More to come. The above is in case anyone needs a quote from me for anything.

-Ed

Thanks for all the support. We couldn’t have asked for better readers and fans.

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The newest enstallment of ‘Strip Wars’!

I apologize. I’ve been meaning to blog below, but I’ve been busy. Give me until Wednesday and I’ll have something up.

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Web Exclusive!

Part 3 of our ‘Strip Wars’ saga.

Back in a bit with a blog.

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So when I saw this on Bleeding Cool:

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/08/05/john-byrne-wants-rob-liefeld-on-watchmen-2/

I got inspired to write a ptch for ‘Watchmen II’ SSSOOO horrible that if anyone from DC ever saw it, they would instantly realize what an AWFUL idea doing a ‘Watchmen’ follow-up would be.

That said, I give you my pitch for ‘Watchmen II: Watch you @$$es”:

“It is right after the events of ‘Watchmen’. Ozymandias is gloating about what he’s done. He’s talking out loud to recap the events of the first book, but then he starts talking about how he did it to weaken the world’s defenses against earthbound threats, and may even seek his help in inventing weapons to use against aliens. As he cackles manically about how he’s even outsmarted the ’superheroes’, he is interrupted by…OZYMANDIAS!?!?!?

That’s right; the REAL Ozymandias was kidnapped by the true perpetrator of the alien….who then reveals himself in a poof of smoke…MOLOCH!

Now calling himself ‘Moloch the Warlock’, he tells of how he used his time in prison to become a real sorcerer by reading books on black magic in the prison library. He then used those powers to kidnap Ozymandias, fake illness, create a fake dead body off himself, and basically do everything he has blamed on Veidt.

All to use the fake alien to secretly put himself in place to run the world!!!!

MWAH-HA-HA-HA-HA!!!!

Moloch asked how Ozymandias escaped, to which the REAL Adrian says, “I’m the smartest man in the world, you don’t think I could figure my way out of a double Gordian knot?”

Ozymandias goes to attack Moloch, who teleports away.

Thinking to himself he needs to contact the others, Ozymandias stops dead in his tracks when he sees on one of the security monitors on his wall of TV’s, Rorschach’s mask and remains outside the Artctic retreat. With no time to spear he puts the remains in the Intrinsic Field Subtractor that Moloch/Ozymandias had installed in the retreat to try and defeat Dr. Manhattan, and (after some rewiring) uses it to resurrect Rorschach.

Ozymandias is SO happy to see him, he forgets Rorschach thinks he’s a bad guy and Rorschach attacks him.

We find out Rorschach is back, but the Intrinsic Field Subtractor has made some ‘improvements’. Rorschach now has a healing factor AND can open black teleportation portals he and others can teleport through!

The 2 heroes figure out what’s going on and know what they have to do: find Dan and Laurie!

Dan and Laurie are at a rest stop in the mid-west. They are traveling around America figuring out what to do in their new identities.

Suddenly, Moloch teleports in!

The 2 heroes leap into action in their new costumes (which have claws and lots of other cool looking unneeded crap), as the fight progresses, Rorschach and Ozymandias show up (Rorschach used his new powers to follow Moloch’s ‘teleportation trail’) .

As the battle proceeds, there are lots of witty quips that fill the characters in on what’s happened, and VIOLA! Everyone is up to speed.

The heroes are losing to the might of Moloch’s intense mystical powers. Silk Spectre decides to level the playing field. She uses a signal watch Dr. Manhattan gave he in case she’s ever in touble (the face of which looks like the hydrogen atom Dr. M has on his forehead).

Knowing this will change everything, Moloch shots a blast of mystic energy at Silk Spectre that kills her, but it’s too late. She has pushed the button on the watch. Dr. Manhattan appears just in time to see Laurie die. This makes him reconnect to his lost humanity and he screams out loud and begins to cry.

As Dan holds Laurie’s body, Dr. Manhattan flies away bursting out the ceiling of the rest stop. He flies around the globe at superspeed, going back through time. He arrives at the point where Moloch/Ozymandias arrives to kill The Comedian. As the Comedian is plummeting out the window, he is suddenly plucked form the air by Dr. Manhattan, who flies him up and back into the apartment.

His past self realizing his plan has been discovered, Moloch drops the Ozymandias disguise and Dr. Manhattan and Moloch fight in front of a very confused, but still alive, Comedian.

As they fight it looks like Moloch is actually winning, which surprises even him…suddenly Dr. Manhattan realizes that magic is the only thing more powerful then physics, as it doesn’t have to pay attention to physics’ laws!

Using this to his advantage, Moloch starts reversing the results of the accident taht gave Dr. Manhattan his powers. The first visual effect of this is Dr. M getting his hair back.

