Crazy Plots...

[John Owens]

I understand The Temple APA is a place where you could get constructive feedback or share ideas for comic projects. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I got an idea for a topic here; crazy plots. The ones that would never get the green light because it is so stupid or along those lines. I tend to day dream when I am bored. An idea hit me. It is so ludicrous that it'll probably never see the day.

Aliens are invading the planet Earth and it's up to a few groups of "superheroes" to save the day. They are called "The Disco Defenders"!

The superheroes are real life pop/disco bands from the 1980s brought to today's world. They are fighting against the aliens with their singing and musical instruments.

The Disco Defenders will include:

Queen
Freddy Mercury's Ghost - Freddy will have the ability to teleport, shape shift and project magical spells. He wears that costume from the 'A Kind of Magic' video.
Brian May - He can fire rays from his guitar. He has a special ability. His perm can deflect bullets or any other projectiles.
John Deacon - Fires rays like Brian.
Roger Taylor - Erm... he drums.. That's it.

The Village People
They all fight as one.

Yazz
Yazz is a loner and she acts on her own agenda. Built like a brick house. She can sock it to anyone like nobody's business.

Donny Osmond
The morally conscientious of all the Disco Defenders.

Glitter Ball
You know one of glittered/mirrored ball that spins round in the ceiling? Well, this ball can float in the air and it stores an ethereal Disco Goddess. The Glitter Ball can communicate with any member of the Disco Defenders. No one knows the identity of the Goddess. Until now.

The Big Showdown: When the Glitter Ball confronts the Big and Evil Alien Leader, it opens itself and a white light shines from it. It's Blondie the Disco Queen! With her powers, she eliminates the aliens, restores peace and order to planet Earth.

The tone of the Disco Defenders would be an all-out action piece. No adult themes, though. Just good and clean fun. It would bring disco to the uninitiated and give a message of "peace" (aye, that'll be right) ;P.

The idea is so bad, I am quite tempted to write it! I am a fan of 1980s' music, especially Queen.

Would you allow the above to be published? Can you think of a more ridiculous idea?

I see this as an positive exercise to throw ideas around until you stumble onto something unique.

[Tony Suleri]

Sounds like a laugh.

Add the BeeGees, Donna Summer and a couple more staples of that era ('though i never really thought of Queen as being Disco,although ...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Another_One_Bites_the_Dust) Barry White's another character with much comedy value.

I'd have a bunch of those Seventies muscian types convene at a Dr Strange type pad (after individual mini adventures having been hypnotised by a disco ball) and they'd all gather in a circle and with the combined might of their falsetto/Baritone voices they'd summon the lost god known as Di'isco who would then empower them with the abilities to take on Ch'arly Snowblind the evil dust demon and its dance crazed Zombie slaves.

Each muscian/group would have their own Toclofa ... Disco ball that would keep them in contact with the main power scource and they'd go either as individuals or a group on worldwide adventures and take on musical entities based on different genre. I guess Queen would be the collective Wolverine of the group as their divided loyalties genre wise would keep them conflicted.

Good for crowd control though.

T.

[dave hailwood]

Love the idea of having a sort of 'Orb of wisdom' shaped like a disco ball. A great deal of scope for many mad adventures in a kind of Mystery Man vein. If there's not a guest appearance from Chaz and Dave and The Worzels I'll be most disappointed.

Me and Jim Stewart are currently working on something in a similar yet also rather different vein (about a rehab rock group saving the earth from drug-excreting aliens). Whereas The Disco Defenders is aiming for good clean wholesome fun, we're taking a more warped and twisted route of depravity.

[John Owens]

Actually, I realised since Queen is not really Disco. I probably have to rename the organisation. Maybe it could be "Toclofa Titans".

(BTW, is the spelling of Toclofa correct? Did a check on the internet. It does not exist.)

I can still have a smaller group of "superheroes" called the Disco Defenders. They are in denial that disco is dead. So they will argue with anyone who says so.

It will set within the UK during the 1980s. A time when Maggie Thatcher was in power, the Falkland War was taking place, the coal miners' strike and the Cold War. Punk was booming.

The Toclofa Titans' arch enemies could be punk rockers like Sid from the Sex Pistols, KISS, Meatloaf. The leader of the 'evil' pack will be Alice Cooper!

Yes, I have a potential comic book series. Anytime now, Marvel or DC will be calling me! :P

[Tony Suleri]

(BTW, is the spelling of Toclofa correct? Did a check on the internet. It does not exist.)

That was me alluding to the last couple of episodes of Doctor Who and floating spheres with pointy weapons known as the Toclofane.

Creepy little blighters they were too.

[John Owens]

"That was me alluding to the last couple of episodes of Doctor Who and floating spheres with pointy weapons known as the Toclofane."

No wonder the name seemed familiar. It was drawing me bonkers. I even looked up my dictionary. Idiot! :)

I found out that Marvel has published a new volume book called Dazzler (a disco heroine). On the back of it, it says 'Disco may be dead, but Marvel's dynamic diva never says "die!" '

I can't believe it! My dream of creating the Disco Defenders is left in tatters. :(

It is obvious. Marvel felt threatened by my promising comic book series and decided to bring forward the publishing of Dazzler, thus destroying my beautiful dream.

[dave hailwood]

Don't worry - we've all had moments like that. Me and Neil Alexander were working together on a comic book called Heroes For Hire. Just as we'd knocked out the first strip, and new comic was released by Marvel called 'Heroes For Hire'. Fortunately they didn't use quite the same characters as 'Captain Incompetence and The Inebriate Kid', but it did force us to rename the strip (Heroes At Hand - which wasn't quite as punchy).

What you need to do is work out which parts of your original idea you can salvage, and which parts are too similar to Dazzler and therefore need throwing out. The Disco Defenders may yet live...

[dave hailwood]

Oh, and here's another prime example...

I had an idea last year of doing a one off cartoon called 'Where's Osama?' which would've had Osama standing in plain sight of the American forces, whilst they search everything around him. I quickly abandonned this idea for the sake of taste and decency (plus I couldn't be arsed to draw it).

Yesterday I went into Waterstones, and guess what I found in their humour section? An entire hardback book called "Where's Osama?' which milked the same concept dry.

Which leads me to the conclusion that there's a limited supply of ideas in circulation at the moment, and if you don't act on them fast they will migrate into some other creators head and take root! Beware, my friends! Beware the insiduous ideas, for they lurk in the shadows waiting to pounce!!!