I’ve sent something to 2000AD editor Matt Smith, a pitch for a Tharg’s Terror Tale…
If you’re interested, the synopsis reads:
Roots:
A drug addict prodigal son returns home – but only to steal what he can. His mother’s pride and joy, after her son, has always been her green house. After her son left the plants died until she stumbled across a mysterious black bottle, molded with an octopus design and containing a deep dark, almost alive, ink. She’s been feeding the plants, a drop a day on this substance. When the son attempts to deal with his mother, in the green house the plants attack him. And become part of him. He’s home and he will never, ever leave again.
If he goes for it, it includes three other one sentence pitches for more horror stories that all use the black ink as a lynchpin. The bottle might be several thousand years old and the black, living ink may well be the ink of the great god Cthulhu…
I’ve a good working realtionship with 2000ad, but that doesn’t mean a pitch is a cert, what it means, to me, is I have a certain amount of goodwill built up for a pitch that I risk pissing away every time I send a stupid bloody idea. So the pressure is on. The pitch included the full script. If Matt accepts/rejects I’ll let you know. And if it’s a NO I’ll post the script here. I think it stands up and will draw it myself, goddammit, even if I’m not being paid for it…!