Happy New Year 2019 • Argon Zark • Football Bowls
Welcome to Friday’s Mega Comics Group Updates!
Happy New Year! Can you believe 2018 has come and gone! Here we are, in just 4 days, starting 2019! We are nearly 19 years into the 21st Century. This year has seemingly flown by fast! As we did when we began this site in 2008 we take our hats off to you, dear reader! Thanks for making our venture back into publishing comics such fun and successful! We expect the 2nd 10 years of MegaComicsGroup.com to be even better than the first 10! We hope you will hang around for all the fun and bring some friends as well.

Jaylen Hurts and Tua Tagovailoa, two of college football’s best Quarter Backs and the pride of the University of Alabama Crimson Tide celebrate a score!
How About Those Bowl Games!? Now, we have seen some good football in the Holiday Bowls before but some of the games this year have been real thrillers and some total beat downs! WHEW! Last weekend we had a shoot out with Memphis and Wake Forest ending with the Demon Deacons at a 37 to 34 advantage. Army set new records routing a very good Houston team 70 to 14! The Dollar General Bowl featured Troy against Buffalo in a game that was another roller coaster ride with the Trojans coming away with a big win. Louisiana Tech shocked the Islands as well as the mainland with a 31 to 14 victory in the Hawaii Bowl. Several more will be had through out this week leading into Saturday’s big Bowls. That’s right. Those early Bowl Games were just the appetizers! The main course get’s going this Saturday with the Bowl Championship Playoffs pitting # 3 Notre Dame against # 2 Clemson (3 PM Eastern) and # 4 Oklahoma against # 1 Alabama (8 PM Eastern)! The winners will meet in the National Championship game a week later.
Enjoy and… Roll Tide!
Argon Zark Revisited!
(Originally posted Thursday, January 13th, 2009)
STILL not your ordinary Web Comic! ? Charley Parker is considered one of webcomics founding fathers. His strip Argon Zark located at zark.com has been online since 1995 and is the first long form comic ever available on the web! Argon Zark is also unique in it’s content. Although it started out a some what simple yet elegant daily strip it soon evolved into a lush work of art with each strip having easter eggs, links and gorgeous animated effects. In his own words Mr. Parker sums up his vision for the strip:
“I started Argon Zark! with the intention of simply having fun doing a comic story the way I wanted, with no art directors, editors, or publishers telling me what I could or couldn’t do.”
Certainly Mr. Parker has accomplished that and more.
Argon Zark is the name of the main character who is a computer geek. The first we see of him is in the opening scene of the first strip from book one. In his house which may be in a neighborhood or out in the country, that’s not clear, Argon is surrounded by computer monitors and wires running everywhere. Behind him is his sidekick robot, Cybert! Cybert is a bit challenged in his speech recognition program which adds lots of humor to the strip. Argon has perfected PTP, Personal Transport Protocol which enables him to transport himself, Cybert and an unexpected guest, Zeta, the Fed Ex/UPS type delivery person through the internet and on an offbeat, madcap adventure!
If you have never read Argon Zark start with the first page of book one and let the fun begin! Be warned! It’s hard to stop once you start and the first book is 50 pages long. So if your reading this at work, you might want to wait to start reading book one until you get home. 😉
Work continues on our special 10 year Anniversary Editions of Project: NewMan #3 AND the Humants #3 which will both be available soon from our Comics Store and the fine folks at IndyPlanet and DriveThru Comics.
In the meanwhile… we continue our celebration by re-presenting from our Archives the very first postings of Project: NewMan and Humants exactly as they were 10 years back in June 2008.
You will see a difference in the comments on Project NewMan #1 and Humants #1. These postings were originally separated by a month’s time. In the span we started to get the hang of this and ye ol’ friendly neighborhood, publisher -in-training, Mark Poe actually started segregating his comments from those of the dedicated Mega Minions in the style of early Marvel Age Bullpen Bulletin pages.
