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Create Your Own Superhero Universe - Intro
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INTRODUCTION
Okay, you like to read comic books. More importantly, you like to read comic books featuring superheroes - those larger-than-life figures, who wear colorful, skin-tight outfits, possess special powers and abilities that normal folks do not, and fight criminals, super-villains, alien invaders and other creatures from beyond.
- Discovering your writing and/or artistic talents
- But how do you do it, you ask?
- Taking your creative skills to the next level
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Discovering your writing and/or artistic talents
Whether it’s Superman or Batman, Spider-Man or Captain America, the Justice League or the X-Men, you enjoy reading their adventures, brought to life with those wonderfully drawn images made available each month.
And at some point, you discover some writing and/or artistic talents of your own. Inspired by your favorite comics, you decide you want to create your own superhero universe, full of your own heroes and villains who battle each other and go off on their own adventures. Or explore the actual life of being a superhero, or spoof your typical superhero adventures . . . whichever you like.
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But how do you do it, you ask?
This next series of articles will show you how to put together your own superhero universe, from creating characters to crafting adventures to putting new spins on existing archetypes. You’ll learn how to:
- Decide What Type of Comic to Create: Do you want all-ages classic heroics, mature-readers-only realism or spoofs to make fun of it all
- Setting-Up: Learn how to set-up your universe and what kind of history may be involved
- Elements to Consider: Learn about certain elements you might find in a superhero universe, from aliens to hidden races to legends proved true
- Create Characters: Learn how to create your heroes and villains... and the personal features and costumes needed for them
- Superhero Archetypes: A list of the most common types of heroes and ways to put spins on them
- Supervillain Archetypes: Same as the heroes, only on a more sinister flare
- Supporting Characters: A list of the types of folks your super-characters interact with
- Types of Powers and Abilities: Also, lists of powers and abilities your characters could have, along with some not-so-super
- Teams: A list of the types of teams your heroes and villains can form
- Types of Storylines: A list of the most common storylines to put your characters through
- Putting it All Together: Learn the steps to putting your comic together and how to, if need, split the work
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Taking your creative skills to the next level
The above list is a basic outline of the steps you’ll need to combine your creative skills with your love of superheroes and comics to create a fun and exciting universe you and others will enjoy. Now come back often to see the outline developed into a detailed HowTo of taking your creative skills to the next level in a buzzing kids world.
Is the creative monster stirring within you? Create a Superhero Universe:
