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