out of society, built their bunkers but get this: they built excess bunkers & survival huts.
Why?
So they dont have to fight anyone: if you want shelter, food so on instead of having take it by force you can get it free and be indebted to ones offering the chance.
Now take the concept and add vampirism.
Shake well and put it to bake.
I think it has not been handled that way. At least not enough.
Bad ideas #2:
Yeah, Zombies.
the pic was on comicforum I attend at alarming rate and I talked with guys that a)draw penciled version inspired by Left 4 dead b) inked said piece and c) colored it.
And they were interested doing a zombie comic too.
The penciler and I have something at work too, but it is a long and wholely different process.
Zombies are the new (and old) black. I sing the high praise of The Walking dead by Robert Kirkman and Tony Moore/Charlie Adlard/Rathburn to anyone willing to listen.
But I dont want to copy that.
Zombies are great source of horror tales; sociological, personal, gory, subtle the list just goes on and on.
Now with Zombies there is a problem: too many ideas.
Survivor tale is given but I want to do one with real folklore too. And one with main character as zombie. And scientific one. And hard-boiled detective story set in zombie underworld.
And a lovestory. and another one where BOTH are zombies.
but for those I need artists.
Unfortunately I plan to later on show my own sketches here.
You will understand then.
next week we will take a tuor in the world of spandexclad heroes and villains. BWAHAHAHA! or to quote the two great minds of our time:
"What shall we do today brain?"
"the same we do every night, try to take over the world..."
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