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UR JUST RIPPIN OF HP U LAMER!!! Go and tell Jill Murphy that. Are these stories going to to be like Harry Potter? No, they are going to be part of the same literary lineage that Harry Potter is also a part of. Except I'll be drawing more closely from the very best stories in that genre, those of Charles Hamilton! (with bits of Horace Phillips and Edwy Searles Brooks) Why are you making more of these stories about posh public schools? They just glorify classism and snobbery! You've got no idea what you are talking about. Aren't you working class? Why are you writing filth like this? Class traitor! You've got no idea what you are talking about. Didn't these old boarding school stories glorify the empire and white supremacy? You've got no idea what you are talking about. Didn't these old boarding school stories ignore the realities of everyday life and the pertinent political issues of the time? Yeah, and? Didn't these old boarding school stories have almost no basis in the reality of public-school life at the time? The vicious, violent bullying? The unhinged tyrannical masters who would inflict brutal punishment on the boys for the slightest misdeed? The barely-consenting experiments with homosexuality young boys were forced into by older prefects who would grow up to be church leaders and parlimentarians who hypocritically preached against the same? Yeah, and? Also the public schools of the time were havens of sport and physical prowess, the stories you've read about life at them are from the biographies of authors and poets. You know, bookish types. Is it any wonder they got bullied? You know the same thing happened to me at my mixed secondary modern, right? A secondary modern where "history" classes consisted of "you lot would have been worthless, stinking diseased cattle if you lived back then". That's the kind of schooling you want people to have, right? Ultimately, weren't most of those old boarding school stories written by men who had never even been to one and had no idea what they were writing about? So we're told. Even so: "Yeah, and?" Didn't these old stories never mention homosexuality or characters going to the toilet? You want stories about 14-15 year olds to feature homosexuality and characters going to the toilet? Yeah, that sounds like a you problem. HAHAHA George Orwell, an ACTUALLY good writer, unlike the forgotten hacks you seem to idolise, totally DESTROYED these types of stories way back in 1940!!! Oh, you know the first third of that story, then? The "boy" one has a blue-heavy cover, and the "girl" has a pink-heavy cover. You really went there, didn't you? Wow, just wow. Yeah, I know! You do know pink was originally the "boy" colour, right? Really? Gosh, well, I certainly beleive in internationalist socialism now! Glory to the proletariat! Define "originally". Regular crossovers? We're not going to have to buy two comics to get the whole story, are we? These will be Hamiltonian crossovers! (or early silver age, if you prefer), characters will appear in each paper, but any random issue will be enjoyable entirely on it's own (bar serial stories). Also if possible both Rising Sun and Cherry Blossom will be sold as a pack, so "issue 1" will contain both papers anyway. I don't yet know if this will mean they'll both be under one cover, like Whizzer & Chips, or if I can sell them as a double-pack with two seperate papers (much preferred). Are these going to be comics? Actually story papers, text stories with a few block illustrations. Just like old times! There may be some mini strip cartoons and perhaps a single-page strip inside one of the covers. But other than that, all text! Will these be set in modern times? While the Hamilton stories were always nominally set when they were written (and yet were also simultaneously old-fashioned and timeless), for the main series I'll probably stick to between 1890 (when things were recognisably "modern", at least the modernity I like) and 1960 (when the rot truly set in and Britain, as she had existed for centuries, began to rapidly fade from view). Small backup stories may have a more modern setting, but it's kind of hard for a kid to get trapped somewhere for hours if they can just phone for help. It's also hard for somebody to witness something and be disbeleived when they have an HD video camera in their pocket. Why do the papers have such "Japanese" names? That's where they are made. Will the stories be set in Japan? Some of the backups, maybe. Most will be set in Britain, or globe-trotting in the Empire. Will there be "nostalgic" period advertisements for cigarette cards etc, or parody ads for "uranium face cream" or whatever nonsense I want to beleive was commonplace in Victorian times? No, such things are animalistically moronic, and why would I fill story space with ads if I didn't have to? And this is all a joke, yeah? You aren't really going to just print and sell stories of schoolboys going "bai jove!" all the time, like 1920 never ended, right? Wrong. |