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- JMS announced on October 26, 1998 that he was writing a new series of comic
- books. Here're the announcements as sent to various online services, as
- well as some followup messages.
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- <dt>October 26, 1998
- <dd>
- Just thought I'd get this thread moving, though it's still a bit
- early, since news has started to break in other places. Basically: I've
- always loved comics (no secret there), and have always wanted to do a
- title of my own, try to make it something special, as B5 was/is special.
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- I created the premise, went to Top Cow (my first and only choice on
- this one), we met, we agreed...and now RISING STARS is set to debut next
- April. I've already turned in the first script (for the preview issue),
- and will be getting down to writing issues 0 and 1 shortly.
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- The story follows the events after the small town of Pederson,
- Illinois, is struck by a mass of energy from an unknown, but non-terrestrial
- source. Everyone who was in utero at the time of the flash
- is affected, resulting in 113 individuals who develop abilities of a most
- unusual and highly individual form. (The power is to some degree shaped
- by who they are, just as they are shaped to some degree by the power.)
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- It is set in a realistic universe, timed to real-world events (it
- covers a span of about 60 years, starting in about 1969), where there
- have never been super-powered individuals before. It looks at how the
- world reacts to them, and how they react to the world. We follow these
- characters through their early years, into adulthood and to the ends of
- their lives, mapping all the changes they go through, and how they change
- the world.
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- It's an extremely ambitious 24 issue miniseries (with the potential
- to go back and further develop any of the stories presented earlier along
- the way).
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- <dt>October 27, 1998
- <dd>
- I'd actually heard a lot of good things about Top Cow, and my understanding
- going into this was that I would have total creative freedom, and it would be a
- writer-driven book. The artist they've talked to is someone whose work I've
- admired, and this book is going to have a very different look from the rest of
- their titles. The folks over there seem to really have their act together.
- They only launch about 2 new titles a year, and that means they have to be
- special...and they want this to be that kind of project.
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- <dt>October 27, 1998
- <dd>
- <em>How closely do you plan
- on collaborating with your penciller--will he have much leeway in
- layouts/"camera" angles/etc. or do you script a page pretty tightly?</em>
-
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- I script pretty damn tight...as much as a half-page to describe a panel, in
- great detail. I'm doing those pages the same as I do my B5 and Crusade
- scripts: hideous amounts of detail.
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- And yeah, we want to go for a much more realistic look to this book, because
- it's essential to making the story work.
-
- <em>if you seriously plan on bucking the System and
- producing a book that operates on the assumption that dialogue and
- characters are *not* interchangeable, I can guarantee you at least one
- regular reader.</em>
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- Done and done.
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- <dt>October 27, 1998
- <dd>
- <em>I'm not "tearing it down" as you put it. I am simply
- pointing out the fact that the idea is not original.
- In fact, it sounds like a direct copy from the films,
- although I'm sure JMS will make a LOT more
- interesting story of it than the films.</em>
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- Sorry. Ain't the case. Damned was about a colonization effort by aliens,
- achieved by getting human female pregnant, and the kids were strictly
- telekinetic, and died at about age 7.
-
- <p>
- There is no alien colonization thing going on in the story, it only affects the
- women who are already pregnant, and it follows their whole lives. You may as
- well say that the Three Mile Island story is a Damned story because it charts
- the effect of outside forces on pregnant women and their offspring.
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- Last update:
- October 29, 1998
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