Chapter 201 Comics with Different Styles (1/2)

"Isn't it ironic?"

On the balcony, footsteps were heard from behind.

Captain America, or Peggy Carter, said in a low voice: "We have been working hard, but peace doesn't seem to be any different..."

As someone who lived in World War II, most of Carter's memories are related to the war.

She originally thought that the United States would become extremely miserable after the defeat.

However, everything she saw from the balcony didn't seem as bad as she imagined.

There is no war, no displaced families, and no constant fear.

For most ordinary people living here, victory and failure don't seem to be much different.

There is a huge gap between the eras in which Stephen and Peggy Carter lived.

Carter's era was at the most intense period of World War II, and everyone was influenced by patriotism. When Doctor Strange was born, World War II had already ended, and the United States had been a defeated country for a long time, and everyone had accepted it.

Therefore, he obviously couldn't understand the meaning of war and peace in Carter's mouth.

Peggy Carter didn't seem to expect Doctor Strange to understand this. She just turned her eyes away from New York and looked at Stephen behind her: "So, what is the purpose of waking me up?"

Being able to become the Captain America after Steve Rogers in that era full of discrimination against women, Peggy Carter is obviously not an ordinary woman.

Looking down at Steve Rogers' thick fingers, Carter gently held his palm and felt the powerful power contained in this body. She had witnessed the whole process of Steve's "super soldier" experiment with her own eyes, but she never thought that one day she would also gain this power.

Although, this process of gaining power is a little weird.

Looking at the eyes of the Captain America in front of him, Doctor Strange slowly stated his purpose: "Complete the unfinished war and get everything back on track!"

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"Sir, this is a comic created by Charles and William..."

The positive world, the Messenger Newspaper.

Jacob handed two drawings of different styles to Colin.

With the end of the recruitment, the Courier Comics has gradually entered the right track. Although the content of the comics is still mainly Superman, the picture album has also begun to try to publish the content of other comics.

For example, Jacob's "Human Torch" has been successfully serialized in the Courier Comics for several issues, and readers have expressed strong interest in this character derived from the "Superman" story.

Even in the readers' letters of the Courier, many fans have proposed that they hope to see the appearance of "Human Torch" in the "Superman" comics again.

With the success of the comic book "Human Torch", the Courier Comics has also begun to try to develop more comic stories different from "Superman".

The comics of William Steiger and Charles Adams were created under this premise.

Reaching out to take the draft from Jacob's hand, Colin looked down at the content above.

Although they are both cartoonists of the Courier's publishing house, they have even worked for The New Yorker at different times.

However, there are obviously huge differences in their creative styles and concepts.

William Steiger's comic style is more inclined to the childish style of children, so the colors presented in the drawings are often bright and vivid. The content mainly tells the story of a mouse named Abel drifting on a desert island. Obviously, William borrowed a lot from the plot of "Robinson Crusoe" in terms of the plot, but the childlike style of painting gave this drifting story a unique feeling.

Compared with the survival in the original "Robinson Crusoe", William's "Little Mouse Crusoe" gives people a fairy-tale-like dreamlike feeling.

This comic style that anthropomorphizes animals is also obviously created and designed for the children's market.

If William Steiger's "Little Mouse Crusoe" is a fairy-tale world dedicated to cultivating children's dreams, then Charles Adams is a completely opposite style.

Colin once mentioned in a conversation with Charles Adams that perhaps the story could be placed in the family to create a unique and eccentric family.

Charles obviously took Colin's idea and put it into action.

With the invention of the four-color double-sided offset printing machine, the publications published by Colin's newspapers are generally in color, whether it is newspapers or comic journals.

However, Charles went the other way and created a comic content "The Addams Family" with black and white as the main axis. The Adams family in the comic has a Gothic style with black humor. They hang pictures of cemeteries all over their homes, laugh when watching tragic movies, grow various dangerous plants at home, and borrow cyanide from their neighbors instead of ordinary seasonings.

In short, in "The Addams Family", Charles thoroughly brought his Gothic style that he has always implemented to the extreme.

His weird painting style and the content of the comics complement each other, giving people a sense of absurdity but with a little black humor.

It is worth mentioning that in the creation of comics, William and Charles had a dispute over the concept.

William Steiger thought Charles Adams's comics were too dark, but Charles retorted that he didn't understand what humor was.

Of course, most of the time, it was William who expressed his dissatisfaction.

Because Charles was more immersed in his own comic stories, Colin's idea of ​​"The Adams Family" gave him great creativity, making Charles eager to vent his dark Gothic style in his mind to this weird family.

After flipping through the two completely opposite comic stories in his hand, Colin did not have any dissatisfaction with this. On the contrary, he was very happy to see this happen.

After all, from the perspective of "Messenger Comics", the creation of comics does not require any boundaries.

Whether it is William's childlike "Little Mouse Drifting" or Charles's Gothic absurd "The Adams Family", they all have their own audiences. In this case, why should he abandon these readers?

There is never only one way to succeed in comics.

Moreover, through the serialization of "Little Mouse's Adventure" and "The Adams Family", "The Courier Comics" can also attract some readers who like specific comics, increase the sales of comics, and let these readers know or understand the content of "Superman" comics.

