Gamer Girl & Vixen – The Feels, You Guys, The Feels!
As I mentioned last week, the first issue/chapter of my comic, Gamer Girl & Vixen, is in full production. That means my artist, the lovely and talented Gemma Moody, is hard and work cranking out actual drawn pages of a script I co-wrote. I don’t know how often I’ve talked about this on my blog, but I’ve always wanted to be a writer. I can still remember writing fan fiction on my family’s archaic laptop back in the day, cranking out stories that I never knew if anybody would read. But that was years ago, and I haven’t written very much in the intervening years.
So this week, I want to tell you all something: get out there and write! If it’s your dream to be a writer, whether it’s comic books or movie screenplays or young adult novels, stop putting it off and just write it! I put it off for the longest time. More than a decade of my life has been spent not-writing. Last year, my friend Kristi McDowell helped me get off my butt and get writing, and we’re weeks away from launching out Kickstarter to actually publish my own graphic novel. It’s really happening and it feels great!
Seriously, I never knew how amazing it would feel to see pages of my comic come in from my artist. It’s a giddy excitement that more than makes all the work worth it. Check out this collage I put together of some of the great panels she’s sketched so far.
None of these are in order, by the way.
Just seeing my ideas come to life like that is mind-blowing. It’s such an exciting feeling. It helps, of course, that Moody is awesome, but I would imagine seeing any artist whip up my ideas would be great.
So consider this my PSA: Get out there and write. I know a lot of my readers are also comic book fans, and I’m sure plenty of you want to write your own comics. I’m here to tell you that it’s easy, it feels great, and you shouldn’t be putting it off anymore. And if you want any advice, I’m here. I’ll be retelling some more stories about my project in the weeks to come. I’m thinking next week I might be able to share some penciled pages, maybe even some script. We’ll see. Stay tuned.
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Agent Carter Has It Rough
How’s everybody liking Agent Carter? I’ve only seen the first two episodes so far, and they were pretty neat. I like the character, for sure, and Haley Atwell is just top notch. I think it’ll make a nice little diversion between Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
And, of course, we can always count on Only Leigh to be awesome! I love her animations, I love her voice, I love her geekery; she’s quality Internet!
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The Only Thing That Really Matters About the New Mortal Kombat X is That It Won’t Have Smoke
The kombatant Smoke is my all-time favorite video game character. So you can imagine how excited I was for his prominent role in the last Mortal Kombat game, that big reboot one. It was awesome. Well the sequel, Mortal Kombat X, is set some 25 years in the future…and I think he’s supposed to be dead…so I’m not as excited about this game.
Of course, there’s also the fact that I don’t own any consoles that can play Mortal Kombat X, and I’m still saving up for a better computer. So I’m stuck just admiring how badass the trailer looks. At least I’ll always have that.
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6 More Potential Shows for the Arrow-Verse
Word hit the Internet this week that not only will the superhero Vixen be joining the same TV universe as Arrow and The Flash, but that producers are considering the Atom for their next spin-off. Clearly the people at Warner Bros. can recognize success, and they want to bank as much as possible on their winning superhero formula. Marvel is building a shared superhero universe in the movies, so it looks like DC is going to do the same on TV.
I’m all for it! I love both Arrow and The Flash, and I would love to see more heroes jump to the small screen. I think I’m even more excited for the potential of a small screen Justice League than I am for whatever big screen version that Warner Bros. is trying to develop.
This is totally gonna be a thing!
Beyond Arrow, The Flash and the new Vixen cartoon, there’s also talk that upcoming shows about Supergirl and the Teen Titans will be part of the same universe (or at least there were, stupid CBS!). Clearly DC shows no sign of slowing down. But what other shows can they produce?
This is one of my favorite List of Six games, and I invite all of you to join me in coming up with some great ideas. What other superheroes could get shows to tie into the Arrow-Verse? The only rules are that they must fit the aesthetic of the Arrow-Verse, so super-powers are OK, but keep things grounded and gritty. And they can’t be Superman, Batman or Wonder Woman, because the universe is still partially a terrible place, and those characters are apparently only going to appear in the movies.
So join me after the jump to see my ideas. And join me in the comments to share some of your own!
The Venture Bros. Are Still a Thing!
There’s going to be a brand new one-hour Venture Bros. special airing Monday night! How cool is that? And they’re going into space!
As everyone knows, I’m a huge Venture Bros. fan. This entire blog is kind of named in honor of Henchman 21, who was also my first comic-con cosplay get-up. So believe me when I tell you that I’m a huge Venture Bros. fan. But man, how hard is it to make this show? Why haven’t we seen anything since, like, 2013? Does anybody even remember the last season? I remember that it was over too quickly.
Seriously, though, does anybody know why The Venture Bros. isn’t produced like a regular TV show with regular seasons? I mean, I guess I could do some research and find out for myself…I am a reporter…and I do love the show…
Oh hey! New Age of Ultron trailer!
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