Storytelling Engines
John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: Blackhawks
Here’s the latest Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Click here to read John’s description of what a Storytelling Engine IS, anyways. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented. Storytelling Engines: Blackhawks (or “The Theme Team”) In a way, it’s a little surprising that we’ve gotten this far into this series of columns and [...]
John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: Shi
Here’s the latest Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Click here to read John’s description of what a Storytelling Engine IS, anyways. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented. Storytelling Engines: Shi Hey, kids! Comics! Billy Tucci’s ‘Shi’ comes out of a very different era in comics than most of the ones I’ve discussed [...]
John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: Highlander
Here’s the latest Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Click here to read John’s description of what a Storytelling Engine IS, anyways. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented. Storytelling Engines: Highlander (or “There Won’t Be Only One”) ‘Highlander’ is a relative rarity among storytelling engines, because it didn’t start out as one. In [...]
John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: Futurama
Here’s the latest Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Click here to read John’s description of what a Storytelling Engine IS, anyways. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented. Storytelling Engines: The Simpsons (or “Packing Up The Shop”) Futurama, Matt Groening’s second television series, suffered from a single great problem that afflicts all too [...]
John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: The Simpsons
Here’s the latest Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Click here to read John’s description of what a Storytelling Engine IS, anyways. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented. Storytelling Engines: The Simpsons (or “And Then The Children Were Rescued By…Oh, Let’s Say Moe.”) The storytelling engine of the Simpson family is a pretty [...]
John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: Doctor Who
Here’s the latest Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Click here to read John’s description of what a Storytelling Engine IS, anyways. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented. Storytelling Engines: Doctor Who (or “The Perfect Engine”) Disclaimer time, here: I’m a bit biased when it comes to Doctor Who. I’ve been watching the [...]
John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: Star Wars
Here’s the latest Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Click here to read John’s description of what a Storytelling Engine IS, anyways. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented. Storytelling Engines: Star Wars (or “Parts Do Not An Engine Make”) When the Star Wars saga resumed, in 1991, it was with Timothy Zahn’s sleek [...]
John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: House of Secrets
Here’s the latest Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Click here to read John’s description of what a Storytelling Engine IS, anyways. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented. Storytelling Engines: House of Secrets (or “Imperfect Pitch”) When I wrote about ‘House of Mystery’ for this column, back in April of last year, I [...]
John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Here’s the latest Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Click here to read John’s description of what a Storytelling Engine IS, anyways. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented. Storytelling Engines: Buffy the Vampire Slayer or “Can’t Stop The Changes”) So, now that we’ve discussed Batman, Spider-Man, the X-Men, Superman, the Hulk, the Fantastic [...]
John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: Metamorpho
Here’s the latest Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Click here to read John’s description of what a Storytelling Engine IS, anyways. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented. Storytelling Engines: Metamorpho (or “Nobody Gets What They Want Except The Audience”) I’ve talked from time to time in this column about something I call [...]
John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: Human Torch
Here’s the latest Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Click here to read John’s description of what a Storytelling Engine IS, anyways. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented. Storytelling Engines: Human Torch (or, “Yes, The Human Torch Actually Had A Series”) Well, sort of. Back in the early days of the Fantastic Four, [...]
John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: Rampaging Hulk
Here’s the latest Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Click here to read John’s description of what a Storytelling Engine IS, anyways. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented. Storytelling Engines: Rampaging Hulk (or “Rejecting The Continuity Implant”) When Doug Moench took on the assignment of creating a new, stand-alone Hulk title (created due [...]
John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: Shazam!
Here’s the latest Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Click here to read John’s description of what a Storytelling Engine IS, anyways. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented. Storytelling Engines: Shazam! (or “It’s Alive! It’s ALIVE!”) From one Captain Marvel to another, we now look in on the original CM, whose publication history [...]
John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: Captain Marvel
Here’s the latest (well, sorta latest, I am a bit late with it – BC) Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Click here to read John’s description of what a Storytelling Engine IS, anyways. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented. Storytelling Engines: Captain Marvel (or “Winding It Up Until It Breaks”) The storytelling [...]
John Seavey’s Storytelling Engines: Robin
Here’s the latest Storytelling Engine from John Seavey. Click here to read John’s description of what a Storytelling Engine IS, anyways. Check out more of them at his blog, Fraggmented. Storytelling Engines: Robin (or, “You Can’t Be A Serious Superhero In Short Shorts”) Everyone knows who Robin is. If you think about the best-known superheroes [...]
