Meta-tribes Comic Pitch
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Brian Bowhay [email protected]
PURPOSE Meta-Tribes is about the demands of complicated relationships that can make us better or worse people. Every issue is comprised of two mirror stories with a common theme. Meta-Tribes is also about the convictions that drive us to be altruistic or self-centered, compromising or committed, confrontational or accommodating, and to love or to hate. PLOT Individuals from seven unstable cultures contemplate their messed up lives while they kill each other over conflicting values and agendas, all the while an ancient army gears up to wipe out everyone. HOLLYWOOD PITCH Dune meets Martian Chronicles meets Thundar the Barbarian. GENRE Superhero / mature readers: Astro City meets 2000 A.D. STYLE The story is told through a series of non-chronological snap shots from the lives of dozens of characters related by several degrees of separation, every story is cross cut with flashbacks. The tone is both ‘grim and gritty’ and introspective.
SETTING The story takes place in the city-states of a future-primitive Mesopotamia devoid of modern ethics and human rights. These cities are anywhere between a third-world slum and a decadent megalopolis. The Meta-Tribes world is spotted with ancient temple/crafts called the ziggurats that might be from the future or the past, another galaxy or another dimension, the mythic plane or beyond the fourth wall. Most of the citi-states grown around the ziggurats. The ziggurats have an inconsistient way of ‘changing’ people. MAIN CHARACTERS All Meta-Tribe characters are remixed versions of the classic super-hero/mythological models. The Meranti, ancient undersea army that is coming to reclaim their place as the dominant race by eliminating the human race. Their reservation is the mystery of the ziggurats that have empowered the human race. Dahud of Kayn, Monarch over a third world holy land, mediating violent factions. He is conflicted by his love for an outsider and the expectations of his office. (Matter/energy transmutation)
Saimak of Persicaä, a super-cop of a decadent metropolis with stolen battle armor (that is re-writing his DNA) chasing a Kayin terrorist from his corporately controlled mega-city all the way across the badlands that are way out of his jurisdiction. (Genetically optimized physiology)
Zhamas of Susa, Prime Minister of a city cursed with a plague that he is unknowingly causing; wants to impose his idea of utopia on the rest of the world and is manipulating the world stage to have a crack at the Meranti. (Vaporizes people with nuclear fusion)
Zandor of the Aegys, mystic leader of an inner circle of paranormalists in an extreme religious sect in the city if Zyga. He is obsessed with an evil goddess that he
accidentally brought to his dimension. (Zandor has grafted multiple occult artifacts into his body)
(symbol of the Aegys)
Archon of Kreas, an androgynous lieutenant from a nation of freed Persicaän slaves and gladiators (ziggurat freaks) that keep selling themselves back into oppression. (Iceman powers) Sharukien of Nin’eva, Empress that sacrificed her humanity for the power to save humanity from the Meranti, but since giving up her humanity she no longer cares about humanity. (replaced her soul with a nightmare actualizer)
Roneth of Norvahl, chieftain over a group of super barbarians that are addicted to ziggurat exposure. Roneth’s people are constantly fighting off forest creatures that have been mutated by a ziggurat somewhere in the deep wilderness. Roneth’s people trade in the furs and skins of the creatures they fight.
(super strength, invulnerability and flight)
PURPOSE Meta-Tribes is about the demands of complicated relationships that can make us better or worse people. Every issue is comprised of two mirror stories with a common theme. Meta-Tribes is also about the convictions that drive us to be altruistic or self-centered, compromising or committed, confrontational or accommodating, and to love or to hate. PLOT Individuals from seven unstable cultures contemplate their messed up lives while they kill each other over conflicting values and agendas, all the while an ancient army gears up to wipe out everyone. HOLLYWOOD PITCH Dune meets Martian Chronicles meets Thundar the Barbarian. GENRE Superhero / mature readers: Astro City meets 2000 A.D. STYLE The story is told through a series of non-chronological snap shots from the lives of dozens of characters related by several degrees of separation, every story is cross cut with flashbacks. The tone is both ‘grim and gritty’ and introspective.
SETTING The story takes place in the city-states of a future-primitive Mesopotamia devoid of modern ethics and human rights. These cities are anywhere between a third-world slum and a decadent megalopolis. The Meta-Tribes world is spotted with ancient temple/crafts called the ziggurats that might be from the future or the past, another galaxy or another dimension, the mythic plane or beyond the fourth wall. Most of the citi-states grown around the ziggurats. The ziggurats have an inconsistient way of ‘changing’ people. MAIN CHARACTERS All Meta-Tribe characters are remixed versions of the classic super-hero/mythological models. The Meranti, ancient undersea army that is coming to reclaim their place as the dominant race by eliminating the human race. Their reservation is the mystery of the ziggurats that have empowered the human race. Dahud of Kayn, Monarch over a third world holy land, mediating violent factions. He is conflicted by his love for an outsider and the expectations of his office. (Matter/energy transmutation)
Saimak of Persicaä, a super-cop of a decadent metropolis with stolen battle armor (that is re-writing his DNA) chasing a Kayin terrorist from his corporately controlled mega-city all the way across the badlands that are way out of his jurisdiction. (Genetically optimized physiology)
Zhamas of Susa, Prime Minister of a city cursed with a plague that he is unknowingly causing; wants to impose his idea of utopia on the rest of the world and is manipulating the world stage to have a crack at the Meranti. (Vaporizes people with nuclear fusion)
Zandor of the Aegys, mystic leader of an inner circle of paranormalists in an extreme religious sect in the city if Zyga. He is obsessed with an evil goddess that he
accidentally brought to his dimension. (Zandor has grafted multiple occult artifacts into his body)
(symbol of the Aegys)
Archon of Kreas, an androgynous lieutenant from a nation of freed Persicaän slaves and gladiators (ziggurat freaks) that keep selling themselves back into oppression. (Iceman powers) Sharukien of Nin’eva, Empress that sacrificed her humanity for the power to save humanity from the Meranti, but since giving up her humanity she no longer cares about humanity. (replaced her soul with a nightmare actualizer)
Roneth of Norvahl, chieftain over a group of super barbarians that are addicted to ziggurat exposure. Roneth’s people are constantly fighting off forest creatures that have been mutated by a ziggurat somewhere in the deep wilderness. Roneth’s people trade in the furs and skins of the creatures they fight.
(super strength, invulnerability and flight)
