Is there a Marvel John Constantine?

08:39 / 29.03.03

Not Dr. Strange or anyone Defender status. Like a low level magician type character who can talk or see ghosts, something along that line. Some character who hasn't really been used as of late.

Shrug

09:11 / 29.03.03

How about Jennifer Kale?

10:25 / 29.03.03

I'm not familiar with that Marvel character. Could you give a little bit of information on her? Is she a superhero? Does she have a code name? What books has she appeared in?

glassonion

11:26 / 29.03.03

it's a shame that i know this really. there's one called pete wisdom who warren ellis wrote for his mid nineties run on excalibur. trenchcoat and fags and that, but, shocker, with dark hair. vague powers of fire-fingers [good for lighting yr lamberts with/ace of wands mutiemagik substitute] and supreme smartarsedness. women luv a bastard and stuff.

bio k9

11:28 / 29.03.03

Google will tell you more than you ever wanted to know about Jennifer Kale.

12:05 / 29.03.03

You pitching to Epic, J.D.?

12:35 / 29.03.03

Yeah, but it's an old Hellblazer script I sent a couple of years back. Thought I could retool it a bit. And Kale's gonna be in some new series I just read.

12:41 / 29.03.03

Heh heh.

You and everybody else in the world, son.

Since Epic announced its open submissions policy, Vertigo editors have all gone on vacation, for the first time in ten years...

12:45 / 29.03.03

I should just plug Thor in Constantine's role. No dialect change, still have him talking to Chas, smoking, and drinking.

12:49 / 29.03.03

Seriously, hough--in the next six months, Epic's gonna be flooded with retooled Vertigo submissions. They're gonna be able to smell 'em a mile away: "Ah, this one started off as a Dreaming story... this one was a Hellblazer story..."

And mostly, those submissions are going to suck rocks.

This is because the best stories grow out of the characters, instead of being all-purpose plots with interchangeable characters shoehorned in.

In other words: if you can effectively tell your John Constantine story without John Constantine, it's probably not a very good John Constantine story. And it wouldn't make a very good Pete Wisdom story, either.

My advice, if you really want to do this: pick a character, and start from there.

12:52 / 29.03.03

Well, it's a good ghost story.

12:56 / 29.03.03

I mean you could effectively tell Morrison's Animal Man story without the superhero Animal Man. I'm tired. Ignore me for the next few hours.

The Natural Way

12:57 / 29.03.03

Yeah, Jack, c'mon, yr not dumb - you just KNOW Marvel aren't gonna give a shit for some JC clone. There's plenty of good meat out there....fuck chain-smoking magicians.

Gary Lactus

13:03 / 29.03.03

M.O.D.O.K is clearly the richest, finest of these meats.

13:17 / 29.03.03

There ya go: a repurposed MODOK.

M.O.D.O.G.! Mental Organism Designed Only for Ghostbusting!

You go, MODOG!

Eloi Tsabaoth

14:01 / 29.03.03

MODAWG- Mental Organism Designed for Ass Whuppin', G.

moriarty

14:20 / 29.03.03

My favourite M.O.D.O.K. variant is M.O.D.O.K.M.O.D.O.K., the Mental Organism Designed Only for Killing M.O.D.O.K.

moriarty

14:24 / 29.03.03

Oh, just in case anyone is interested, the second issue of The Journal of M.O.D.O.K. Studies is set to come out soon.

Jack D, is your story a single issue thing? Is that what they're looking for? It's funny, because the second I saw your thread title I thought "Epic".

And you might be able to tell the Crisis II parts of the Animal Man comics without Animal Man, but you would definitely need to use a character that was on the same obscure level as that character. They should have used Mr. Terrific. Fair play!

16:54 / 29.03.03

is there a full list of golden and silver age heroes marvel owns, ive been googling till my eyes bleed and im not finding what i need

moriarty

17:00 / 29.03.03

You too? Sheesh!

What are you looking for? Or is it top-secret?

17:13 / 29.03.03

nothing top secret, im looking for chars that may fit some outlines i have written up in the past, open submissions are pretty cool.

17:22 / 29.03.03

theres a list of a bunch of chars with bios at classicmarvel.com

i think its time for a new and gritty version of

Speedball!!!

I give up.

No! You mind-reading, evil (Elijah D) Bastard! Leave Robbie alone!
Actually, a couple of comics creators have already put together a proposal for a third, hopefully actually good New Warriors series featuring Speedball, so Nyer.

17:55 / 29.03.03

whoa arturo, i was kidding, but in the 2 minutes i was thinking about this my idea for how he would look was like the concept art, looks pretty cool...

Shrug

18:02 / 29.03.03

I don't know in that case Jack heres some character compendiums you could browse through at your leisure....here and here.
I think the Witches thing has been put on an indefinite hold?
find out here

18:34 / 29.03.03

How many Barbelonians are there? Everyone here should send in a MODOK script, just to freak them out. It should be a Barbelith homework assignment. Oh, and all of the Great Lakes Avengers are currently out of work.