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Post by DD Doyle on Mar 8, 2018 22:59:21 GMT -5
Tom Moses tried to get something like this going years ago. He and Brent Lambert created a shared alternate universe based on AoA, where they had everything mapped out from beginning to end. They solicited other writers to create solo books based on individual characters, while they had the "core" title tat guided the universe events. That's where my Agent Zero title came from. Tom and Brent never got it moving and I had already completed two or three issues of my story. So...I dropped it into M2K's alternate section! Ah man. It really is a shame that it didn't work out previously. I suppose it depends on interest and whether or not people are able to establish and gain traction with titles etc. It could be a pretty fun endeavour, I tried it once before before university called away and I really enjoyed the fresh start.
Well let me throw my name down if enough people are interested. Even just to brainstorm. Half the fun is always the worldbuilding Whether it be Marvel or DC (or Hell I ran a site once where we had the characters from both in a shared universe! lol) I'm down.
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Post by brawl2099 on Mar 9, 2018 0:22:54 GMT -5
Tom Moses tried to get something like this going years ago. He and Brent Lambert created a shared alternate universe based on AoA, where they had everything mapped out from beginning to end. They solicited other writers to create solo books based on individual characters, while they had the "core" title tat guided the universe events. That's where my Agent Zero title came from. Tom and Brent never got it moving and I had already completed two or three issues of my story. So...I dropped it into M2K's alternate section! I did two issues of a Cyclops series for this. I have NO IDEA where it ended up though. 😔
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Post by bkole on Mar 9, 2018 4:37:35 GMT -5
Tom Moses tried to get something like this going years ago. He and Brent Lambert created a shared alternate universe based on AoA, where they had everything mapped out from beginning to end. They solicited other writers to create solo books based on individual characters, while they had the "core" title tat guided the universe events. That's where my Agent Zero title came from. Tom and Brent never got it moving and I had already completed two or three issues of my story. So...I dropped it into M2K's alternate section! I remember this. I was going to do a title that was based around the High Evolutionary lording it over Central Europe - It never got much further than the first few issues, but it essentially involved HE being a massive bastard, killing huge volumes of humans and mutants and atlanteans and everything else, and then in a rare moment of rest after all the politics and stuff, he's stabbed to death in his sleep by Bova, who reclaimed the mantle of High Evolutionary and went on to be a decent, if a little bit violent, leader of the New Men. I just really like the image of 7-8 issues of Bova being passive and helpful and kind, and then stabbing Wyndham in the face repeatedly.
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Post by bkole on Mar 9, 2018 4:47:03 GMT -5
We shouldn't bother doing a shared Marvel/DC Universe But a shared Milestone and Wildstorm universe would kick the bottom.
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Post by Gavin McMahon on Mar 9, 2018 6:49:37 GMT -5
Personally I've an idea for Captain Britain, based on the Netflix format of spending the season getting them to that final point as a hero. Probably because I've been living in London for three years so it's a region I know and there's a wealth of characters that are rife for upgrading, including but not limited to Psylocke and Meggan.
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Post by travis on Mar 9, 2018 7:01:53 GMT -5
Personally I've an idea for Captain Britain, based on the Netflix format of spending the season getting them to that final point as a hero. Probably because I've been living in London for three years so it's a region I know and there's a wealth of characters that are rife for upgrading, including but not limited to Psylocke and Meggan.
I like this idea. Not just that I think the marvel UK based heroes need more love, but the idea of using the netflix format on heroes that are likely never going to get a netflix series.
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Post by DD Doyle on Mar 9, 2018 7:46:46 GMT -5
Personally I've an idea for Captain Britain, based on the Netflix format of spending the season getting them to that final point as a hero. Probably because I've been living in London for three years so it's a region I know and there's a wealth of characters that are rife for upgrading, including but not limited to Psylocke and Meggan.
The constant references to the Netflix/Marvel 'verse connected to this idea does have me really tempted to do a solo hero just because I do love those series and how they handled their characters/continuity lol. I do still have the first issue to an Ultimate Dr. Strange series I tried to kick off at one of the many "ultimate" sites that were going around for awhile... heh. Ah well there's still time to think about it.
