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As we read above straight from the source, the creators include: Carlos Raphael, Rodney Lockett, Roy Johnson, Eric N. Bennett, Daniel Hoins, Tony Klapper, Jermaine Christmas & John Jones. The Coalition includes these creators and their own comics companies: The Champion Comics Group,  Iron Gate Comics, Standard Comics, Bearclaw Press, Crazy Monkey Ink, Kringlistic Comics and probably some more we missed. Some of these mentions are making a name for themselves in the Independent Market. Some of their work is on a level of quality with Marvel and DC from the ’80’s and ’90’s as well as the current era.

Making Comics Fun Again! It’s not just a slogan. After reading the first issue of The Power Company they really are putting fun into their comics. You won’t find a lot of preachy political agendas here, just a lot of great action, adventure good quality art and very decent writing.

Let’s look at the character line up from the Coalition Comics website:

The Characters Include: Currently, we are working on Power Company. It is a huge cross over event of seven creators. We’re doing a two book mini-series to showcase our characters. We have hired Luis Rivera as our interior artist. For more info, you can follow Luis on Instagram and see more of his stunning artistic style.

The mini-series will focus on the heroes of Power Company and the vile villains of Damage Inc.

Power Company is the main focus with the characters being; Professor Bizarre, Five Star, Thunder Woman, Steel Wolf, Metalmorph, Forecast, Crimson Streak, Killer Wail and Victory. (Click here to see the bios pages on the Coalition Comics web site and a brief bio for each character.)

Rounding out the the evil side of the coin of Damage Inc. are; Cyborilla is the defacto leader with his minions being; Necromage, Brimcoal, Poison Arrow, Priestess Danielle, Overcast, Sebek and Abominus. (Again, Click here to see the bios pages on the Coalition Comics web site and a brief bio for each character.)

It is our hope and dream to bring in more creators for other team ups in the near future.

That should be a good primer to get you started. So now go do your homework this time. Next week we may have a pop quiz! 😉

(Sources: CoalitionComics.com, IndyPlanet, KickStarter, Facebook) 

Mark’s Remarks

Science Verses Scientific Theory

I showed you the revised OmniSpawn Pin-up from Humants # 4 last week which now acknowledges creation over evolution. Of course our stories and characters are fiction but present underlaying truths. So here we are in the cultural dual of science and philosophies. As  I wrote last week some of you might not think the changes are that big a deal. By the way, I showed the revised work to Freazie, who created OmniSpawn and all the Humants and he loved it! The new OminSpawn bio, which was actually Freazie’s original concept, even refers to the Big Bang, which while a different branch of scientific discovery is often associated with the Theory of Evolution as schools of thought which are opposed to Creationism. Scientists like to refer to the Big Bang as our universe’s beginning and many Christians have no problem with that. Most Christians are not opposed to true science. The differences here actually come before the Big Bang event.  The question is, “In regards to the Big Bang, WHO or WHAT lit the fuse?” Creationists believe God ignited the Big Bang when He said, “Let there be light.” (Genesis 1:3) Physicists don’t have a credible answer for what triggered the Big Bang. If one is to believe that prior to our universe aborning, elements in a vast state of nothingness just happened to come together in a super heated explosion then suddenly became HIGHLY ORGANIZED to bring about the incredibly complicated cosmos of our universe… Well, that would take more faith to believe than believing the universe was designed and created by God. Logic just does not support that scientific theory as scientific fact. The lack of proof of a theory is why it is still referred to as THEORY rather than law. For example, we have a Law of Gravity not the Theory of Gravity. There are various theories on gravity but the basic Law of Gravity has been proven time and again.

 A similar debate is that of he Theory of Evolution, which cannot really ever be a law of science because much of it is contradictory. Even though we are referring to biological evolution for the most part here, evolution has become a broad term applied to many sciences. Biological evolution will never be anything more than a theory regardless of those who attempt to sell it as proven law. For example, a little closer to home: DNA in plants and animals allows selective breeding of recessive traits. A desired trait can be produced in plants or animals by selecting those with a particular trait to reproduce. Selective breeding can continue for generation after generation producing a specific breed. However, the breed is dependent on the species. You can’t get cats from breeding dogs. The cross breed offspring of different species are called hybrids. A mule is the hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse. Most hybrids cannot reproduce of themselves because most are sterile and the only way to produce more is to continue the cross breeding in the original animals. This latter fact blows up the theory that espouses mankind came from apekind. If that were the case humans would have to be hybrids. But what would they be hybrids of? Apes and …what? See, there are simple, obvious flaws in the very basis of the theory. These flaws,  all things being equal, should have put an end to the Theory of Evolution ever being taken seriously by real scientists. Evolutionists will not admit that no species has ever been proven to have evolved in any way. Evolution is FAKE science. So rather than science, Evolution really is more of a philosophy. That’s a critical point we’ll delve into more about later.

