✏ A beautiful and talented girl is hired by a mysterious organization to teach its students. Our hero joins a band of rebels trying to overthrow the government and is captured and brought face-to-face with the dictator, who turns out to be his alternate universe self! One day he mistakenly activates a hidden time travel portal and is transported to a parallel universe, where Earth is ruled by a mysterious and much hated dictator. ✏ Your hero is a nerdy teenager who is horribly shy and has no friends. Try to be as creative as possible in creating your secondary characters. From the super scary Scarecrow to the cool and suave Penguin, Gotham’s evil comes in all forms and types. The best villains, in this comic book fan’s opinion, are from the Batman comic franchise. Keep the “nothing is black or white” rule in mind and make sure your villains have an interesting backstory and motive for being evil. ✍ Villains and enemies are key characters in superhero and science fiction comic books. But he never compromises or bends his code of ethics. There is very little that can phase him and he seems to display no emotion. He is tough, hardened, bitter with a no-nonsense, hard as steel core. Gotham’s knight or Batman is the ideal contrasting character. ✍ Try to make your character multi-dimensional, with shades of gray, not black or white. Something or someone from his past has made him the way he is today. He can be the lone ranger, the anti-hero, the type who works on his own and is bitter and cynical but believes in the spirit of mankind and the hope of a better future. He can be a clean-cut, “straight as an arrow” type with clear ideals and with a firm purpose or goal in mind. Your hero/heroine/clan needs character and rules or a set of principles to live by. ✍ The next point to add to your comic book story, is personality. Each character’s background story completely differs from the other, which just added to the storyline. Each character has a unique story and reason for being there. It helps your readers connect with your character.įor a clan or team, it helps to have a backstory for each character and the team, in terms of how and why it was formed. The transformation of ordinary Joe into superhero is another famous and successful element. ✍ A different planet or civilization is good but you need to be very imaginative and detailed about the planet and its characteristics or history. That may have worked for Spiderman and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles but it’s getting very old. Avoid the tried-and-tested formula of “radioactive experiment gone wrong”. How was your character born or created, where did they come from, planet or galaxy? The possibilities are endless. An interesting story or background is the next essential step. ✍ So once you’ve decided what is your comic book character, now it is time for the who. Different members with various powers or a unique clan, bonded together by a common cause… this is the starting point of your story, and one of the toughest parts. A team or clan is another good point to start from. The great thing about comic books is there are no constraints or rules! Create a whole civilization or galaxy to base your story on.
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