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The Interactives "The Book of Masks"  : A high school student discovers a grimoire that can make magical disguises."The Wandering Stars" : Sequel to "The Book of Masks.""Student Bodies" : A high school student is turned into a blue goo that can possess people.For non-WdC Members "The Book of Masks: Archives" : Dodges the "Servers Busy" barrier!"The Book of Masks (Abridged)" : Introductory storylines for new readers.Community "BoM/TWS Message Forum" : Community for readers of the interactives."BoM/TWS/SB Wiki" : Notes and documentation for authors. Spoilers!Current Polls None The Latest 5/14: Interactive: "The Family of Heather Dow" 5/14: Public: "The Family of Heather Dow"
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| Today, as part of my silly Spider-Man project, I posted Part 3 of the three-episode Season One finale. Tomorrow, I'll be posting Episode 1 of Season Two. In the meantime I can brag that I've finally reached the end of Phase One. My plan (to reiterate) is to compose my own version of the comic's "Superior Spider-Man" arc without seeing how the IRL-series did it. But because I was dissatisfied with the way the IRL-series set up characters and conflicts and histories, I decided to make my own continuity. So, starting from Season 1, Episode 1, I've been writing detailed treatments of my own version of the series. I started the project a year ago, and after long stops and short starts, I have now finished all that prep work. I now have treatments for twenty-five Season One episodes, and treatments for thirteen Season Two episodes. I have brought my series up to the point where the "Superior Spider-Man" arc can start. And that's where I'm going to leave it for a bit. I'm pooped. Episodes 1 through 13 will appear one day at a time over the next, um, thirteen days, but I'm going to go back to BoM while that's happening. I won't resume publishing until Masktrix finishes the 15-chapter arc I commissioned from him, but between now and then I'll be working on new things in the BoM universe. I've accepted a commission to write some chapters in "The Wandering Stars"; after that I'll probably do something for myself. And then we'll see. Right now, though, I want to crawl into a hole and sleep. The last three days in particular have been grueling, as I've clambered toward the end. There is a novel's worth of words in this project, and right now I feel like every single one of them was a punch to my rib cage. |
| "S01E25 "The Day of the Jackal, Part 3"" takes some inspiration from the IRL-series's "Spider-Island Part 5" by setting the climax in a spider-infested Oscorp Tower. In addition the help that (some of) The Sinister Six give in battling the Jackal comes from their appearance in "The Rise of Doc Ock, Part 4," where they are goons working for Osborn, but I changed the tenor and import of their use here. Norman's death scene also comes from that episode. Otherwise, it's mostly mine. "The Day of the Jackal," and the first season of my alternate continuity as a whole, were intended to solve three problems that I had with the first season: 1. Harry kept yo-yoing between Peter and his dad in terms of loyalty. I wanted to create a sense of steady but encroaching tension and alienation before the final snap. Did I succeed? That's not for me to judge. I have my doubts, but I'm not going to go back and revise the first season to polish it up. 2. In the IRL-series, Norman gets a great death scene in Episode 18, but then comes back in Episode 19 (in disguise) as a mutant spider-monster; gets changed back to human in the course of the 5-part "Spider-Island" arc; is hospitalized; and briefly dons a disguise as the Hobgoblin to menace Spider-Man. It's just a mess. I thought it better to end the season with his implied death, and to use that death to motivate a break between Peter and Harry. 3. The Spider-Island arc is supposed to put paid to the Jackal and his plans, but that arc is followed by the barely related two-part Hobgoblin season finale. It seemed to me better to cut out the Hobgoblin stuff, which could be saved for Season Two or later, and to end the season with the climax of the season-long Jackal plot. |
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