Forum > Discuss Comic Pages
Issue 2 - Party Like It's 198X - Page 28 - Watchin' Ghostbusties
Ghoul:
I would be right at home in that bed with all those spooky characters. It would be one hell of an orgy. Especially that titmouth thing..
Adam Dravian:
--- Quote from: Ghoul on January 16, 2015, 09:39:42 PM ---I would be right at home in that bed with all those spooky characters. It would be one hell of an orgy. Especially that titmouth thing..
--- End quote ---
Right. That's basically what your typical Friday night is like, I assume.
Rijst:
First off, it's great to see you guys also have weeks where you're not so busy you can't put up the pages in time.
Not sure if I'd rather be Eddie or Sam on this night, he's doing well with the porn and getting a good handful in frame 5, but every time he jacks off something weird happens? The boob-tongue is simply amazing, is it a reference to Barbara's scary face in Beetlejuice?
I see what Adam meant earlier when he said the rough outline of the comic is written but much is made up on the fly, that's not a lot of detail!
Mumm-Rad:
Radical page! Looks like it was a triple feature horror move beat off! A Ghostbusties, Beat-my-juice and Poke-her-guys marathon!
Adam Dravian:
--- Quote from: Rijst on January 17, 2015, 04:43:34 AM ---The boob-tongue is simply amazing, is it a reference to Barbara's scary face in Beetlejuice?
--- End quote ---
Correct.
--- Quote from: Rijst on January 17, 2015, 04:43:34 AM ---I see what Adam meant earlier when he said the rough outline of the comic is written but much is made up on the fly, that's not a lot of detail!
--- End quote ---
We do have a rough outline of the entire story, but what she quoted from was the actual script for issue 2. The reason it was so sparse on details is because I envisioned the page not having any dialogue. Not really sure why, as the dialogue Jessica added definitely made it better.
To give you an example of what the Satan Ninja plot outline is like, here's the outline for the very first part of the story:
--- Quote ---Eddie is celebrating his 18th birthday at the local arcade/pizzeria with some of his friends. He and Joe are playing Double Dudes vs. Satan Ninja. They get up to the final boss and both die. Eddie is out of money, but Joe gives him his last quarter, since it’s Eddie’s birthday. Eddie gets the boss to change into his second form, and seems like he might have a shot at beating him, but then punkers come by and mess with the buttons, causing Eddie to die. Eddie and Joe are dejected, and go get some pizza.
They are eating their pizza with Corey while watching Trance and Alex play a driving game. Eddie complains about how he was so close to beating the Double Dudes game. Corey claims that no one has ever beaten the game, not even Japanese people. Psycho Sam’s absence is brought up. Corey mentions that Psycho Sam believes in aliens and Satan Ninjas.
Eddie suggests they all go see a movie, but Joe says he needs to call it a night to work on homework. This leads to Trance and Cory saying they should go home as well. Alex offers to go see the movie with Eddie, but Eddie is bummed that his friends left and turns down her offer because he’s just going to call it a night.
--- End quote ---
And now here is the actual script for just the comic's opening two-page spread:
--- Quote ---PAGE 1 & 2
We see the video screen of what appears to be a late-80’s arcade brawler, Dude Shinobi in: Double Dudes Vs. Satan Ninja (At one point we need to show the arcade cabinet art which can be similar to the American art for Double Dragon. Somewhere on the cabinet it could say something like, “You’ve seen the film, now experience the video game!” and maybe, “Join the Dude Shinobi Fan Club!”). Player one (EDDIE) is Cool Dude, clad in black with a red headband, while Player 2 (JOE) is Heavy Dude (a palette swap of Cool Dude). They are in some demonic-looking palace, fighting at least one skinless biker chick and at least one barbarian cockrocker with flaming axe-guitars. One or more of the enemies are meeting a very violent end by the players.
EDDIE: Axe Shredders! If we can beat these guys I think we’ll reach the final boss.
JOE: Watch your health. There might be a pot roast inside that skull there. Bust it open!
--- End quote ---
So you can see that the actual script is a lot more descriptive and contains the character's dialogue, but still leaves some room for Jessica to add her own ideas to it. I almost always leave it up to her to decide how many panels to put into a page and where to place the point of view "camera." She also sometimes suggests tweaks to the dialogue if she thinks of an improvement to make or a joke to add.
--- Quote from: Mumm-Rad on January 17, 2015, 09:59:01 AM ---Radical page! Looks like it was a triple feature horror move beat off! A Ghostbusties, Beat-my-juice and Poke-her-guys marathon!
--- End quote ---
Some impressive puns, there. You've pegged three of the movies the ghosts were culled from, but one of the ghosts was taken from another, more obscure '80s haunted house movie.
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version