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I want to write a comic book about a superhero in his 20s who comes from a very wealthy family but my friend says its stupid. Should I give up?

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I want to write a comic book about a superhero in his 20s who comes from a very wealthy family but my friend says its stupid. Should I give up? - Sopuli

I’m writing a story about a biracial superhero. He’s in his 20s, and his dad is a Black billionaire. His mom is Japanese, and she comes from a wealthy family. I don’t want to give too much away, but there is something about his family’s history that resurfaces, and it connects to his powers. He is basically trying to find out what it is. My friend says the story is stupid and no one would want to read it.

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pinball_wizard 6d ago

Surprise is overrated.

Spoil the best bits early. If it gains traction, you can fill in all the earlier and later details.

Silly example: Star Wars owes it’s success today at least in part to Lucas being willing to drop into “Episode IV” first to let folks know what it’s really about.

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dustyData

Bad example. Star wars premiered as just “Star Wars”. The episode IV monicker was added in later remasterings of the film. It was indeed episode four of a six part saga Lucas wrote. But it was filmed first, as it was deemed the easier and cheapest one to film. The original script was a mess, and it was Lucas’s wife who salvaged the movie by cutting about a third of unnecessary fluff and bad dialogue that Lucas had filmed and editing the whole deal as a traditional hero’s journey.