I was asked whether my sharing the old projects such as Voyagers meant that I was thinking about using them again. The simple answer is both yes and no.
You see, Power Women (I have found and mislaid 20pp in the space of three days so that is why those pages have not been posted yet) was a thing of its time. 1989 and you had to have been there to understand what was going on in the real world and the comic. More of that another time.
Voyagers. Odd to think that John and Joan would be in their mid-40s by now! The dialogue contained a lot of references from 1989. Judge Pickles, the then WWF Wrestling and so on. It could be updated but the art would have to have that same quirky sort of feel to it.
The Traveller, well that was so far out there that it could be used again but the art would need to be of a similar style.
The Looking Glass -well, no problem there since the series was supposed to be surrealistic and there are no real cultural references dating it.
There are two big problems.
The first is that I would need to try to remember what was supposed to happen since the original scripts vanished with the artists. Not insurmountable but the stories would not be the original ones.
The biggest problem is that there is no money to pay artists. Back in those days it was a 50-50 project. I wrote, the artist drew the story and I took on all the expenses in trying to sell the project and if it was taken up we both got paid and the artist had extra income from selling their art pages.
If I had the money then, yes, I might give it all a try and that includes Invaders From Demos -written many years before the movie Independence Day or even The Survivor.
I never say never but at this moment in time I have a lot of other projects I need to finish.
Hope that is all clear...or not!
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