Comic Book Pitch Extravaganza

[ProjectX2]

I read your ideas but don't have much to say about them. Needless to say, I would definitely read all of them.

 

[Zombipanda]

I read your ideas but don't have much to say about them. Needless to say, I would definitely read all of them.

Thanks, man. Wait until you see the Moon Knight pitch (if I actually manage to write it down). It'll blow you away.

I could do for Moon Knight what Brubaker and Fraction did for Iron Fist.

 

[ProjectX2]

Thanks, man. Wait until you see the Moon Knight pitch (if I actually manage to write it down). It'll blow you away.

I could do for Moon Knight what Brubaker and Fraction did for Iron Fist.

Sweet. Recently I've been thinking of doing a series like Oz/Prison Break but set in Ryker's Prison and featuring a bunch of villains.

 

[Zombipanda]

Sweet. Recently I've been thinking of doing a series like Oz/Prison Break but set in Ryker's Prison and featuring a bunch of villains.

That's a pretty badass idea. It would give you an excuse to parade in whatever B or C list villains you wanted to, practically whenever you wanted. I dig the hell out of that premise.

 

[ProjectX2]

That's a pretty badass idea. It would give you an excuse to parade in whatever B or C list villains you wanted to, practically whenever you wanted. I dig the hell out of that premise.

Yeah. I always love things where we see characters in a different light. Arkham Asylum, Devil in Cell Block D, this SuperMax idea... they're all very interesting. I also love it when you have a hero locked up with his villains. Maybe I just like prison stories.

Anyway, I'll try and work on it and actually get some ideas down.

 

[Zombipanda]

Yeah. I always love things where we see characters in a different light. Arkham Asylum, Devil in Cell Block D, this SuperMax idea... they're all very interesting. I also love it when you have a hero locked up with his villains. Maybe I just like prison stories.

Anyway, I'll try and work on it and actually get some ideas down.

See, I think the "hero in prison" thing has been a little overdone recently. It's cool, but it would be nice to just see a straight up super villain prisoner story.

Edit: It might be cool if the guards actually utilized the confiscated gadgets of the criminals. Shocker gauntlets or vulture wings could be incredibly useful in prison guard duty.

 

[Gemini]

I wish I could keep pitch ideas in my head for longer than a half hour, I have alot of ideas, but never get around to jotting them down so i can expand on them. Genis-Vell pitch, Cloak & Dagger pitch, Shang-Chi pitch, Gambit pitch, etc, more or less name a character I've probably had a pitch in mind, the quality of said pitch I have no idea, but a pitch none the less.

 

[ProjectX2]

See, I think the "hero in prison" thing has been a little overdone recently. It's cool, but it would be nice to just see a straight up super villain prisoner story.

Edit: It might be cool if the guards actually utilized the confiscated gadgets of the criminals. Shocker gauntlets or vulture wings could be incredibly useful in prison guard duty.

Oh yeah, I doubt I would put any heroes into the prison. I was just using the stories for inspiration as I liked the interaction. I want an extreme Ryker's Prison comic by Brubaker/Rucka/Lark. It would be awesome.

I could see the corrupt guards auctioning off the various weapons and gadgets they obtain. Or maybe The Owl puts a hundred dollars into a guard's pocket each week and gets a goblin bomb. Just little stuff like that seems interesting.

 

[Zombipanda]

Oh yeah, I doubt I would put any heroes into the prison. I was just using the stories for inspiration as I liked the interaction. I want an extreme Ryker's Prison comic by Brubaker/Rucka/Lark. It would be awesome.

I could see the corrupt guards auctioning off the various weapons and gadgets they obtain. Or maybe The Owl puts a hundred dollars into a guard's pocket each week and gets a goblin bomb. Just little stuff like that seems interesting.

You know what would be cooler than using the Hood as the king of villains (lame)? The Hood as the king of the hill on Ryker's Island (awesome).

