Teddy the Bear
by fourcolors
As noted in part of the mission statement of this blog, I am a comic book fan. Probably fanatic would be a better word to use, but that may be beside the point. But on top of reading comics, I would also love to write one some day. I have a few ideas sitting in the back of my mind that I am thinking of pursuing in the near future (I do have winter break from school coming up). I haven’t had my shot at the big leagues just yet, but that hasn’t stopped me from trying.
When I was ten years old, I wrote tiny comic strips. This has continued to today (with me drawing a comic strip in my school paper as seen here, here, and here), but I haven’t ever submitted anything to any publishers. Except for one time when I was ten years old. I was reading “Sonic the Hedgehog” pretty regularly at this point, so Archie Comics (the book’s publisher) was the only comic book company I knew of at the time. I had such dreams of doing my strip, “Teddy the Bear” professionally that I compiled a short, ten page story that I sent to Archie Comics, hoping and praying that they would love it and I would become the youngest writer in comics history (which I believe the record is 14 years old and held by former Marvel Editor-in-Chief, Jim Shooter). Sadly, I was rejected. I don’t have the letter they sent, but an editor from Archie wrote a very nice letter thanking me for my submission, but they were not going to use it. He returned my book as well as two Archie comics (one was a “Betty and Veronica” book) and I cried and joined the ranks of failed comic book writers, a badge of honor I can now respect, 13 years later.
But this blog is about honoring little 10 year old Trevor Reece and his dream of writing a professional comic. Here, for the first time on a professional blog, is the first issue of “Teddy the Bear”:
Little is known about Trevor Reece. Possibly sent to Earth by his father Jor-El before his home planet of Krypton was destroyed, barely anything is truly fact. The only that is certain is that for the past 10 years, Trevor has been an avid reader of comic books and anything related to them, including books on the history, the criticisms, and critiques of the medium and the recent slew of films that have come out in the past decade. And please forget about that whole thing about Krypton. That was a joke. Trevor isn’t Superman, that’d be ridiculous. Almost as ridiculous as Clark Kent being Superman. Wouldn’t it be hilarious if it turned out THAT guy was Superman?
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