A TGIF Welcome to the Daily Mega Comics Group Updates!

Friday! Payday! First day of the weekend! Yay! Actually I enjoy everyday not just the weekends, and since I pretty much work 7 days a week it’s not like I’m taking any time off just to kick back and relax. Although I do get to sleep a little longer, almost until 6 A.M.! But I do like the change we get when we enter into the weekend, it helps to break up the work, shift into another gear, you might say.

Hope everyone has a nice and safe Halloween! Eat lots of candy and watch some College and Pro Football. It’s good and so good for you!

Oh, and by the way… ROLL TIDE!

Let’s see what we have in the ol’ comics bag today!

Humants #3:

We saw the pencil version yesterday of Christopher Torres first cover for Legacy Comics. Here’s Mark Poe’s inked version for the inside back cover of Humants # 3 previewing issue #4. We’ll see the full color, full size version Tuesday!

It was right along the time we were about to bring out issue #3 we started re-designing the look of our cover logo and corner logos. Looking at other comics of the time which were really hot like the Titans, the X-Men and others we came up with something we hoped would grab more attention on the comic store shelf. Unfortunately we never got the chance to see if it helped since we never got to print issue #3. Knowing what we do now about the old Comic’s Direct Market, we may not have seen any changes at all.

The Direct Market was a good concept in the beginning which was short lived. The new distributors became as bad or worse than the old Newsstand Distribution method. Proof of this was easy to see when such comics field giants like Neal Adams, Jack Kirby and John Byrne titles were canceled only a few issues into a run. John Bryne had his Danger Unlimited series only last 4 issues back in the mid 90’s. And if the big guys can’t make it, what chance has the little guy got? At first the new distributors we’re encouraging independent publishers, but soon the independents were discouraged as much as possible. Eventually 9 or 10 distributors became monopolized into 2 main distributors which soon even devolved into only one huge monopoly.

I think we were on the right track commercially and had we had just a little more time, or better yet, a lot more time, we would have broken through even in that hostile market of the day. We’re trying to pick up where we left off and go beyond those expectations as well. If not for the New Direct Market we call the World Wide Web we would not have any chance at all. We are far from perfect but we’re willing to be imperfect until we can be perfect!

Monday we’ll have the color back cover for issue #3 which is actually the original front cover we had slated for  that issue. Tuesday Humants # 4 will be begin!

Project New Man # 4:

These pencils are for page 15. The design of the Fortress Foundation’s Aircar is loosely based on a concept I saw either in Popular Science or Popular Mechanics several years ago. I probably still have the magazine some where but the design in this issue is based on my memory of the images I saw and more so on just the concept.

New Man is looking out the window of the Aircar at the Power Plant which is copied and pasted into the windows from the panel above. Pretty neat, eh?

Monday we’ll start the story up again with Freazie’s script applied to the inked and lettered pages you have been seeing all this week.

Any questions of comments? All are welcome.

Click the images for today’s web comics updates.

Check out Friday’s posts for Project: New Man and Humants’! CUMonday!