"Spectacles of Doom" (excerpt from a failed graphic novel - */F)

[Kalamos]

It captured the right feeling.
Thumbs way up.

 

[Low_Roads]

Thanks again, K! You've given my art submissions a real workout today and I deeply appreciate the notice! Up till now, "Spectales of Doom" sat lonely and neglected in a dusty cardboard box. I'm glad it was able to escape for this much activity. And it will definitely lead to a new project. I know I keep saying that... the opening chapter of the new story requires a certain amount of set-up, and I'm finding it difficult to be thorough without seeming long-winded. But it will definitely happen!

 

[Kalamos]

They say "just let the flow of story be your guide".
Or maybe I am imagining things.

It would be great seeing a sequel - or lacking that, a colour version of these panels.
I wouldn't mind reading a prequel either.

 

[Low_Roads]

It would be great seeing a sequel... I wouldn't mind reading a prequel either.

I really can't present more of this story (or in fact, more of this universe) than I have already. Reason being, I didn't invent most of it. The core concept and most of the characters and names are the creation of a good friend, invented for a cable-access TV show that we did back in the '70s/'80s. "Spectales of Doom" was, in fact, supposed to be a series of 17 half-hour episodes for that show. It's a measure of my particular insanity that the comic panels were intended to be videotaped, then dramatized with voices, sound effects and music. That's why every panel is exactly the same size (3x4, to accomodate the TV format), and why I needed so blamed many of the things! At any rate, while no harm has been done in presenting this non-detailed exerpt, I have no right offerning large portions of specifics without his knowledge or permission.

I had planned to present a series of non-sequential action panels in the Non-Tickling Image section of the forum one day. I feel justified in doing that, as the visual interrpretation of the characters is mine entirely, either highly stylizing or differning completely from the source. Story sense would be absent, of course, but the illustrations are highly dramatic and whimsical, and I think they would stand all right on their own.

I'm not really stuck for plot ideas, though. A few years back, I wrote a series of interlinked horror stories for internet friends. That world will be easily adapted for a tickling series framework, and I've got the first four chapters worked out in my mind already. The rest will just take labor and time, comodities not easily bought these days. I keep railing against the heat (I know I bore my close friends to tears with such whining), but it really does put a crimp in my creative style. My job is time consuming and physically draining, made all the worse by hundred degree temperatures. In the evenings, I don't dare turn on lights for fear of luring swarms of tiny insects inside. These obstructions will disappear once summer is over. I've always been a winter-weather person. That's when I'm most productive. Till then, I can only make plans and seize creative opportunities as they come. The weekends are still mostly my own (though work has intruded a lot lately), and I'll always be able to accomplish something then.

This is much more answer than you needed, I know. It's always risky giving me a an opportuinty to explain or complain! :laughing:

 

[Kalamos]

I'm sure somebody missed this.
So, I am helping newcomers to it.

*BUMP!*

Yep, it feels good.

 

[Darth Vegeta]

I hope to see more soon.

 

[Low_Roads]

Hey, thanks K! Spectacles of Doom has been my most popular thread thus far, scoring my biggest numbers, and it's due entirely to your bumps!

And I appreciate your interest, Darth! As you'll see below, it's about to pay off.

I know I haven't contributed much art to the forum lately, but I have a good excuse. For the past few weeks I've been beavering away mightily on an entirely new comc story: 18 pages, roughly 60 panels. I'm very close to completion; had hoped to submit it before the end of August, but, as I recently added two pages (fixing some continuity), that may be optimistic. I am confident it will be ready for next weekend, however.

This will be an completely different story (a pleasing one, I hope), and the entire thing will be in color this time.

Interesting seredipity, K. One of the new participants will be a zombie, which means there'll be some Necro-tickling on view. Hope that taboo you sited doesn't turn people off... I suppose I should post a warning, just to be safe.

 

[Kalamos]

Bah, they should show some respect to "metabollically challenged" individuals.
Being undead is tough already, without some two-digits IQ morsels whining, because they expected your run-of-the-mill plastic-boobied buxom blonde.

