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sigridellis1

Name: Sigrid ELlis

Bio: Found at Thinking Too Much, and twittering as sigridellis.


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Once again, this turns into a great little noir story. We have all the classic elements of noir — the…

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Eugenics. Eugenics were a big deal in the 1930s and 40s. Criminals were of a type, they were born that…

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This is a really well-done book. In a week with four, count ’em, *four* X-Men titles out — including two…

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April 27, 2009 7:50 pm

I have ten pages of script.  I'd like an artist with whom to collaborate.  Not, honestly, on the full ten pages -- that's a lot of work in a few weeks!  But I'd like a couple of pages, to get a sense of the visual.

The nursery rhyme is:

Los Pollitos dicen -- pio, pio, pio
Cuando tienen hambre, cuando tienen frio
Su mama les busca el maiz y el trigo
led da la comida y les presta abrigo
Baja sus dos alas acurrucaditos
hasta el otro dia duermen los pollitos
 
The pitch is:
 
Pop singer Xiomara Wilson, stage name Ixtab.  Gorgeous Mayan-Hispanic ethnicity, adopted in the U.S.  Huge goth-pop-dance star, on her second album.  First album, Sacrifice, was a multi-platinum hit.  Breakout single was "Auto," short for autosacrifice, the practice of ritually letting one's own blood to replenish the divine energy of the Mayan gods so that they might be merciful.  Ixtab is on tour for her second album, Ceiba, and is writing songs on the bus and backstage.  She's just turned eighteen and has cut herself on stage for the first time.  Backstage, her mom comes to talk to her about her choices.
 
Email me at sigridellis at gmail dot com if you're interested.  Thanks again, iFanboy, for doing this! 

January 14, 2009 10:03 am This is really great, thank you!
January 8, 2009 9:40 am I enjoyed the fresh talent on the books and titles I love.  Maybe I didn't always approve of a creative choice, but I liked seeing the old warhorses go through some new hands.
January 8, 2009 9:01 am Huh, and here I thought this was a standalone noir story, for which you don't need any knowledge of the X-Men canon.
December 17, 2008 9:33 pm @SunnyvaleTrash   hah, thank you.
December 17, 2008 7:26 pm Oh, all those remarks just previous were estblished in previous titles, and aren't spoilers for THIS issue.
December 17, 2008 7:25 pm

Alex in chains!  Lorna a deranged prisoner!  Rachel a killer!

 

Okay, it wasn't as good as I'd hoped, but I am commited.  I also have no judgment where Rachel Summers-Grey is concerned, so I can't in good faith recommend for or against this comic. 

December 17, 2008 7:15 pm @SunnyvaleTrash  Two things -- why do you say that about Diggle and editorial?  I'm curious.  And, second, does your name mean you are near Sunnyvale, CA?  Feel free to NOT answer the second, but I know people out there.  :)
December 17, 2008 7:07 pm

The entire Noir concept is there for *fun*.  It's there to tell character-based stories about who these people are as people when you strip away the powers and the piles of canonical history.  Take away all of that, and what do you have?  Put them sometime else, and what do they do?  That is the purpose of this, that is the joy of this, that is the fun and the excitement of the Noir books.

 

With that as the understood purpose and goal, this is a fan-freaking-tastic comic.  It executes those ideas perfectly setting up a new world and new versions of these characters.  It starts a story whose conclusion I want to know. 

December 17, 2008 6:54 pm Er, let's pretend I can type.