After all, in addition to the comics created by Jacob and others, the most popular and most published comics in "The Courier Comics" is still "Superman".

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In the Courier newspaper.

After receiving the decision that William's "Little Mouse's Adventure" and Charles' "The Adams Family" will be published together in the new issue of "The Courier Comics", Jacob took the drawings to the publisher under the newspaper.

On the other hand, the comic stories that will be serialized in the newspaper of "The Courier Daily" tomorrow are handed over to the coloring artist.

Colin left the newspaper and went to the Churchville Toy Factory where Fisher was.

Because tomorrow is Wednesday, it is the day when "Superman" serializes a long story in the newspaper.

Therefore, Colin made preparations early.

In this issue of the comic series, he designed two new villains to appear.

The previous story started with Luthor. This evil genius had a new evil plan. A reporter named John Coburn, one of his subordinates, was in a car accident. Luthor used his evil ability to transform him into a metal man with a metal body and implanted the terrorist's consciousness into the metal man's body.

Luthor gave the transformed metal man an order to destroy Superman, but ignored the wishes of John Coburn, the transformed man. When his consciousness conflicted with the ideas of the terrorists in his mind, he found that he had become a robot and actually began to attack his own transformer, Luthor.

Facing Luthor in crisis and the crazy and rampaging metal man, Superman appeared to save his old opponent, and successfully defeated the confused metal man and cleared the terrorist's will from his mind.

Colin's character design of the metal man not only borrowed from Superman's classic villains, but also added some of his own ideas to it.

Especially the design of the terrorist's will was obviously based on the experience of Crossbones in the anti-world.

This idea of ​​transforming people into machines was later borrowed by movies and created into a classic science fiction work.

In addition to the appearance of the metal man, Superman's replicator appeared in another serialized story.

The content of this comic mainly tells a story about Superman's past adventures. Professor Dalton made a replicating machine that can emit replicating rays and replicate people or objects illuminated by the rays, but in fact this device has huge defects.

In an experiment, Professor Dalton made a mistake, and the replicating ray hit Superman at the time, creating a defective, stupid, and ugly Superboy named Bizarro. This existence called Bizarro has completely opposite abilities to Superman. He has an inverted 'S' mark on his chest, can emit freezing rays from his eyes, and spit out flames from his mouth.

At the same time, the device also exploded and broke into pieces.

At that time, Superman could not defeat this copied guy because his abilities were almost the same as Superman's. Bizarro caused a lot of damage in the town.

Later, he met a blind girl and became friends with her.

On the other hand, Superman thought that the device that created Bizarro Superboy could destroy the monster, so he found a piece of the device in the ruins of the laboratory.

Although Bizarro was stupid, he was not evil. During the conversation with the girl, he felt the other party's kindness and felt that he had to do something for the girl. In the end, he found that his death could heal the blind girl's eyes, so he did not fight with Superman, but took the initiative to throw himself into the device fragments and turned into ashes.

After Bizarro's death, the blind girl's eyesight was restored. She said: "I am a blind person and have never seen Bizarro himself, but from his gentle voice, I know he must have a kind face."

This is the plot of Bizarro's first appearance in the "Superman" comics, and Colin did not make too many changes to it.

Bizarro, a comic character, has never been a simple villain. Colin also attaches importance to this setting and designed an ending that impressed readers for his first appearance in the comics.

And Colin has made arrangements. Once readers show their welcome to the character of Bizarro, he will revive him again in subsequent comics.

Even the plot has been arranged. Luthor will appear on the scene, disguised as Professor Dalton to deceive Superman's trust and then copy Bizarro.

As for why, Superman did not see through Luthor's disguise.

Don't ask, it's because of the plot. Anyway, it's set up like this in the original comics.

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"Mr. Luper."

Churchville, Fisher-Price Toy Manufacturing Factory.

Colin saw a large number of Lego blocks made by injection molding machines in the factory.

"We have produced a batch of Lego blocks according to your requirements."

Looking at Colin who appeared in the factory, Herman Fisher first expressed his welcome to him. Now with the production of Superman dolls, the other party has become Fisher's most important partner so far.

In addition to welcoming, Herman Fisher also expressed his concerns.

"It's just that Fisher-Price has no complete idea about how to sell these Lego toys."

Since the wooden Lego, the sales of this series of toys have been in a sluggish state. Although Fisher-Price has some objections to this, considering the ideas of Colin, the proposer, they have never dared to make too much opposition.

Anyway, unlike Superman dolls, the design of Lego blocks is completely led by Colin, and Fisher-Price is only involved as a toy production factory.

Even if this brand fails in the end, the impact on the factory is not great.

In fact, Margaret and others have begun to think about how to use injection molding machines to produce more popular toys.

Although Margaret is not optimistic about the prospects of Lego blocks, she has great confidence in injection molding machines, which becomes more obvious when Fisher-Price mass-produces Lego blocks.

Compared with ordinary toy workshops, injection molding machines are several times faster than workers' manual production in both production and production processes, and the toys produced are more standardized in both specifications and shapes. This is simply unimaginable in the current toy market.

Margaret can almost foresee how big of an impact these toys produced by injection molding machines will have on the traditional toy market once they enter the market.

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