Have you ever created your own comic world?

[Alisha Mynx]

Like many comic fans who were also cursed with too much free time and an overactive imagination, I created some comic book worlds as a teenager that I always dreamed would be turned into a published work. Some of it still floats around my head from time to time, influencing characters I play in MMOs or settings I suggest to friends for RP. 

I'm also curious if anyone else has done this (I'm sure we all have to varying degrees. from creating a character to creating a whole multiverse). 


The majority of my characters that weren't made as fan characters set in existing comic universes exist within what I call "The Novaverse".  There exists some twisted homages to DC and Marvel characters (which are the older heroes, The Old Guard), such as Novaman (The "first" superhero, similar to Superman, now going through a messy divorce and an alcoholic) and Captain Freedom (A Captain America-like hippie). 

But most of my stories revolved around the newer generation of heroes attending the Kirby-Lee Institute for Superhumans and Extra-Normals (cut me some slack, I was like 13 when I came up with it, and other creators get homages too as the campus buildings and such are named after other comic creators) as well as the associated (but almost rival) Gaiman Academy.  Characters included:

Nova-Girl: 18-year-old niece of Novaman.  Similar to She-Hulk's origin, her powers originate from a blood transfusion from her relative (his blood, while alien, was compatible as a truly "universal donor" to near-human and humanoid species). 

Buddy:  16-year-old with a power ring that transforms him into a cartoon-like character.  He's pretty much the "average comic geek".  While his ring seems magical, it is actually advanced alien tech from another dimension.

Danger:  10-year-old half brother of Buddy.  Posesses similar ring, but instead it activates latent alien DNA in his body and allows him to transform into a 9-foot-tall demonic bat creature with destructive sonic screams.  Has genius-level intellect, but prefers to hide it. 

Lace:  19-year-old, creates strands of psychic energy, a power she nicknamed "weaving".  With enough focus, the strands can form weapons, but the larger the strands, the sooner she exhausts herself. 


I know it's cheesy, but it's something that never left my mind.  Every once in a while I still imagine new adventures or imagine the "evil mirror universe" counterparts to the characters (because versions of characters with black leather and the males having goatees is cool    ).

[Navarre]

I have created over 500 characters that share the same self-created universe. I'll get back to you and post a few when I get time.

Nice thread. 

[Alisha Mynx]

I have created over 500 characters that share the same self-created universe. I'll get back to you and post a few when I get time.

Nice thread. 

I've lost a proper count on how many characters I actually have within the Novaverse alone.  Heroes, civilians, aliens, sentient robots, alternate reality duplicates, "regular" duplicates, etc. as well as the history, future, alternate timelines and so on all have their own slightly different characters. 

I'm not even going to try to take a count, since it would take a while and I'd have to make several tree charts since some characters are actually duplicates of others (clones, alternate versions, someone else taking over the role, etc). 

[Navarre]

I'd have to make several tree charts since some characters are actually duplicates of others (clones, alternate versions, someone else taking over the role, etc). 

They are all products of the Weapon X Program, aren't they?

[Alisha Mynx]

I'd have to make several tree charts since some characters are actually duplicates of others (clones, alternate versions, someone else taking over the role, etc). 

They are all products of the Weapon X Program, aren't they?

Shh!!  That's the big ultra-secret final issue revelation!!!

Actually, the duplicate stuff started as a sort of joke with the Buddy character (who is sort of a semi-parody character himself and a lot of comic cliches tend to happen to or because of him), but it grew into part of the overall story.  Some of those elements translated over into my "main" storylines.   

There is also an Iron Man-like armor, but the twist being not one single person operates it.  It's keyed to a specific family genetics, and it can seriously harm any one user if used for too long without rest.  So a whole family takes turns operating it, swapping out a "pilot" every few days and cycling back again. 

Also, sometimes a character's power "burns out" or they retire or they go crazy, so someone might take over for that specific character. 

And of course there is the homage to Earth-1/Earth-2 and so on as well as "What If?", but in the Novaverse it is very rare for a true "double" of anyone to exist in an alternate timeline, as the timelines were all split at the Big Bang in the Novaverse and rarely branch off like in normal comic universes.

[Navarre]

I was in the process of creating a solar system for a space-faring team. They were sort of like the Guardians of the Galaxy crossed with the Legion. I created them maybe 10 years ago, I don't remember.

The Sentry

[Chris_D]

Over the many many years of my nerdery I've created well over 200 characters for any number of universes. Moreover, I've created a great deal of universes as well! Most of them went stale and never saw much, but in the campaigns I've DM'd and in City of Heroes and similar titles I've come to let them out slowly and allow them to live and breathe!

With so many things collapsing over the last few months though, I've lost my creative outlets, but am patiently waiting for a time when the juices start to flow again.

[Navarre]

Yeah, my sorta-girlfriend (not that I'd start a thread over her or anything) is a very creative sort. We are planning on building a whole new D&D game world together.

Maybe if you found a friend who enjoyed that sort of thing you could take advantage of the collaborative energy.

