Well, just a super-quick update on the Aria Blade front. I won't lie to you guys, there's a LOT that I still feel needs to be done to improve the story not even counting work on the final chapter of the initial saga, but I'm almost done with the first chapter's revisions.
It doesn't hurt that it really didn't need much work. I've touched up dialogue here and there, and unified narrative, adding and editing as I felt necessary. It's shaping up rather nicely.
Now, I just need to decide on a proper title. "The Adventures of Aria Blade" was originally just supposed to be a placeholder, as the actual comic book's original focus, before Robin came to live with Margie, was on Raven Wing. I'm sure I'll figure something out before it's time to start reposting chapters, though. :-D
Although the first chapter needed the least work of all of them, it still feels like progress getting it done because it really gets the creative juices flowing to keep going.
Anyway, just wanted to post this heads-up. I don't have any definite timeline for anything, but trust me, you'll know when it's ready for posting ;-)
~Zoe
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Hmm... titles?
Do you want to give the story itself the same title as the comic series? There's always going the old route the first Superman and Batman series did, releasing the comics as something like "Dark Heart Comics Featuring Raven Wing" or some such, where the title might have moved to "Dark Heart Comics Featuring Aria Blade" for the issues focusing on her, or something like that, shifting the title depending on the character who most often serves as the primary focus that issue.
Or something.
Melanie E.
Trouble in This Case...
...I think, is that at the time she began, Margie wouldn't have expected the lead character to change, so she wouldn't have had a reason to pick a neutral title back then. I think the usual process, as much as anything along these lines is usual, is to start with "Raven Wing", then shift to (smaller print) "Raven Wing and" (larger print) "Aria Blade" with the lead character change. Raven Wing's still such a significant character that I doubt that we'd have reached the point of removing her from the title, even though the story now sometimes proceeds without her.
(The use of title transitions started in order for the old comics companies to keep publishing under the same second-class (periodical rate) permits even as the characters changed. A new permit was relatively expensive (three figures, I think, even back when comics cost 10¢) and often time-consuming: three or four issues could come out before you could sell subscriptions without a surcharge. Better to turn "Moon Girl" into "The Moon, A Girl: Romance", as EC (later infamous for horror/gore comics and still later famed for Mad Magazine) tried in the early 1950's, or so the story goes. (Neither title sold.))
Eric
Hmmm, remind me please
What was the pre-Aria Blade name of the comic book? Because, perhaps you can make a sort of a big name image, then put a smaller one below: "The Aria Blade Saga" or "The Trickster" depending on what you choose...
And when the current storyline ends, you can add additional sagas. :)
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Now that you mention it...
I never officially named it in-universe, but as it turns out I did have a name buried deep within the recesses of my notes: Shadowcraft
It was word play on Raven Wing's abilities and the overarching involvement of the Trickster, and to a more cryptic extent, the comic's "anonymous" author, according to the fansite buzz ;-)
Shadowcraft: Aria Blade should work nicely, and allow for a possible future prequel like Shadowcraft: Raven Wing :-D
Teehee!
My, it seems my idea is catchy! Yay! ^_^
Also, I wonder, will you try your hand at prequel as a traditionally told story, or maybe as a part of, well, RW reminiscing on it, possibly as part of psychotherapy sessions or as sharing her life with AB.
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Literally just finished the title page ;-)
Although I want to get everything finished this time before I start reposting :-D I'm really happy with how the first three chapters are turning out so far though. The fight scenes feel more substantial and less thrown-together so far.
That is an excellent question on the possibility of a prequel. I've only given it some token thought overall, though I am kicking around a few ideas, including the possibility of a one-shot where RW relives some of her earlier exploits in the form of her nightmares tormenting her ;-)