Constellation: Making the Graphic Novel
Enter a simulated universe where software beings engage in classic human struggles for belonging, status, and attention, and old certainties like death and gravity are just settings to be negotiated. You can be the god of your own private world, but if find yourself feeling lonely, you might be tempted to give away some of your precious control. This podcast will take you behind the scenes with comic book authors and veteran podcasters Jon Perry (@perryjon) and Ted Kupper (@tedkupper) as they write and develop a science fiction graphic novel called Constellation, set in a metaverse unlike any you’ve seen before: neither a utopia nor a dystopia, neither real nor virtual, it is a simulation where everyone knows they are being simulated and no one much cares, where there’s no hope of leaving and no reason to, just an endless supply of human-designed worlds to create and explore.
- Update frequency
- every 17 days
- Average duration
- 53 minutes
- Episodes
- 161
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2023
c50: Second Draft Outline and Bonus AI Discussion
Armed with a completed second outline, we return for our 50th episode! This episode begins with a summary of the key changes planned for our second draft. In the next script, we’ll be fully integrati…
c49: Script Draft 1, Beat 42
Script Content:
-Zoya and Csaba attend the Katallian service. They discover the portal door is locked and one way (but Ocean Songbird has a key). As early attendees they are drafted into a confession …
c48: Script Draft 1, Beats 37-41
Script Content:
-Zoya gets caught by Alltaf and assigned the task of killing Tim
-The leadup to Tim’s death from Zoya’s perspective
-The aftermath of Tim’s death: burying the body and lying to Cranium
-C…
c47: Script Draft 1, Beats 32-36
Another double episode with pages from both Ted and Jon.
Script Content:
– Richard and Alexis urge Zoya to take Tim’s deal at the Gaia awards
-Zoya is initiated into Alltaf
-Zoya witnesses Tim tryi…
c46: Script Draft 1, Beats 27-31
In this double episode, we get pages from both Ted and Jon.
Script Content:
-Tim, Zoya, and Csaba build shelters on Katall
-Tim hunts for a suitable murder target
-Zoya offers Tim an out (he doesn’t …
c45: Script Draft 1, Beat 26
Tim, Zoya and Csaba enter Katall, learn about the naturalist entrance contract, witness a service that includes funeral rites and penitence for conjuring, join the Katallian religion, receive the ass…
c44: Script Draft 1, Beats 23-25
Tim meets Csaba for dinner at a fancy Magnurbia restaurant, Csaba tells the story of Alltaf’s founding, Tim receives instructions for the third trial, Zoya offers Tim the chance to back out. Discussi…
c43: Script Draft 1, Beat 22
Visiting Pompeii, finding the clue “Come in, have a drink, stay a while”, getting attacked by a leopard, turning pain on to find the right door, turning mind altering substances on to cross the lava …
c42: Script Draft 1, Beats 18-21
Taking the job in Applonia, posing as an elephant-headed god, building a temple for Applewhite, planting a backdoor, failing to help the Applonian people, onward to Wang’s world. Discussion: being an…
c41: Script Draft 1, Beats 15-17
Receiving the first trial, finding the trial difficult, posting an ad, finding Applewhite. Discussion: introduction of voiceover, making Applewhite weirder, drawing on the Incal for exec inspiration.
c40: Script Draft 1, Beats 10-13
c39: Script Draft 1, Beats 6-9
c38: Script Draft 1, Beats 4-5
c37: Script Draft 1, Beats 2-3
c36: Script Draft 1, Beat 1
c35: Outline Part 3, Interstitials
c34: Outline Part 2
c33: Outline Part 1
c32: Escape from Naturalist World