Post by Jeff on Dec 16, 2003 13:40:35 GMT -5
Creating ACT
The Adventures of CyberPope Moses I and Wormwood gave me a better idea of how my comic could really be done. Everything from backgrounds to minor MS PAINT created special effects served as guides and inspirations to me. I felt that I finally had the mental tools needed to get started.
The soap opera parody wasn’t working for me at this point, so I began to consider combining it with the Transformers parody idea. I could start it as a parody of the Transformers cartoon, make constant references to the cartoon and toys, but go in soap opera-like directions with sordid love affairs and such, sort of in the over the top, over-sexed style of The Dancing Charlton Heston Show. I decided to use the title “As Cybertron Turns” instead of “All My Autobots”, because it was both a cute parody on a soap opera title, and a commentary on the anxieties of two bands of Transformers who do what they do, all while wondering what’s happening back on their home planet of Cybertron. It would always be there, turning in the background of every story, so to speak.
Problem: I’d sold most of my Transformers, at this point. I didn’t have many Transformers characters to use. How could I show the Autobots and Decepticons when I didn’t have ANY of the memorable characters anymore (other than a severely beaten up Optimus Prime)?
Lucky for me, I had recently bid on a lot of random “Transformers” which included a mistakenly identified Diaclone Waruderos (later introduced in Episode 25), which I really wanted. When that lot arrived, I had to laugh. The rest of the lot consisted of a severely beaten up Trailbreaker, a severely beaten Grapple, and some random robot toy that clearly wasn’t a Transformer at all (I later learned it was called “Poseidon”
). Some “Transformers” lot. Wasn’t that just like those ebay sellers?
And there was the idea. ACT could begin by spoofing ebay culture, with which I was very familiar. A first episode began to form in my head…
It was then that fame and success turned me to a life of sex, drugs, and self-destruction.
The Adventures of CyberPope Moses I and Wormwood gave me a better idea of how my comic could really be done. Everything from backgrounds to minor MS PAINT created special effects served as guides and inspirations to me. I felt that I finally had the mental tools needed to get started.
The soap opera parody wasn’t working for me at this point, so I began to consider combining it with the Transformers parody idea. I could start it as a parody of the Transformers cartoon, make constant references to the cartoon and toys, but go in soap opera-like directions with sordid love affairs and such, sort of in the over the top, over-sexed style of The Dancing Charlton Heston Show. I decided to use the title “As Cybertron Turns” instead of “All My Autobots”, because it was both a cute parody on a soap opera title, and a commentary on the anxieties of two bands of Transformers who do what they do, all while wondering what’s happening back on their home planet of Cybertron. It would always be there, turning in the background of every story, so to speak.
Problem: I’d sold most of my Transformers, at this point. I didn’t have many Transformers characters to use. How could I show the Autobots and Decepticons when I didn’t have ANY of the memorable characters anymore (other than a severely beaten up Optimus Prime)?
Lucky for me, I had recently bid on a lot of random “Transformers” which included a mistakenly identified Diaclone Waruderos (later introduced in Episode 25), which I really wanted. When that lot arrived, I had to laugh. The rest of the lot consisted of a severely beaten up Trailbreaker, a severely beaten Grapple, and some random robot toy that clearly wasn’t a Transformer at all (I later learned it was called “Poseidon”
). Some “Transformers” lot. Wasn’t that just like those ebay sellers?And there was the idea. ACT could begin by spoofing ebay culture, with which I was very familiar. A first episode began to form in my head…
It was then that fame and success turned me to a life of sex, drugs, and self-destruction.