{"id":218,"date":"2006-07-20T13:04:17","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T20:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevegerber.wpengine.com\/?p=218"},"modified":"2006-07-20T13:04:17","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T20:04:17","slug":"new-comics-ideas-2002","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stevegerber.com\/?p=218","title":{"rendered":"New Comics Ideas – 2002"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rummaging around my hard disk, I came upon these notes from a brainstorming session circa 2002. Reading them cracked me up, so I thought you folks might get a snicker, chortle, or possibly even a muffled guffaw out of them, too.<\/p>\n

Mise en sc\u00c3\u00a8ne<\/em>: The ex and I were probably sitting either in a coffee shop at the Suncoast Hotel in the middle of the night, or under the spritzers at the Starbucks next to the Borders on Rainbow Blvd., on a scorching Vegas afternoon. I would have been blathering non-stop. She would have been typing like a madwoman on the fold-up keyboard of her Palm Pilot and, when the spirit moved her, tossing ideas of her own into the mix. (She was highly creative and very witty in her own right. I can’t pinpoint her contributions to this session, but the “tuna” line and the one about the rock band sound a lot like her.)<\/p>\n

The material is, of course, both unstructured and uncensored. That’s the point of a brainstorming session, to let ideas flow free and unrestrained. Critique comes later.<\/p>\n

One other thing you need to know before you read further: At the time, I had just finished up the *Howard the Duck* Limited Series for Marvel Max, and Marvel had offered me another assignment — scripting the book that would eventually be published as *Marville*. I turned it down because I wasn’t prepared to participate in the character assassination of someone I’d known for thirty years and whom I value as a personal friend.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, I’ve yet to be offered another assignment by Marvel.<\/p>\n

That said, here are the notes:<\/p>\n

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