- Mood:
amused
I was at a bookstore with my friend Kurt. He pulled an issue of SPIDER-MAN off a rack of comic books, then abruptly pointed out the back cover to me. It had a "Got Milk?" ad on it. This one, to be exact:
"What the hell is this?" he asked.
"What the hell is this?" he asked.
I looked at it. I didn't see what the big deal was at first. Then I realized what was wrong. The "Got Milk?" model was Christian Bale. In his Batman-the-Dark-Knight costume.
On the back of a Marvel Comic.
Whoops!
We both stared at it quite a lot. I found it fascinating. Technically, it wasn't an ad for DC Comics; it was an ad for milk, but I found it hard to believe that Marvel would authorize putting a flagship image of its biggest competitor on the back of it's own flagship book. It had to be a mistake. Someone in the ad department hadn't been paying attention.
I was suddenly dying to be a fly on the wall in the Marvel boardroom at the moment this little SNAFU came to light.
- Mood: amused
background characters, not for the comic itself. He writes a piece and sends it to me, I edit, then add to it and send it back, he edits, adds to
it, and sends it to me, and so on.
We finished the first issue over the weekend and now it's sitting for a while, out of sight to mellow so we can give it one more pass-through later.
We have a couple of tentative contacts at Marvel, so we can send it in. I'm figuring the project will be rejected. It's my/our first outing in this field, and that's how this sort of thing usually goes. I'm hoping that the editor will add, ". . . but if you come up with something else I'd like to see it."
Then I hit them with one of my original projects. See? It's all planned out! I'll be rich and famous!
- Mood:
hopeful
Now that the Ghost Whisperer book is done until I hear from Ye Eddetor, I've been puttering around with some other stuff. A friend and I are working on a comic book script for the Fantastic Four, a mini-series. It would be cool to break into comics, I think, and writing comic scripts goes really, really fast for me. The story is fun to do, too.
I'm also working on a Celtic fantasy novel, a book about the war goddess Morrigan. The style I've chosen is slowing me down. I think I have Morrigan's voice, but I have to think harder when I write about her. She's very foreign to me, and her words don't come naturally to me yet. It's a first-person book, too, and I haven't done that in quite a while. I'm a twenty-first century American man writing from the point of view of a bronze age Irish woman. Hmmm . . . is it any wonder this is a challenge?
And the book starts with a sex scene, to boot.
Weirdly, I've never actually written a full-blown sex scene. I've hinted at them, written around them, and drawn the curtain on them, but never actually written one. Not because I find them embarrassing to write, but because on-stage sex has never moved the story forward in my previous work, and sex takes up a lot of word space. Morrigan's story, however, =starts= with it. In the original myths, Morrigan is bathing in a river when she meets a wounded man. She heals him and seduces him and they forge a powerful relationship as a result. The sex moves the story along, and it needs to be in there, so I'm writing it and I'm writing well.
In the very first scene.
Boy, when I break new ground, I don't hold back . . .
- Mood:
busy
I'm enjoying the webcomic GIRLS WITH SLINGSHOTS. Today's is particularly funny:
http://www.daniellecorsetto.com/GWS418.h
Dearie, dearie me . . .
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