Trapped Inside a Novel
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Uninspired teenage writer Kendra gets more than she bargained for one day when she rages at her characters for being uncooperative - and they respond by sucking her into their world! Now Kendra is trapped inside her own poorly-created dystopia, Sablescape, dealing with obnoxious, one-dimensional protagonists, avoiding the clutches of a clichéd evil corporation, and trying not to fall down plot holes. Her only hope of escape? To write the novel’s ending.
Credits
Kendra Reid characterised by: enchantedsleeper
Zero and Nocturne characterised by: Emihaumut
Leon characterised by: GrimBen
Mekin Riamess and Deist Laimor characterised by: Z o k u r u m b a
Script Compiled by: enchantedsleeper and GrimBen
Character Design by: Emihaumut and Z o k u r u m b a
Art by: Z o k u r u m b a
Colouring by: Emihaumut (probably...)
Kendra Reid characterised by: enchantedsleeper
Zero and Nocturne characterised by: Emihaumut
Leon characterised by: GrimBen
Mekin Riamess and Deist Laimor characterised by: Z o k u r u m b a
Script Compiled by: enchantedsleeper and GrimBen
Character Design by: Emihaumut and Z o k u r u m b a
Art by: Z o k u r u m b a
Colouring by: Emihaumut (probably...)
Trapped Inside a Novel is Catalytic Production's second comic, and in about three and a half years we've yet to come up with a better title than that. So I'm going to kick off the first ever contest in our new(ly renovated) guild by offering 10,000 gold to whoever can come up with a decent title for this project. If there are a few entries we like, we'll do a proper poll and vote on it, but one uber-awesome attention-grabbing title has the potential to win instantly if it's good enough. :3
Sablescape, the world of the novel, is designed to be a cyberpunk dystopia. So the comic combines lots of cyberpunk tropes with a bit of modern-day stuff from the "real" world. The comic has a pretty humorous tone thanks to a cast of witty and sarcastic characters, and pokes fun at lots of bad writing clichés, such as the loner main character with an angsty past or the tendency to write in one's enemies from real life as antagonists. But there are also some darker, more surreal moments within the poorly-conceived and unpredictable universe of Sablescape. Overall genre? Who knows. razz
Thus far we have been developing the plot of TiaN through a roleplay, hence why the credits for the comic are so weird. Roleplaying out the plot is slower and introduces an extra step for the writing where everything has to be compiled into script form, but it works wonders on a characterisation front. Each character from TiaN has their own unique voice and they interact in messed up, funny ways, which gives the overall story more depth even if not all of these interactions make it into the final comic.