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I've noticed our comic section (PD side mostly) has slowed down with the new titles coming out (obviously theres a few continuous ones which are cool)

I thought well- comics are difficult to do by yourself, so lets promote cool writers to our artists here cause well... It's not easy being great at both

Writers:- Post a small paragraph stateing:

• Genre of your story
• Fandom or origanal?
• Short (less that 10 pages) or long? (more)
• Overall story idea (don't give away the plot- make it interesting )
• If the script is published somewhere- a link

Terms for if you want to publish it can be sorted out via PM

Artists- if you want a writer, state what you want in a story? Short long- fandom etc... Hopefully we can do some comic hock up

Writers- do not comment here until you have a solid storyline. We do not want artists to be dissapointed

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Ok- to get the ball rolling, I'll start with me- I'm looking for a writer that can give me a short fic- maybe 5 pages long. I want to do a fun comic, but I have alot on my plate, so it can't take up too much of my time. 5 pages should be enough I don't want stressfull writers though! I already have too many writers that get on my back about unfinished comic stuffs ^^;

I would be interested in doing a short comic (2 - 5 pages). Something in a comedic chibi style would work. If you have a story you want comicified, let me know.

I have a storyline here, arkillian.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3602765/1/

It's a rather short story set in the Zelda universe, but you could just replace the names of Link and Sheik with characters of your own creation: all that matters is the story.

It'll probably take you about 35-45 minutes to read the whole thing; it's a little more than13,000 words in all, which is kind of short compared to a lot of stories.

But here's the breakdown as you have laid out:

Genre of story: Hard to say... there's action, adventure, drama, mystery, romance, tragedy; many things rolled into it. I'll just say Drama for now, though.

Fandom: Zelda (but you could change it to be original characters.)

Length: "Long" (20 Chapters plus an Appendix)

Overall story idea: Link starts out as a coal-biter (someone who's really lazy and umpromising), and everyone thinks he's a simpleton and a fool. But he suddenly becomes a hero by avenging a personal insult and avenging the death of his farmhand, Rusl.

He then builds a ship and sails to Kaholint Island, where he marries Marin (from Link's Awakening), but soon a slanderous father and four sons spread false rumours about him, so Link kills them.

Back in Hyrule Sheik hears about this and embarks on a journey to bring Link to justice. Link meanwhile builds a bizzarre fortification and conduit system in the wilderness with his family, which resists Sheik's attempts to capture him.

Sheik returns to Hyrule and asks the king for help; he goes back to Link and defeats his fortificaiton, but Link cunningly escapes and kills Sheik in a sea-battle.

Then Link goes back to Hyrule and disguises himself as a merchant, but the wizard Agahnim sees his wife and lusts for her, so Link kills Agahnim. He then confesses the murder to the king, but in an intricate, kenning-laden riddle that disguises the truth.

The king figures it out and sends spies to assassinate Link, who has fled to Termina. Link outwits his assassins and gains the protection of the king of Termina, but dies on a journey to see princess Zelda. He is given a rich burial in a monestary and that is the end of the story.

(I know you said not to give the plot away, but when you read the story, the WAY he does all these things is the interesting part.)

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I also have another Zelda storyline from a post on this very site, but since I can't find it right now I can give you the text that was in that post:

Here begins the Saga of Link the Brave.

Link was the son of Thorsten and Ingeborg. Early in his life he was given out to a man named Hilding for fostering. Hilding later became the foster-father of a girl named Zelda, who was the daughter of King Harald (of Hyrule).

The two children grew up together and, predictably, fell in love with each other; but Hilding forbade them to marry, pointing out that Zelda was a princess while Link was merely the son of a hero. Link took this as well as might be expected ? in other words, not very.   

Harald?s heirs were his sons Halfdan and Helgé, neither of whom were particularly popular; Link on the other hand, was very popular indeed ? even with Harald himself. Harald soon died, and his sons took over their father?s throne. Link decided to retire from public life, though he still pined for Zelda.

One spring however, Halfdan and Helgé came to visit him and they brought with them their sister. Zelda and Link were instantly, once again, madly and passionately in love.

After the royal party had left, Link decided to pluck up his courage and follow them in order to beg the two kings, his former playmates, to let him marry their sister. When he came to them, sitting on their father?s barrow, Helgé told him he was not good enough for Zelda, being only a peasant?s son; he could however, if he wanted, become one of Helgé?s bondsmen. Aroused to a level beyond mere tetchiness, Link drew his sword, and sliced Helgé?s shield in two. Then he went home, much disgruntled.

Zelda was beautiful, and the news of this spread widely, so that princely suitors sent messengers from many lands. One of these was a king called Sigurd Ring, a widower of great age. Zelda having, of course, no voice in any of these discussions, Helgé asked various seers and seeresses whether or not there was any chance that the marriage would be successful; Halfdan, more relevantly, wondered if the old man, Sigurd Ring, would be able to give Zelda the ?full joys of marriage,? as it were. The limp joke came to the ears of Sigurd Ring, who became enraged and announced publicly that he planned to wage war on Halfdan and Helgé.   

The response of the two kings was less than heroic: they instantly sent Hilding to  ask Link to command their armies in an endeavor to repel the threat. Link?s reply was that he had been so offended by their earlier remarks that he had little interest in sorting things out for them.  Halfdan and Helgé decided their best course of action was to give in to Sigurd Ring and to give him the hand of their sister, Zelda.

