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    •Project: New Man #1 – Dave Davison is the subject of Project: New Man, a partly secret joint venture of the U.S. Government and the Fortress Foundation, a private sector non-profit philanthropic organization dedicated to public defense and scientific research. Dave has the dual role of being part of the research project and at the same time being groomed by the Government as a public protector in the Five Lakes Megalopolis area. Dave has a dark past which he hoped was dead and buried but in his first public adventure he confronts his past and an old partner head on in “The Mall Massacres”. Legacy Comics 1991 Black and White 32 page Independent Comic: Project: New Man #1is FREE to read in this very Web Browser!



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    •Project: New Man #2 – His actual identity is as much a mystery as what drives him. He calls himself Ebenezer Baal, and he is The Haunted Man but he intends for misery to have company as he in turn haunts Dave Davison a.k.a New Man. We find out in this origin tale Dave was not always a hero, and it seems his past is easily as shady as the criminals he now pursues! Co-Starring The Thunder Hawks! The backup story from Legacy Comics 1991 Black and White 64 page Independent Comic: Humants #1! FREE to read in this very Web Browser!



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    •Project: New Man #3– Dave Davison A.K.A New Man goes out for a morning jog only to return to the Moriah Building under a full scale attack from Cyber-Tech! Also featuring Bearcat, and the Thunder Hawks! Featuring lots of never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!



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    •Project: New Man #4– We tie up a lot of loose ends in this issue as The Haunted Man concludes. We find out the true identity of Ebeneezer Baal, see Bearcat in action again, see the abduction of Fawn and Nick, Cyber-Tech escapes plus a special secret surprise guest-star! Yeah! This one has it all! Featuring lots of never before published and some ALL-NEW material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!



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    •Humants #1 – High crime rates, higher gas prices, inflation and garbage strikes, are one thing but the recent unnatural storms have the residents Five Lakes Megalopolis rattled. Then the appearance of unusual individuals wielding supernatural powers precede the coming of a walking, flying nightmare! His name is Megeddon, Dark Lord of the Hecati and his chief servant, the powerhouse called Devastax! Krystal McKliston is an investigative reporter looking into these mysteries as she learns there are “Humants Among Us!”The lead story from Legacy Comics 1991 Black and White 64 page Independent Comic: Humants #1! FREE to read in this very Web Browser!



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    •Humants #2– The Herald, Magistar, and Man Ark must enter into deadly battle with Megeddon, the Dark Lord of the Hecati and his chief servant, the powerhouse called Devastax! Their goal: no less than total world destruction! Krystal McCliston, investigative reporter, tries to capture the action on video while dodging falling debris. She later comfronts a new villain: The Tower! Janeta Rosebud meets Omni Spawn and things will never again be the same! The lead story from Legacy Comics 1992 Black and White 48 page Independent Comic: Humants #2! FREE to read in this very Web Browser!



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    •Humants #3– Omnispawn ushers in yet another Humant: The Savage Chaosta! Also having survived their first encounter with the evil Dark Lord Mageddon, the Khosmotic Warriors have banded together and rented an old warehouse to use as a headquarters and training facility. Featuring lots of never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!



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    •Humants #4– This issue features the all out war between the Humants and the Renegade Humants! It's action from cover to cover as Freazie White, Jr. writes and does finished pencils over Mark Poe's layouts and we introduce a new inker, Paul Schulze! Featuring lots of never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!



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    •Humants #5– What happens when you try to administer first aid to an unconscious Humant? Well, in the case of Chaosta things could get pretty scary when she wakes up and thinks she is still battling the Renegade Humants! Man Ark and Sojourner find a lot of trouble for their efforts! Plus: Much More by Freazie White, Jr. new inker, Anthony Grayand Billy Leavell with Letters and Edits! PLUS: An offbeat Bearcat backup tale! By Mark Poe, Freazie White, Jr., Mark Alan Lester and Billy Leavell! Featuring lots of never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!



