Posted by: BURN:Cycle Jul 28 2006, 07:55 AM
I've noticed a lot of Shadowrun fan art popping up recently. Me and some friends are looking into creating a SR comic book (probably miniseries) and we need a good writer. We've tried to come up with something ourselves but, admittedly, none of us are writers. Fortunately, we are fairly decent artists.
http://www.123pichosting.com/viewer.php?id=1624Page001.JPG
Anyone who is interested, post here or shoot me a PM. Thanks.
Posted by: DV8 Jul 28 2006, 08:34 AM
Yeah, I have to say that the quality is quite okay. Personally, I set very high standards for web-comics, but a Shadowrun-specific comic would definitely sweeten the deal for me.
Posted by: Stumps Jul 28 2006, 09:33 AM
I'll ask around at Underworld93.com as well. Some old Shadowrun hats with a creative fling hang out there.
I'll see if anyone is interested.
Nice work!
Posted by: emo samurai Jul 28 2006, 01:25 PM
I was thinking of making an SR webcomic with a relatively high-concept script; basically, there wouldn't be an "origin" story to the world, since the world doesn't know what the fuck is going on 90% of the time, so the real history will come randomly and unreliably from background noise, corporate speeches, and random screamsheets floating around. The "origin" at the beginning will be a simsense to a Casshern ripoff, and it'll be interrupted by a simsense call. Here's the first 11 pages to the comic that I'd like to propose.
[ Spoiler ]
Page 1 & 2
Double Splash Page
There is a shot from a playground of a large mushroom cloud in the middle of a generic American city.
Narrator: In the year 2030, the world changed.
Page 3
Panel 1: There is a shot of the interior of the U.N. with the Secretary General making an impassioned speech we don't hear while holding his head at a "heroic" angle. His right fist is held vaguely over his heart.
Narrator: No one knows who started it; all that mattered to the small-minded leaders of men was that their country was the one to end it.
Panel 2: Several large, futuristic bombers are shown flying in formation, with the center bomber being the focus of the panel and the other ones being seen only at the edge of it.
Narrator: Meetings were held.
Panel 3: A phalanx of shock troops in full-body armor and face masks march into a city. It's crucial that the masks sort of correspond to the features of a human face, only to be mechanized beyond all recognition. They can't just be clean face-plates.
Votes were cast.
Panel 4: A soldier is positioned in the street behind a kneeling, crying woman with a futuristic bigass gun of some sort to her head and her infant standing next to her.
Narrator: Treaties were signed.
Page 4
Panel 1: Shot of a few scientists mulling around in a grungy makeshift lab; a large, troll sized, vaguely humanoid robot lies down on a Frankensteinian slab of metal or something.
Narrator: There were those who felt that things as they were could not stand.
Panel 2: Close-up on a vaguely middle-aged Japanese man with messed-up hair, small glasses, and a beard.
Narrator: My father was one of them.
Panel 3: Close-up on the head of the robot. One of the eyes is finished, the other isn't. It looks as if it's supposed to be covered in fake human skin; it's just not on there yet.
Narrator: The crux of the project was BK-1.
Panel 4: BK-1 is finished now, a combination of Olympian physical perfection and an amalgamation of the world's races. He's rising out of a vat of some sort, a very blatant womb-image.
Narrator: He was to be humanity's savior, a logical, objective, superintelligence that was to be all things to our troubled species.
Page 5
Panel 1: Time's Square, with BK-1's face over all the screens.
Narrator: A scholar.
Panel 2: A gigantic robot army marching across a desert, with BK-1 leading them. He is crushing a man's skull in his hand. This panel should be larger than panel 1.
Narrator: A general.
Page 6: Full-page splash. BK-1 is seated in a Geiger-esque palanquin carried by 8 enslaved humans, all of whom are haggard and obviously starved. Think Warhamer 40K.
Narrator: A ruler.
Page 7
Panel 1: The same lab, with several men in lab coats, old and young, hovering over two tanks full of eerie green fluid. One of them has a robot in it; the other one has a gas mask for an absent person.
