Post by Fritz on Aug 15, 2006 10:39:58 GMT -4
I reread this story about a month ago. I dunno, I get a certain kind of fun out of re-experiencing the beginning of a story (the first fan fic of a franchise; the first episode of a cartoon; the first issue of a comic series) after the team's been around for a while. See how much makes more sense now--it helped that I had most of the Ravisher backstory all worked out in my head. Chapter 2 takes on a whole new life now that we know what they're talking about.
A little bit of wistful sadness when I see characters like John Lipsyte introduced. I sometimes think we never did as much with him as I'd hoped...but he was the only GBWC 'Buster who wasn't directly based on a real person, intended as a place holder for "Ray Parker Jr", aka Leon Hogan (there's more on that in the Home Turf thread). And of course a sense of sadness knowing his eventual fate...though what a way to go out.
Heh...I remember when I first put out this story Sinister got mad at me for mentioning Columbia closing it's Parapsychology department in 1983.
And I'll indulge in one bit of arrogance: I feel relatively certain that Jake Kong Sr. was never written better in his "real" appearances. I still crack myself up with the "Earring Magic Ken" bits.
Much of the scenes in Chapter 3 with Mary Sue Gladstone are retold--from her slightly warped perspective--in "Chronicles of Gozer". This was a very popular character. I patterned her appearance after Flay Allster, a mean-spirited bimbo who appeared in the anime Gundam SEED; it had just debuted on Cartoon Network when I sat down and drew a picture of her.
Ron Daniels came into the mix after the first draft of Chapter 4 was written; Joey (Ludicris) hired him because NOMAD had just broken up at that time. So yeah, the line in "Curtain Call" where someone suggest to Ron that "Maybe they didn't know you were joining when the prophesy was written" is pretty literally true.
A little bit of wistful sadness when I see characters like John Lipsyte introduced. I sometimes think we never did as much with him as I'd hoped...but he was the only GBWC 'Buster who wasn't directly based on a real person, intended as a place holder for "Ray Parker Jr", aka Leon Hogan (there's more on that in the Home Turf thread). And of course a sense of sadness knowing his eventual fate...though what a way to go out.
Heh...I remember when I first put out this story Sinister got mad at me for mentioning Columbia closing it's Parapsychology department in 1983.
And I'll indulge in one bit of arrogance: I feel relatively certain that Jake Kong Sr. was never written better in his "real" appearances. I still crack myself up with the "Earring Magic Ken" bits.
Much of the scenes in Chapter 3 with Mary Sue Gladstone are retold--from her slightly warped perspective--in "Chronicles of Gozer". This was a very popular character. I patterned her appearance after Flay Allster, a mean-spirited bimbo who appeared in the anime Gundam SEED; it had just debuted on Cartoon Network when I sat down and drew a picture of her.
Ron Daniels came into the mix after the first draft of Chapter 4 was written; Joey (Ludicris) hired him because NOMAD had just broken up at that time. So yeah, the line in "Curtain Call" where someone suggest to Ron that "Maybe they didn't know you were joining when the prophesy was written" is pretty literally true.