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    •Mega Tales #1– Tess is a young lady who is a living tesseract. She comes from another dimension and in our dimension she can teleport herself or just about anything else just about any where. She manifests the power in a number of ways other than teleportation and she has a cute little 4th dimensional dog with a very high I.Q. named Nostradamus. In short: we are 3D beings, Tess and Nostradamus are 4D beings.Plus: Much More by Greg Legat writer/creator, Mark Poe with pencils, letters and colors! and J. Adam Walters handling inking embellishment. Featuring never before published material! 32 action packed pages FREE to read in this very Web Browser!



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Posts Tagged ‘Big Brother is Watching Us’

Big Brother • AAF 2nd Half • Project: NewMan 1:12 • Humants 1:12

Friday, March 15th, 2019

Welcome to Friday’s Mega Comics Group Updates!

 

Big Brother is Watching Us!

Big BrotherNo we are not referring to the popular TV show! In 1949 a  book was published which was almost prophetic of the time we live in now.

Nineteen Eighty-Four, often published as 1984, is a dystopian novel by English writer George Orwell published in June 1949.[2][3] The novel is set in the year 1984 when most of the world population have become victims of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance and propaganda.

In the novel, Great Britain (“Airstrip One”) has become a province of a superstate named Oceania. Oceania is ruled by the “Party”, who employ the “Thought Police“ to persecute individualism and independent thinking.[4] The Party’s leader is Big Brother, who enjoys an intense cult of personality but may not even exist. …

In the year 1984, civilization has been damaged by war, civil conflict, and revolution. Airstrip One (formerly Britain) is a province of Oceania, one of the three totalitarian super-states that rule the world. It is ruled by the “Party” under the ideology of “Ingsoc” and the mysterious leader Big Brother, who has an intense cult of personality. The Party stamps out anyone who does not fully conform to their regime using the Thought Police and constant surveillance through devices such as Telescreens (two-way televisions).

Source: Wikipedia

1984There are some uncanny similarities in the novel and in our current reality. In the story national borders have been eliminated and replaced by super states, which later in the story are revealed to be essentially all ONE global super state. The well being of the community and the state are preferred over the rights of individuals. History, news and information is replaced by the propaganda media who rewrite history, manufacture stories and twist facts as well as manipulate images to promote their own narrative. Those who refuse to tow the party line are persecuted.

In this little article we want to isolate one subject and focus on it. That is INFORMATION. It has been said “information is power” and that seems to be true for the most part. According to several sources we’ve researched, the top 3 most visited web sites in the world are 1) Google, 2) Facebook, 3) YouTube. These are the three gate keepers of the world’s online knowledge. If all three were totally objective and forthcoming with unbiased information AND respected the rights of individuals, there would be no problem. However, in recent years it has been tested and proven, Google, for example, favored one candidate in the last presidential election during the U.S. election. In Google searches using the keywords “How to vote.” Google suggested one candidate as the words were typed in. Even typing in the the first name then the whole name of the other major party candidate… no suggestions were given. It was as if Google did not even know who the other well known candidate was. This is a blatant example of the world largest search engine deliberately attempting to influence an election for one candidate. This is just one example. Facebook executives also supported one candidate over the other. There are plenty of others we won’t take time to go into now. What happened to news and information services being objective and unbiased and allowing the consumer to make his own decision? To do other wise is to promote an agenda through the use of propaganda.

Sources:  NaturalNews, Washington Free Beacon, TruePundit.

Orwell QuoteWith the demise of ethical, unbiased information sources it is clear we need some alternatives to the mainstream. We can’t trust these companies to give us ALL the facts and options and that’s not the worst of it. Google, Facebook, and YouTube, as much as we enjoy their content, are always tracking our every move and profiting off our personal preferences. Want to know how all the robo callers who hound you everyday on your cell phone with unwanted offers for products get your number? What about all the spam emails and text messages? One of these three likely sold them your phone number. They profited off your personal information and violated your privacy. It’s not just them, they are just the most popular and the biggest, but there are many more who do the same.