 

[Gemini]

You know what would be cooler than using the Hood as the king of villains (lame)? The Hood as the king of the hill on Ryker's Island (awesome).

That's kinda what just happened in DD with Mister Fear

and Hobgoblin should be the King of Supervillains

 

[Hellharlequin]

a couple of storylines runniing through my mind

the redemption of doomsday:
doomsday realised his destiny and full origin (he's the new god of life or better said he is the negated anti life equation given flesh) and comes to earth to become the succesor to superman.

the ballad of killer croc:
killer crocis released out of arkham after partial treatment of desease ( the doc's only success was to bring his brain back to averege human and stop his body degenerating further) .this is basicly a story about croc trying to gain a halfway normal life which ends him self remembered to his former life
( his ends up being a bouncer in the club of the pinguin, he pleads the caher in the grocery to take the money as the payment for the food he buys, vistation from batman etc.) in a humorous way

 

[ProjectX2]

So, I just had a random ideas that I thought wastoo cool a set-up not to mention.

It's called The Bat Man of Santa Prisca and has Batman caught between a ruthless group of socialist guerilla freedom fighters generaled by a bat-themed vigilante and the drug traffickers and American corporations that essentially control the nation's economy. Oh, and he gets locked up in the dungeon of Santa Prisca's prison, which is like, Santa Prisca's version of Arkham and houses all the psychotic rogues of the island.

This actually sounds like an arc of Morrison's Batman. As I said in the Dreammovie thread, I think it's an awesome idea that Batman would take on the entire island of Santa Prisca. Also, Wayne being locked up in Pena Duro is great because heroes in prisons is still cool. This should also explore more of Bane's history.

Write it now. As fanfiction if you have to. I want to read it.

 

[Zombipanda]

This actually sounds like an arc of Morrison's Batman. As I said in the Dreammovie thread, I think it's an awesome idea that Batman would take on the entire island of Santa Prisca. Also, Wayne being locked up in Pena Duro is great because heroes in prisons is still cool. This should also explore more of Bane's history.

Definitely. I just think it would be fun to make a rogue's gallery for Santa Prisca in the same way that Gotham has its rogues.

Write it now. As fanfiction if you have to. I want to read it.

Ew, fan fic....... I'll just wait until I take over Batman from Grant Morrison.

Wait. What?

Yeah. That's right.

 

[Pearl]

I had a quick little idea today. I recently read a horrible arc out of Jeph Loeb's run on Superman/Batman ("Vengeance") but the new throwaway characters reminded me a lot of what the original Squadron Supreme was like: Takes on the rival company created as a joking parody. The Maximums, as they were called, 'reflected' Marvel's avengers characters, Spider-man, and the big mutants (Wolverine). They swore and talked fake politics and made drama and moral dilemmas over nothing… Most of which, coincidentally, was not fixed when Loeb took over the Ultimates, featuring similar characters. Anyway.

(The arc ended with the Maximum's being revealed as a cosmic joke by none other than the Joker, who… for some reason was God).

For fun, I made a quick idea about how to try and make even the most abominable and dead-end characters something readable. The basics had Soldier (also known as Captain America) as the narrator and the only remaining Maximum. His teammates had all retired when they learned their world wasn't real and now spent their days doing whatever they wanted and using their powers to get their way. Soldier won't give in to treating his world like playdoh, because he doesn't look at it as the perfect religious disaster. Everyone else in on the origin of the 'world', however, finds it to be a mix of atheism (there is no afterlife for people created as an afterthought) and a terrible revelation that there is still a God, but he's a serial killer and lunatic who doesn't even remember he created a planet.

