8FOLD: Victory #1

Scott Eiler seiler at eilertech.com
Sun Apr 7 17:01:01 PDT 2019


On 2019-04-07 14:43, Jeanne Morningstar wrote:

> This story originated from years ago, sometime around 2014-2015. Back 
> then I was working on and off on a new reboot for the DCU. I am 
> basically always coming up with pitch/revamp ideas, sometimes I make 
> them into original stuff (like here), sometimes I write fanfic, 
> sometimes it just goes into story limbo or mutates into something 
> unrecognizable.

I've probably said this before, but it bears repeating.  Practically 
everything I've ever written, stems from adolescent power fantasy of me 
being Adam Warlock.


> Originally, this was going to be a new version of Power Girl. I decided 
> to go from the angle of, what kind of person would . I also wanted to 
> connect her to something other than Krypton that still felt appropriate 
> for the character, so having a Shazam-based origin made sense.

Shazam kind of explains Adam Warlock too.  But so does Jesus Christ 
Superstar.

And I noticed the cute animal warrior.


> Most of the other ideas I dropped or folded into other things. This one, 
> though, stuck with me enough I decided to pull it out for an attempted 
> Medley revival which, sadly, everyone was too busy for.

Yeah, I noticed the 8FOLD tag.


> There's a Shazam 
> movie out now, of course. (which I am just about to see after I post 
> this, since I always put off everything to the absolute last minute...) 
> This made me a bit hesitant about posting the thing, but then I read 
> through a bunch of Milestone comics and the discussion from Worlds 
> Collide about Superman and Icon and how the world needs both stories 
> inspired me to finally post it. "Each myth is incomplete without the 
> other," as Dwayne McDuffie wrote back in the day.

Nowadays I just rework my own old stories.  One of my original villains 
from power fantasy, is about to get a series like "Infinity Quest" to 
describe how he became a Doom Creature.


> I also folded in elements of a vague idea i had for a continuation of 
> Miracleman/Marvelman (like I said, I'm always coming up with useless 
> revamp ideas.) That's another side of the myth. There is a dense web of 
> intertextuality of superhero concepts, and now I'm going to extend that 
> further, bringing in new forms of experience and new sources of 
> inspiration.

Good writing to you.

Scott


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