Right now it’s just an annoyance but the potential for being used for far more dangerous means is obvious if not often oblivious to us as we go about our daily routines. Unfortunately, some have already been stalked through cyber sources and become victims and even killed. These examples are only the first of many more to come, we fear. Just a  little aside: Remember our story from Project NewMan #1? It involved a man who went into a shopping mall with an arsenal of weapons opening fire on innocent shoppers. We did that story back in the early ’90’s, nearly 30 years ago. That was unheard of then. Now, such shootings, sadly, have become all too common.

Big Brother is watchingTo remain in a safe place online, we have found a few alternatives you might want to check out which we ourselves have been using OR come highly recommended:

1. Search Engines: DuckDuckGo is fast becoming a popular alternative to Google as a search engine. There main advantage: They do not track you or sell your information. ’nuff said! Bing is Microsoft’s answer to Google.

2. Browsers: Brave is a fast browser, at least as fast as Chrome and it has shields you can adjust to view no ads or certain ads you are genuinely interested in. It also supports some beautiful themes.

3. Encyclopedias: Encyclopedia Britannica Online is an online encyclopedia that doesn’t have the bias or inaccuracies of Wikipedia. All entries have been written and fact-checked by professionals but requires a subscription of $69.95 per year.  Infoplease is a free online encyclopedia that is a part of Pearson Education, the largest educational book distributor in the world. Conservapedia is a great, free alternative to Wikipedia. We have used Wikipedia a lot but we have discovered Wiki doesn’t always tell everything or even get it correct, similar to Google. So we are adding Conservapedia as one of our online encyclopedias in addition to Wikipedia because a second opinion never hurts. 😉 Check out he excerpt below concerning Nineteen Eighty-Four and compare it with the Wikipedia excerpt above.

Orwell Quote 2In the world of Nineteen Eighty-Four, individual, free nations no longer exist; the world has been divided up into three massive empire-states: Oceania, Eurasia, and Eastasia. Religion is not mentioned in the book and is speculated to have been stamped out. A worship of Big Brother, similar to Juche, is imposed as an alternative.

Oceania is, roughly, the English-speaking world: the United States, Canada, Britain, Australia, and South Africa. It is perpetually at war with either Eurasia or Eastasia, and allied with the other. The book describes a hyper-liberal dystopia where the government, known as the Party, monitors and controls nearly all aspects of every individual’s life. Extreme liberal fanaticism and ignorance are promoted by Oceania through relentless propaganda. This is practiced to the point that citizens unthinkingly (or, in Newspeak, use bellyfeel) accept everything said and done by the Party, and hate everything associated with the empire-state which happens to the enemy at the moment. Relationships among people, whether platonic or intimate, are discouraged or sometimes forbidden outright, as they distract from worship of the leader, Big Brother (who may or may not exist). It is later revealed that in reality all three empire-states have the same government and are essentially identical in their pursuit of a liberal, pagan social system.

Source: Conservapedia

4. Social Media: myPraize is the Christian Social Network which has been around almost as long as Facebook with more than a million users. Definitely as safe space. SocialGo is a pay social network a little more geared to business but in a more casual way than LinkedIN. Snabbo is free social networking geared to Baby Boomers, which explains the retro look. ;-). Diaspora is a decentralized social network. Instead of everyone’s data being held on huge central servers owned by a large organization, Diaspora exists on independently run servers “pods” all over the world. You choose which pod to register with, and you can then connect seamlessly with the Diaspora community worldwide.

Those are just a few we have searched out. There are others. We’ll update you more in future blog postings as we discover other alternatives. This may not seem that important now but it won’t be long before it becomes painfully plain that we all need to be more secure with our online presence. Enjoy safe, web surfing, wayfarer!

