Chapter 28: Adapting Comics
After saying goodbye to Yu and Shi and coming out of Shangtai, Li Wenxing walked straight home.
Recently, the weather has warmed up, and the afternoon sun is shining, and walking on this section of the uphill is also a rare leisure enjoyment.
Walking into Weijing Garden, Li Wenxing bought a few melons and fruits at the door by the way. In the past two days, Sister Mei went to Australia on a business trip, and the little girl has not yet started school, and her annual leave will not end until this week. It's boring to think that the little girl is at home alone, so I should spend more time with her.
Opened the door, closed the door, changed shoes, walked into the living room, and didn't see the little girl, didn't she come here today? Putting down the food bag in his hand, Li Wenxing first looked into the kitchen, but no; then detoured to the balcony, but there was no; and the bedroom? Oh, it turned out that she was asleep.
It's quite skinny, this sleeping appearance is really ......
Shaking his head funny, Li Wenxing walked over lightly and picked up the thin quilt from the ground, patted the dust on it, and covered the little girl again. Then he went to the windowsill and closed the glass window a little before exiting the bedroom.
I came to the writing desk in the corner of the living room and looked at the first draft of the comic scattered on it, which was about thirty pages. It can be seen that the little girl has really worked hard, probably all the time painting.
It seems that such a heavy burden should not be put on Nizi, she should be a happy elf, not a hard-working painter.
It's a pity that I can't do it at all.,It seems that you need to recruit more people to come back.。 Nowadays, if you want to quickly accumulate original funds, the comic book club is definitely the most important. The originally planned monthly magazine could no longer keep up with its own development progress, and it had to be weekly.
No, weekly magazines don't seem to be enough. Even if a journal can sell more than 50,000 copies, with a net profit of 4 yuan per book, it will only be a million yuan a month. With such a speed of gold absorption, even if more than 100,000 copies are sold in the later stage, it will be 18 million at most in half a year, which is far from his goal.
What should I do? Turning a monthly magazine into a weekly magazine is already the limit, is it possible to make a semi-weekly magazine? That is completely impossible. What's more, even if it is done, the market will not be able to digest so much.
No, you can open a double issue. Now there is a copy of "Cherry Maruko", which is a girl's comic. What if you open a shonen manga at the same time? "One Piece"? The memory is not very clear, and there is no original work to plagiarize in the middle and late stages. "Slam Dunk" doesn't seem to be suitable for the local market in Hong Kong. "Naruto"? That's even worse, the elements of Hijima Samurai are too strong, and it's okay to adapt it into a Chinese martial arts style. "Chinese Heroes"? I can go to Ma Rongcheng now. It's just that the market potential of "Chinese Heroes" is not very large, and it is impossible to set off a comic boom. And also......
Hey, why did you forget about Transformers?
I didn't say it, "Transformers", that's it. First publish a novel, then follow the comics, make toys, and in two years you can produce games and anime, and you can make a movie directly when the special effects of the movie are mature.
Well, that's it, let's write the outline first.
The story is set in ...... Oops, I don't remember the original book very clearly. Calculate, now we are the original.
The story takes place 65 million years ago in the galactic calendar, on the eve of the extinction of the dinosaurs, the dominant species of the earth. One day, from the hyperspace node at the edge of the galaxy, a huge god-made planet - Sebotern fell out.
Due to the gravitational pull of the Milky Way/Central Silver Core, the sudden appearance of Cybertron was inevitably captured by the Central Silver Core and uncontrollably moved closer to the Silver Center. Immediately afterwards, due to the mutual gravitational attraction of various stars in the galaxies along the way, which was disturbed by the passing Sebotern, these galaxies ushered in endless destruction and disaster.
You must know that the gravitational waves of the sharp earthquake change the world and kill the species on the planet, even if they suck up the planet, it is normal to abduct the star. As a result, Cybertron went all the way to destroy all the way, and even changed the earth for the earth when he passed by the outer reaches of the solar system, destroying the dinosaur overlords. Of course, Sebotern was eventually disintegrated and assimilated by the Silver Heart, paying the price for its atrocities.
Well, this is definitely the beginning of God. It not only gives an answer to the extinction of the dinosaurs, but also can justify itself so that people can't find flaws.
Next, it is supposed that the mechanical beings will escape their mother, Sebotern, and settle on Earth. Why did you choose to settle on Earth? Because Earth is the only planet in the Milky Way that has given birth to advanced intelligent life (dinosaurs are definitely advanced intelligent life, Tyrannosaurus rex, Tyrannosaurus rex).
Then, the surviving Cybertron mechanical life and the Earth's indigenous carbon-based life became good friends, supporting each other for tens of millions of years.
Then, the mad Decepticon group, which was chased across the universe, and the Bopai Optimus Prime group, which had long been rooted in the earth, fell in love and killed each other for thousands of years under the witness of human beings.
Finally, there is the main part, the chronology of the new century, starting from the First World War.
Well, the background of the story is set like this first, and then the editor will be brought back and polished and perfected.
