[Photo-Comic] I-Planetary V.2 Chapter 1

[dyrl]

Chapter 1 online and in english! Now - a word of eplanation before you proceed to read this. I wrote the Prologue to I-Planetary V.2 with the intention of having it serve as the basis for a Role Playing Comic Book game that the Polish Transformers Fandom would participate in. Fans would pick a character from my toy collection and subsequently play that character in the comics. Fans would recieve a questionaire to fill out, detailing the situation their character was in, how many energon cubes they had at their disposal, who was under their command etc etc. I did not set any guidelines or have any "rules" insofar as what the fans DID with their characters - and the results were sometimes perplexing. If you think, for instance, that Optimus Primal behaves like a 9 year old in the following comic, that is because he was "played" by a 9 year old!

Happily - the young lad was so angry over my"misinterpretation" of his answers to the questionaire that he left the game and someone else took over Optimus Primal from chapter 2 onward - but often times, this zany formulae led to some real pickles in terms of plot - an after chapter 4, I developed a "Sister Series" called "Intermezzo" (this title "borrowed" from Dave of "Dave's Transformer Page") - where I chronicle various small stories, written by me, that happen alongside the "main" story of I-Planetary V2. Anyways - here we go!














dyrl

[Shockprowl]

It's ok! A good romp! Yeah the Primal bit was a bit, interesting, but I love the bits on Earth! (and no not just it's got Prowl in it!). Love the way you get expressions on the figs!

[dyrl]

Thanks for the kind words, Shockprowl!

I too enjoy what the "fans" did with Earth, and the chap who plays Prowl has a pretty good head on him and is reasonable in the way he maps out his actions.

However, I must admit that having little kids play major characters does have its' pluses - or at least I hope you might acknowledge as much in future - because it leaves these utterly bizarre plot twists that beg for resolution and force a person to really think about how to resolve them later.

The Optimus Primal bizzaro-plot was resolved in later chapters by the new chap who came in to "play" Primal... but there are other characters who - due to little kids playing them - end up doing equally crazy things... (notice how it is mentioned that Starscream has "robbed a gas station"? - well - there you have the contribution of the kid who played Starscream for this episode - I didn't bother showing the dastardly event [since the kid didn't bother describing it for me] - and hopefully being relegated to a sentence spoken by Red Alert scared the bugger off ... but later I had to go back on my own and resolve the Starscream thread)...

Anyways - next chapter coming soon

thanks!
dyrl

[Andy Turnbull]

Splendid - oh and I love the use of the MCP for the city of Cybertropolis!

Andy

[Nigel]

The Primal section is my favourite bit! (Specifically, the others' reactions to him.)

How did you do the background for Ginrai's ambush?

[legios]

Yep, Primal is definitely a bit bonkers there - entertaining that the other faction leaders do notice this.

Karl

[dyrl]

Well - what happened was that the kid playing Primal filled out his questionaire with what I assume to be "running thoughts."

You know - when you haven't determined a course of action in a plot yet, you probably brain storm possibilities and kind of run with them in your mind - if this, then that...

Sadly, the youngster ran with ALL of them at once - a case of over-exhuberence

I could have probably pointed it out - but the last thing I wanted to do was intervene in how someone was playing their character. After all - the whole point of the exercise was to let other people write the plot FOR me...

Although - like I already noted - in the end I just felt compelled to tie up the dangling plot points that go unresolved as the chapters proceed

Next installment coming soon!

dyrl