Thoughtballoons is a new online collaborative comic-writing group that I'm proud to count myself a member of. Inspired by Comictwart, a site in which a group of artists choose a weekly character and offer up their own individual interpretations, head thoughtballooner Ryan K Lindsay came up with the idea of giving budding writers the same chance. Of course, there's a slight difference between asking readers to enjoy a daily visual image and asking them to read an entire comic script... so Ryan made it a little easier by restricting us to one page of script. That page can be a complete story, a powerful opening, a crucial scene, a dramatic climax - whatever we come up with. The aim is for us to have fun playing with a whole bunch of different characters we might otherwise never get the chance at, bringing our own individual writing styles to the heroes and villains we've always wanted to write (and, I'm sure, some we never wanted to write... I'm not really looking forward to Green Lantern!) An opportunity to push ourselves as comic writers and see what we can accomplish.
To start the ball rolling, Ryan chose the armoured Avenger Iron Man as our first project, so over the course of this week you'll be able to enjoy 9 very different 1 page Iron Man scripts. My own was posted earlier today, so if you're interested in such things, please pop over to thoughtballoons and give it a read. While you're there, don't forget to check out some of the other scripts, I'm sure there's a lot of fun to be had. (I haven't read them yet, but I'm looking forward to it.) 