 


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AAF Second Half of the Season 

AAF season week 6 begins Saturday! The Birmingham Iron was beaten by the Orlando Apollos 31-14. Orlando now remains the sole undefeated team in the AAF. The Iron defense have been good all season but this Apollos offense has a lot of weapons! Of course the Apollos have a great defense as well and managed to get a pick six early in the game which gave them lot of momentum. A lot of credit goes to Head Coach is Steve Spurrier, legendary University of Florida Gators Head Coach from the ’90’s. Spurrier also coached the Washington Redskins for a few years and the South Carolina Gamecocks. Spurrier is now in his ’70’s and while he may not get around as well as he use to he still knows how to get his team moving!

The AAF Winter/Spring Football season is half over. We now start down the stretch to see who will be the first AAF Champion team of the inaugural season. Check out the latest standings, schedules, where to watch, and game highlights below.

If you are a football fan, support these teams, players and this league so we can keep it and them around. Having a Winter/Spring Football League helps shorten the the off season!

The Teams of the AAF

Most of Alliance of American Football games can be viewed on the NFL Network. A few early games were on TNT, and there is one on TNT this weekend. One very week has appeared on the pay subscription CBS All Access. Last week games began showing on B-R (Bleacher Report) Live. For full details and lots more go to the AAF website and your local listings, natch.

AAF Standings

The AAF Standings starting week 6. The West is starting to tighten up as Orlando is king in the East. Things are starting to get interesting now!

 

AAF Begins 2nd Half of the Season!

5 games left in the regular season! Check your local listings. Some the TV games are on the NFL Network. CBS is only showing the on their online CBS Direct Access service. One will be on TNT this weekend. You also can see games streaming live at AAF.com and B-R Live. And follow the action in real time on The Alliance app, available on the App Store and on Google Play.

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(Read more about it at Wikipedia or go to the AAF website.)

Okay, now let’s take a look at some comics from the Mega Comics Group!…

MCG Turns Ten!

Project: NewMan #3 AND the Humants #3 will both be available soon from our  Comics Store and the fine folks at IndyPlanet and DriveThru Comics.

MCG Turns Ten!Here, from our Archives Spotlight, enjoy the first postings of Project: NewMan and Humants exactly as they were 10 years back in June 2008. Keep in mind as you read, back in the day, we were posting a page everyday rather than weekly as we do now. So any references to “tomorrow,” was then and this is now. Rather than tomorrow, our next pages from 2008 will be posted next Friday. However, if yo don’t want to to wait, just keep reading. All the pages are there. We are just spotlighting what we’ve done here.

Coming Soon to the Archives Section! We will be adding in the postings for Mega Tales #1 featuring Tess, the Living Tesseract!

Alternatively, for an even more awesome comics reading goodness, go to our Comics Store and purchase the PDF for a measly buck! You can read the pdf right in your browser which is not nearly as limited as reading it on the web page! In addition to that, you can download the pdf to your computer or iDevice to read it whenever and wherever you like even if you don’t have an internet connection. But for now let’s go to the Way Back Machine 10 years ago…

New Man 1 Page 12June 20th, 2008

Project: New Man 1 Page 12

New Man is being lead on a fast and furious chase with very high stakes! The madman is in full stride and obviously trained very well. Dave has noticed this adversaries tactics are somewhat familiar.

Mark's Profile PicMark’s Remarks:

One of the more detailed pages. I actually did more detailed backgrounds on most pages but the inkers wisely saw some of the panels were too detailed and was taking away from the story, so they did not ink everything. In telling a story with pictures one has to think “contrast” or balance the same as doing a static piece of art. The inkers also did a great job of spotting more black shadows than I had which added to the visual contrast overall as well as per panel.

Any questions or comments? All are welcome.

