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Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2004 7:09 pm Post subject: Crossover: Group project needs writers.
I had an idea that could be lots of fun, and give us all tons of cool stuff to do. It's an idea I've had for a while, but just don't have the time to dedicate to... ALONE.
Here's the premis.
One day rediculously bright sunny day, Ryan Frame... an unemployed comic book writer, is heading to New Jersey for a job interview. The Cross Bronx Expressway has 2 of it's 3 lanes closed as is ussual for a morning rush hour, turning it into a more of a parking lot than an "expressway".
When one over eager psychopath rear ends another directly in front of Ryan, he decides that whatever "Road Work" is being done isn't worth being late, and drives over a road cone as the two "citizens" get out of their cars and start to wail on each other. Once in the empty lanes, Ryan sees that the apparent road work is behind him, and floors it to make up for lost time. He's almost to the end of the bottleneck when... something weird happens.
At first it's like he's entered a dark tunnel, but at GREAT SPEED! There's a feeling of being upside down, and then ... well, you could only call it weightless when your Big Gulp Ice Tea slowly lifts off the seat and hovers among the rest of the junk in POS 1988 Subaru station wagon.
It seem like only a moment later when Ryan wakes up staring into a slightly different sky. It's not a bad sky. In fact... it's just a shade bluer than he seems to remember, and he's covered in shattered glass from his windsheild. Even though everything still feels funny, the sence of motion has stopped. The door doesn't work at all so he grabs his now half full Big Gulp cup and uses it fleck the remaining glass away from the drivers side window. He grabs the top of the car and starts shimmy out. His beer gut recieves a nasty scratch through his shirt and in a panic he lets go. The fall is a lot further than he expected and he tumbles down a pile of garbage landing in a patch of dried YUK!
As he surveys the world around him, it's no where near the Cross Bronx Expressway. He's in some kind of grabage bump of junk yard.
"Did I junk the railing or something?"
He looks at his car from the outside for the first time. It's at a 60 degree angle facing skyward, but that's not the weird part. Apparantly the front end of the car is fused with the grabage. Not melted, not punctured, not even dented. just fused. The rear of the car lurches in a downward ark, a result of gravity and the fact that the rear end never got to touch the ground.
In the distance he hears traffic, and in a partial state of shock, he starts walking toward it.
"Maybe the road crew will be able to help me."
He reaches a fence in the junk yard, and across the way he see's the highway is about 30 feet above. He walks in a little circle rough calculating how far his car must have leaped to end up... phased?... through the garbage. Following blindly along the junk yard paths that runn closest to the fence he eventually find a large gate. The junk yard is at a huge intersection with the expressway passing over head. Across the street is a huge billboard on a small garage with the picture of stoic bald man and a guy who looks something like a stunt double for Niles Crane from Frasier, but it's the text that makes Ryan cock his head sidways.
"Luthor and Ross. The right choice then. The right choice now."
Ryan thinks to himself. "Smallville? No Ross is black on the show. Movie? I would have heard about that?
A passing car drawn his dizzied attention at it enters an on ramp to the Expressway across the street. That's when he reads... the green sign above the ramp. Cross Bronx Expressway. Two huge arrows point to seperate lanes the ramp. "To Bronx", and "To Manhatten and Metropolis".
Ryan doesn't realize it fully yet, but he's entered a world he will call Crossover. Where evey superhero and villian are living breathing people.
What's worse, he's never existed in this world. The few bucks he has in his pocket are considered Funny Money. His New York State drivers licence "fake". His apartment complex isn't where he left it, and even when he does find it, someone else lives there and has NONE of his stuff.
Ryan's just entered a world where super hero's are real, and doesn't have a single super power, unless you count the fact that he know just about everything about every hero and villian in this world.
The idea is that Ryan has to use his knowledge of these characters to figure out how he got here, and make a living, and keep himself from getting killed.
The other main concept of the story is that we mix up hero's and villian who don't ussualy see each other.
Spider-Man Vs. The Joker!
Suoerman Vs. Magneto
The Fantasic Four Vs. Darkseid
Batman Vs. Punisher!!!
This all works because the earth istelf is 1000 miles larger opening up the space for the extra cities, and moving everything around a little.
So who would you like to see, and what would you do if you were Ryan?
Joined: Jul 31, 2002 Posts: 10 Location: Buenos Aires, a mythical land in the end of the world
Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 2:59 pm Post subject: Re: Crossover: Group project needs writers.
If I were Ryan, I'd write a film or comics about... real people! Superheros would be delighted to see something so different to their reality and he would be rich and famous. "Wow. No superpowers. How did he come up with THAT?", they'd say. Then, he'd get to know the big superheros and write their biographies, or hang around with them until he comes back to earth, where he finally writes a gossipy Truman-Capote-kind-of-novel: "How It Was To Hang Out With Them Night After Night" that makes everyone on Earth say "Wow. This is a Pulitzer Prize. How did he come up with that?". So he's rich and famous again.
Or he could become a journalist. The stories that in our world appear in the comicbooks, on that world would appear in the newspapers. He'd be the most knowledgeable journalist around. Better than Clark Kent and Peter Parker. That wouldd get him investigating stuff, getting his nose into story after story.
Of course, the moment anyone notices how much this guy knows, he'll be dead. So he has to fake a superpower. He has to make everyone believe that he's got this "thing" he can do. This way, he won't look like such an easy prey. But faking it gets him into trouble (maybe he's assigned to a job BECAUSE he can do the thing he's always talking about --otherwise, it would be dangerous).
I think that no matter what the stories are about, Ryan really needs to be one of those guys that can just smile when all you want to do is scream. A likeable character, almost funny, that goes with the flow and somehow makes things work out for good. What is happening to him is so strange that he's got to take it with a measure of comedy; otherwise, he'd just go crazy.
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