
"There
are no cute guys",
laments Lexie, the clerk at the local comic store.
This is the beginning
of the odyssey that includes Bud, the love struck gaming geek,
his friend Stan, Mike the would-be writer and Laslow Kincaid,
a criminal legend in his own mind. While Laslow tutors Mike in
the ways of crime, Stan tries to coach Bud into approaching Lexie.
For her part, Lexie is the ringmaster of the circus. She moves
from one storyline to the other and has a profound effect on both.
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In
The Margin
By Writer
Aaron Settle
Comic Store
Diaries Volume 4 was born of necessity. We finally grew tired
of talking about filming something and decided to do something about
it. We knew from the start it had to be set somewhere that we had
access to. So the choices were limited. We could set it in my house,
Kim's apartment or the store where I worked. The store won out (although
my house would have its moment in the sun soon enough).
So then I had
to write something. I had an idea about a role player who has a
crush on the girl who works in the store. It was cute, but not spectacular.
I wrote it, but wasn't real happy. So I tried something else. I
brought in my favorite character of all time, Laslow Kincaid (who
was a main characters in one of the first screenplays I ever wrote
Heist 101). Laslow's stuff was funny, and I was happier
with it. But Kim and Wendy asked what happened to the love struck
geek. So much like the classic Reese's commercial I mixed peanut
butter and chocolate and came up with Comic Store Diaries Volume
4.
Everyone asks
about the volume 4, and where are the first three volumes. There
are no volumes 1-3, at least not yet. It's simply a sad case of
too many Star Wars geeks being allowed to be in close proximity
to each other.
We always planned
to make more. I have several scripts written, accounting for characters
drifting away and being replaced with other new faces. But we've
never been able to get enough of the original characters together
at one time to make it happen.
Maybe someday.
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