Rather than update the posts we are keeping everything as it was originally, as first presented in 2008. (Albeit with any needed typos corrected.) Likewise all the comics sites under MCG are thusly preserved. But all are clearly marked with the dates of posting so as to make your time traveling exploits somewhat less confusing. Keep that in mind as you read. Back in the day, we were posting a page everyday whereas this blog now updates usually only once a week. That has become a nescessity in order to work one other things, like new material for new comics rather than just maintaining the blog. 😉 So when you read any references to “tomorrow” just know, that was then and this is now.
We’ll update the next installment from 2008 next Friday. But if you don’t want to wait, just keep reading. All the pages are there so have at it! OR better yet go to our Comics Store and purchase the PDF for a measly buck! Then put it on your iDevice of choice or your computer and read it whenever and wherever you like even if you don’t have an internet connection. Thanks and Enjoy!
June 9th, 2008
Project: New Man 1 Page 01
I came up with the idea for Project: New Man. Freazie and I plotted out the first tale. I did a rough story and some tight blue line layouts on standard 11 x 17 art boards. Freazie White, Jr. re-wrote the story. Thomas O’Conner & Nathan Massengill embellished and in some cases finished the art. I came back and did some inking assists and the tones for the black and white interior art. Alan M. Baker gave an inking assist. Billy Leavell lettered the book. Whew! This was a lot of work!
July 3rd, 2008
Humants 1 Page 1
Meet OminiSpawn, one of Freazies oldest creations. He is sorta like the Spectre, or the Watcher, he pops up at the times you least expect. Hmmm… come to think of it, that could fit Stan Lee too.
Art Note: Freazie White, Jr., our esteemed Editor-In-Chief of the Legacy Comics label and creator of Humants, the Epochal Awakening, and Knight Priest, did the pencils and inks. Then Allan Lewis did the foreground and background inks on the first 10 pages or so and Mark did the halftones. These were the ol’ cut and stick halftone sheets like Zipatone use to sell. (Do they still make those?) For some reason some of these never really completely stuck and made some odd shadows in places. Ironically after we would use those, we would always find bits and pieces of them in the strangest places! Once or twice it was even scary! 😉
Mark’s Remarks: Here I am just after midnight AGAIN! Oh well, who needs sleep, eh? It’s a good thing I love my work or I could not do this late night thing when I have to be up by 5:30 in the morning. I am a fan of Freazie’s writing. He has been criticized for being too wordy and using too much lofty phraseology but I don’t see it that way. I read his scripts and it reminds me of those ’60’s Stan Lee or Roy Thomas stories. These tales are definitely not to be read and understood in 5 minutes like the current trend of comics. I like a story that I have to pay attention to the detail to get it. Too much today in the movies and on TV as well as in comics are too superficial. So a story with depth is most welcome. ’nuff said! 😉
Any questions or comments? All are welcome.
Christmas has come an gone! But what is that? You say you received money as a gift for Christmas and don’t know what to spend it on. We can help with that! So if you want to get some of our printed issues to bedazzle your senses with the digital color OR you had rather purchase the very inexpensive digital downloads for instant gratification, we’ve got you covered, effendi!
Mega Tales #1 (2nd Printing) Digital Copies only 99¢ at IndyPlanet. Finally we have the revised 2nd printing as a pdf download again at IndyPlanet. To celebrate you can go to IndyPlanet and download a free copy for the couple more days. This is a limited time offer so don’t delay. Want some freebies? Still available at no charge are the two books from Legacy Comics which started it all Humants #1 and Project: NewMan #1. Once you read those you are sure to want Humants #2 and Project: NewMan #2 too.
And coming very soon we will have Humants #3 and Project: NewMan #3 ready for purchase and download. What are you waiting for? Don’t delay, get ’em today!
And don’t forget we have all kinds of Mega Merchandise, like t-shirts, posters, mugs, phone cases and lots more:
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Sadly another episode of the MCG Friday Blog comes to a close! But fear not, web wayfarer! We’ll be back next Friday with another short and sweet, 15 minute, Blog Update. We have been getting some good compliments on these shorter blog postings, so for now, we’ll stick with it until you want something different. 🙂
Happy New Year!
CU Next Week!
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