Mon Dec 07, 2009 3:28 pm
The House Always Wins
So, me and future-art-superstar John Bivens have a comic in this month’s Zuda competition, called THE HOUSE ALWAYS WINS (http://zudacomics.com/node/1550). Short version of the plot:
“An agoraphobic detective and the crack team of assistants who do his legwork are hired by a real estate reality show to investigate a house whose spectral curse kills all who enter it.”
Because to certain kind of person (ie, this guy), a detective who never leaves the house is the obvious guy to drive a pretty blatant ribbing of THE GRUDGE.
Basically, what we’re doing is taking the “grumpy-genius-and-attractive-young-subplot-generators” genre (think HOUSE, SHARK, LIE TO ME) and throwing it headlong into a blender of berserk J-horror (think GYO, DEVILMAN).
It’s a comedy. Kind of. In a mean and bent sort of way.
(Our preview features a ghost coming out of a TV, and a plumber proceeding to whack it repeatedly with a wrench. Because I know when *I* watch THE RING, I just think “She’s halfway in a TV, you dopes, crack her one before she comes out.”)
(Important SFX note: if you’re hitting someone in the head, with a wrench, in a comic, remember that KRAK is horror, WUNK is comedy.)
Anyway, I’d appreciate your vote (and Favorite and 5-star-rating). Because I’d actually really like to do this as a series, because John’s basically an art genius and I’d like to see him get a mainstream-ish gig like this, and because the ending to the first season is one of my all time favorite ideas. Made me laugh for just minutes and minutes, let me tell you.
Oh! And we’re also running a little side contest:
Get your friends to vote, and leave a comment saying it was you who got their vote on the site.
Whoever gets the most votes for us gets to be drawn into the strip as a victim of the ghost, and wins an autographed copy of Eisner/Harvey-winning anthology COMIC BOOK TATTOO, signed by both me and John (who were both in it. Not on the same story, mind.)
Second place is “just” getting drawn into the strip as a murder victim.
So, basically, be our internet street team and we’ll murder you.
Um. In the comic.
Which is much more likely to make your friends jealous, frankly.
Crossposted from all sorts of places.
“An agoraphobic detective and the crack team of assistants who do his legwork are hired by a real estate reality show to investigate a house whose spectral curse kills all who enter it.”
Because to certain kind of person (ie, this guy), a detective who never leaves the house is the obvious guy to drive a pretty blatant ribbing of THE GRUDGE.
Basically, what we’re doing is taking the “grumpy-genius-and-attractive-young-subplot-generators” genre (think HOUSE, SHARK, LIE TO ME) and throwing it headlong into a blender of berserk J-horror (think GYO, DEVILMAN).
It’s a comedy. Kind of. In a mean and bent sort of way.
(Our preview features a ghost coming out of a TV, and a plumber proceeding to whack it repeatedly with a wrench. Because I know when *I* watch THE RING, I just think “She’s halfway in a TV, you dopes, crack her one before she comes out.”)
(Important SFX note: if you’re hitting someone in the head, with a wrench, in a comic, remember that KRAK is horror, WUNK is comedy.)
Anyway, I’d appreciate your vote (and Favorite and 5-star-rating). Because I’d actually really like to do this as a series, because John’s basically an art genius and I’d like to see him get a mainstream-ish gig like this, and because the ending to the first season is one of my all time favorite ideas. Made me laugh for just minutes and minutes, let me tell you.
Oh! And we’re also running a little side contest:
Get your friends to vote, and leave a comment saying it was you who got their vote on the site.
Whoever gets the most votes for us gets to be drawn into the strip as a victim of the ghost, and wins an autographed copy of Eisner/Harvey-winning anthology COMIC BOOK TATTOO, signed by both me and John (who were both in it. Not on the same story, mind.)
Second place is “just” getting drawn into the strip as a murder victim.
So, basically, be our internet street team and we’ll murder you.
Um. In the comic.
Which is much more likely to make your friends jealous, frankly.
Crossposted from all sorts of places.
