Still alive!

Yes, I'm still alive. I've been sitting back reading other weblogs, but have not really taken the time to update my own. It's been well over a month and a lot has been going on. So much so I'll do what Kalinara does every one and a while and post things as bullet points.

Comics:

• Supergirl may finally be enjoayble for the quality rather than horidity. She is not fat. We are not being punished. Say hello to anatomy.
• Sinestro Corps is very enjoyable, much more so than Countdown is right now. I wish this to be the actual story of Kyle Rayner when it comes to continuity.
• I hope Countdown picks up speed soon.
• I am starting to really dislike Jimmy Olsen.
• I could care less right now about Donna Troy, Kyle Rayner, Jason Todd, and the Atom.
• I think the Atom is just tagging along for the ride, since he's only there to shrink the group.
• Monitors can't monitor every Monitor?
• Guess that's good and bad, since he's the one Monitor actually doing something. Sadly since they can't watch him none of the others can be inspired to leave the recap at the end of Countdown to act as well.
• Where are the rest of the Anti-Monitors?
• I do however get a kick out of the Trickster and Piper storyline. It's the only one I look forward to.
• Grant Morrison writes good Batman.
• Paul Dini writes great Detective.
• Filler writers are no where near either's quality.
• I'm sad that Conan is ending at 50.
• I'm happy it isn't cancelled. (just a name change/reboot)
• I am envious of Kalinara (and Ragnell) for attending Wizards in Chicago. I almost made it but had to pull out.

Life:

• Greatest Story Ever Told is not dead as was previously stated.
• I had a moment of genius, reworked it, and it does finally work.
• I have nearly 5 pages inked. Takes a while, but I feel good about it.
• My novels are sitting at about 140 pages, I think, splashed across 3 books.
• They are on hold, obviously, but will be finished eventually.
• Book 1 is nearly halfway finished.
• I have yet to hear back on job applications.
• I'm starting to shop around again for employment options.
• I'm not sure who to send my resume to when trying to apply for "Batman"

Tick-Tock.

The Greatest Story Ever Told - Part 1

Prologue

A team of different skilled men were brought together in the middle of the Vietnam War. A expert pilot, a genius mechanic, a smooth talker, and their unconventional leader. The group was gathered from different corners of the war, and their mission was given the highest level of secrecy. Their code name was Team Alpha, or A-Team for short.

They were shipped back to America and deployed to a remote area on the west coast. Opperating independent of any other governing body, they were asigned a single task. Retrieve an alien artifact to prevent any other organization from getting their hands on it. No other information was provided.

To help in their mission, they sought out the Justice League. Not every member directly aided the A-Team, but they did help locate where the artifact was.

Eventually the group is captured by a secret company of Nazis, and when things look really bad a strike force of robots and cyborgs attack the camp and free the group. As it turns out, they had been monitoring communications of the A-Team, the JLA, and the Nazis.

Furthor truth is revealed about this artifact, and it turns out to be the Matrix. The Matrix belongs to the Autobots, which are in a way kin to the machines of this planet. That kinship presses the machines to seek out the crash site where the Matrix is located, and since the site is not electronically connected to the internet or any other electronic form of communication.

As the Justice League is negotiating with the machines what they will do with the Matrix, and to whom it would belong to, the A-Team sneaks away to continue on their mission.

They arrive at the crash site and sneak into a now-exposed spaceship sticking out of a volcano. There is wreckage everywhere, but no signs of life as they search around. The deeper in they searched, suddenly the place began to blink alive as lights turned on.

They frantically gather their things, but just at the last minute they notice a pale blue light coming from the chest of a large red humanoid robot. Thinking that is what they were after, they grab it.

As they try to escape it becomes evident that they are trapped inside this spaceship, while outside a battle is growing more and more large.

The machines had decended upon the wreck, fighting the Justice League, as well as a new army of flying machines lead by a grey machine with a energy cannon on his arm commanding them to attack everyone on the field. Other machine men were exiting the wrecked spaceship and joining the battle as well.

Soon it becomes apparent that the A-Team is alone inside the spaceship, and they begin to salvage wreckage that is laying about to armor up their van so they can make their escape safely.

They decide that if this many groups are all after this artifact, then it would probably be best if no one had it. THey then explode forth through the battlefield and escape.

Word travels fast that the A-Team had broken orders and had gone AWOL with the artifact. To cover up the incident the shadow government had it entered into official records that the team had formed to rob a bank, and an arrest-on-site proclomation was issued.

As we learn at the end of the opening chapter, it was Adolf Hitler who is in charge of the shadow government, still alive after his supposed death with help from a Lazerus Pit. With the Holy Grail granting him life and the Spear of Destiny granting him military strength, the Matrix would have made him the most commanding leader the universe had ever known.

Now that it was stolen from him, all his mind is focused on its return to him...

The Death of the Greatest Story Ever Told

Well...I know it is a quick notice, and a quick ending, but I've decided to seal the fate of tGSET. No more work will happen on it, but I will keep the comicspace account - its the only email that worked for signing up, which is frustrating to no end. It isn't that it gets filtered out with the bulk mail on my main account...it's that it never shows up at all. Oh well.

Despite the project getting the axe, I feel I should at least make it known to the public what the story would have followed in any case. In the next few days I will begin typing out a general summery of the story in all its epiciness.