Archive for August, 2009

Punisher #55 by Garth Ennis

Posted in Scripts on August 24th, 2009 by admin – 2 Comments

The beginning of the end of Garth Ennis’ MAX Punisher run.

The format is pretty much the same as Garth’s other Punisher script (which you can find on the back page), but this one is kind of cool given the text pages that appear through the script.

I only briefly scanned the script because the actual comic is still sitting in my read pile– sad, I know– But it looks to be a pretty great arc.

“VALLEY FORGE, VALLEY FORGE: THE SLAUGHTER OF A U.S. MARINE GARRISON AND THE BIRTH OF THE PUNISHER,” PART 1
Garth Ennis concludes his seminal run on PUNISHER — in style. Thirty-five years ago, the Fifth Cavalry disgorged their troops on an isolated Vietnamese hilltop and was met by a scene of utter devastation. The final body count ran to well over seven-hundred — almost 200 hundred of them American soldiers. Standing alone amidst the carnage, a sole survivor: Captain Frank Castle, who years later would be known as the most fearsome vigilante to walk the Earth: The Punisher. Now the Punisher is about to face his stiffest test: He’s hunted big game in his day, but none as big as this. Five men with unlimited resources. Men who’d put anything between themselves and the Punisher’s bullet. Men who know exactly who he is…and how to fight him.

REMOVED BY REQUEST OF MARVEL

Watchmensch- By Rich Johnston

Posted in Uncategorized on August 24th, 2009 by admin – 1 Comment

I’m sure most of you are familiar with Rich Johnston and his website: Bleeding Cool. If not, you should definitely head over there now for your one-stop shop of comic industry reportage, op/ed, and guest columns.

What you may not know is that Rich also wrote a really funny Watchmen parody called Watchmensch.

I met Rich over at SDCC and he offered to send the script over to the Archive– but post-SDCC ended up being a much busier time than I’d expected so it got lost in the shuffle– Luckily, after Andy Diggle’s very kind Twitter, Rich contacted me with the script and here you have it!

Don’t take it too seriously, I realize that it’s Watchmen, so some Alan Moore fans might get a bit prickly about “the greatest comic ever” being parodied– just take a cue from Dave Gibbons and have some fun with it:

“I laughed out loud at Watchmensch. Several times, in fact — and the climactic scene is more awesome than any squid!” – Dave Gibbons

Of course, while you’re having fun with it, you just might notice that it digs a little deeper– As Valerie D’Orazio over at Occasional Superheroine points out:


I always initially cringe a little bit when I see comic book parodies. I think I get flashbacks to buying the Ren and Stimpy parody “Rank and Stinky” for 25 cents in the cast-off bins, and still feeling I was ripped off, used, and left with no phone call the next day.

But Watchmensch, from Brain Scan Studios, is a different animal (possibly a mollusk of some sort) entirely. For Watchmensch is actually an allegory about the rift between Watchmen creator Alan Moore and DC Comics — and, by extension, a meditation on the issue of creator’s rights.

If you’re intrested in picking up a copy, head over to the Watchmensch site!

http://www.watchmensch.com/

And here’s the script:

Watchmench by Rich Johnston

Godslayer #2 and #7 by Brian Holguin!

Posted in Scripts on August 13th, 2009 by admin – Be the first to comment

Friend of the Script Archive and all around nice guy, Brian Holguin sends in his scripts for Spawn: Godslayer.

A dramatic re-imagining of Todd McFarlane’s Spawn. Godslayer is a sweeping tale of fallen kingdoms, ancient curses and doomed love. Spawn: Godslayer is sure to appeal to fans of epic fantasy.
In a far distant age of a world not our own, the Old Gods are dying, slaughtered one by one by the dark blade of a mysterious, unearthly marauder… Under the protection of the goddess Llyra, the island kingdom of Endra-La, oldest and most storied of the Shrouded Isles, has avoided the cruel fate suffered by lesser kingdoms. But on the eve of a royal wedding, black sails are spotted on the horizon. Alarms are sounded and fire fills the skies. The Godslayer has come for them at last.

Here’s what Brian has to say about the series:

The first is issue #2 because it was the first one where I felt Philip Tan and I had starting hitting our stride. I had done the 80 page one-shot with Jay Anacleto the year before and issue one of the monthly was basically recapping the previous events and setting up the series. This is our first venture out into the wild world.
The second script is from issue #7, in which I asked Phil to conjure just an incredible number of wild locales, creatures and deities and if you look at the final product you can see how well he managed. Both scripts include the back-up stories, which basically prose pieces that were designed to fill the world of Godslayer in great detail.
I was really proud of this series and disappointed it didn’t catch on with more readers. It was really my first attempt at a giant, epic scale fantasy in the Tolkien/Moorcock tradition. I was kind of famous for doing urban fantasy, but his was a different beast. Creating races, kingdoms, pantheons, etc. as well as creation myths, cosmologies, ecologies, economies, etc. was a lot of work but a lot fun.


Issue: 2
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Issue 7

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