Chapter 397: Serial Meeting
"This work is serialized, Hook, you follow up on this comic, especially in the setting, make more reservations, and the plot should be more interesting. However, there is also the possibility that the follow-up will change to blood, so the protagonist must have room for change in the setting, and don't tell the protagonist's force value, so as to leave room for the later plot. Shang Haozhi reminded.
"Actually, the protagonist has force value. After all, the restaurant is near the Valley of Warcraft, and sometimes, the protagonist has to go into the valley to find ingredients. It's just that these settings don't have specific textual expressions, so they weren't submitted. Hook explained.
"That's fine. The next one is ......" Shang Haozhi looked at the others.
"Mr. Zuo Yuan." Li Junwen hurriedly said.
The editor-in-charge does not have the right to attend the serialization meeting, so they ask the team leader to speak for them at the meeting.
Since serialized works are generally controlled at 2-4, the number of selected works will be very tight, and the group leaders will also debate among themselves to increase the number of authors in their own group.
Shi Yan is an old author, there is no way, but in the treatment of Zuo Yuan's works, the other team leaders will indeed be stricter.
"Mr. Zuo Yuan is the author of Xu Jie in our group, and he has published two short comics before, one is "Mountain God", and the other is "Jade Soul". Moreover, compared to the two manga, the improvement is great.
"Mountain God" is only in the short comics, ranking second, and "Jade Soul" is the first, even more popular than some old authors who are ranked lower. This is Mr. Zuo's new work.,It's called "Diary of a Ghost for Middle School Students.,The protagonist is a student who has just entered the first grade of junior high school.,Have the ability to talk to spirits.,Use this ability to go on adventures.。 Of course, the story also refers to folklore, as well as the school's 'incredible events'. I think the story is still very good. ”
Li Junwen took a breath and said the prepared rhetoric.
The others listened to Li Junwen's explanation while flipping through the name.
"The use of folklore and 'incredible events', combined with comics, is indeed very interesting, because the author is not young, in terms of narrative style, more calm, therefore, the narration of the story is relatively bland, I don't know this style. Whether it can be accepted by readers. Speaking of this, Hook glanced at Shang Haozhi.
No matter what he thinks, in the end, Shang Haozhi still needs to make a decision.
"This type of subject matter, strictly speaking, is relatively rare in our magazine. At the same time, the cartoonist's painting style is more inclined to sketching, using simple lines to outline the story. Judging from his previous works, his ability to render orgasms is still lacking. Considering that he is a single father with a young daughter, I would suggest moving on to the next round for the time being. Zeng Yue said.
The so-called "enter the next round" is to screen the works first, select the pending works, and after reading all the comics, the promoted works will be evaluated for the second time.
"Hmm...... Okay, too. Advance to the next round first. Shang Haozhi put the name to the side.
Outside the door of a rental house.
A young man holds a grocery bag in one hand and a little girl's hand in the other.
"Baby, help Dad hold it first." The young man whispered to the little girl.
"Hmm."
The little girl nodded again and again, and took the food bag handed by the young man with both hands.
It contained her favorite snacks, so she lifted the grocery bag and pushed extra hard.
The young man saw the little girl with excitement on his face and felt sorry for the little girl.
These are foods that are about to expire, so they are cheaper than other snacks.
Thinking of this, his heart was filled with self-blame and guilt.
He is a father, but he can't meet his daughter's normal material needs, which is indeed a failure, and what makes him even more entangled is that the manuscript fee is almost gone, and he will hold on for another month at most.
A month......
Opening the door, the young man took the food bag from the little girl's hand again, took the little girl's hand, and entered the room.
The room was somewhat dimly lit, with one bedroom and one living room, the daughter living in the bedroom, and the living room being transformed into two areas by the young man, the studio and the sleeping place.
After taking the snacks out of the food bag, the young man put the rice and vegetables back in the kitchen, grabbed two handfuls of rice, and prepared to cook.
At this moment, the mobile phone in his pocket suddenly rang.
The landline number of Comic Future!
The young man pulled out his phone, and when he saw the name, his heart suddenly beat faster.
Is it a manuscript...... Or still?
The young man took a deep breath and finally pressed the connected phone, and from the microphone, a noisy voice came out, but no one spoke.
“…… Hey......"
"Hey, Mr. Zuo?"
"Ah...... I am. The young man replied hurriedly.
"Congratulations, Mr. Zuo Yuan...... Serialized in the 50th issue. Xu Jie said excitedly.
The 50th issue of "Steel" was closed, which is a great opportunity for the new serialized manga to move up one place in the rankings.
"Serial?" Zuo Yuan's mouth was slightly open, and his brain went blank.
"That's right, I'll bring the contract over later, wait a minute."
"Excuse me...... No, thank you. Zuo Yuan was a little incoherent.
"That's what I'm supposed to do."
After Zuo Yuan hung up the phone, he rushed out of the kitchen and saw his daughter holding a broom and preparing to clean up, so he ran over and hugged her in his arms.
"Rich...... We've got money. ”
Even if there are no royalties, they can get out of their current situation with only manuscript fees and contract fees.
"Daddy...... Don't cry ......"
Hearing the sound of his daughter's milky voice, Zuo Yuan realized that he had shed tears just now.
"It's okay...... Dad was happy. Zuo Yuan did not wipe away his tears, but hugged his daughter and muttered.
……
The results of "The Legend of the Dragon King" are still solid, and "Steel Chain" is chasing after it, and the gap between the two comics is less than 50 votes.
"Hunting the Abyss" followed behind the two comics, and maintained a gap of forty or fifty votes with "Game" in fourth place.
Shen Xin was already mentally prepared for this situation.
The overall quality of "Steel Forged", of course, is not to say, but up to now, it is less than 20 words, and I want to compare the popularity of "The Legend of the Dragon King", which has been serialized for more than ten years, and it is still some of the background, if the animation comes out, maybe the effect will be different.
However, Shen Xin was not in a hurry.
Instead of expecting the animation, it's better to draw the manga first.
The two animations of the original "Steel Forge" are both personally handled by the Bone Society, and the quality is top-notch.
Needless to say, "Steel Forge FA" is basically a benchmark in the animation industry, the only deficiency is that in order to speed up the pace, some plots have been cut, and "Steel Hardening" has been deleted and modified to a certain extent.
As for "Steel Forge 03", because at the time of production, the comic was not serialized for a long time, and the production company could only dig out the existing plots, such as synthetic beasts, such as equivalent exchanges, and even Yao Lin and Zhang Mei of Xingguo did not come out - these two characters are no less important than Colonel Roy.
Even so, "Steel Forge 03" is still a rare success, and it is also the signature work of the Bone Society.