There's also a Collaborations section here on the forum but it goes sadly untouched. There is a great (if now unused) thread in the General Discussion called the Legion of Fans.

Along with some other members, we created a team of characters. I even wrote the first script of their fictional comic, if you read far enough through the 71 page thread.

[Alisha Mynx]

Might as well throw in any "established continuity" based characters too, just for fun. 

Massacre:  This was actually something I did for a Wizard contest (You know, back when Wizard was about comic books?) for an Amalgam character.  Massacre was essentially just Doomsday with the Carnage symbiote.  I had even drawn an epic picture with stylized lettering of the name being grabbed by his hand and was almost finished when my principal saw it and thought I was planning a mass student murder (this is the same guy who suspended one of my younger brother's friends because he said he used P2P to get a song, and the principal was adamant that P2P was a new drug).  Just to tick him off, my art teacher entered it into a contest along with some of my other stuff.  So I didn't get to send it to Wizard, but I got a nice set of artist pencils from another contest for it.

Megan Tereon:  A feral catgirl mutant teenager (the name is derived from megantereon, the scientific name for sabertooth tigers).  While I did eventually shift the character to my own universe, she was initially created as an X-Men character (and an excuse to draw a cute girl in ripped-up clothing).  I had also planned for her to eventually take a trip to the Savage Land and find a baby sabertooth tiger that would become her constant companion. 


I'm going to see if I can find the disc with the pictures before I post anymore of these, but I might list a few more Novaverse characters later.

[Navarre]

I had a character named Massacre. She wasn't very cool though.

She was some villain, with a penchant for killing people, who could grow larger and stronger by absorbing mass from other objects.

y'know: Massacre?

Hey, I was a teenager when I created her. What did I know. Cool as most Marvel/DC villains at the time.

Starro? Really?

[greyman24]

When I was a teenager, we scripted, penciled, inked and colored a few pages of a book.

I outlined the story for a few issues, but that's the furthest we got.

I've roughed in outlines for 3 novels since then, and started 2 of them: all to stall out. Also roughed in outlines for 2 other comics--one DC and one Marvel--but had no drive to go further.

Anyway, the teenaged comic was sort of like New Universe/Smallville--most of the "heroes" were formed from a single event--testing at a closed-in containment facility. The "villain" was this ancient vampire...no explanation given on why there's vampires, except that they are very shadowy. Eventually, the big reveal was supposed to be that the "heroes" were also being controlled by another vampire.

[Navarre]

Anyway, the teenaged comic was sort of like New Universe/Smallville--most of the "heroes" were formed from a single event--testing at a closed-in containment facility. The "villain" was this ancient vampire...no explanation given on why there's vampires, except that they are very shadowy. Eventually, the big reveal was supposed to be that the "heroes" were also being controlled by another vampire.

If you had beaten Twilight to the punch you could have been at the front of the vampire vanguard.

[Gaumer]

Yes. But nothing on paper or anything. Well, not much of it.

USAF Fighter Squadron gets volunteered for a special mission. Ends up in space, past the moon, to a shit ton of bases and such. Outer space fighter training.

The earth has been at war for thousands of years. With each other, yes, but with a whole other planet, mars. Mars used to have a population that lived on the surface but it was wiped out by an advanced earth civilization thousands of years ago (Atlantis) through nuclear attacks. Isotopes found on the martian surface actually lead some scientists to this hypothesis (not very remarkable scientists, and they assume it was a cosmic event) which, in turn, forced the martian to unleash a viral illness on the earth, killing many in localized areas, and forcing the martian inhabitants underground.

This sent the conflict into a (very) cold war with neither said having the resources to continue the conflict. In time (thousands of years), both sides forgot about the other while earth did its thing and mars did its. Around the turn of the 20th century, mars had a grand archeological find: one of the many gates that link mars and earth. Mars quickly and secretly reignited the fight, but this time sent martians to earth disguised as earthlings ready to usurp the civilization from the inside. Their first doppelganger: Adolph Hitler. Throughout history, most of the conflicts on earth were not fought over earthly ideals, but after these gates and these foreign invaders, most recently the taking of the gates in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya from martian invaders.

But, in 2015, a new threat to the solar system is found that is so dangerous that the two stop their war, team up against the new threat, sharing resources, technology and personnel in a rapid draft to stop the new 3rd party invading threat.

We focus on the drafted/volunteered group of fighter pilots and prolly one from mars that has to team up with them. I figure we have the whole martian side know about the history between the two worlds and have a hatred of propaganda while the earthers try to understand the history of everything and earn trust and acquire their own bigotries in the new race.

This bounces around my dome with some other stuff that I can never quite get the handle on to put on paper in a way I think makes sense enough to get scripted to anything close to entertaining. Just one of those ghosts.

[Navarre]

Very interesting concept though.

Wow, those Martians sure can hold a grudge, huh?

[Gaumer]

Very interesting concept though.

Wow, those Martians sure can hold a grudge, huh?

I'm not sure. Let me level your house with a nuclear bomb so you have to live underground and not see the sun for generations

That's a grudge you hold and hold tight.