As for big bosses like the five-faced monster and the Supreme Taijun, there can be one, but the name must be changed. Five-faced monster, what is the broken name, how nice is it to change it to a four-faced god? There is also the Supreme Taijun, at first glance, it is the color of the Japanese Island, and it is almost the same as changing it to the Supreme Immortal. Look, the four-faced god, the supreme immortal, how good it sounds and rhymes, is there a proper Chinese style?
Not bad, that's it, that's it, and then I'll draw the character design and sketches. By the way, I almost forgot that the shape of the Transformers had to be in line with the elements of the era. You can't copy the original character design of the previous life, after all, there are many sports cars that have not yet been developed and marketed.
What kind of transportation did the First Century War have? Airships? This can be there, just reduce the scale. This can also be had.,The male protagonist rides on the nephew and takes the female protagonist to push the Western European battlefield very hoisting, there are wood, tanks, planes, submarines, you can have it.,Anyway, it's much cooler than a sports car truck that slips through the water.。
Also, the male protagonist should be a second-generation Chinese mixed-race, can have a white mother, and can't be set as a pure Western-style story because of market factors.
Didn't Midi always flaunt himself as inclusive and equal? Either they slap themselves, or it's better to pinch their noses and admit it.
At most, the horizontal and vertical will be fully boycotted to make less money, hmph, in that case, you will have to play the trick of boiling frogs in warm water. With many creative stories in my mind, I don't believe that I can't subtly accomplish the hidden purpose of cultural export.
Hey, it's useless to think about it, so let's list the main characters and story outline first.
The first is the protagonist Li Wensen, his father is an early Chinese worker immigrant, his mother is a descendant of a down-and-out family, and he has a sister of the same age who loves to bully him and trick him, and is studying at Imperial College London.
Then there is the heroine Amanda, from a Scottish aristocratic family, her father is a vice admiral of the Commonwealth, and her mother is a member of Parliament.
When did the story begin? From ...... In order to prepare a birthday gift for the heroine, the protagonist starts to exchange for a scrapped three-wheeled nephew in the second-hand market. There is no doubt that the three-wheeled nephew is Optimus Prime. The transformation of the three-wheeled nephew into a robot should be very interesting, right?
What follows should be a series of comedic over-the-top plots that blend Eastern and Western humor. The heroine's parents beat the mandarin ducks to force the male and female protagonists to break up, but unexpectedly, the plot reversed, and the male protagonist rose against the trend and killed him. During the First World War, the male protagonist not only made contributions to help the Allies win the war, but also won the approval of the female protagonist and her parents.
Seeing this, if you think that the hero and heroine will live a life without shame and irritability, then you are very wrong.
Next, the plot is reversed, and the Optimus Prime Group's life-and-death enemy, the Decepticon Group, chased and killed across the universe, and almost failed to torture and kill the male protagonist. Fortunately, the Optimus Prime Group desperately rescued each other, but the male protagonist was also seriously injured. In order to survive, the male protagonist accepts the fusion of fire and becomes a half-human, half-mechanical undead monster. Then, the male protagonist abandoned the life of ordinary people and began the legend of superheroes.
Huh, how is it a bit like the feeling of a comic hero? Calculated, anyway, heroic comics are all this routine. Wait until you buy Marvel back in the future and add this story to the Marvel universe. What's more, there are no Chinese heroes in the Marvel Universe, which is simply unreasonable, and Chinese heroes must be added to beat all the original Marvel heroes in the future.
Well, the hero and heroine are decided, and the other main characters can just add two or three bad friends and a few funny villains.
It's time to write a detailed outline of the story, how to write it?
The opening chapter is a bloody episode of a rich girl falling in love with a poor boy and being forced to break up by her parents. The excellence of the poor boy and the affection of the rich girl must be highlighted here, as well as the class concepts and stereotypical dogmas of the elite circle of the upper class of British society. Of course, the poor boy must also release cruel words such as 'Thirty years in Hedong and thirty years in Hexi/Don't bully the poor boy'.
Then there is the poor boy in the old man with the golden finger, no, it is the cool text routine of the King Kong people who rise against the sky and reverse the slap in the face. Is it enough to save the heroine's father on the battlefield three or four times? Is it enough to provide promotion capital for the heroine's mother of the congressman four times or three times? No, you can't lick it like this, writing like this will suffocate the reader, it should be the protagonist's disdainful handouts to them. Accept it, no face, don't accept it, greedy. In the end, there will be a reversal of the situation, and he will strive to get closer to the beginning of the heroic legend of the defective American comics, so that the poor boy can embark on the road of legendary heroes without hesitation. It highlights the Chinese belief that poor boys are self-confident and self-reliant, and those who are good will help the world.
Yes, that's it.
Look, the whole story, there is family affection, love is there, and there is ...... base affection You can add a point, the blood is there, the cool is there, the depression is there, the explosion is there, the cool point is there, the tears are also there, the regrettable ending is also there, the sequel introduction is also there, a proper Hollywood-style commercial blockbuster script Fan Wen, it's really a shame to use it as a comic outline.