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Pitching to Epic

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Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

18:50 / 31.03.03

Does grant own the skrull kill krew license?

Jack Fear

18:59 / 31.03.03

Nope. And neither will you.
Marvel doesn't do creator-owned.

gridley

19:01 / 31.03.03

I'm surprised no one has mentioned "Tales of the Zombie" from the 70s. You've got evil Voodoo businessman Mister Six, the poor zombie hero Simon Garth who can be controlled by whoever has his totem, that poor girl who gets turned into a hideous man-spider by some guy who's got a crush on her. New Orleans, Haiti. Zombies with brains.

gridley

19:04 / 31.03.03

err.... ummm... I of course meant woman-spider...

8===>Q: alyn

19:48 / 31.03.03

Uh, say, I've only been following all this Epic business from here at Barbelith, but the site linked to above says they're not accepting submissions. Are they going to start? Or have they stopped?

Jack Fear

19:51 / 31.03.03

Haven't started yet. Will soon.

The delay may be a cunning ploy to thin the submissions pile, as thousands of overexcited would-be writers literally die of anticipation.

The Photographer in Blowup

19:59 / 31.03.03

And in the meantime, let fanboys dig their 30-year-old issues of It and Werewolf By Night... I can even see a new 'Morbius, the Living Vampire' making all its way to the EPIC offices.

There's lots of continuity-checking to do, you know?

videodrome

21:47 / 31.03.03

Jack, given your obvious disregard for the idea of submitting to Epic, why the continued interest in this thread? I'm picturing you in the part of James Ballard in Crash....except that he grew to like the car wrecks.

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

01:29 / 01.04.03

he he he video

and jack, if grant doesnt own SKK doesnt that mean marvel does, and it would be available.

not that i have talent but im curious...

H3ct0r L1m4

04:13 / 01.04.03

are you guys going to pitch as soon as the doors are open to try and be on the first wave before cool properties are all taken or are you going to wait and pitch on a second wave to see if any one of the new troops are getting burn by friendly fire?

Sax

05:59 / 01.04.03

I don't think it's a case of the cool properties getting "taken" - according to Jemas if he gets two great Doctor Strange scripts he'll run two Doctor Strange comics.

To be honest, all this stinks of fish to me. I'll be very surprised if some of these comics see the light of day.

However, as much as I have to agree with most of what Jack Fear has said, I'll probably be bunging one in. I still have an ambition to write Something Great, but for the time being I'm happy to do a bit of hack work. Christ, I make my living from hackery, and if I can get a chance to have a bit of fun with a Marvel character from my youth then what's the harm in that?

Besides, we all know Jack Fear was up all night polishing his treatment for Paste Pot Pete...

Ellis says:

09:09 / 01.04.03

Blade and Morbius

"Ones a vampire, the others a vampire hunter! Squeal with glee as this mismatched couple try to work and live together!
Issue one guest stars War Machine."

Jack Fear

11:51 / 01.04.03

Jack, given your obvious disregard for the idea of submitting to Epic, why the continued interest in this thread?

Part of it's the car-crash aspect, as you mentioned.

But mostly, I'm monitoring this thread looking for names to add to The List.

The Natural Way

12:48 / 01.04.03

Up against the wall!

11 pages into the first draft... I'm so loving this. I'm not going for the irony thing at all, but I am going for a radical reimaging (The Ka-zar of yesteryear is pretty much unusable. Only the weirdest freak would read it). Everything and everybody's still there - only cooler. Actually, talking of stuff they'll spot a mile off: the irony thing in general. It's just shit and smacks of laziness. The 80's are over. 25 approaches it with his idea, but the laughs should evolve into big, smiling love and wicked super-heroics.

Wanna see glassonion's script loads.

grant

17:51 / 01.04.03

Oh, wow.

Surf that site.

The Photographer in Blowup

17:56 / 01.04.03

I wanted to write a story about Dracula and Dr. Occult - until i read that site some time ago, grant, and realised way too many things had changed concerning Dracula to make a story on him.

For fuck's sake, the guy battled Generation X - what is that shit? What self-respectful villain battles kids? And loses?

So i'm looking for a new character.

The Natural Way

10:22 / 02.04.03

So what if he's battled Gen X? Just ignore all that shit. Marvel won't give a fuck.

Warewullf

13:08 / 02.04.03

Surely someone should a series based on BALLOX!

Imagine: A series about a whole gang of these robots. You could call it..."A Load of Ballox!"

gridley

13:33 / 02.04.03

Runce, have you considered making making your comic...

"Kazar: Male Model"

This month, in "Kazar: Male Model," the jungle lord discovers a whole new savage land on the runways of Paris!

videodrome

13:50 / 02.04.03

I mis-read that as "the runways of Penis."

sleazenation

13:50 / 02.04.03

and what about the old marvel monster SHAGG?!

Tamayyurt

14:11 / 02.04.03

I think I'm going to do a story on these X-Skrulls.

Mister Six, whom all the girls

14:46 / 02.04.03

It's his time to come back.

Alternately, what about Starbrand or... my secret secret choice...

The Natural Way

14:49 / 02.04.03

Bgrid: but that's just it... It's not that funny - "Ho! Ho! Look how silly the men-in-pants look!" has fuck all currency anymore. I enjoy playing it *serious*. On that note: REALLY want to see what Tom's come up with.

The Falcon

15:24 / 02.04.03

That link is so fucking sweet, grant.

gridley

18:01 / 02.04.03

all right, Runce, but at least give him a haircut, eh?

8===>Q: alyn

19:09 / 02.04.03

You want obscure, motherfuckers? I'm working on three different scripts involving Slippery Sam Weltschmertz from the Wolfpack. Oh yes, Larry Hama's the shiznit and you hate it.

Solitaire Rose as Tom Servo

19:40 / 02.04.03

I love that everyone has taken the normal silly concepts and such...so I am going to do a dark, horror tinged remake of "Homer The Happy Ghost", Stan's rip-off of Casper...

A small child, killed, forced to live out his afterlife in a storybook for decades has now discovered it was all a plot by Mephisto to keep his soul entombed in Hell. Now, he's free, but...what does he want? Peace? Heaven? Revenge? BLOOD?!?!

8===>Q: alyn

19:55 / 02.04.03

Only one of my Slippery Sam scripts is a joke, though.

Tamayyurt

22:59 / 02.04.03

S. Rose, if there is one project I wanna see get made (besides mine of course) would be that!

03:57 / 03.04.03

Someone should do an electroclash-cash in version of Dazzler.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

08:54 / 03.04.03

'The Teaches of Peaches' Book 1 of 4?

Eloi Tsabaoth

09:22 / 03.04.03

I'm going to pitch their most popular, merchandised characters, with small but infuriating changes.

"When Peter Parker, nerdy science student, is bitten by a radioactive spider, he gains super-strength, super-agility, and a giant pulsating bottom that speaks the future!"

"Bruce Banner, ace scientist, is caught in a gamma bomb explosion, he transforms into the monstrous Hulk, a creature with limitless strength, limitless anger, and a 50 foot metal Toblerone grafted to one of his knees."

"No-one knows who Logan truly is. But most know his other name, which is Wolvereenyeenyeenyeenyeenyeenyeeny. Eeeny."

The Natural Way

11:15 / 03.04.03

Hilarious.

Don't worry, Grid, the hair's different. Think Brighton, but festooned with bone jewellry.

The Natural Way

12:32 / 03.04.03

Oooh yeah, page 14 and we're REALLY into the action now! See those Lemurian Cat-riders go!

Grrgh!

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