At the moment, I'm learning how to plan and write a comic script -- and I'm applying some CLR to my drawing skills. Why? Inspired by Chip Zdarsky's Spider-Man: Life Story and the upcoming Fantastic Four: Life Story, I've decided to create my own fan girl's version of Iron Man: Life Story -- because if Marvel ever gets to my boy, I have doubts they'll actually hire a team (like, say, Michelinie and Layton) who will give me something I'll personally like.
In case you haven't read Zdarsky's excellent miniseries, the idea is to rewrite a particular character's canon on the assumption that there's no "Marvel time" -- that, in fact, the characters are all aging normally from the 1960's onward. For the purposes of this project, I've decided Tony Stark is twenty-five at his superheroic origin in 1963 -- which means he will be in his thirties during the 1970's, forties during the 1980's, etc. In addition to studying the art of comic book creation, I'm also putting a great deal of thought into how a standard time scale will impact key storylines in Tony's history from "Demon in a Bottle" to "Deliverance" to "Armor Wars" -- and I'm sorting out what I want to say about my favorite character and how I should organize my ideas into distinct issues for the selected years.
Click the snaps below for the first sneak peaks at my initial planning process!
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| Some notes on characterization. |
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Planning the very first scene in issue #1. |
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Planning the second scene in issue #1. |
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