Comments on: Experimental Panel Layouts

By: RICKY RAG

RICKY RAG — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 03:29:26 +0000

Man, it’s hard doing panels.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:36:25 +0000

I liked Guardian Force and I’m not sure yet if I feel comfortable letting it go without an alternative.

By: B. Mac

B. Mac — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:30:21 +0000

I’d recommend leaving Guardian Force alone because there’s a good chance of confusion. I like the word Guardians, though. You could probably take the word and complement it with something that is distinct to your style. For example, Star Wars took a word that was kind of generic (“council”) and made it a Jedi Council.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 20:17:39 +0000

Yes, but not for a team of superhumans.

By: Brett

Brett — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:58:43 +0000

Guardian Force has been done. More than once, actually.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:34:15 +0000

How about for the team name “Guardian Force”?

By: Brett

Brett — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:21:25 +0000

Mutants is a bit generic. I would suggest:

-Genemorphs
-Abnormals
-NextGens
or something like that

By: B. Mac

B. Mac — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 19:33:00 +0000

Hmm. I think it might help to come up with a unique name in place of mutants. It’s a generic-enough word that you could use it without getting sued, I think, but X-Men is popular enough that it sort of has the mutant angle locked up.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:27:28 +0000

Never heard of the Incredibles before.

Also, do you think that me using the term ‘Mutants’ to describe humans that undergo genetic changes to obtain their power would be too similar to the ‘X-Men’?

By: B. Mac

B. Mac — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:51:44 +0000

From a legal perspective, it might be problematic that The Incredibles already used The Supers. However, I'd be more concerned that "The Supers" sounds generic and a bit forgettable. It might help to work in some defining trait about the team.

By: Rusty

Rusty — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 06:19:40 +0000

Okay. For a superhero team what do you think of the name; ‘The Supers’? I had my eyes set on ‘The Ultimates’ but then I found out it was taken by Marvel.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 14:14:38 +0000

K, thanks.

By: Ragged Boy

Ragged Boy — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 00:10:19 +0000

Watchmen was originally released as a 12-issue comic series. Graphic novels are usually just compilations of the comics. Nowadays, we usually see it in the big graphic novel form with the yellow cover.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:15:42 +0000

Is Watchmen a graphic novel or a comic.

By: Baystreet

Baystreet — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 19:18:34 +0000

The thing that has always bothered me was that quite simply, the whole issue was created by Ozymandias, Blue Balls Manhattan was complacent, he was active, the issue with the Russians only truly became dire because Ozymandias’s machinations led to him abandoning humanity.

Alan Moore’s masterpiece wasn’t anything revolutionary at all. The villain was a villain because of his massive ego, his plot was pointless because of his massive ego, and his end game was pointless because…of his massive ego.

And in the movie, nipples.

Nipples.

Ozycontin wanted to save the world from a problem that he created, like setting fire to the store room so you can get a promotion for putting it out. Dreiberg and company acted like idiots, like every superhero and they did the wrong thing by doing the right thing, just like Superman has since day one by putting Lex Luthor in prison instead of throwing him into the sun, or Batman and the Joker.

The Watchmen is so well regarded because they had fetishes, and they had sex. Alan Moore didn’t tell a great or masterfully painted story, he just perved out Silver Age superheroes and the issues don’t go any deeper then that. It was new for it’s time because everyone else that came before had enough sense to think “Hmm, maybe Batman doesn’t need to suffer from erectile dysfunction.”