Topic Suggestions Thread

[donalfall]

Hello POW'ers. I am a million miles behind everything this week. I'll tidy these threads later. For now, as Ilaekae asked under the POW#51 discussion thread, we welcome members to suggest topics & ideas for the POW! that you might want to see tackled.

[donalfall]

I have a few -

The Chase!

History, Revised with Comedy

Arrested Development

Noir (mood)

World Building Journey

The Council

A Cyberpunk/Steampunk Love Story

Weird Superhero Romance

Coherent Action Scene (perhaps with certain props included as essential ingredients - like, you have to include a moped, a newspaper and a phonebox)

[Angel Intheuk]

Just a few ideas:

The Blues

Sci Fi love story

Fairies vs Goblins - A war story

The Dream

Childhood memory

The Musician

Calling it quits

[Ilaekae]

These are suggestions made by forum people that I pulled from an old thread...a few of which we already did, and one of which (the first one) I broke into a repeating theme by geography, era, etc., that will pop up every once in a while...


Native People's Legends (Pierce9)

Ghost Posing as a Living Person (Official Lamp)

Erotica (Naomi Ningishzidda)

Take a popular story premise and reimagine it as a period piece-- how would Dr. Frankenstein have created his monster in the 1600's? Or, what would Pandora have done with the box in WWII Germany? (sanya)

Real lives of Super Heros (sanya)

Yourself at Art College (Angel Intheuk)

Illustrate an event in your past (Angel Intheuk)

The first day of a new job, that feeling of anticipation followed by the slap of reality (Angel Intheuk)

What would constitute a utopian future? (Angel Intheuk)

A miracle renewable non-polluting energy source is found, how do you picture our future after this miracle? (Angel Intheuk)

A sentimental moment (Kuroyue)

Post Apocalyptic Art Teacher: Maybe they use new tools for art? Maybe they are like traveling salesmen on mutant steeds, who travel the wasteland, trading lessons for items of artistic interest? Maybe they run life drawing classes with a chained down zombie as the model. (Droid)

When you live in the sticks! (OmenSpirits)

I think it would be interesting to do challenges based not just on different plot themes, but on the technical side of comic as well. For example: a story with only identical square panels, a 'silent' comic, something more experimental suggested by a Scott McCloud book or something Alan Moore has surely already done better but that is too cool not to try our hands at it. (Ariel9)

[Ilaekae]

...aannnnndd these are from a really old thread that we used to schedule our Tenth Challenge. Lot of nice possibilities, and we may have already tried a variation of some of them.


...followed by the number of additional mentions (*)...

Zombies

He made me do it! **

Close Encounters **

Poe short story (and variations) *****

Four 13-year-old Japanese schoolgirls highjack a NASA flight to the moon

A civil war between Hollywood hairdressers *

One of those days when nothing goes right

Giant bug things *

Trying to do something where everybody involved is "over-the-top" politically correct

The world's most incompetent terrorists

Alabama declares war on Sweden/Italy/Mongolia

Quotes of Ilaekae (NO WAY!)

It's Alive! **

The Final Stand **

10 (as in a number/theme/symbol and variations mentioned) ****

Something's not right here **

That's the Beauty of it! **

The Barman's Tale *

Close Encounters with 13-year-old Japanese Schoolgirls (Again--NO WAY!) *

Draw!

His First Hunt

Is it Me? **

The Shop of Superpowers *

Any Story in the Public Domain

Fable *

Here are a few I'm adding, and I seconded a few of the above...

The Dream

Reality Sucks

First Love

War of the Sexes

It's a Male (or Female) Thing

The Golem (any interpretation)

Cybernetics

The Vegetable Revolution

Never ask Grandma about your family history

The Pet

Fast Food (Hunting/Gathering in the 21st Century)

"Special" Force

That Funky Monkey

League of Extraordinary Idiots

Oompa Loompa Showdown

Midget Strike Back

Fear

Pannies Sniffing Kids

"a tribute to Frank Frazzeta"

"An emo story"

"It has no shame!"

"anything with Cthulhu is fine by me..."

"Weird Conspiracy theories"

- A Wiccan Hippie goes grocery shopping.

- A curmudgeonly old man teaches idiot teenagers about art.

- Hey! Look what I found in my beard!

Psychotic old man chokes 34-year-old idiot to death and teaches forum how to make long pork chili.

The Adventures of OutdoorsMan, the homeless superhero!

Star Wars tribute!

retelling of a myth or legend

League of Extrodinary Idiots

[donalfall]

The next 2 I'm (probably) going with from Sunday are

58 A - The Power behind the Throne (must include superheroes)

and

58 B - Murder in the Manor (Period Drama)

and then some 58 C topic tied to those 2 somehow.

Any feedback?