I think what you're saying without saying it is that Batman (plus Superman and Wonder Woman, for that matter) should be in the public domain so we can play with them.
We are only about a decade away from a plethora of bad Superman horror. "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... YOUR WORST FUCKING NIGHTMARE!"
I feel like the DCU has been trying to beat us to the punch on that one. 😄 Maybe we'll get some public domain stories about Superman using his powers to publish some hard hitting journalism.
I'm getting heavy Bouncer feel from Prodigal Sons' cover and holy hell am I now excited to buy that and back the later issues!
I funny enough usually like the public domain characters less familiar to me, Johnny Dollar by Green Archer was such an interesting melding of the old radio dramas (I had to listen to a few to get a sense of what he was, I started reading the books blind) with cybersecurity crimes. Great concept and made me as a consumer more favorable to the pulp era public domain characters.
The other one I've been backing/reading as they come out would be Dacre Stoker's Dracula continuation, it's so great to me that we live in the first time that a Stoker family member has been writing that character since Bram's death.
As a writer I've not really had any jump out at me as must writes yet, though I'm interested in your BBoF and the Carmilla books, she's one of my favorite vampires.
Playing around in the sandbox of public domain characters can be a lot of fun, and great creative exercise. But it's also comforting to know that it's okay to do your own thing too.
I think what you're saying without saying it is that Batman (plus Superman and Wonder Woman, for that matter) should be in the public domain so we can play with them.
We are only about a decade away from a plethora of bad Superman horror. "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's... YOUR WORST FUCKING NIGHTMARE!"
I feel like the DCU has been trying to beat us to the punch on that one. 😄 Maybe we'll get some public domain stories about Superman using his powers to publish some hard hitting journalism.
I'm getting heavy Bouncer feel from Prodigal Sons' cover and holy hell am I now excited to buy that and back the later issues!
I funny enough usually like the public domain characters less familiar to me, Johnny Dollar by Green Archer was such an interesting melding of the old radio dramas (I had to listen to a few to get a sense of what he was, I started reading the books blind) with cybersecurity crimes. Great concept and made me as a consumer more favorable to the pulp era public domain characters.
The other one I've been backing/reading as they come out would be Dacre Stoker's Dracula continuation, it's so great to me that we live in the first time that a Stoker family member has been writing that character since Bram's death.
As a writer I've not really had any jump out at me as must writes yet, though I'm interested in your BBoF and the Carmilla books, she's one of my favorite vampires.
Playing around in the sandbox of public domain characters can be a lot of fun, and great creative exercise. But it's also comforting to know that it's okay to do your own thing too.
Just launch your next damn Kickstarter campaigns already. Give the people what they want, and do it faster, dammit!
I'm working on it! I'm working on it!
We all want more teaser images too. Hint hint.