July 14th, 2008

Humants 1 Page 12

Humants 1 Page 12

Now let’s meet the rest of the team: Man Ark, Sojourner, and…

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Mark’s Remarks: Maybe I am bias, but I like these pages. I thought these were some of Freazie and Al’s best work on Humants # 1. Of course there are always areas which could have been improved. That is always going to be the case with anything. So constructive criticism is always welcome and very much encouraged. It’s one of the best tools we have for learning in this business and fan feedback is the most valuable resource. Fan feedback was not always around in the comics industry for the most part. It was really a by-product of the Silver/Marvel Age of Comics. Comic books had letter columns before the ’60’s only in a few books. It was in the 1960’s when  the letters to the editor really legitimatized comics fandom. Letter columns were a part of most comic books  until recent years, when e-mail, forum pages, social network sites, and comment boxes on blog pages, more or less replaced them. Some comics still have LOC’s but they seem to be in the minority these days. I miss those, especially the ’60’s Marvel Comics Letters Pages. Stan Lee, Roy Thomas, and others, with great help from the fans, made the Marvel LOC’s  almost as entertaining as the comic book stories they produced!

Any questions or comments? All are welcome.


Saint Patrick’s Day is Sunday! 😉 So since it is the weekend we get to take it on Monday too! Celebrate the Irish like never before by forking over your GREEN to our worthy cause! Make the rest of your neighborhood GREEN with envy when you buy our digital books and download them instantly here!  OR if you had rather, just go right ahead and purchase the very inexpensive digital downloads for instant gratification from IndyPlanet, DriveThru Comics. If you are really in the celebratory mood buy the stunning printed versions from IndyPlanet! Blarney!! So many ways to snatch up a DIFFERENT kind of gold at the rainbows end before some fun loving leprechaun makes off with the treasure! 😉

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MCG T-shirt PNM #1!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!

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The Ides of March are upon us!

We have no idea how that relates to a comics website! But we had to say something, lest we say nothing! So once again the end of the rainbow for our weekly MCG Blog Posting. There were gold aplenty in this PRE-St. Patricks Day posting. Enjoy your GREENS! 😉

CU Next Week!

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FANG – Big Brother is Watching Us Pt 2 • AAF Week 7 • Project: NewMan 1:13 • Humants 1:13

Friday, March 22nd, 2019

     Welcome to Friday’s Mega Comics Group Updates!

Musings on Controlling the Power of Information!

Big Brother FANGLast week we talked about the George Orwell Book from 1949 and how a lot of it is near prophetic for our time now. Incredible changes have rocked the world in just the past 19 years and each year which has past we have seen more startling, radical changes from the previous year. The changes seem to be coming even faster as the days pass. We live in an incredible age of wonder. If someone one from the past, say 1,000 years ago, could be here to comment on what they see, comparing it to the time they lived, they would certainly be amazed. They might even declare that we live in a miraculous golden age, a time many dreamed would someday be possible. Yet with all our progress in technology, civilization, commerce, medicine, housing, food production, manufacturing and the list goes on and on, we still struggle with poverty, war, disease, natural as well as man made disasters. Why is that? Again let’s look at the technology part of the over all picture which often helps locate the heart of humankind.

Technology is on the rise at a tremendous rate. Computers are used to run nearly everything now which has it’s pros and cons. It’s great on the one hand that we can do far more, more efficiently and faster than ever before. Then there are cases like the recent Boeing plane crash which was caused because of computer software glitch which kept the nose of the plane too high and the pilots did not see how to override it in time before disaster struck. The machines are great but at this point they are not capable of independent thought even though many believe Artificial Intelligence is just around the corner. That might have been a good thing in this instance, but in the long run will that be better or worse?

Source: BBC.

