Hello, I don't start many threads and I hope that this is acceptable.
But I just wanted to know if anyone had any ideas for storylines in the Batman comics, one-shots or whatever.
Personally speaking, I do have many ideas. But I'd like to hear what you all think. Perhaps you have ideas on how best to salvage a previously negelected character.
Let's hear what you think.
You reminded me of something. A couple of years ago, I had
just read the Jeph Loeb/Tim Sale collaboration: "Catwoman: When in Rome." I found it thought-provoking, for some reason. I also reread "The Long Halloween" and "Dark Victory" (since "When in Rome" is connected to them, making a kinda-sorta trilogy of the three graphic novels).
Then I started making notes for what I would do if I somehow got the green light from DC on writing a "sequel" to "The Long Halloween" and "Dark Victory," of the same size as both of those year-long epics. ("When in Rome" was considerably shorter.)
Then I started working out more details of the plot, and finally started writing script pages for what I would do in the first issue of the proposed follow-up series, which I called: "Double Dealing."
The first issue of "The Long Halloween" was 48 pages of storytelling, so I figured the first issue of "Double Dealing" would be the same. I posted the first half of that -- which is to say, 24 pages' worth of script -- right here on this site, and a couple of other forums as well. I just checked and found that thread is still available:
Batman: Double Dealing #1
Unfortunately, it didn't make much of a splash with my fellow fans, and furthermore, I decided I had other writing projects I really ought to concentrate on, instead of trying to do too many things at once. I still have a rough draft of the script for the second half of "Double Dealing #1" (pages 25-48) plus my notes for the entire plot outline, etc., saved on my hard drive and backed up elsewhere. But I haven't really worked on it since then. I did make a decision a long time ago: I wouldn't start posting more of that material unless I had finished scripting
the entire thing first. So as to avoid a series of long, embarrassing delays after each installment. (
Professional writers and artists can get away with those
long, embarrassing delays, but I don't want to imitate that particular behavior pattern of the professionals.)
In brief -- I wanted to tie up a few loose ends from Loeb's work on "TLH" and "DV" and "WiR," especially regarding certain characters he just abandoned when he was done with them (but they weren't locked up or murdered when we last saw 'em!), and I also wanted to set it all in more "modern" times, with Tim Drake as Robin, 10 years or so after "Dark Victory" ended.
I had plans for showing several new characters, mostly children (now adults) or other younger relatives of people in TLH and DV, coming to terms with their messy family histories -- while dealing with the problem that once again, some mysterious killer was running around slaughtering people, for unclear reasons, on holidays during a year-long period in Gotham City! The problem would be exacerbated by the fact that one new character would be a journalist who was gathering material for a book about the old murders from TLH and DV, and in the process he'd stumble across some family secrets which had previously been kept out of the official reports that were published in newspapers and magazines and summarized on TV newscasts. So if someone kills him or tries to kill him -- there could be
several possible suspects with plausible motives.
I also intended to put to rest the question of whether or not a certain person's bizarre "confession" should be taken at face value. (I won't go into detail here, because some of us may not have read "The Long Halloween," even after all this time since it was first collected in TPB and became available in bookstores.)