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Post by Gavin McMahon on Mar 9, 2018 7:52:45 GMT -5
I actually sat down to see if there was something viable in the idea of Captain Britain. I managed to smash out the first scene, establishing a few characters I'd like to play with and, it was only 1390 words, but I did enjoy establishing these very, very British characters. Hahah.
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Post by DD Doyle on Mar 9, 2018 8:17:14 GMT -5
I actually sat down to see if there was something viable in the idea of Captain Britain. I managed to smash out the first scene, establishing a few characters I'd like to play with and, it was only 1390 words, but I did enjoy establishing these very, very British characters. Hahah.
Many writers have tried to make the Captain Britain mythos more "american" at least in style and substance. I'd love to see just a straight up Brit version no playing down to the masses, lol.
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Post by Gavin McMahon on Mar 9, 2018 8:26:01 GMT -5
Many writers have tried to make the Captain Britain mythos more "american" at least in style and substance. I'd love to see just a straight up Brit version no playing down to the masses, lol. It definitely turned out to be quite British. I think choosing the University of Oxford (because a man of Brian's wealth and aristocratic background certainly wouldn't have found himself studying at Kingston) kind of helped with that. It could be very interesting, even if this shared continuity idea for the alternate branch doesn't go forward anywhere, I could see myself knocking out an origin for Brian and his compatriots. I've almost finished scene two so that's a good sign.
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Post by goncet on Mar 9, 2018 10:06:02 GMT -5
I wanted to get something going re: A shared AU but had some issues with my laptop that needed sorting. Everything is on the up and up now so if we want to get a group of writers together for something I'm more than down.
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Post by D. Golightly on Mar 9, 2018 11:34:49 GMT -5
I'd throw my hat into that ring. Happy to write, but someone else needs to take the lead on it. I just have my hands full with coordinating other things.
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Post by Gavin McMahon on Mar 9, 2018 11:52:38 GMT -5
I'd throw my hat into that ring. Happy to write, but someone else needs to take the lead on it. I just have my hands full with coordinating other things. I don't mind helping out with the co-ordination of such an idea. I think once a premise and the world as it is established, as long as everyone adherred to the developments around them, then it could work really nicely. Since Marvel 2000 already works with continuity, all of the writers here are more than capable of world-building. There's been years of evidence towards that already. All that's needed is ideas, initial structure as agreed by all those who want to play with it, and then the tales can begin building from that foundation.
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Post by brawl2099 on Mar 9, 2018 13:06:22 GMT -5
It'd be fun to potentially do two of these. The first I could see as a bit more ongoing, while the second would just be great as an event.
1) An Ultimate/MCU style mini universe like Gavin is suggesting. And really do some fun stuff there. I know an Ulimate Spider-Man I once wrote the first issue of include May getting shot, not Ben, and Peter having a sister. Also, the Lizard was created in the same "accident" that gave Peter his powers. So don't just rehash, actually have some fun with it. :-D
2) A more out there shared continuity. Something like Age of Apocalypse- a dystopian, post-apocalypse, or even utopian Marvel universe. Hinge it on something like Hydra winning WWII, or Tony Stark and Reed Richards upgrading the planet and becoming benevolent (but are they really?) dictators. Steve and I actually did this at Age of Onslaught, which was fun. Two bookends, plus a bunch of four issue minis in-between.
On a side note... Dave if you were EVER interested in hosting Age of Onslaught, I have all but the Omega issue (and I could track Omega down).
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Post by D. Golightly on Mar 9, 2018 13:16:15 GMT -5
Ultimate is cool, but it’s been done to death, and most of us here have already written Ultimate stories.
I’m much more interested in seeing a shared continuity based on a single theme or event that doesn’t just redo what’s already happened. Something like put all the characters in Ancient Rome, or everyone’s powers come from magic, or Xavier is the supreme ruler, or get rid of the sliding time scale, or establish a colony on an alien world, or...
You get the point.
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