Work in Progress: “Game Over”
I’ve written a 5-page script for the second issue of Bulletproof, a British comics anthology that’s due to hit the shops any day now. The story is called “Game Over”, and it’s a tongue-in-cheek yarn about a totalitarian Britain where videogames have been banned. It’s my first published work in the medium, and as such it’s a little rough around the edges, but I’m happy with the way it’s turned out.
To give you some idea about the creative process – but without giving away the plot – I’m publishing the inked and unlettered versions of the first three pages here, drawn by a talented artist named David Thomson. The final version of the artwork is much better than this, trust me, so think of it as a tasty appetiser of things to come.
A couple of weeks after the anthology is published and available to buy (and don’t worry, I’ll tell you when), I’ll put up a PDF of the script to contrast and compare with the finished result. The beautiful thing about comics is that it’s a collaborative medium; it’s a real buzz to see how your words and ideas can be interpreted to build a story that’s visually arresting. Hopefully we’ll be able to crank out something more ambitious in the very near future.
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