Link was not quite so sure that that was the end of the story. He discovered that Zelda was pining in a religious house devoted to Farore, so he went there. It was forbidden to speak in this place, but they spoke anyway, and over many days, knowing that Zelda?s brothers were away. The brothers returned, though; to Link?s request that they might think about his offer to lead their armies against Sigurd Ring. The two of them ? notably Helgé  - remarked that they were much more interested in whether or not Link and Zelda had been talking   with each other in the grove devoted to Farore. Helgé pressed the question: had Link and Zelda spoken with each other? There was a long silence before Link replied that, yes, he had.

His sentence was banishment. Zelda declined to follow him to the sunny lands he knew lay to the south; she reckoned that now that her father was dead she ought to do what her brothers told her.

Helgé was not content with Link?s sentence of banishment: he wanted the man dead. The king therefore summoned up a couple of witches and asked them to send  a storm out to sea so that Link?s ship, and all on board her, should be sunk. The witches did their best, but Link, chanting a merry lay, dissuaded the elements from killing him and his crew. In this way Link landed on the isle of Kaholint, but his crew were nowhere to be found.

Link made friends, in due course, with Marin and completed the quest to wake the Wind Fish.  After many months of adventure Link went home, only to discover that his hall had been burnt to the ground on the orders of Helgé. Also, he was given the news by Hilding that Zelda had been married to Sigurd Ring. Link, now consumed with despair and resentment, carried out various acts of slaughter and set sail for Termina, where he lived for some years.      

Link finally returned to the court of Sigurd Ring in the guise of a beggar, a role he maintained only as long as it took for him to kill one of the courtiers. Sigurd Ring, very decently, did not have him executed for this crime but instead asked him to doff his disguise; this Link did, thereby meeting the appealing eye of Zelda.

The hero then had too much to drink, watched with approval by Sigurd Ring. The two men became great friends, and that was the end, for  awhile, of Link?s lust for Zelda.

Sigurd Ring died of age, and Helgé ended by poisoning himself while trying to poison Link while at a feast. With all their enemies behind them, Link and Zelda were at last free to marry. This story teaches us that you can have any person you desire: all you have to do is wait.

Halfdan swore an oath of friendship with Link, as they had done in their childhood, and the two men remained friends until the end of their lives. Thus ends the saga of Link the Brave.

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So there you have it! You'll notice some similarities in how the two stories are constructed, but I hope you can use these and make  a working comic.

Woooo, someone to comic-fy my story.  Hmm, I have a few comedy routines that could make for a funny short comic.  Hmmm... let me dig around.

I'm a good writer when it comes to comedy, so if anyone wants a funny comic(it'll have to be a sprite comic cause that's all I can do) than I'm your man

Hmm. My written stuff is usually really short (or unfinished.). Seeing Super Mod as a comic would be cool. Or my latest work, Thunderstorms. It's here on PaperDemon, but it's only about 2,500 words long. My attention span's a killer.

None of these are really 5 page comics (thinking for myself and BR here), but that's cool ^^ Someone may be looking for a long term comic

Any very short comic ideas out there? 10 pages at most?

Does the entire series have to be in just 5 pages, or can you do them in episodes or something?

On Jun 30, 2007 9:05 pm, Cheap-O Guy said:

I was *hopeing* for a 5 page story- the whole thing. I'm already doing 3 other comics. I'd just want somethign short and sweet.

On Jun 30, 2007 9:53 pm, arkillian said:

Ditto

But if i'm really excited about a story i may do a longer one.

Like surviving together? ^^ Just a thought BR- you read Runic's story? It's a Zelda one. He may be able to boil it down for you a bit or something if it interests you

Ideas/concepts please people. I want to see some sparkle enclusted story concepts thrown about Get us artists *excited*

(Don't give page long blurbs though please ^^;)

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Maybe it would help the writer if you explained the kinds of stories that 'excite' you.

I thought of this idea at work today: A short 5-page comic that teaches parents to beat their kids when they misbehave.

Let's say, hypothetically, that there's some little brat screaming his head off in a grocery store, and his parent tells him not to ask for candy and carry on, and instead of beating the kid's ass right there in the aisle, warns him that while he is sleeping a wolf will come into his room and drag him from his bed away from his family, so they won't have to put up with his screaming anymore.

So the kid stops crying, but that night, wolves come and drag the parents away for not beating their kid's ass in the aisle. The parents beg the wolves not to eat them, and the wolves tell the dad to take off his belt and beat his kid as hard as he can, so that when they are next time in a grocery store, and the kid asks for candy, the dad tells him No and that's the end of it.

Then at the end of the comic it shows the kid as an adult and he turns out awesome. Then it shows me in a one-panel comeo washing a window and smiling. 

Runic- Not really my taste in comic to draw, but I'm sure that it is someone elses Sounds like an interesting concept though ^^ I showed it to a few people. One may take you up on it. Donno. Well see

For me in specific? Um.... Action, humour (not dark humour), mystery, soap, romance, um... yeah ^^ PArody.... fandoms of comic or whatever I know... :p

Hmm... maybe I'll write a comic about my life as an intern. There's a lot of comedy there.