The ex-Maximums don't go crazy straight off, but as their feelings on things are validated by their own teammates they begin to go down a more and more terrible path of thought. Eventually, they go on a rampage and although confronted by Soldier (and a new team of lesser known marvel characters he recruited to stop them) he is rebuffed and crippled. The Maximums would have all been killed in Soldier's perfectly planned ambush, except that they have an ace in the hole: The Axis of Evil (or Master's of Evil). Demise is the only one not present. It is revealed that because he is a personification of Death, he has always known that the planet he lives in is a fabrication and that he has only really existed for a few days. This is why, paradoxically, he was a charter member of the Axis supervillain team in the backstory of the world before it was created, his ennui. Having worked his way around it, however, he hopes to keep the planet intact and salvage the heroic personalities of the Maximums, who are more integral than many would think. The first arc would end with Demise and Soldier teaming up to find a way to reign in the planet's self destruction while keeping the secret of it's creation hidden at any cost.

Obviously it's a bit of an ***-pull, but it would be good to hear initial impressions to see if I'm on the right track, or way off course and in need of an overhaul in thought process.

 

[compound]

Oh, man, I think i've found myself a new home base...

*whips out schlong*

*marks territory*

Soon...

 

[Zombipanda]

Oh, man, I think i've found myself a new home base...

*whips out schlong*

*marks territory*

Soon...

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

You really think your creative schlong is bigger than mine? BRING IT!

 

[Zombipanda]

So, I had an idea for an Ultimate Dr. Strange book. It would have been awesome. He's a commentator on the superhero equivalent of the E! Network who's afraid of superhumans being used to establish a New World Order. His sanctum sanctorum is the Chelsea Hotel, which serves as a trans-dimensional nexus to various realms, and serves as an embassy and safehouse for the forgotten and persecuted of the city. And sometimes he helps out Elsa Bloodstone, a monster hunter who's the new host of a revival of Kraven's old TV show. But most of the ideas are going to be co-opted for a different project I'm working on. But I figured I'd post it to show you all how awesome I am. For now, here's some reworking of characters that would play a supporting role.

Eric Brooks is Blade, a cockney vigilante who hunts vampires and other demons. Investigating a demonic death cult in the late 70's or early 80's, the British paranormal agency A.X.E. interceded in their final, apocalyptic ceremony. Newborn infant Brooks was the only survivor. Or maybe the ritual involved 33 children being born (and maybe slaughtered afterwards) at the precisely same moment within the cult's sanctum, and the rest of the progeny are at the heart of the whole mystery - I'm not sure. But Brooks is raised in rough-and-tumble orphanages and now, a grown man, hunts the vampiric infestation that arose from the ceremony. He's just a mortal badass who relies on honed combat skills and ruthless infestation. But he probably masks himself in the guise of the supernatural to intimidate in battle - maybe specialty contact lenses or complicated eye tattoo surgery, filed fangs, skin grafts - real viking-style badassery.

Johnny Blaze is Ghost Rider, the Spirit of Vengeance, not so much a demonic or angelic entity as a vessel for the primordial concept of vengeance. There's not that mainstream schizophrenia where it's two minds occupying one body and wrestling with each other. Rather, it's a more gradated transition. In the presence of situations and individuals which are unjustly unbalanced, a rage builds in Johnny which has a super-physical manifestation. The larger the transgression and the more there is that needs revengenating, the more Ghost Riderly he gets, and when the need for revengencing gets really strong, it starts to affect a growing radius of the environment around him. So his trusted bike, or a souped up muscle car, or a bigass mac truck, or whatever vehicle he's in, twists itself into a devil machine; and worse, the whole environment around him twists and lashes out hostile at the subject of the Rider's wrath. The idea is that Blaze's Civil War ancestor was a Wild Bill Hickok style showman and stunt rider who led a sort of traveling carnival. When his Haitian wife is lynched at one of their stops, he goes blind with rage and makes a deal with the Shambling Man at the Crossroads. The cost is that his family line will house the embodiment of vengeance in their blood.

