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I write and don't draw, so can't offer my assistance there, sorry.

On a related note, though, how did you meet up with Matt G. Gagnon? He can really draw.

I can't, for some reason, go back and edit my previous post, so ignore the previous URL. go to davidbaillie.net and click on "Words". you'll find the synopses there.

David Baillie's "Future Shocks" synopses.

http://www.davidbaillie.net/blog/

thank you John and Alec. I wondered if I should also include a cover letter as a means to brag about inform them of my previous comics credits.

Mine are always single spaced, and whilst I've never had a shock accepted I've had enough feedback on occasion to suggest a single spaced synopsis hasn't put them off looking at the script itself.

happy to know that they give feedback. I have submitted prose short fiction and know to expect usually nothing accept the notice of rejection and sometimes a request to send something else. but nothing in the way of suggestions for improvement.

I would've said for a four page future shock you should be able to get the entire synopsis in a paragraph.

hoo boy... thanks for that. I find it tough to compress a story down into synopsis form without leaving out the details which make it different and not generic. (not that I have a generic premise, I mean just in general.)

Dunk!, you totally could make a living off your art. artists of lesser ability have done it. I particularly like your facial expressions. comics artists commonly can't do facial expressions very well. I do not know the plot (obviously) but I could roughly figure out what happened in the story without a word.

about your reference to a "black dog": do not listen to what shrinks have to say. don't even listen to yourself, certainly not to anyone else who agrees that you can't do it. keep on going.

But whenever I see child actors of that quality, I can't help but wonder how Jake Lloyd ended up in The Phantom Menace.  (Having said that, Neeson and McGregor don't act much better in that...)

I have heard a film director say that whenever you see a bad performance in the films to blame the director, because a good director can get good acting from anybody. I consider the prequel trilogy underrated, actually. more the second and third ones than the first. 

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It's more the undercutting of the scene with the boys reacting to [spoiler]finding the body[/spoiler]. It meant less because in some fashion we know he is still alive; leaving the electrical interference till [spoiler]after the body was found[/spoiler] still would've allowed for the possibility for Will [spoiler]to be in a spirit form[/spoiler] - if that was the way the story was to go.

we don't disagree! I meant to say that I agree with you on that score. and I think that the series went on a bit too long. or maybe could have used shorter episodes.

anyway, I would give it four out of five stars or 80% or something like that. granted, I dote on the '80's imagery but I just plain liked it.

you know, thanks for that!

also, I recognize your icon picture. Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons. I would recognize a Target novelization cover anywhere.

The switcheroo isn't a bad idea in and of itself but what's the point trying to play the [spoiler]finding of the body as a sad moment for the kids[/spoiler] when it's all ready been telegraphed [spoiler]to the mother - and the audience - in ouija style flickering lights and phone calls that the kid is clearly still alive in some form of existence[/spoiler]. Completely undercuts the emotion. Would've been better to [spoiler]find the body[/spoiler] first then have the lights begin flickering at the end of an episode.

it would have worked better. although [spoiler]it allowed for the possibility of Will's spirit continuing to exist in the Upside-Down after his body had died, since we did not quite know how the metaphysics of the setting worked[/spoiler].

yes, it borrowed from Under the Skin blatantly. I wouldn't have halved the number of episodes but I would have shortened it by one or two. less of the soap opera. still, I liked it just as much as I had hoped. it neither talked to us nor presented itself as self-serious Art. (okay, maybe during one musical interludes.)

on the subject of Under the Skin, though, the original novel by Michel Faber has a lot going for it, too. very different from the film, well worth reading. it reminded me of the work of Iain Banks.

the script submissions make it clear how to format a 2000 AD script. but I've seen no examples of the one page synopsis meant to accompany the script. does anyone know?