Most of us carry with us these days a mini hand held computer we refer to as a Smart Phone. With these powerful little devices we have access  to a world of knowledge, literally. Within seconds we can search the World Wide Web for any information we need and 9 out of 10 times find what we are looking for. We can call nearly anyone in the world with no additional charges to our phone bill. Any one remember having a Long Distance Phone Plan? This is an incredibly good thing, or at least it use to be! When everything is on the up and up and people behave as they should there is no problem. But on this world, all things are never equal. Think of it. These devices  give access to nearly every human being on the planet. What a tremendous temptation this is to those who seek control and power over living beings. So as always happens once something starts to boom there are those who want it all, they become greedy and start to monopolize everything they can get their hands on.

Orion and Mother Box

In the Jack Kirby series The New Gods from 1970, Orion uses his hand held super computer called Mother Box to make himself more presentable. It looks like a cell phone but is far advanced. Will we ever own hand held devices capable of Mother Box level technology?

The commodity technology deals with is information and as the old saying goes “Information is Power.” Therefore he who controls information has the power. Today the Power Brokers have taken up residence in the tech world. Some refer to them as Tech Barons. These executives, board members and in some cases even the developers control large, corporate monopolies which hold the keys to the gateways of the world’s information. These large corporate monopolies operate almost as governments themselves fearing no one and answering to no one as would elected officials. These monopolies have grown so powerful that the national government has no control over them. In truth the government often colludes with these corporations to force policies, services and products on the population whether they approve or not. So when corporate monopolies and government join forces as one they have essentially become one power for which the common man has no natural defense. Compare this to the story plot for 1984, the novel by George Orwell. The story tells of a dystopian society which is controlled by a totalitarian government. The government also controls the media and broadcast propaganda through every media device at their disposal. How did this all come about? We assume in the story that the government created the propaganda  media but what if they merely took over the existing media outlets? Further more, what if the media outlets willfully cooperated and submitted themselves to the control of government? If so then we have a situation like what we described in the above sentences, very much like what we are seeing today. Which leads us to the following findings.

Source: USA Today, RushLimbaugh.com .

People working within these systems are starting to realize what is going on.  FANG is the acronym for four high-performing technology stocks in the market – Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google (now Alphabet, Inc.). Some developers and fans in the tech community have begun to see the darker implications of the name.  Therefore, FANG might represent those who control nearly all history, news and information. FANG then could be part of our 2019 Big Brother.

Source: Investors.com .

Goolag, Feeling FakedHave you heard about the Google Memo? A Google developer by the name of James Damore published a revealing memo on the prejudicial and censorship practices of his employer. His intent was not to harm Google but to help them refine their policies so as not to be in conflict with their public image. They immediately fired him and began colluding with the news media to manage damage control. As a result many, not fooled by the P.R., now refer to Google as Goolag. But Google still has many toadies who defend them in spite of the overwhelming evidence of their practices of censorship, prejudice and attempts to use their resources to create a narrative which benefits Google and their bias agenda.

Source: Heavy.com .

As we have seen there are many uncanny similarities to our present time and the book 1984 by George Orwell. The book as it turns out has been almost prophetic. The book is a warning of when government no longer has the people’s best interests in its decisions any more. Those running the government believe they know what is best and no amount of logic can persuade them otherwise. They believe themselves destined to rule. They have become the ruling class. The rulers have set themselves up as gods over the people, even though they might never admit it. Doing the right thing, the rule of law, the concern of the peoples welfare, and even life itself has become inconsequential. The government no longer serves the people but the people are to serve the government.

There is another book which gives prophetic warnings concerning an age many years ahead of the time in which it was penned. This book also records the history of mankind since the beginning and contains many lessons history teaches and is destined to repeat unless we follow its precepts and stop trusting our own human nature and intelligence to know what is best.  This book is known as the Bible.