Narrator: There was a solution to humanity's enslavement, but it needed the voluntary sacrifice of an individual's humanity.
Panel 2: There is a closeup on a young man's face, which resembles the scientist's on page 4. It is expressionless and yet unwavering.
Narrator: No one wanted to volunteer.
Panel 3: It looks the exact same, except the man's right hand is raised straight up.
Narrator: Except for me.
Page 8
Panel 1: Closeup on the second tank, with hints of metal creeping over his extremities. He is sort of in the fetal position.
Narrator: I don't remember much of what happened before my change; all this comes from datadisks.
Panel 2: Closeup on his right hand, with covering the first two segments of his fingers.
Narrator: I do, however, remember the change itself; the complete lack of light, of sound, of feeling.
Nothing.
Panel 3: Still on the right hand, the nanites have reached the middle of his palm by now.
Narrator: Except the cold.
Panel 4: His hand is completely mechanized by now; the hand is very slick and futuristic-looking.
Narrator: Always the cold.
Page 9
Throughout this page, the lyrics of a song, both in Japanese Katakana and in English start to play at the bottoms of every panel, not quite in frames, but written nonetheless. They're very small, at first, and by the third panel, they're quite large.
Panel 1: Closeup on his face, which is still human-looking.
Narrator: It doesn't matter much now; I have a purpose, a responsibility to every man, woman, and child still somehow living after all these years of meaningless slaughter.
Panel 2: Isometric view of him standing in the middle of a street with the infinite hordes of the robot army in front of him.
Narrator: I stand alone because there is no one left to stand.
Panel 3: Side view of his head, an anime-style mask comes up.
Narrator: Neither of us may have started this.
Page 10
Sorta-splash page. The top half is another close-up on the narrator's face, with resolute eyes and stuff. Near the middle, the image starts to de-rez until the bottom, there's a green void with a whimsically anachronistic turn-phone icon floating in the middle of it. It's ringing very loudly, and the first speech bubble in the comic comes from the bottom of the right side of the page; the speaker is off-panel.
Narrator: But I will --!&@#$(!@#$!%
DataDrain: FUCK!!!!
Page 11
Panel 1: The phone flies off its base...
Panel 2: into the hand of a main shrouded in black.
DataDrain: Yeah?
Hatchetman: We've got a job lined up.
DataDrain: What kind?
Panel 3: Ork tusks, flannel jacket, cell phone in right hand, dart held lazily in left hand. The panel cuts out his eyes.
Hatchetman: It's big; I can't say too much more over the phone.
DataDrain: I DO need to pay the landlord.
Hatchetman: And the pusher, and the pimp, and the...
Panel 4: DataDrain is idly shooting a flying Hello Kitty heads with a blue and red raygun.
DataDrain: Yeah, yeah, I know, "It's bad for you," "You need help," "You'll catch a venereal disease and rot from the inside out." Where do we meet?
Panel 5: Shot of a dartboard; all of the darts are at bullseyes, arrayed perfectly neatly around a soon-to-be quadruple Robinhood.
Hatchetman: It's at a club called the Heat Sink. Look as much like a nerd as possible.
DataDrain: Fuck off.
Hatchetman: I'm serious.
DataDrain: I don't go back on my word.
Hatchetman: See you anyway.
*Click
Posted by: Gabriel (Argus #2323) Jul 28 2006, 07:12 PM
I love the artwork... looks like fun. I might be able to come up with a one-shot script for you.
Posted by: Lagomorph Jul 28 2006, 07:20 PM
Could make comics out of the clue files heh. I don't have the link, but I know some one around here does. If they were done in a completely in character description, it would be hilarious I think.
Posted by: Kagetenshi Jul 28 2006, 08:08 PM
http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=8667.
You can find samples of my writing http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=4335 and http://forums.dumpshock.com/index.php?showtopic=7640. If you're interested in working with me, I'd be game for working with you.
~J