If You Could Create A Vertigo Series...

[Pink Bat Max]

....What would it be?

Mine would be 'Madame Fatal'.... a new character taking up the mantle, living on Danny the Street. Also, Jimmy Olsen would pop up at some point. :evilsmile It would be trannylicious!

[MartinRedmond]

I'd use shocks sparingly so they're actually shocking. And I'd have twice as much content monthly than most of the books. And it would be entirely drawn & colored by James Jean.

[ultramandingo]

daniel clowes's jimmy olsen

[DWEarhart]

Clowns. Not the title, just the basis.

They are hunted. The first two or three issues would show random circuses and random clowns attacked, unveiling the purpose for their deaths, and by the third or fourth issue, there would be a link, and the story would start truly revealing the whys, whos, and whats, all the while showing the life that is a modern day clown, and the modern day target.

By the end of the series, there's many a dead clown, circus, and civilian folk. We've witnessed the circus life by today's standards, and have shown what it's like to be the outcast in a society of weirdos.

[stealthwise]

Oh... oh man. I've got an idea that I've been working with on and off for years, and it's just too catchy a high concept to give away.


Instead... I'd probably work out a mini where a series of intertwining horror tales works out into a cohesive whole. Or in Hollywood douche-language, "Pulp Fiction meets Creepshow."

[annihilator]

Clowns. Not the title, just the basis.

They are hunted. The first two or three issues would show random circuses and random clowns attacked, unveiling the purpose for their deaths, and by the third or fourth issue, there would be a link, and the story would start truly revealing the whys, whos, and whats, all the while showing the life that is a modern day clown, and the modern day target.

By the end of the series, there's many a dead clown, circus, and civilian folk. We've witnessed the circus life by today's standards, and have shown what it's like to be the outcast in a society of weirdos.

that would be amazing. U are a genious.

[DWEarhart]

that would be amazing. U are a genious.

Many thanx, but Nikola Tesla was a genious. Victoria Woodhull was a genious. I am but a simple cog in the universal thought machine, and a poor Mexican with a wannabe-white-man's last name.

The good stories are out there. One just needs to dig for them; get the hands dirty. They are out there - - if you want them.

[kenaustin]

Roger Zelazny's Amber - The Amber series of novels has such a vast untapped potential for stories. From Amber, and it's royal family, to the Courts of Chaos, with it's ruling houses, and the enormous amount of "Elseworlds" in between the two, no imagination would be stifled. There's also the new universe that Corwin created. Grandiose Machiavellian intrigue, magic, science, and religion involving the most dysfunctional extended family ever created.

Shadowrun - Based on the RPG of the same name. I would love to see it as a "shared world" anthology book ala "Thieve's World". One editor overseeing continuity, writer/artist teams rotating in/out every 1-4 issues. Annuals either closing up old or introducing new major plot threads.

[4thHorseman]

I'm not sure what the series would be called, but it would involve a scientist/researcher guy who's obsessed with myths and legends throughout the world. He goes on a hunt for all of these in an attempt to try and figure out whether or not they are real or not. Examples: Stonehenge, East Island, Big Foot, Loch Ness, etc.

Would even use myths that are figured out, but can add my own comic fiction into it to make it more interesting.

[saumilsingh]

^ But isn't that what Hellboy is?

[Ugoff]

My comic would be about a future world where HIV/AIDS has killed alot of people cuz people/socities/gov'ts just didnt get their act together. There's a group of ecco terrorist that are just minor characters for awhile and a comet heading towards earth that one of the main characters doesnt know about yet. So the main character is this guy who is brought out of cyro stasis and finds things have definitely changed, especially his family. His baby girl is all grown up, his son has a boyfriend and his 47 yr old wife(who looks 25) has turned into a nymphomaniac. I want to pitch this as a tv show to HBO or Showtime but I'm not an optimistic person so I really have done anything like research on writing a script. So it's mainly about the husband adjusting to this new world. There's more but i'm still working on it.

[TonyJaymz03]

My Four-Color Life-A Harvey Pekar-esque series about a twenty something comic shop owner dealing with life. High Fidelity meets Garden State.

Son of 9/11- A multicultural look at the effects of 9/11 and the iraq war, seen through various interconnected stories and characters.

Kobashi:Eternal Warrior-Classic Kung Fu in the Shaw Brothers tradition. A disgraced samurai, an eccentric deity, a curse, and ninjas. How could that go wrong? Did I mention the swordfights?

