Greetings and sal, all. They call me Drats. And by they, of course, I mean you. They usually call me something else entirely, which I suppose you could too, if you fancy, but I can't forsee many occasions that would necessitate you calling me anything at all, really, considering the fact that I couldn't so much as make you a stick figure if you gave me a rubber stamp of one and that I'm more here just to stay out from underfoot.
I've always kind of had a passion for storytelling and world building in any form, and I've had aspirations all my life to being a writer of some kind. Ever since I stumbled upon an anthology of graphic Ray Bradbury adaptations as a wee beardless lad and witnessed the extra dimensions the medium could weave even into what were already some of my most treasured tales, I've had a profound respect for sequential art and what it could do. I would sit, transfixed, for hours, re-reading Kingdom Come, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Batman vs. Predator-- stacks of whatever offbeat thing I could get my hands on-- and marvel at the wonders of the form. It wasn't quite a short story. It wasn't quite a short film. But in a lot of ways it transcended the limitations of both.
In the meantime, there I was filling loose-leaf after loose-leaf with ideas, characters, odd turns of phrase, and (what one could charitably call) witty one-liners, never ever able to finish a story, and it didn't once occur to me that maybe I was working on the wrong canvas. I dropped out of the game for a few years, channeling all my creative energy into lovingly crafted, elaborately backstoried City of Heroes characters not a single one of which I ever leveled past 10, but recently a friend of mine showed me the hive of potential that is Void and helped me realize that my stories didn't necessarily have to live by Times New Roman alone.
So, here I am, as a LESS wee beardless MAN-lad, watching and learning with the rest of ya's. Since I can't draw, I hope to wrap my head as far as it can possibly go around the finer points of comic scripting. One way or another, I hope to eventually be able to leave my little mark on the wall here.
Edit: (Eheh... sorry, didn't realize how verbose I had gotten here.
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Colbitzer
@ 3:32 PM Apr 17th