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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