Duel-An epic western that spans 5 generations.What happens when the hero finally beats the villain? the villain's son returns the favor.

i've got more...like Grant Morrisson i have about 5 notebooks of just random ideas.

[MichaelMogg]

I would love to do a cop book: an over-the-top full of all the cliches we love kind of cop book (think of the movie Hott Fuzz without the very contrived story line). :o Any artists want to take me up on that? ;)

[Pink Bat Max]

I would love to do a cop book: an over-the-top full of all the cliches we love kind of cop book (think of the movie Hott Fuzz without the very contrived story line). :o Any artists want to take me up on that? ;)

Cop Rock: the Comic Book? It could come with a voucher to download the comic book's soundtrack off iTunes. Or one of those plastic flexi-disks, 'cause they were awesome.

[4thHorseman]

^ But isn't that what Hellboy is?

no clue, i don't read hellboy

[MichaelMogg]

Cop Rock: the Comic Book? It could come with a voucher to download the comic book's soundtrack off iTunes. Or one of those plastic flexi-disks, 'cause they were awesome.

LMAO I shudder at the thought of that show. Or how about having a CD attached to the comic and have each track number coincide with the page number: incidental music to read by? :cool: Hey we're onto something here!

[BizarroBeachHead]

I would do something where a cynical badass fights the devil with magic.

...wait...

[stealthwise]

I would love to do a cop book: an over-the-top full of all the cliches we love kind of cop book (think of the movie Hott Fuzz without the very contrived story line). :o Any artists want to take me up on that? ;)

What's the point of that? The contrived storyline was AWESOME, and perfectly fitting of the type of movie that they were trying to do. That was the whole point!

[vazel]

I've had this idea about a detective series based in the '30s starring a tough guy by the name of Nick Eagle that isn't afraid to bend the law.

Haha that sounds so cliche.

[MichaelMogg]

What's the point of that? The contrived storyline was AWESOME, and perfectly fitting of the type of movie that they were trying to do. That was the whole point!

I don't think it would make for good comic-booking (Comic-booking: vi to make a comic book. [Oh yeah, I just made a new word]) to have that storyline. I couldn't imagine a splash page of chasing a swan, with the swan in the foreground of the right-hand page and the two cops full out chasing it on the other size, hands on their helmets to stop them from blowing off cuz they're ballz out running . . . I just couldn't see that at all. :)

I think something more along the lines of the Preacher cops would be much more fun to write and entertaining to read, they have action mixed with dark humour, which is my taste.

[Mr. Kent]

I'd make a Vertigo book about people who write Vertigo books, and the Old Ones from the Deep Beyond who drive their dark creativity and madness...

Or maybe I'd make a book about shrimp boats. Lots of, uh, spooky stuff could happen on shrimp boats, dontcha think?

[Jamie]

Mine would be a somewhat psychedelic, surrealist reworking of the Atomic Knights, counterpointing dream imagery (drawing heavily on 60s comics and riffing off of the first reworking of the concept) with the horrors of a nuclear holocaust.

[BizarroBeachHead]

I would love to do a cop book: an over-the-top full of all the cliches we love kind of cop book (think of the movie Hott Fuzz without the very contrived story line). :o Any artists want to take me up on that? ;)

So, in other words you want to do a stupid action story like all the movies Hot Fuzz was homaging.

Your cop should be ex Navy Seal and the terrorist should be German or Iraqi.

[MartianBlonde]

no clue, i don't read hellboy

No, it'd be Martin Mystere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Mystère)...

[MichaelMogg]

So, in other words you want to do a stupid action story like all the movies Hot Fuzz was homaging.

Not at all. I'd just rather to use subtile, dark humour as opposed to stuff like chasing a swan through the countryside.

Your cop should be ex Navy Seal and the terrorist should be German or Iraqi.

LOL Wow, that sounds like every Segal film I've ever seen (not necessarily a cop, but he's always some former top-secret, classified, "able to kill a man by breathing on him" type of military man, who has left all that behind him and now is on the path to a quiet peaceful life, until that fateful moment). No, that's where the Hot Fuzz I mentioned comes in . . . Simon Pegg plays a cop who just loves -- and excels at -- being a cop, which is the kind of guy who'd make a cool comic book character. :)

[4thHorseman]

No, it'd be Martin Mystere (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Mystère)...

Well, not quite the idea I had in mind, but very similar.

And never read, nor heard, of that before actually

[BizarroBeachHead]

Simon Pegg plays a cop who just loves -- and excels at -- being a cop, which is the kind of guy who'd make a cool comic book character. :)

This is true.