But if that’s so how can it be taught as fact in our schools? That’s a very good question. What you really should ask is how much more is being taught as fact in our schools which is just not so? The Theory of Evolution is not the ONLY FAKE SCIENCE. Ah, but I’m getting ahead of myself again.

Hybrids of Men and Angels. Even though men and apes have not produced hybrids, there is an account in Genesis which describes the first hybrid beings to live on earth. Genesis 6:2 & 4 records it like this: “…the sons (angels) of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose… There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons (angels) of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.” These were the first super-humans. Of them we have the legends of great men and of the demigods of the pagan nations. These were the children of SPIRITUAL beings, in this case fallen angels, which mated with HUMAN women and produced hybrids. Some of you probably did not know that was in the Bible. God saw this in Genesis 6:3 and realized the danger of it continuing. He put a stop to it. Other scriptures such as Jude 1:6 indicate these fallen angels who initiated this cross breeding were imprisoned: “And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, He hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.”  Notice it says the angels left their first estate, their own habitat. What that means is they were out of order and doing things with another species not permitted. What the fallen angels did proceeded the Great Flood which was to cleanse the earth of these hybrid beings. There have always been rumors and legends which might indicate all the hybrids were not destroyed. Interesting isn’t it.

Some who have just read all this will not be surprised. Others need to collect there jaw off the floor. 😉 I’m not the only one aware of these things. Yes, it may sound incredible, especially to the younger generations who have never heard any of this. But be objective for a moment. Step back and look at the these things as if you never heard any of it before on either side. The premise that apes gradually, over a period of time, metamorphosed into humans is a pretty wild concept. Had we never been exposed that theory for most of our lives we might not be so accepting of it now. Some of this information I’m sharing from a Creationist point of view was still commonly taught when I was a boy. I’m 56 now. The Theory of Evolution was not accepted as fact until nearly 100 years after it was proposed. For many years, Creationism and Evolution were both tolerated as opposing views. Most did not see either as a threat only a matter of opinion. Times have changed. There are those in places of authority now, who do not want you to know any of what I just shared with you and would rather suppress such thoughts. They do not want you to believe you were part of Devine Creation. It helps them maintain their control of us for you to continue to think of yourself as having descended from monkeys. It’s part of the Cultural War of our age. In war part of the battle involves propaganda. If one side doesn’t have facts on their side they will try to substitute lies and ridicule for the truth in order to confuse and demoralize the other side. Phycology is a powerful weapon which can devastate an opponent, when used negatively, rather than intelligent debate comparing facts with facts. Remember this: what I shared with you came from a book which has survived and thrived for more than 2,000 years! Parts of it much longer than that. The Bible is still the best selling book of ALL TIME! That beats anything that has ever been on the New York Times Best Seller List! There is a reason for that. The Bible is a book of faith but it is also a book of science. Sir Issac Newton and many other fathers of science credited the Bible as a chief resource of their discoveries.

So what I’m sharing with you here is not irrational but to the contrary, it’s very rational and different than what you have been programmed to think. These are just things I believe and I have given you the source, which has stood the test of time. I’m not a scientist and I never played one on TV. 😉 I’m just a free thinker. I don’t toe the line, I think outside the box. Do you?  If I have something wrong and it can be proven I’m wrong I’ll happily admit it. But if I’m right… We’ll talk more on these things later. I think at this point it would be a good time to repost something we shared months ago you might find as an excellent resource if you have questions about the Bible and where it came from. See the post below about The Book of God. It’s a great read and I guarantee you won’t be bored and you will learn many things you never knew. It has some great art too! What could it hurt?

Hang loose, web wayfarers! Relax and have a great weekend!

Onward!

– Mark

P.S. Here’s a link to an article I referred to in writing this post. I can’t agree with everything I read on this page, but a lot of it is sound logic. There are many, some non-Christians, who do  not believe the Theory of Evolution.  9 Scientific Facts Prove the “Theory of Evolution” is False

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(Sources: CoalitionComics.com, IndyPlanet, KickStarter, Facebook) 

Mark’s Remarks

The Cosmotic Conjunction Conundrum

We’ve done a lot of work this year in celebration of the 10th Anniversary of our web site. It’s been fun! We are almost done with page revisions on Project: NewMan #3 which we will have on IndyPlanet, Drive-Thru and on our web site for sale soon. Soon after that we’ll be releasing Humants # 3 as well. Both are MCG 10th Anniversary Special Editions.

