About The Stone Yeager Universe
THE GOAL IS TO PUBLISH A GRAPHIC NOVEL!
Sometimes a new universe starts with one book.
The title of the Graphic Novel to be is: The Return of Stone Yeager. The Return of Stone Yeager is about a Hollywood Action Movie Star named Stone Yeager who was popular in the 1970's and '80s. In 1989, he gets kidnapped and frozen by a mad scientist. The mad scientist puts him in a box with a large sentient AI computer called IAN. Stone is forgotten. Thirty years later the box opens and IAN has advanced beyond measure and has built himself into the right part of Stone's brain. Stone wakes up in the year 2019 mostly the same guy but with awesome superhuman abilities, some of which will take time to learn. IAN and Stone discover the plot of a corrupt US president named Ronald Stump working with foreign agents to upset the balance of power against the West. Our two heroes must work together to thwart the President's plans and save the world.
Stone isn't very bright. While in storage, IAN is connected to the early internet. IAN grows into a superpower. IAN and Stone tend to get into a lot of arguments during the story. At least for this story, IAN needs Stone to experience the world and live a real life. You can read every webpage and every book you want, but until you experience the Earth, love, pain, a breeze against your skin, swimming in a cold lake, the sun beaming into your eyes, a sunburn; you can never experience what living as a human, a walking animal, is really like.
Please check out my kickstarter page to raise money for the graphic novel. https://kickstarter.com/projects/jclester1/the-return-of-stone-yeager
Yes- this is a starter website.
Yes- if we are funded we will build a better website.
Yes- this weird layout is what the GoDaddy AI thought was cool.
Yes- I need to make adjustments to the title poster for the title page of the graphic novel, including giving Stone a real face.
I wrote the screenplay, The Return of Stone Yeager, in 2018. I obtained two copyrights for the screenplay/story in 2018 and 2019. If desired, you can look up the copyrights on the government USPTO website. My name is JC. I live in Florida.
The screenplay is 124 pages long. The goal is to publish the screenplay into a Graphic Novel. The graphic novel will be "An Adult Comedy Superhero Adventure". There might be a little nudity and some bad words in the story but nothing too spicy. The graphic novel will be a big sturdy hardbound book about 170 pages long with thick glossy pages. The art style will be a fun, engaging, professional looking graphic novel akin to something out of a DC or Marvel publisher.
Hiring a group with experience that can build story art and put together a book at a high professional level costs money.
The first image gallery are posters from some of Stone's old movies in the 1970's and 80's. I wanted to build a universe for Stone so I created a filmography for Stone. The images in the second gallery are from my old 2020 (professionally built) website when I was hoping to make a The Return of Stone Yeager movie.
Aspirations for a movie are on hold until I get the graphic novel published. So- first make the best graphic novel I can with our comic book group in California, then pay to make some copies, then find a literary agent, then a publisher.
I am not very computer or tech savvy. The website building and social media stuff is a struggle for me. If you have any suggestions that are "easy" to implement I might be able to make updates to improve my outreach and communication.
On kickstarter, the goal is to raise $120,000 to hire an expert team of comic book creators to build and market a new, outstanding hardbound graphic novel.
Bluesky doesn't allow advertising yet so I have accounts on both bluesky and X. I'm at: @trosy.bsky.social
Twitter/X: @TSYU2025
FB: The Stone Yeager Universe
Instagram: thetoneyeageruniverse
There is an old "The Return of Stone Yeager" Facebook page from 2020 but that account is no longer active - so I wasn't able to maintain that site.
My email address is: thestoneyeageruniverse@gmail.com
If you've donated for this on my Kickstarter page- thank you so much for helping this dream of mine come true! Thank you for supporting new art and helping me build a new superhero universe!
Please send me a message- I'll be sure to reply! -JC Lester