Leap Day

So yeah, since February 29 will only come again in four years, I thought I should make a post on this day – so that four years into the future, I can look back and say “I was such a kid”.

Today’s the end of the PHW Unofficial Comics Team applications. I was initially unsure whether I actually deserved to be in the team, but I ended up taking the shot, and now I’m anxious for the results. Even though he won’t admit it, Delirium is a given and every regular member at PHW knows it. Hell, I’m pretty sure regular lurkers know it too, so there.

On comic projects, I’m working on one for the PoB/CR-O War, having finished two pages on Tuesday (and not done anything else since then). MIA is on a hiatus – typical, eh? -, but it’s not dead. Just waiting for a little calm on school to work on it.
A while ago I was reading the Wikipédia page for Stephen King and came around the expression “magnum opus“, which I find curious in the Garry’s Mod community setting. The good old-school comic makers are always remembered for one or two series – Brashfink’s highly popular Apostasy, Clover’s Jeff, Popwarbunny’s Running on Empty (though this guy is still around), Andres’s Devil’s Brigade/Crisis, and so on.
On the “newer” generation of comic makers, we have Delirium and his long-delayed Ellevus, which was to be his magnum opus but was eventually discarded on a day of pure madness (seriously, he seemed mental during that day) for a remake of Fuel on Fire, which is a fine piece of work by itself but with a much smaller scale.
As about me… well, if I’m allowed to try to predict the future (prove me right, Four-Years-Into-The-Future Mythos!), I’d say I find currently two projects that might become my own magnum opus, if I ever get around to making them. One, the most probable, is a project I’ve been planning since July 2006 – you read it right, July 2006. It’s set in the Half-Life 2 universe, but I avoided all clichés and all deviations from the original plotline. As it stands now, a moderately big chunk of its backstory is fleshed out and at least two seasons are planned, and it goes as far as to involve literary references and classic tradegy characteristics such as peripeteias. Yeah, when I write in a large scale, I write in a large scale. Most, if not all, of you have no idea of where I can go in terms of storytelling, but if you found the various handwritten notes I have around my room, you’d get a small idea.
The other project is a piece set entirely in an original setting based off the community of PHW – I know what you’re thinking, and I can assure you that’s the only similarity with Delirium’s Ellevus. I’ve been these recent months putting the backstory together, but it’s harder than expected – I plan on making it a story full of large twists and foreshadowing, but for that I must make everything clear before getting on script-writing itself, and it gets difficult. Unlike the other project, I don’t have a stable backstory basis, which both grants me more freedom as it binds me on the stringing of chronological events. But, well, it’s going good and it won’t require much preproduction, so you might see it sometime in April, or perhaps during the Summer.

Well, this is a huge post, but a rewarding one to write. I hope you got a slight idea of how invested I am into the process of preproduction and how my stories are weaved. All you’ve seen from me are parodies and humor – you’ve seen nothing, fellas. I’m still only starting.
See you in four years, brother!