TvsJ Studies 1

by Tom Scioli on December 12, 2013 at 12:12 pm
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Here’s some sketches I’ve been doing in preparation for the upcoming Transformers vs. G.I.Joe. There are two whole universes of characters and concepts that I’ve been acquainting myself with over the last few months.

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That means a lot of reading, cartoon-viewing, sketching and writing. The goal is to immerse myself so fully in these worlds that the characters become as real to me as anybody I know.

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I want to be so well-versed in this body of knowledge that if I need to know what Megatron had for breakfast this morning, I’d have an answer ready to go.

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Cobra Commander and Ravage

by Tom Scioli on December 11, 2013 at 1:37 pm
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I’m a big fan of Frank Frazetta, but I’ve never attempted to draw in his style…until now:

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Godland Finale Signing at New Dimension Comics Pittsburgh Mills Mall

by Tom Scioli on December 10, 2013 at 7:55 pm
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6:00-8:00 PM at New Dimension Comics at Pittsburgh Mills Mall in Tarentum. Meet the co-creator of Godland, Tom Scioli, and celebrate the release of the Godland Finale, culminating the series’ epic run.

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IT’S HERE!!!

by Tom Scioli on December 4, 2013 at 3:24 pm
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My box of Godland Finales.

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It’s the culmination of almost ten years worth of hard work. This is a nice moment.

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Five copies of Godland Finale, when lain side-by-side, form a Decuple-Page Spread. If Jack Kirby didn’t invent the Double-Page Spread, he at least perfected it in every imaginable way. Jim Steranko later resurrected and amplified the Kirbyesque Double-Spread, before creating the Quadruple-Page Spread, which necessitated the purchase of 2 copies of Strange Tales to view it. Frank Miller and Jim Lee did a Sextuple-Page Spread in All-Star Batman and Robin, which actually folded out, so you only had to buy one copy. Alan Moore and J.H. Williams III took it as far as you can with the finale to Promethea which, when liberated of its staples, unfolded into a giant double-sided continuous image poster. The next step would be a graphic novel that, when you break its spine, unfolds into a giant continuous-image quilt.

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Transformers vs. G.I.Joe Script

by Tom Scioli on November 26, 2013 at 7:02 am
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Here’s the fourth draft:
TvsJScript v4The story is coming together. I just finished going over it to figure out the fifth draft. The big challenge here was “untangling the middle.” I have A beginning. I have AN ending, but the further the story gets from those two poles, the more tangled and hazy the events are. Reading through it, I was able to figure out ways of grouping events and a general order for them to unfold.

I had a substantial amount of lead time and tried to do as much work figuring out the shape of the entire span of the first big arc of the series. That lead time is starting to erode, and I’m glad I did all this preliminary work, because a story this big, with this many characters would be very intimidating had I started cold when presented with the deadline for the first issue.

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