Rules of Engagement:
1. No bodiless narration. Voice-over acceptable.
2. Curated sound effects only. No cartoony “zap” or “kazoowie” or “boom” or anything that ends with “thoom,” et al.
3. No overt expository dialogue. We show, and we don’t cheat by telling what we can show, i.e. DRAMATIZE.
4. Realistic physics (or meta-physics) concerning fight choreography.
5. Treat fight scenes (and fight choreography) as dramatic opportunities to further characterization, plot and over all narrative.
6. Every scene is time-stamped. In case we find we’d like to go back and insert a parallel or supporting narrative, we shall never lose our footing and placement within the grander storyline.
7. No time travel to the past. No ret-cons. This tactic is so plebeian at this point. We won’t cheat. If we do something, we stick to our guns, and move forward. People can still come back from the dead, but we will have to work harder for it.
8. No multiverse or alternate Earths. Again, a tired conceptual system. Just one universe and it’s infinite. ALTHOUGH, within the PROBABILITY SPACE of the IDEAVERSE, a multiverse exists, but it is a meta-physical multiverse, not a physical one.
9. Covers will be used as meta-panels spanning several tracks (issues) that relate to the same scene. They will look like covers, i.e. advertising, but they shall also move the story forward. I guess you could say we have no covers, our books are naked. WE HAVE NAKED COVERS.
