Well, actually, we don’t use helium. The balloons we use are too porous for it, so it might escape, and they are so heavy that the helium would not even lift them. Instead we just use air or nitrogen.
Ah, I’m behind!
- Creative Process: All About Fahrenheit-X
- Writers’ Room: Golden Age Freedom Five, featuring Legacy, The Wraith, Haka, Absolute Zero (Henry Goodman), & the Shrieker
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- Creative Process: Villain(s) for each of the individual members of the Southwest Sentinels
- Writers’ Room: An Episode of the ‘60s Wraith TV Show
- Writers’ Room: An Episode of the ‘40s Legacy TV Serial
I would be more interested in the mid-20teens Legacy Cereal, which was of course manufactured and sold for a limited time to promote the release of the movie “Wraith v Legacy: Dawn of Freedom”. (Fun fact, that Superman cereal was actually really good, and I would still buy it today without hesitation if they had kept making it. Of course, in the Sentinelverse, corporations are more competent and less greedily exploitative, so the WvL movie was actually good, with its sequel Freedom Five not even requiring a Director’s Cut, and both cereals were good enough and popular enough that they remain available for purchase in all the major chains to this day.)
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I think they could do an entire Creative Process about Sentinel Comics promo products. I vaguely remember some suggestions in some episode - maybe an Editor’s Note? There’s bound to be a Sentinels hero limited time flavor of Todido’s and whatever the Metaverse equivalent of Mtn Dew is.
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Benchmark Blast
Edit: only available at Taco Bell, naturally.
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Benchmark would definitely be the product placement no one asked for! And I would correct you to say Schmaco Schmell, but The Letters Page has sounded pretty open to the idea of a Taco Bell sponsorship on more than one occasion!
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Oh god…
“Benchmark Blast: The Dew Standard!”
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Please don’t resurrect the Joe Schmoe joke, it was harder to kill than Thanos in the first place…
I don’t think it ever died.
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Writer’s Room: A story about the Host (after they were named and explained)
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Yeah! We had the Singular Convergence, so now I want to see the Congregation of the Host! (Or whatever it’s called when they’re all together and we get to see a lot more Spirits!)
Writers room Justice Comics 67
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Pursuant to this conversation: “Papa Legba’s” origin story, in which we learn that he’s not the real lwa and he just stole the name and aesthetic because he thought it was cool.
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“The Soul Seeker story is really cool,” says Christopher.
“Well,” says I, “I’d really like to hear that cool story, then!”
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Ok, this is about as general of a topic as you can get, but how about “A story with an unorthodox format.”
Just a comic where the format of the story is presented in some creative way. It could be as simple as a story with no dialogue, or a complicated, nonlinear time travel story. Maybe a bizarre La Capitan or Wager Master story where reality is breaking down and it leaks throughout the panels. Something like the “10 Seconds” story from the Chrono Ranger episode, or something else entirely.
And if the topic is too general, if C&A already have a story like that they haven’t told, they could put that up for voting instead.
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I love this idea! There is a Batman issue called “The Clown at Midnight”, which is about the Joker’s (duh) clowns which I think is a perfect example of what you’re thinking. It’s written sort of like an illustrated storybook - extremely atypical for a comic book.
Example Picture (clowns)
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I think Xtreme Freedom Five story that’s basically The Road Warrior fits this.
A Day(?) In the Life: Free Radical
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There are many things Christopher and Adam are excellent at writing. But properly plotting and planning out a good time travel story is one of the most difficult tasks a fiction writer can tackle, and to be blunt, even C&A aren’t that good, nor do they have the particular talent necessary to do such a thing even without being superlatively skilled. Their time travel writing is on the Doctor Who level, which means it isn’t really about the time travel, and doesn’t even try to do time travel right, it just tells a fun story with time travel as a cosmetic backdrop (the equivalent of using scientifically inaccurate dinosaurs because they’re cooler, and barely handwaving some explanation about evolutionary microclimates that doesn’t really stand up to scrutiny since that isn’t the point).
On the other end of the spectrum, there’s the movie Primer, which does time travel basically perfect, but is boring and difficult to watch, having been made on a shoestring budget. If the Primer guys (who I would say do have that specialized talent I mentioned) could have afforded a bunch of special effects and fancy costumes and such to liven their story up, then C&A would be great to bring in as creative consultants, designing a bunch of cool stuff to put in some epic high-tech future which the time machine goes to… and the Primer writers would concentrate on the time travel itself. (A good example of the middle ground is Back to the Future, which is about 70% of the way towards the Doctor Who extreme, but makes a fair amount of effort to be consistent, though nowhere near as much as Primer does.)
TLDR… this is a cool idea, but it’s off-brand for the >G team.