After taking some time off prior to 2016 we have been revising not only web pages but some of our comics as well. We have especially looked at some of these which were scripted or the art was finished long after the original Legacy Comics story was plotted.  I wanted to restore these concepts as close to the originals as possible. The art in some cases have been revised and elements like backgrounds or shade tints completed.

One of my favorite pages has to do with a fellow by the name of OmniSpawn. We ran the pin-up pages of art in the line version of Humants # 4. The art was beautifully done by Hobert Lyons back in the 1990’s. The bios were written years later, back in 2009, I think, by Humants creator Freazie White, Jr. What Freazie turned in for 2009 was good but it was a bit esoteric, not at all like the original idea he had for OmniSpawn and the Khosmotic Conjunction. The original idea was OmniSpawn was the avatar  the cosmic region or residual energy left over from the “Big Bang” of the Creation of the universe. Freazie wrote it up a little different by 2009, which you can see below. This concept of OminSpawn is slightly different, he is an agent of Evolutionary Processes. Some would not see much difference here but the contrast is like day and night. I wanted to restore it to Freazie’s original idea which has much more bearing on the overall story of the Humants and NewMan as will be seen as the stories unfold.

You may also have noticed we’ve changed the “Kh” to a “C” for Cosmotic Conjuction. Now that was not part of the original concept. The original spelling Freazie penned was Khosmotic. The reason for  the change here is primarily because Freazie has a group referred to as the Khosmotian Guild in the graphic novel he has been working on titled The Epochal Awakening. Freazie started writing the story back around 2010, even though some of his ideas for the book was older than that. One of the ideas he wanted to incorporate was the Khosmotic Conjunction because he didn’t think it would be used any more since he really did not plan to do any more Humant stories. But that idea evolved, no pun intended. His planned  use of the Khosmotic in The Epochal Awakening was going to be much different than it was used in the Humants. So rather than have any confusion that there was some ties of the Khomotian Guild in The Epochal Awakening with the Khosmotic Conjuction in the Humants, I thought it best to modify our spelling in Humants to Cosmotic Counjuction. I also think Cosmotic is a little bit closer to Cosmic and maybe just a little more commercially appealing. The downside is we have a TON of changes to make in the five 32 page Humants issues. See how far I’m willing to go for my ol’ pal. Freazie! Whew boy! 😉

So there you have it. There is much more that could be said but we’ll have to save it for later. Have a great weekend!

Onward!

– Mark

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Brothers In Space

We told you about this new title two weeks ago! The title is called Brothers in Space. As you can see by the dynamic art of Raymond K. Bennett is inspired by the work of Jack “King” Kirby! The writing has the flavor of some of the yarns Kirby wrote as well as the bombast of Stan Lee. But this is not a rehash of Kirby’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. The energy and drama of Kirby’s Odyssey is there but this is not just an anthology of science fiction series. This story has more basis in the reality of the NASA Space Program some of us remember from our child hood. Yep, there was a time when NASA was on the news everyday and the networks would interrupt regular scheduled broadcasts for whatever NASA was doing. It was an exciting time! Astronauts were the heroic adventurers of our time. This series will take you back to that time and bring you into the future.

“The Brothers In Space series will encourage all people, regardless of status, that they can achieve their dreams, that they can contribute and be role models.  It doesn’t do it in a preachy fashion but encourages with hope for us to be all we can be, all we were born to be. Like the NASA Space Program inspired us as kids, it encourages all of us to reach for the stars and choose our own God given destiny through faith in Him, perseverance and possibly most importantly, forgiveness, understanding the nature of humanity and the love of His Son.”

– Mark Poe

Athlete Men A.K.A. A-Men

Another one from the A-Men Book Line. This is the one the comic group is named after and by all rights should be the flagship title. It appears Brothers in Space will have the honor being first out. The Athlete Men is another concept by Edgar Campusano and possibly will feature more art by  Raymond “Kirby” Bennett. We don’t know if the artist has been chosen yet, but we found a great, possible  cover illustration of the A-Men on Edgar’s Deviant Art page and his CCAS Page.

Edgar has a Facebook page which has the following info on the A-Men:

Athletic Men are an International all star super hero team recruited from all over the world to act as a Counter-Terrorism Task Force. They have been assigned by a joint venture of a special branch of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the United Nations Security Team (UNST) to protect Olympic Athletes world wide from specific terrorist threats.

Check out the links below and find out all the details of these exciting series in the works.