As the fight though, Moloch is suddenly hit with a gas grenade. We pull back to show the Comedian with a gas grenade gun, and wearing a gas mask! As he puts another mask on the beaten-up Dr. Manhattan, The Comedian says that Moloch may know magic, but he’s still human, and thus still affected by tear gas!

Cursing The Comedian while coughing, Moloch teleports away, telling the comedian that this is not over.

The Comedian asks out loud to a knocked out Dr. Manhattan, “Can someone plese tell me what’s going on here?”

A voice says, “We can”.

The voice is the real Ozymandias…with Rorschach, and Nite Owl, who is holding the body of Silk Spectre. Not knowing what Dr Manhattan was up to, Oz had Rorschach teleport them out of the rest stop, and follow Doc’s…uh…neutron field (why not?)…to the past.

Dan puts Laurie’s body on Comedian’s couch. Suddenly realizing he never got a chance to be the only thing he ever wanted to be, a dad, Comedian tears up and kisses his daughters forhead. As he does…THE SILK SPECTRE AWAKENS!!!

Turns out, Moloch’s magic blast somehow bound her spirit to her dead body, so not only is she alive again, but she can now have her spirit leave her body, do things in the real world and on the astral plane, and even enter and take over other people’s bodies, making here a real living spectre!

We cut to the past-Dan Dreiberg (still fat and losery) entering his apartment like he did in Watchmen # 1. Just like then, Rorschach is there eating beans. As Dan goes to talk to him though, Wolverine-like claws tear through his chest from behind. It’s the claws from his future self’s new costume. We then see the rest of the future heroes as past-Dan falls dead.

Turns out the bean eating Rorschach is also the present day, super-powered, Rorschach. Together they have been going around killing their past selves so that they are the only versions of themselves in this timeline. Seems Dr. Manhattan’s powers have been severely limited due to his fight with Moloch.

With past-Dan dead (he was the last they need to kill), they go down to Nite Owl’s underground bunker to discuss what to do. Realizing the world is now more dangerous with an actually superpowered Moloch out there, Dr. Manhattan makes a speech about how this new world needs heroes.

He uses some of his remaining powers to form a new Superman-like costume, with a cape and everything, around himself and transform Nite Owl’s bunker into a proper superhero team HQ (picture and underground ‘Hall of Justice’). He also announces he will be calling himself Captain Manhattan, and ask the others to join him.

They agree, and ‘The Watchmen’ is formed.

The Comedian says he’s been saving something for a special occasion, and this is it. He breaks out a box of Cuban cigars. They all start smoking them, except for the Comedian.

Silk Spectre ask him if he’s going to smoke one. He says no. He’s been meaning to quit. The team laughs, and then sit down to listen to Captain Manhattan as he goes over the plan for what to do next. The Comedian puts his feet up on the meeting table, smiling.

We focus in on his smiley face button. There’s no blood on it.

Fin.”

Well…what do you think? Anyone want to draw some character sketches up and we’ll send it to DC?

-Ed, the writer

Web Exclusive Strip!!!

Part 2 of our ‘Strip Wars’ saga.

Plus, later I’ll be blogging my pitch for ‘Watchmen II: Watch Your @$$es’

(not joking on the last part either)

Web Exclusive Rejected Strip # 3!!!

This is the first of the ‘Star Wars’ (aka ‘Strip Wars’) strips. And yes, that’s Dilbert and Dogbert as C-3PO and R2-D2. These were rejected for being too ‘insider-y’.

I figure for the next few Mondays we’ll run the ‘Star Wars’ ones, then we’ll run a few other ones. Then do the Empire/Jedi spoof strips.

If you didn’t read below, I’ve updated the archives with a carp-load of our 2007 strips, along with some behind the scenes stories attached.

OK, in our attempt to expand our web-presence, I’ve updated our archives. Not just with strips, but with comments and wacky behind-the-scene stories!

I put a bunch of the strips from 2007 (our first year).

I didn’t put them all however, because: A. we want you to buy our ‘Year One’ book, and B. It wouldn’t be fair to the couple of thosand people who have actually ordered the book….so stop moaning and think of your fellow fans!..and my kids, who will want money for food eventually…and Melissa’s pet wombat.

Oh, and I couldn’t get the Sunday strips to load correctly. I’ll ask Mel to see if she can. That way you can have her wacky stories too.

Next week, I’ll expand the 2008 strips we have up there too.

Later!
-Ed

Huh. well, remember when last week I said not all the rejected strips had to do with drugs…well, I didn’t lie, but you can’t tell it from this one. Next week we’ll try and run the first of the ‘Star Wars’ ones.

Anyway, this was to be the first appearance of Dr. Otter, a favorite character of Melissa’s.

This one is funny, because it was replaced by one I found even more offensive. See it here: http://www.chron.com/apps/comics/showComick.mpl?date=20071024&name=My_Cage

Let us know what you think.

I’ll post the pages we used for it soon.