Writing comics is hard but it's interesting to look in your brain this way

So I’ve had this idea for a Silver Surfer / Mad Thinker story for years now. I first had the vestiges of the idea in 2002. Then I’ve also had this idea for a character with a strange power of perception that I don’t think we’ve really seen in comics before. Anyway, I’ve been kicking both of these ideas around so long that they’ve survived the test of an idea I should work with.

So last night while waiting to meet up with some people I sat down and plotted out a seven issue mini-series about these two guys, told through the eyes of my new character (who I’m calling Corinne Allcash, incidentally, not that that tells you too much about her).

Then today I started scripting it. Scripting will be easy, I thought. All you have to do is decide what happens on each page and then describe it so an artist can draw it. Generally speaking, editors frown on you writing the dialogue in advance, anyway, because it works better after the artist has made his drawings.

I figured it would fly along, no problem. It’s a whole different way of thinking though. I honestly do intend to try to shop this story at Marvel, as crazy as that might sound since I have no access there. But why not? So I want to do a good job of it. Since I’ve actually drawn comics before, it helps. Still, this is a whole different way of thinking and writing, and it’s going very slowly. Hours later, I’ve done a full script of five pages. Man, I hoped to do five ISSUES today.

I will persevere.*

*Update July 2020: I never finished this.