Comments on: A Possible Web Comic http://www.flyingjaco.net/archives/114 My thoughts, my projects, and all sorts of other stuff Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:18:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Brandon N Schory http://www.flyingjaco.net/archives/114/comment-page-1#comment-2 Brandon N Schory Tue, 20 Jan 2009 10:49:39 +0000 http://blog.flyingjaco.net/?p=114#comment-2 "The idea is that the main character seldom intends to go on an adventure finds himself inadvertently pulled into one on almost a regular basis. He’s a guy means well and tries to live out his life, but due to his profession (we’re not sure what that would be yet), he finds himself in these situations that are beyond his control." This needs to be discussed, as I don't recall this part of the conversation. While I think this sort of story line works from time to time, I think Trigun kind of played it out for me and I no longer am so interested in the un-intentional hero storyline. It can certainly be amusing for filler story lines where the person is supposed to be on vacation but gets dragged back in, but even that is a little played out. I'm leaning more towards having the guy being a professional anti-hero of sorts. Retelling his past to his compatriots but trying to couch it in terms of him being the hero of the story as a sort of meditative self-awareness caused by a deep seated moral dilemma. Also, I think we both agreed, and I think everyone will agree, that Steampunk is completely played out now. Let's try to keep any more details about how we visualize the world under wraps though, as we need to give potential readers a reason to tune in, and what better way than to use curiosity. I'm going to try to get a preliminary character and world sketch to you this week if I have time. “The idea is that the main character seldom intends to go on an adventure finds himself inadvertently pulled into one on almost a regular basis. He’s a guy means well and tries to live out his life, but due to his profession (we’re not sure what that would be yet), he finds himself in these situations that are beyond his control.”

This needs to be discussed, as I don’t recall this part of the conversation. While I think this sort of story line works from time to time, I think Trigun kind of played it out for me and I no longer am so interested in the un-intentional hero storyline. It can certainly be amusing for filler story lines where the person is supposed to be on vacation but gets dragged back in, but even that is a little played out.

I’m leaning more towards having the guy being a professional anti-hero of sorts. Retelling his past to his compatriots but trying to couch it in terms of him being the hero of the story as a sort of meditative self-awareness caused by a deep seated moral dilemma.

Also, I think we both agreed, and I think everyone will agree, that Steampunk is completely played out now. Let’s try to keep any more details about how we visualize the world under wraps though, as we need to give potential readers a reason to tune in, and what better way than to use curiosity.

I’m going to try to get a preliminary character and world sketch to you this week if I have time.

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