an iog comic...

[Mantaray]

I have no idea where a topic like this should go.. I guess this is the best place.


I've been thinking about doing an Illusion of Gaia comic for the past couple years. I want to change things around here and there so it's not excatly like the game (like so many fanfics have done) but I can't come up with anything good. I want it to keep the basic feel of the game in tact while making it a little different to appeal to the readers but I'm kinda stuck.

Plus, my art is *fart*

Maybe we could work together on this. I mean no one else has bothered, at least none that I know of. And Terranigma has its own manga. Does Soul Blazer? I think not. Or.. maybe. I dunno.

But it's a thought.

[Manibrandr System]

I'd like to see your stuff anyways.

[Jason Tandro]

I have on a couple of occassions tried to do an FF3 The Comic style IoG Comic. It uses screenshots of the game and speech bubbles (and maybe a little photoshopped magic).

If you want to do an IoG comic and don't want it to be a cookie-cut of the game, then your best bet is to go the parody angle, but that's not the only way to go.

[Hydra.7]

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I agree. I actually considered making one (I touched on that topic when I attempted to redraw the characters). I don't think I would change too much though, just add to what was given-- JACKAL! yes. No child pornography and yaoi/yuri.

But right now I've been trying to make a my own graphic novel. I don't like drawing what isn't my own. My graphic novel has been taking up ALOT of time...

It's odd because even though the artist (eww) was a manga artist and such, she never really did anything for it.

[Mantaray]

I'll take some of this advice into consideration. ^^

Also, I've finally started on it. I've re-written the prologue a bit to keep things fresh, but I'm not sure if it sounds IOG-ish at all. Whether it sounds too straightfoward or if it even stays true to the game is what I want to know...

iImagine these lines spread out across several pages of "fabulous pictures":

Long ago, civilization had built deep, incredible structures that have now become ruins.
Explorers discovered these ruins one after another, finding various relics of many cultures.
But the strangest thing about these relics is that each resembled a spirit of some kind.
The ruins don't explain what those spirits were to the ancients.
The thousands who sought out these treasures went in, and never came out.
Whether they were cursed, or fell to traps, nobody knew.
But that was only a minor warning to the chaos that these ruins would bring...



Now here's the game version:

The world was in an age of exploration.
Looking for new lands, man uncovered the relics of ancient cultures.
As time passed, many legends began to surface.
A legend from each ruin, a legend from each culture...
Various relics were found in the ruins.
One of the legends told of strange statues in the shapes of spirits.
What was a spirit to the ancient people, the ruins don't tell us.
People who entered the ruins searching for wealth, went in, and were never seen again.
Some say there were traps to protect the treasure, others say it was a curse.
No one thought these ruins would bring about disaster.

I just need an opinion or two on this before I continue on. Should I change anything in my version or just stick to the game's prologue?

I'm also having trouble on how Will should come across Dark Space and how often he should enter it, if even mentally. If he transforms into Freedan through a telepathic connection between him and Gaia, or standing directly in front of her like the game...

I'll try not to ask too much later. I don't wanna sound dependent ^^;

[Jason Tandro]

Like your prologue changes. Keeps the feel of the game without being cookie cutter and yet gets the message across thus making the purists happy; a happy medium, so-to-speak.

My reccomendation for your Dark Space conundrum is simple: Will can see the entrance, but nobody else can. I'd up-play this feature. It could be a comic relief moment when all of Will's party members see him randomly staring off into space where an entrance lies.

An alternative could be that Will only enters Dark Space when he falls asleep or unconcious. The game actually suggests that is what happens with the quote "Sometimes I awake in a world of my own, only to find it was just a dream." (Or something like that...)

As for how he transforms into Freedan, I'd have a little fun with that. Standing in front of a statue of Freedan and letting Freedan consume his form is good, but you could also have there be a more physical representation of this, such as drawing Freedan's sword from the pedestal or so forth.

And his conversations with Gaia could also be sleep or unconscious state conversations.