A Panel Shaped Screen is a monthly column where Giada Zavarise explores how comics and video games inspire each other. This time Giada dips into the world of Lightstep Chronicles.
Every writing class has an over-enthusiastic writer. You know the type. All his writing exercises are set in the same elaborate setting: the fantasy world he has been working on since he was sixteen. He s currently writing his debut novel, the first in a trilogy. He already has three more trilogies planned out.
He also plans to make a videogame about this cool side-character, and a comic set before the events of the main story. He s struggling to find someone willing to draw the first story arc for free, but only because artists don t understand that once the project takes off, they ll be millionaires. He already has vague movie ideas plotted down, in case Hollywood takes notice.
Lightstep Chronicles feels like the product of such a mind.