Revelation 13: 13-17 – This second Beast worked magical signs, dazzling people by making fire come down from Heaven. It used the magic it got from the Beast to dupe earth dwellers, getting them to make an image of the Beast that received the deathblow and lived. It was able to animate the image of the Beast so that it talked, and then arrange that anyone not worshiping the Beast would be killed. It forced all people, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to have a mark on the right hand or forehead. Without the mark of the name of the Beast or the number of its name, it was impossible to buy or sell anything. (The Message Bible)

There are many prophecies in the Bible which have been proven to be true throughout the ages. Many passages, such as the one above, speak of wonders such as “animating an image so that it talked” which was not even possible until 20th Century Technology. Think about that. Many find the Book of Revelation hard to understand. Consider this, the one who penned this book 2000 years ago had never seen things like movies or TV so his descriptions might be hard to understand just as it was hard for him to write down because it was like nothing he had ever experienced. The Book of Revelation, like the 1984 novel, warns of a time when men will forsake the ways and the worship of God and instead worship other things, people, causes, nature and even themselves. Many will drift away from the truth and be deceived by the lies of a totalitarian government which will force them to submit or else die. Again these descriptions sound a lot like where we seem to be going in our present age and the years to come.

Steve Cioccolanti is a very tech savvy Christian writer and minister who was born and raised in Thailand. Within his family were members who were Buddhists, the chief religion of Thailand, also Muslims and Christians. He grew up attending services in all these religions houses of worship. As he grew older he was confused and in a fit of depression tried to kill himself but God stopped him. He then accepted Jesus as his Lord and Savior. (See his testimony here.) He is now the pastor of a church and been in Christian Ministry for more than 20 years. In the video below has given a 30 minute explanation of what the Google Memo is and how it relates to events we see today from an Orwellian world view as well as Biblical view.

Please forgive us for rambling a bit in this follow up to our Big Brother is Watching Us article from last week. We are running behind and rushing to make our deadline. One last tidbit:

One last item: During our research for tools to use to use to get the truth not filtered by Big Brother / FANG we stumbled across a new one which we did not mention last week. Check out Gab. Gab is a social network that champions free speech, individual liberty and the free flow of information online. They welcome everyone regardless of affiliation.  Anyone can go to their site and explore the content. If you like the freedom you see, register and become part of the conversation.

 Enjoy safe, web surfing, wayfarer!


Kirby’s Apocalyptic Comics

OMAC # 1

OMAC # 1 was the last title Jack Kirby did during his 4 year stop over at DC Comics. Jack put a lot into to this book especially the first issue. DC failed to see what they had, as they did with everything Jack did at that time,  so they canceled it with issue 8 which coincided with Jack’s departure from DC, and his return to Marvel.

Jacks’s DC 1970’s Covers #1! Our 1984 theme of last week and this week remind us of all the apocalyptic comics by Jack Kirby. The last title Jack did during his early ’70’s stint at DC was called OMAC which was short for One Man Army Corps. Some of us will never forget the impact of that first issue! The cover consisted of two drawings taken from the interior art, pasted up with huge type asking “Are you ready for OMAC, One Man Army? A startling look into the World That’s Coming!” in the midst of a lot of negative white space! It was stunning! The cover really stuck out on the comics rack. This was like 1974 so comics were still a few years away from the complex, HD format we see in print now.  Jack relied on his talent for taking abstract images and concepts, some not totally original, and putting a fresh spin on them. The Orwellian theme was not new, but Jack told it like it had never been told before!

Mother BoxJack’s other titles for DC at the time also contained apocalyptic elements in them as well. One such example is the Mother Box in the Fourth World books. Jack’s ideas were often ahead of his time. Note the size of  the first Mother Box units we see in the Fourth World books. Does it remind you of a smart phone? It was the first use of a hand held computer to our knowledge in comics. Of course Mother Box was a lot more than cell phone. There was mystic properties available in these units not  utilized by our own technology. BUT could such devices for us be far away… in The World That’s Coming? 😉

Enjoy!

 

Jacks’s DC 1970’s Covers #1


Like the Man said, ’nuff said!


AAF Week 7 Begins 

AAF App

Watch games LIVE on the AAF App for iPhone and Android

AAF week 7 is this weekend!

