Characters and Marvel

I watched Avengers: Infinity War, and I thought that it was amazing. I won’t spoil the movie, but they did a great job of making the audience care about the characters and the world that they all live in. They also built up to this event in a pretty intricate way using previous MCU movies to build up to this. I find that to be good, long-term storytelling. It surprises me that the DCEU cannot emulate similar results as they have so many iconic characters to work with and years of source material.

It makes me think of The Mustard Prince series, and how to go about it. I’m also going with the idea of building towards something by the end of the series, but I only have an idea of what that is right now. I always cared more about the characters, and it’s the characters that guide the plot for me, not the other way around. For me, personally, I tend to remember the characters more in a story than the plot, which may be why I am such a fan of the MCU.

I’m getting to the point where I really am believing that I’m getting good enough at writing stories that would entertain a wide audience. In that sense, it’s making me impatient to get published professionally. Maybe it’s like Avengers: Infinity War, in that the payoff will eventually happen as long as I build up to it.