(Sources: BrothersInSpace.com, Edgar’s CCAS Page, Edgar’s Deviant Art Page A-Men on Facebook) 

Mark’s Remarks

“Legal Mumbo Jumbo”

That’s what my buddy Freazie called it! He’s right! I just got through working up a contract for the Legacy Comics Exclusive Rights Licensing to Mega Comics Group via Mega Graphics LLC. Freazie and I had a verbal agreement since we started this MCG site 10 years ago. When I started the website it was a little experiment which soon became a grand experiment! Initially I was just going to showcase my Project: NewMan comics I had done with help from Legacy Comics, the company Freazie White, Jr. and I started way back in 1990.  Since then the site has evolved into much more. And so, I never even really thought about it much until I ran into a small problem when I set up the virtual t-shirt and merchandise shop back this past summer. Some of these companies I’m starting to deal with concerning merchandizing require proof from me, or rather, my company, whether or not Mega Graphics, LLC  has the right to the Legacy Comics characters to market them. Freazie, who is busy on other comics projects right now, told me some time ago, that I could do with the Legacy stuff whatever I wanted to. So this contract just makes it official in the eyes of the governments and corporations of the world and will allow me to conduct any business regarding the Legacy Comics Intellectual Properties. For some reason, these companies don’t honor verbal agreements between old friends. 😉

However, it wasn’t as easy as just filling in a fairly standard Licensing Agreement Contract.  I had to calculate the pay rates and projected royalty fees to get the final numbers I needed for the contract. Most of the rates were based on the Graphic Artist Guild standards. That organization has been around probably longer than Freazie and I combined. So it seemed I had to go around the world in order to come up with the royalty percentage for the creator and publisher, which was the key areas I needed to write the Licensing Contract. I had to do a lot of research to find out how others do that and there was not a lot of solid examples to go by. Every company seems to do it a little different.

I can’t take credit for the legal form, I used a template from a web site called Wonder Legal. https://www.wonder.legal/us/They have a lot of free legal templates for this sort of thing. Anyone can start a template and it will walk a person through the task with questions like your name, company name, address,  what the contract is for and a lot more, then it saves it and you download the file as a Word Document. From there, it’s just a matter of adjusting and further customization. It wasn’t the most fun thing I’ve done recently. I’d much rather write or draw or ink or even work on the web site but there is the tedious tasks which we may not care for that have to be tended to in any business. I have a long list of them!

I did manage to do some more fun, creative chores during the week as well. I’ll fill you in on those next time. Have a great weekend!

Onward!

– Mark

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Watch here for the announcement when Brothers From Space is released. We’ll be sure to let you know. You don’t want to miss this exciting new series.

Now, let’s look at another company and there offerings. You may never have heard of Kingstone Publishing but that is about to change!

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Tom Grummett and Karl Kesel have teamed up before. In the late ’80’s into the early ’90’s we saw the revival of Superman. First taken over and rebooted by John Byrne and then later handed off to several very talented folks such as Terry Austin, Mike Carlin, Marv Wolfman, Jerry Ordway, Kerry Gammill, Dan Jergens, Tom Grummett, Karl Kesel, Stuart Immonen, Paul Ryan, Roger Stern, Louise Simonson, Jeph Loeb, J.M. DeMatteis, Ryan Sook, Georges Jeanty, Brett Breeding, Josef Rubinstein, Dennis Janke, Jeff Gan, Denis Rodier, Mark Schultz, Jon Bogdanove, Doug Mahnke, Tom Nguyen, Bob McLeod and many more we can’t recall right now. Some played larger roles in contributing and others were only around for a few issues or in some cases just a cover or two. Mike Carlin was the editor of the Superman Line for most of this period for 10 years or more and went on to be DC’s Editor in Chief. Carlin was behind the successful run of 4 Superman titles a month, 1 per week: Superman, The Adventures of Superman, Superman in Action Comics, and Superman the Man of Steel. Superman: the Man of Tomorrow was later added to the rotation to come out in months with a 5th week. Carlin lead the way on the original Death Of Superman story line which was one of the biggest successes of the era. That was the peak of the Superman Line. It could even be argued that it began it’s downhill slide then as well. The Death Of Superman story while a success, was also a sign of the end of an era. Let’s face it, after a tale like that, what do you do for an encore? Like Stan and Jack’s Galactus Trilogy was the peak of the Fantastic Four‘s success, there were still some good stories and concepts to come. So it was with the Superman Line.

Tom Grummett and Karl Kesel were in on those great Superman titles.  Karl Kesel was the creator of the Superboy clone and Tom Grummett had a good run as penciler of several of the Super books including Superboy. (Source: Wikipedia, panicbuttonpress.com)

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