Creating Continuum Universe The New Age Pt 1
From old to new...
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In a two-part post back in March 2023, I told you the origin story of the Continuum Universe. Going back almost 20 years, eight creators came together to start a shared universe. Six issues of the core anthology, ten issues of solo series, and a host of webcomics, and we had that universe. Then life happened, and production stopped altogether in 2017.
I never stopped thinking about the characters, the world we had created, and the unfinished stories. I needed closure. I needed to see this played out and wrapped up, even if not with the perfect bow we were aiming for when we started. I can’t say what spark kicked me into high gear, but about a year and a half ago, it climbed back up to obsession level.
I didn’t know what I was going to do, but I knew it had to happen.
The first thing I did was sit down and read all 600+ pages of the original material. 632 pages! That blew my mind reading it all front to back. The scope of what we had created only really sunk in then. It had been spread over 13 years, so it somehow felt like we had done less. I was overwhelmed by the sheer amount of material. How was I, solo now, going to start writing all of these individual stories to finish them up?
Then it hit me. I wasn’t going to write seven different stories, I was going to write one story with everyone in it.
The second thing I did was reread all 600+ pages. This time I took notes on everything! Characters, places, creatures, terms, plot threads…all of it! And again…I was overwhelmed by what we had created and what I was attempting to do. 100+ characters and a dozen plot threads had been introduced. Where did I even begin?!
Then it hit me again. The universe needed a fast-forward.
If I was going to start a new comic featuring everything that came before, I needed a little distance to get things rolling. Three years will have passed between old and new. Now it’s all simple, right? Start a new story and throw in the characters you want to use. Except, each of the characters already had relationships, a personality, and a storyline. Three years didn’t wipe any of that away. It still had to fit.
So I started free writing…
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