Tales of the Kudoverse #0

All right. The following post covers a subject I've only alluded to here in the past, but it's a subject that I'm going to follow up on shortly. Over at my other blog I created a group of super-villains which were roughly based on the NHG's (Libby, Jill, Emily, Willow, and Jessica). It was just a lark at first, in that I was playing around with the characters and the world they inhabited just for kicks. Then, as the world fleshed itself out and I got better at using the characters, the stories got more complicated ... and a whole lot better. And I put so much thought and effort into the creation of everything that I believe now that I can parlay those characters into an actual something. Whether that something is a book to follow up the one I'm currently writing or a comic book featuring them, or in a perfect world *both* of those things, remains to be seen. Regardless, because I have a lot of affinity for those characters, and because I believe them to be viable in the longrun, my intention is to archive those old stories here in Stray Bullets if for no other reason than to have them all in one place. Well, and also to establish that those characters belong to me.

Those characters -- Dynamite Kudo, Canary Kudo, Kitten Mundae, Wilhemina X, and the Black Rabbit -- were first written as inserted into the larger Marvel Universe, which is why the mythology includes such luminaries as the Red Skull, Baron Zemo, Captain America, and Sharon Carter ... among others. When I stick them in here I'm going to reproduce them as originally written, even though when I get serious with them I'm going to try and create my own entire world around them, which will mean I'm going to have to de-Marvelize everything, which will be pretty easy in some areas and very difficult in others. But we'll see how it goes.

When the stories appear here, they'll be pretty easily idenitifiable as what they are, and you can read and enjoy them or ignore them as you please. I have a good idea of my audience for this blog, and what my readers like and don't care for, and taking that into account I have a fairly good suspicion as to where y'all will fall on that choice. But it doesn't matter. I think the most of them are pretty good and I'm proud of them, and that's good enough for me.

But there will come a time when this particular creative endeavor will occupy more of my time than it is right now, so you've been warned.