It's Valentine's Day, which is usually when I promote the heck out of Love and Capes. (Have you heard of it? Check it out here if you haven't.) But today I want to share something different. It's one of the animation spec scripts I did that helped lead to my upcoming Ultimate Spider-Man episode. I wrote a spec for Brave and the Bold, featuring Batman and Wonder Woman. The show's off the air, sadly, so I figure I might as well share it here.
And this story has Batman being called upon to fill in for Cupid, the God of love. Perfect for Valentine,s Day, right?
My friend Dwayne McDuffie helped me on this. He saw my first spec and thought it was all right and spent a couple hours on the phone telling me what was wrong and right, but he challenged me to do "A Thom Zahler" script. He'd felt the one I wrote was generic, and he wanted to see the one that would be the one that only I could write.
So I did. Sadly, I never got a chance to show it to him as he passed away before I finished it.Dwayne not only made me a better writer, he made me want to be a better writer. That continues to this day.
So, here's a PDF of my spec. Check it out if you'd like.