Brief About The Comic
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The Short Film
"Keeping Space Safe One Screw At A Time"
How long do you think you could last without a therapy session after cleaning up trash people throw into space, while also fighting off a group of escaped crimina- I mean, clients? Not to mention there's ANOTHER pandemic with ANOTHER quarantine. Well Duffy Delancy, Rocket Girl, needs a little session to recount all the trouble she has gotten into as well as the reason for all the anger she's been having recently. It's a sneak peek of what's to come in the animated series while also taking some creative liberties! While the show is animated, this short will go between live-action and animated to show the differences in the timelines and creation process. You'll be seeing Rocket Girl's voice actress play her in this semi-live action film.
The Animation
“Yes, it’s sci-fi and yes, it’s a workplace comedy, but it’s so much more. It’s also animation!”
ABOUT OUR SHOW, BROADLY
“It’s not for everyone, just the right ones.”
Welcome to The Adventures of Rocket Girl, a raunchy, animated, sci-fi, workplace comedy series
consisting of a pilot, with a running time of approximately thirtyish minutes, followed by 12 additional
half-hour, or so, episodes (28-36 minutes). These episodes have been conceived for distribution
through any major streaming service. The proposed animation format of our show is 3D and there is a console video game in active development as well as the 4-part, printed (not digital), indie comic book mini-series of the same name, on which all this material is based.
The episodes are serialized and therefore intended to be watched in order as there is a season-long story arc playing out in addition to whatever is playing out in any particular episode. Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime, Paramount+, and/or Peacock+ are the desired landing spots for our show. If they all turn us down, then we still have the option to produce as many episodes as possible with the help of our investors and several, intermittent, carefully managed crowdfunding campaigns. Once completed, we will release what we’ve got on our very own YouTube channel. So, at least there’s a plan.
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Due to the varying running times of each episode, as well as the coarse nature of the dialogue and
some of the mature themes, The Adventures of Rocket Girl is sure to thrive in a streaming environment, just like the incredibly well-written, animated shows, that also contain coarse language and mature themes. Shows that we admire, like: Star Trek Lower Decks (Paramount+); South Park (Hulu/Paramount+); Futurama (Hulu); Disenchanted (Netflix); Archer (Netflix/Hulu); Q-Force and Mulligan (both on Netflix), the latter of which recently completed its second season (or 1st season, part 2 or some such nonsense). Anyway, Mulligan is probably not coming back, which is unfortunate. There are also plenty of inspiring and irreverent live-action shows containing mature themes, and/or occasional to frequent coarse language, that have thrived by being distributed via a streaming service, rather than on a network or basic cable, like: The Boys (on Amazon prime); Seth MacFarlane’s admirable, Star Trek homage, The Orville; or even Avenue Five (both on Hulu), or the unjustly canceled Netflix shows that we really enjoyed, like: the live-action/comedy Space Force (on Netflix), to which we would like to acknowledge as being both entertaining and as excellent examples of shows with a TV MA or the lengthier TV MA LSV rating, like we expect ours to be, that work better on a streaming service rather than cable.
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Our concept, combined with our execution, is less common, so viewers won’t feel like they’re watching the same old crap. Our heroes aren’t soldiers, spies or police, they live and work in space collecting orbital debris, a thankless and potentially deadly occupation, and they do it without projectile-firing weapons and without being militarized in any way (normally, a staple of science fiction). Their interpersonal relationships and interactions are believable and even relatable and the environment in which they do it is visually interesting (because of visual f/x!). Again, not a documentary.
SERIES OVERVIEW
“Yes, the main characters collect debris. No, it’s not gross!”
In the moderately near future, about a hundred and fifteen or twenty years from now, there is a
competent young woman named Duffy Delancey, whose flight call-sign (Top Gun styled nickname forthose of you who don’t know) is “Rocket Girl.” She is a low-level government employee with Level III
status as an Astrogator (which is excellent), and is allowed to pilot small, non-passenger, government space craft… the kind that collect and/or haul orbital junk. Not very glamorous but extremely important. Rocket Girl and her work colleagues are good people, doing important work in a sea of self-righteous, impatient assholes, obsessed with their own schedules and ready to “fuck each other over for a percentage.” Yes, I’m channeling my inner Ripley from Aliens, but only for effect. To fully understand Rocket Girl, you have to understand the world she lives in. The world of tomorrow….
SERIES LOGLINE
While lamenting her prolonged separation from her beloved pop culture, art, toy and comic book
collection, currently residing at her parent’s home on Earth and just two weeks from a long overdue
vacation, ace debris retrieval pilot Duffy Delancey, aka ROCKET GIRL, finds herself grounded on the
Realty World IV space station. Along with her fellow disgruntled crew members, belligerent space tourists and vengeful escaped super-criminals, Rocket Girl and best friend/co-worker, GoGo, try to remain calm and stable amidst the insanity of the latest worldwide pandemic.
SERIES MINI-SYNOPSIS
The Adventures of Rocket Girl is set on an orbiting commercial space station, Realty World IV, one of
four similar orbiting behemoths, full of tourists, technicians, debris retrieval crews, impatient government officials and the occasional escaped criminal. One of the government’s special units, the ISPA (International Space Port Authority) Department 86, tackles everyone and everything from the out-of-control space station security detail to the overabundance of belligerent tourists to the vengeful, escaped criminals to their difficult job of retrieving dangerous, orbiting space debris and ultimately keeping space safe, one screw at a time.
In this animated, sci-fi, outer space, workplace comedy, ace space pilot and debris retrieval expert,
Duffy Delancey (aka ROCKET GIRL) and her alien best friend, GOGO lead the way as they navigate life and occasional life-threatening danger while fellow crew members, escaped super-criminals, belligerent tourists and visiting family members alike drive them both nuts.
Somehow, Rocket Girl and GoGo manage to navigate interpersonal relationships and even thrive within the restrictive confines of an orbiting space station, from which there is no escape, because of the government-mandated lock-down, while constantly under fire by orbiting debris and the bureaucracy that constantly meddles and often creates more problems than it resolves, during yet another world-wide pandemic.