Oh well... we'll see.

 

[Low_Roads]

I think I've handled things tastefully and non-offensively. Of course, who knows? It's difficult to gage the workings of one's mind until they're laid out to be judged.

This is what comes of freely adapting material from one source into an entirely different framework. My zombie charater (Mud Sally) was perfectly comfortable in the horror stories she was conceived for, until I dragged her into this comic story and made a torturer of her! But perhaps I'm being paranoid. She may work out just fine. As you say, we'll see. Soon enough, too.

 

[Kalamos]

Ah, so she's *not* on the receiving end.
Too bad.

 

[Low_Roads]

Not in the opening chapter. But this is going to be a long series. It could happen yet!

PS: You're giving me some interesting scenario ideas, as a matter of fact.

 

[Kalamos]

Good. 🙂

[Maybe I should try and do something myself... I mean, why not?]

 

[Low_Roads]

Maybe I should try and do something myself... I mean, why not?

Great idea! This is a neglected area of endeavor, and a real challenge to get right without grossing people out. That does it! I'm definitely on board! And I know right where to fit it in. Expect to see such a scene in chapter 3 (hey, the plot is still a work in progress! It needed some definition!)

 

[Kalamos]

Ah, yes... "grossing ppl out"...
That was the whole point, sharing the pics.

...

This reminds me, Mandell drew a "Frankentickle" type picture, back then.
It featured undead tickling - under a fashion.

 

[Low_Roads]

I think I know the one you mean. Bride of Frankenstein set-up, right? With a severed hand? It was a pretty creative idea.

 

[Kalamos]

Yes, exactly. It featured a stitched Bride of F. with a severed, re-animated hand, doing the tickling.

 

[Low_Roads]

It's a beautifully detailed picture. I've also seen Elvira used as a tickle victim, though I couldn't tell you who the artist was. I'd think she qualifies as undead (vampire?), though perhaps you have to class her as a goth type. I've never heard that her persona was ever defined in clear terms. But most horror-movie hosts claim supernatural status of some sort.

 

[Kalamos]

I do remember that piece. Those pieces, actually.
There was an Elvira pic with... goblins.
And a different pic, a manip, with ... those girls from Archie's. Veronica and Beth I think.

 

[Low_Roads]

I can't recall seeing the Archie girls in any undead context. Are they ticklers or victims (victims, I'm assuming)? Sounds like good fun in either case!

Then there are those two Scooby-Doo portraits over at Tickleague: Velma submitting to Necro-tickling (while spread-eagled to a stone cross... wild!) and Ecto-tickling. Meanwhile, Daphne tussles with some sort of octopus. How did she miss out on all the undead excitement? I'm not really complaining. Velma has always been my favorite.

 

[Kalamos]

I'm not hijacking your thread with foreign pics, but I'll track them down.
They were fun, and some of the first tk pics I had ever been exposed to, when I first visited a tickling forum, back in '97.

 

[Low_Roads]

Thanks! I'd really like to see them! They sound historically significant as well as entertaining!

As I've said before, you needn't ever worry about hijacking any of my threads. Take them where you like! This one was cold and dusty until you bumped it up. Any purpose it serves is a good purpose! Besides, I brought up the divergent topic (necro-tickling) to begin with. Any continuation of it could hardly be considered straying.

 

[Kalamos]

Pics are from welsh artist Quiller.
They date back to the first age of the internet. 😉

 

[Low_Roads]

Oh, those are good! I've seen Elvira and the devils before, though so long ago I couldn't tell you where or when (I certainly didn't have it in my collection before now). But the Betty and Veroinca picture is completely new to me! Pretty amusing, with the tell-tale lipstick on the soles! Little devils themselves, those Archie girls!

 

[Kalamos]

I have a decent memory for old pics.
😉

 

[Hiryu]

That's freaking hilarious and the art, layout and writing are definately professional quality! You should start a comic series!