Post by antikyle on Jan 10, 2003 2:55:13 GMT -5
Okay, here's the deal. I had this idea for a comic for the NT, it involved a Lupe hero (because they're fun to draw), and a Blumaroo sidekick (because... y'know. They're funny lookin'), doing the whole "humour" thing, which is so common in comics now a days. But something was wrong, something I couldn't quite put my finger on until one day I said to myself:
"Kyle, I think this may have been done before. A couple hundred times." to which I replied
"By gods you're right, knave. This is quite the conundrum." The conversation degenerated from there but you get the general idea.
Anyway, here's my question. Should I:
a) Go ahead with it anyway; because I really don't want to have wasted all those nights I spent staying awake until 4:00 AM waiting for my humour unit to kick in.
Here are the characters and "storyline" (I use the term "storyline" loosely in that there's a line, but very little story) so far:
Hero: I'm not sure how this guy got the position of "super hero", but I think it may have something to do with his muscular upper body and dashing smile. On the other hand, it may have been due to the fact that the only other guy that applied for the job was a tomato chia. In any case he's not the most equipped for heroic tomfoolery, although he does have enough smarts to pull of the occasional witty one-liner.
Sidekick: This guy hates his job, and has no respect for his comrade. Although in all fairness, he didn't get straight A's at the heroic academy, either. You know how the stereotype goes that Lupes are all serious and grumpy types, and blumaroos pretty dorky, well it’s the other way around here. If that helps to explain the situation.
Storyline: The Mean N' Nasty in this world is a multinational company called SterCorp, whose ambitions include providing you, the customer, with quality household goods at low, low prices. And world domination. The first villain is an English gentleman with a huge moustache and a never ending cup of tea (yep, you guessed it. The 'Ster' in SterCorp is short for stereotype). His original plan was to destroy every paintbrush in Neopia with specially tuned radio waves (radio waves can do anything. You didn't know?). This doesn't bother our hero very much as he was tired of faerie Aishas flying into his windows all the time anyway (am I the only one who notices they NEVER OPEN THEIR darn EYES, even when they're looking directly at a painting and supposedly recognising their long lost brother?). So he gives him the idea of maybe destroying codestones and such instead. Bad move. How will they get out of this one? Well, I'll figure that out if I decide to go ahead with it.
b) Explore some other possibilities that have been festering in my mind like so much Moldy Gruncheese. For example, I’ve been harbouring a scary yet harmless obsession with robots lately. So I thought maybe I could do something based in or near to the Virtupets Space Station with a normal pet in a world full of robot pets. Of course, this doesn't even resemble funny at the moment but I think I can build on it while at the same time seeing how much sleep deprivation I can handle before I lose my sanity and am found dead in a tub full of Tabasco sauce.
c) Both a and b, because I secretly hate you and wish death by pepper sauce upon you.
d) None of the above!! Go back to the dung pit from whence ye came, filthy pig-dog!!!
"Kyle, I think this may have been done before. A couple hundred times." to which I replied
"By gods you're right, knave. This is quite the conundrum." The conversation degenerated from there but you get the general idea.
Anyway, here's my question. Should I:
a) Go ahead with it anyway; because I really don't want to have wasted all those nights I spent staying awake until 4:00 AM waiting for my humour unit to kick in.
Here are the characters and "storyline" (I use the term "storyline" loosely in that there's a line, but very little story) so far:
Hero: I'm not sure how this guy got the position of "super hero", but I think it may have something to do with his muscular upper body and dashing smile. On the other hand, it may have been due to the fact that the only other guy that applied for the job was a tomato chia. In any case he's not the most equipped for heroic tomfoolery, although he does have enough smarts to pull of the occasional witty one-liner.
Sidekick: This guy hates his job, and has no respect for his comrade. Although in all fairness, he didn't get straight A's at the heroic academy, either. You know how the stereotype goes that Lupes are all serious and grumpy types, and blumaroos pretty dorky, well it’s the other way around here. If that helps to explain the situation.
Storyline: The Mean N' Nasty in this world is a multinational company called SterCorp, whose ambitions include providing you, the customer, with quality household goods at low, low prices. And world domination. The first villain is an English gentleman with a huge moustache and a never ending cup of tea (yep, you guessed it. The 'Ster' in SterCorp is short for stereotype). His original plan was to destroy every paintbrush in Neopia with specially tuned radio waves (radio waves can do anything. You didn't know?). This doesn't bother our hero very much as he was tired of faerie Aishas flying into his windows all the time anyway (am I the only one who notices they NEVER OPEN THEIR darn EYES, even when they're looking directly at a painting and supposedly recognising their long lost brother?). So he gives him the idea of maybe destroying codestones and such instead. Bad move. How will they get out of this one? Well, I'll figure that out if I decide to go ahead with it.
b) Explore some other possibilities that have been festering in my mind like so much Moldy Gruncheese. For example, I’ve been harbouring a scary yet harmless obsession with robots lately. So I thought maybe I could do something based in or near to the Virtupets Space Station with a normal pet in a world full of robot pets. Of course, this doesn't even resemble funny at the moment but I think I can build on it while at the same time seeing how much sleep deprivation I can handle before I lose my sanity and am found dead in a tub full of Tabasco sauce.
c) Both a and b, because I secretly hate you and wish death by pepper sauce upon you.
d) None of the above!! Go back to the dung pit from whence ye came, filthy pig-dog!!!
