My choice to take the story back to the 1959 – 1960 time period was based on several things. That was a calculated move to show the world he could succeed outside of the Western or Historical genre. 'Kill your Darlings,' as Hemingway would say.ĭad set his book in the 1980s. In both movies and comic books you are constantly having to balance brevity with detail. I wouldn’t give up on those things completely since the theme of the piece is about the stripping away of the 20th century man, I’d just have to find a way to do them all quicker. I also fear I’d have to trim part where Joe gradually is required to give up modern technology as he is forced down in the helicopter, then runs out of gas in the car and then finds that train travel makes his movements predictable. “Book Two,” from page 45 to page 126 still needs to be trimmed a good deal.Īlthough I love the idea that I experimented with where Joe and his Grandfather are Heyoka or Thunder Dreamers, the contrary ‘court jesters’ of Lakota culture, that whole idea probably takes up too many pages as does the competition between Kyra and Alekhin to find Joe. I got that section honed down until it was pretty efficient. I’m pretty happy with the way Book One, the first 45 pages of this project, came together. I was able to complete Book One and a good deal of Book Two before Random House decided they did not want to do another Graphic Novel and released us to pursue other options. The Last of the Breed script was broken up into three 'books,' following a traditional Thesis, Antithesis, Synthesis, structure (I'm not a Structure Nut as many screenwriters are, but it seemed to be appropriate in this case). CLICK HEREīEAU'S COMMENTS ON HIS IDEAS FOR THE GRAPHIC NOVEL:

IT'S BEST TO READ THE 'LAST OF THE BREED' As things turned out we were not able to go ahead and do another Graphic Novel for Random House and the script was abandoned about half way through. After considering a number of different stories I decided on Last of the Breed and started working on a script.

While I was working on the Graphic Novel of Law of the Desert Born I started thinking about what I might want to do next.

Last of the Breed by Louis L'Amour