Jumping to the point, when I've been sitting down to make one shots lately, I keep ending up making whole stories instead. I'll have an idea for a pagez maybe three pages, of stand alone gags for a premise. Then before I know it, I have a pretty fleshed outline for a 24-48 page story that seems very interesting.
Then I can't make the next one shot in that setting without figuring out all the rest of the pages. It's a great burst of creativity, but it is creating a bottle neck. Once I get stories settled, one shots, or extra comic pages shall continue.
What let's talk about what is in the works.
Superhero Story
I recently made a one shot of a superhero who has the power to change another gender/sex, and was using it to stop a robber. I had written a couple extra pages. Then as I thought about it more, a world formed around him with a jealous ally and boys club of a justice league, that are more that welcome to have him as a member, but not his female ally.
Status: Online has a little more to go, but have already been writing the opening pages.
Stolen Trade
I've been playing around with the idea of people hacking the nanobot tech for quite a while. And that was going to be a one shot or two. Once again, there were too many ideas to explore with this, and a lot of players would be involved, and more opportunities to show how the tech, rules and the world works.
Set five years after Open Trade, we follow a group of hackers who are playing around with breaking into the system, initiating trades that are not allowed. At first testing the tech on themselvesnqnd each other. Can they change parts of people without a trade? But to see if they can break into the system, they would need someone they don't know, if used to trades, and that they could see. A Lexi that streams everyday seems like the perfect target.
Status: this is deep in the outlining status. I'm having fun thinking of where Lexi and Steph are five years later. And what the world looks like now after some time.
PTA - Issue 2
The original plan for this story got turned into Secretarial. I think with where Mercedes ended up that people would riot if she ended up as a younger secretary at her own company.
I was going to drop it, but there are scenes I was to see. I want to see Mercedes and her wife explain this to her daughter. I want to see Mercedes join the other moms after a meeting. But I don't know if there is a story or just some random scenes. So I've been holding off on deciding it's fate until I can know for sure.
Status: Brainstorming. Will make the parents/daughter scene if nothing works out.
Fern in the Forest - Issue 2
I have a premise that I like. I don't know what to do with it. I keep hitting a wall and maybe it needs to be a different character. I'm not sure.
The idea is for her to start working for Magical Tech Support. But I think my fundamental problem is that she is entering after the cool, exciting thing has happened. And there are only so many times the answer can be that she needs to take on the change, or it's contagious, or etc. this was supposed to be a great engine for one shots and I got nothing.
Status: It needs work. A lot of work.