[Report This]Date: June 14 2011 10:39 AM Title: Chapter 1: AN UNDISCOVERED SPY
Well I have to say I enjoyed this thoroughly and if I'm honest I don't usually like the whole super hero thing but yours is deffinately different, also I think that carycomic may be a fan :p
Author's Response:
He sure is, of super heroes in general and especially DC's Golden Age of Comics.
I tried to steer away from Super Heroes in this one and just use Wonder Woman's background as a way to get some boys onto an island full of women after being shrunken. Nardo's back story was just the means to take my yarn where I wanted it (without using Atom or Giganta yet again).
And since I was setting it in DC's golden age, what better source for non-super powered boys than the Junior JSA, the Newsboy Legion and the Boy Commandos (all introduced in 1942-43)?
Thanks for the great review.
[Report This]Date: June 14 2011 8:42 AM Title: Chapter 1: AN UNDISCOVERED SPY
Excellent! Truly well researched. Although, you might have some difficulty duplicating Brooklyn's Depression-era accent (with what I call "-Er/-Oi Transposition Syndrome").*
As in, "Oil is the man who delivers the erl for our foinace."
Author's Response:
Yes, it was too hard for me. Usually I just write and write and write, and churn out maybe 10 chapters in one day, with most of the DC knowledge in my head. With this story, I had to think and think and research a pile of comics from old LSH yarns to JLA's Despero intro to Wonder Woman, Sensation Comics, All-Star Comics, Legend of Wonder Woman, Boy Commandos & Newsboy Legion, just to get the material well versed in my own mind for Chapters 1 and 2.
After that I was able to take the story in the direction I'd been planning all along.
One direction I played with in my mind for an hour and a half was leaving out the Nardo/Despero connection and saving it for a future DC yarn. Instead I was going to create either Dr Zee's or Degaton's daughter, have her go back to 1948 and steal some of Dr Dirke's formula (someone introduced in a Wonder Woman comic who invented a shrinking formula) and then head on back to 1943 to shrink the boys. Then I realised that an enemy of Wonder Woman's might know of Paradise Island or at the very least in some other way give the game away, THAT I WAS LEADING UP TO THE BOYS AND THE READERS BEING SURPRISED TO FIND THEMSELVES ON PARADISE ISLAND.
So it took a lot more out of me to create this one than my usual yarns, and now you've read the alternate chapter in this review response.