Hey, I am not sure about this completely….
So what are we going to change? Listen, we can't get it all in and we have every right to change a few things. How about we do the first chapter with Elfangor and do flashbacks to how they all got to the construction site at first. Also, I always wanted the Marco Rachel relationship to be explained more. We could get a little more there. Heck, we could have Rachel break it off with Tobias at one point because she has an interest in Marco. If we do this and get a new fanbase, there will be people who ship Marco and Rachel. Also we can go back to the rough draft of the story at first. We could bring back Jake's younger brother and have an arc involving him figuring out the truth about Jake and Tom.
The idea of exploring Rachel and Marco’s interrelationship definitely needs to be done. There was only a brief suggestion of the two being in toes, and even so, I recall the flirting was only in Marco’s part. It was interesting, but never something concrete, for we all KNOW whose heart Rachel’s belong to.
I think FOR THIS PROJECT,
we should try to stick to the plot as much as possible.
We can’t get it all in, granted. Aiming to
fixing K.A.S.U.’s, yeah, two thumbs up. But I think, to try to INVENT things that DIDN’T happen could only complicate things.
Developing a plot where, eg:. Marco and Rachel invest on a relationship, to then have it end or something sounds a little off tune to what we are trying to achieve here.
There never was, of course, a ‘Jake’s younger brother’. Again, this could be a genuine wishful thinking on your part. And there's probably lots of fanfics already with it.
Since we hardcore fans KNOW the whole series we can help each others in the whole storytelling process. The idea of a
flashback intro is sound, it is important! WE HERE would know what to include in the flashbacks.
My concern is that Animorphs is such a great fantasy series, it has stories within stories to tell. The implications of actions and reactions of war (good X evil) has always been something I took with me from this series. But Animorphs is also a story about fighting the odds, change, personal sacrifices, friendship, love, loyalty, justice, truth to self, etc...
All of the above would consist of A LOT of TEXT and a lot of text = a lot of speech balloons in a comic book. These reading components tend to 'slow down' the visual effect, and thus, the story-telling gets hindered.
I am not sure I would do well in illustrating pages and pages of dialogue between the 6 main characters and dialogue and no action. I mean, if you guys knew what work goes behind creating these layouts. Can you imagine HOW MANY panels one would need to make to break up all those paragraphs make them look interesting on a page?!?!?! It’s a real challenge!
This is why I am going to say that maybe, we should give more attention to the story telling and focus less on things such as long conversations or interplay ...
All that stuff has already been done and can be found in the series!!!
A Graphic Novel is a different medium, as a tribute to the series we love, it holds the potential to make the reader GO BACK to this rich and special series we've all read back to front to get the REAL detail.
That's my perspective on this project.
