In our continuing explorations of story development- this Friday we took our favorite character and placed them in different eras of time. By shaking things up a bit we discovered that changing the context of action our comics are able to draw on key events in history for plot and subplot themes, cool new costume and prop ideas and even changes in character dialect.
The other big exorcise we tried out for the afternoon was creating an alternate time line for the world. As per usual this was hilarious and any one of the key events would make for an excellent comic or comic series. The following is not a comprehensive list but our favorite moments in time that you may not have noticed...
400 AD- Angles and Saxons come to England, Hadrian builds a wall
500 AD- Cthulu begins plans on making you a sandwich, since he invented the sandwich, it should be called Cthulu
600 AD- The alien race we now call humans came to this planet and colonized
793 AD- Some people start dying off, other people get mad
1066 AD- Race of different aliens take over world and make humans slaves
1067 AD- Space becomes cool
1200 AD- Farts invented
1201 AD- Legos invented
1300 AD- A herd of kraken take over the world
1337 AD- Jerry met an alien and was sadly not historically recognized
1400 AD- Annika is recognized as a god
1450 AD- An artist made a painting or something
1492 AD- Columbus comes to America
1500 AD- Cavemen live again
1501 AD- They die
1502 AD- Due to dimensional rift a million vampires invade
1600 AD- Sudden skip in time it is now 5,000 AD
5001 AD- Time works out the kinks
1562 AD- Earl of Sandwich steals Cthulu's idea
1865 AD- Lincoln assassinated by Plague Doctor
6000 AD- It was all just a dream, nothing ever happened