Ilyana Rasputin is Colossus' brother, a naive but clever Russian girl who came to America only to find herself caught in white slavery. She makes a deal with the Devil that allows her liberation on Earth, at the cost of spending half of each year as the Consort-Queen of the Underworld. Karmic law requires a Persephone figure, see, and she's perfect for the role. Through cunning, she slowly manages to bargain for more and more control of the Underworld while on Earth serving as a sort of guardian angel for the runaways and working girls of the city. She has to contend with the Devil's two ambitious children: Satana and Daimon Hellstrom.

Edit: Anyway. I forgot about that idea about the moment it entered my head.

 

[Zombipanda]

Come on, people.

Do something here.

It's been too long, and I love this kind of ****. Dreamteaming is fun enough, but it lacks a lot of the flexibility and creativity of, say the old Ultimization games or more broad threads like "Victorian Marvel". So come on folks. Surely you've got ideas rolling around.




I have a few ideas for indie books but I'm having a hell of a time getting script to paper. The front-runner right now is something called Sparrows. I have some snippets of dialogue and the like scribbled down here and there and a general idea for plot, but I've been too preoccupied to get down to the details and just start writing. The idea is that this Batman-style vigilante called the Saint was running the streets for a few decades, and over these years he went through a number of sidekicks called Sparrows. With him two years dead, his identity and those of his sidekicks have come to light, and they're now minor celebrities. And with the revelation that the Saint was an old money SOB beating the **** out of low income criminals, the city is spiraling into class warfare. And the former sidekicks, most long retired, are dealing with the fallout from their old boss' death, slowly uncovering the Saint's complex scheme of urban planning that goes far beyond vigilantism and involves all of them.

Hugh Whitticker was The Saint.
Gavin Blaycock, his first sidekick, is a finance lawyer in his mid-thirties, married, neurotic, chain smoking and alcoholic. He's left to deal with the audits and investigations surrounding Whitticker's corporation, which was basically a funnel, just pouring money into the man's private war on "crime". He feels very much like the last generation in a mafia family, constantly one step ahead of the investigators as he deftly works the numbers to legitimize the business. He has two children.
Vincent Grisham was the second, the black Sparrow, who, following a messy row with his boss, ended up as a detective for the blink of an eye, and then proceeded to open a PI office. He had sort of a Question vibe, Philip Marlowe as vigilante. He's also dead. Tragic.
Bobby Whitticker was the third, Hugh's adopted son, a roughneck red dog cop who secretly (but, well, it's a very open secret) moonlights in a mask as an urban bounty hunter on syndicated television. His ex-girlfriend has custody of his toddler daughter.
Clive Whitticker was the fourth, and still a sidekick when Hugh died. He's towards the end of his teens now, a heavy partying socialite who's living off of his adopted father's fortune and the attention of the paparazzo. He's the toast of the tabloids. With the Whitticker company and fortune under investigation, the lifestyle he's accustomed to living is in peril. But if things go bad, he could probably get a reality show contract. He's also taking care of his younger sister...
Denise Whitticker, the fifth, in action at the same time as Clive, a disaffected and sardonic teen and also Clive's little sister.

And there's also Valentine, the Saint's nemesis, serving life imprisonment, who would hold "courts of love" which would test the strength of romantic relationships (He's the Jigsaw Killer..... OF LOVE!), and his protege (but not really, at all) Nina Simoleon. There will also surely be a character called the Pygmy Tyrant which is a bird in the same genus as the sparrow. I'm not sure how or what purpose the character would serve, but the name is too hilarious not to use.

 

[Gemini]

Won't commit to anything but here's a title I like

Gambit
Life Comes Hard in the Big Easy​

Intended as an evergreen out of continuity Gambit tale, that fuses some hard boiled Noir flavour and a touch of John Constantine in with, the kind of Gambit story last seen in Ultimate X-Men #13-14

 

[Random]

Won't commit to anything but here's a title I like

Gambit
Life Comes Hard in the Big Easy​

Intended as an evergreen out of continuity Gambit tale, that fuses some hard boiled Noir flavour and a touch of John Constantine in with, the kind of Gambit story last seen in Ultimate X-Men #13-14

I approve