The Elevated: My Superhero Epic!
Well hopefully it's epic!
Intro
What’s going on! What’s going on everybody! It is your favorite unknown comic book writer back again with another edition of the Wilson’s World Sub Stack! Hopefully (and it most definitely will be) this post will be much less depressing then yesterday, but I didn’t know how to make that one fun! Not like this entry, which is going to be just a hoot and a half, but before we get to that we must do what we always do which is:
Plugs
Kickstarter - Surveys were sent out so make sure you fill those out for your rewards. The campaign money is still not in my account, and I genuinely have no idea when I will get the money to use it for the rewards. So we wait, growing less patient about it everyday!
D.N.A. (Dinosaur Nazi Assassins) is still being drawn, it looks amazing and I am getting unbelievable new pages for it everyday!
The Elevated - My take on superheroes has the first issue fully drawn and colored, just waiting to have the Kickstarter rewards taken care of before my focus shifts to The Elevated.
Imagine Nation: Issue 2 is written, I just need the money to help fund it.
My YouTube is STILL taking longer than I would of liked but I am working on it. But I am hoping to have something on The Flash posted by Wednesday.
The Only Sports Podcast is posting later today where my friend Casino and I talk all things NBA Finals and NHL Stanley Cup.
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The Elevated
I’ve always loved superheroes, even before I discovered comic books, I grew up in a time where superheroes were all over the place (I was going to say everywhere but this was 20 years ago, now they are legitimately everywhere.) I remember my parents taking my two sisters and I to the opening night showing of Spider-Man in 2002. My parents didn’t think that many people would give a shit, but many many people did in fact, give a shit. We ended up getting there right before it started and sitting in the very front row, but it didn’t matter, I was 12 years old at the time, so the movie was basically made for me.
But before Spider-Man there was Batman: The Animated Series, Superman: The Animated Series, Batman Beyond, Teen Titans, and Justice League: Unlimited. All shows I watched religiously as a kid that all hold up amazingly. Of course I watched the older Superman and Batman movies, but Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man was the first superhero made for my generation. I know X-Men had proceeded that Spider-Man movie but no one in that movie was in costume and for some reason X-Men movies or comics have never really connected with me (blasphemy, I know.) Spider-Man had a guy in a bright red and blue costume that looked like he did in every other version of him I had ever seen, he was a superhero in the real world.
Which is what brings us to “The Elevated” which is my take on superheroes, the take being, what if less than 1% of the worlds population got superpowers right now, all at the same time, what would you even do with it? I love the TV show “The Boys” but I think its too cynical, and its written by Garth Ennis so it’s not surprising that every superhero is either a pervert, idiot, or a psychopath. That’s not a bad thing, that’s just his take on the subject, which is a take you see a lot of. If superheroes were in the real world they would all be evil corrupt power hungry psychopaths trying to take over the world. That’s why the trendy thing has always been to make Superman evil, because if anyone had all that power, how could they not be evil? Which again, is a take that just never worked for me.
If even 1% of the world got superpowers that would be 79 million people, and the odds of powers turning all 79 million of those people evil, would be what? Less than 1% as well probably, and this really isn’t just me being optimistic, it seems pretty logical. Of course some of those people would be bad, some even evil, but a lot would also be good, maybe even heroes.
So that’s the broadest scope of The Elevated, that’s the logic going into this world, now the story itself focuses on our main character, Chase Atwell. Chase is a 24 year old pizza delivery driver who gets ice powers. We follow him on his journey of trying to be a hero in todays world, while the world asks “Will you do the right thing even if it isn’t the popular thing to do?”
The first issue of The Elevated is already ready, I’m just waiting for the funds to come in on the Kickstarter for “Imagine Nation: Issue 1.” Then I will be doing an other Kickstarter (hopefully by the end of the summer for The Elevated!)
That’s all I got for today! Have a great weekend! And I will see you right back here on Monday!