I still love thoughtballoons, I do. I want to write for that site for the next decade, or two, but I have realised my output of late hasn’t been great. I’ve known that but sometimes there’s not much you can do. Either the muse doesn’t kiss you on the ding-dong or you’re just pressed for [...]
Posted on October 31st, 2011 by ryan
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The choice was cast, we were scripting Spider-Island, which is a Spider-Man event currently running from the pen of Dan Slott. It’s a tale where half of Manhattan is given spider-powers due to genetically altered bed bugs (I know, comics, right?). Within hours I had my script completely in my head. It was just one [...]
Posted on September 19th, 2011 by ryan
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I chose Batwoman for last week on thoughtballoons because of Kelly Thompson. But truth be told, I already had Batwoman shortlisted. She is a cool character with a very killer visual. I write characters for their captions all the time but this was an opportunity to craft a page that would look spectacular. Or at [...]
Posted on September 4th, 2011 by ryan
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With thoughtballoons scripts, it’s a tight deadline. I have other writing gigs going on right now so I generally go with the first idea to grab me for the week’s character choice. As soon as The Riddler was selected I came up with a Damian Wayne fight. I knew others would be getting out their [...]
Posted on August 23rd, 2011 by ryan
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It’s R2-D2 week on thoughtballoons and I thought long and hard about the tone I wanted to take. R2 has long been a sidekick, and punchline, and aid as well as comic relief. He’s been everything but actually serious and I wanted to give him (yeah, I see him as male) something that would get [...]
Posted on August 20th, 2011 by ryan
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We’ve gone for a concept/universe over a character this week on thoughtballoons. Phonogram is a brilliant independent comic from Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie that came out of Image. It’s one of those few comics that got better as it went along. The second trade is one of the most astounding pieces of comic work [...]
Posted on August 4th, 2011 by ryan
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On thoughtballoons this week, we’ve chosen Captain America to coincide with the release of the flick (we’re sneaky like that). We also placed a caveat that our scripts must be set in WWII. I started my script by going to the internet and researching some different WWII stuff. I eventually came to Pykecrete and my [...]
Posted on July 24th, 2011 by ryan
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It was my choice of character this week and I went with Dashiell Bad Horse from the Vertigo title ‘Scalped’ by Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera. I chose that character because he’s so insanely detailed and flawed and real. I love reading him so I wanted to try writing him. It was hard to try [...]
Posted on June 12th, 2011 by ryan
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Man, I’ve wanted to write Emma Frost since we started this site. I knew I’d choose her eventually but was beaten to the punch by Rol. Which is fine. But then I had to write something. It only took about a day and I realised I wanted Emma Frost and Dakota North in a scene [...]
Posted on April 7th, 2011 by ryan
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It’s The Joker week over at thoughtballoons and I have published a great little script that seemed the creepiest way I could write him. I was very happy to put that script up but it wasn’t the first one I wrote. I had an idea, a few weeks ago actually (before I knew Joker was [...]
Posted on December 29th, 2010 by ryan
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