Well it finally happened! The  Orlando Apollos were been beaten by the Arizona Hotshots in a real squeaker last Saturday night! The final was 22-17 but it was even closer than that, as the Apollos got he ball back on their own 15 yard line with less than a minute to play in the game.  They drove the ball all the way to the Hotshots 5 yard line with only 10 seconds left to play. The Apollos lined, snapped the ball and a flag was thrown! The penalty was on Orlando, False Start, 5 yards, enforced at Arizona 8 , and a 10 second run off the game clock. That was it! Game over! Whew! Talk about close ones!

Big News! Johnny Manziel is the latest addition to the Memphis Express. That’s right, Johnny Football is back and the starting QB for the team with only 1 win all year. Can he turn the Express around and at least get to 500 for his new team by the end of the season? Well, if anyone can do it it would be Manziel! We’ll be watching!

The AAF regular season has 4 more games. April will showcase the first playoff of the new league and crowning of the first AAF Champion team for the inaugural 2019 season. Check out the latest standings, schedules, where to watch, and game highlights below.

If you are a football fan, support these teams, players and this league so we can keep it and them around. Having a Winter/Spring Football League helps shorten the the off season!

The Teams of the AAF

Most of Alliance of American Football games can be viewed on the NFL Network. A few early games were on TNT, and there is one on TNT this weekend. One very week has appeared on the pay subscription CBS All Access. Last week games began showing on B-R (Bleacher Report) Live. For full details and lots more go to the AAF website and your local listings, natch.

AAF Standings

The AAF Standings starting week 7. Even with one loss last Saturday, Orlando is still king,  followed closely by San Antonio and Birmingham. The playoff picture will begins to come into focus as of this week!

 

The AAF starts down the final stretch!

4 games left in the regular season! Check your local listings. Some the TV games are on the NFL Network. CBS is only showing the on their online CBS Direct Access service. One will be on TNT this weekend. You also can see games streaming live at AAF.com and B-R Live. And follow the action in real time on The Alliance app, available on the App Store and on Google Play.

AAF Scheadule

(Read more about it at Wikipedia or go to the AAF website.)

Okay, now let’s take a look at some comics from the Mega Comics Group!…

MCG Turns Ten!

Project: NewMan #3 AND the Humants #3 will both be available soon from our  Comics Store and the fine folks at IndyPlanet and DriveThru Comics.

MCG Turns Ten!Here, from our Archives Spotlight, enjoy the first postings of Project: NewMan and Humants exactly as they were 10 years back in June 2008. Keep in mind as you read, back in the day, we were posting a page everyday rather than weekly as we do now. So any references to “tomorrow,” was then and this is now. Rather than tomorrow, our next pages from 2008 will be posted next Friday. However, if yo don’t want to to wait, just keep reading. All the pages are there. We are just spotlighting what we’ve done here.

Coming Soon to the Archives Section! We will be adding in the postings for Mega Tales #1 featuring Tess, the Living Tesseract!

Alternatively, for an even more awesome comics reading goodness, go to our Comics Store and purchase the PDF for a measly buck! You can read the pdf right in your browser which is not nearly as limited as reading it on the web page! In addition to that, you can download the pdf to your computer or iDevice to read it whenever and wherever you like even if you don’t have an internet connection. But for now let’s go to the Way Back Machine 10 years ago…

New Man 1 Page 13June 21, 2008

Project: New Man 1 Page 13

This looks bad for the home team! The mad gunman is making a stand with a hostage. Dave has struggled keeping up with this maniac up to this point even with the use of his Unified field. How can he possibly stop this guy now with any hope of keeping him from taking another life?

Mark's Profile PicMark’s Remarks:

One of the more detailed pages. Throughout this issue we dropped clues to Dave’s past but at this point we began to reveal he served as some kind of special operative in Vietnam. Much more would be revealed of Dave’s past in the backup story for Humants #1. Hard to believe that war ended more than 35 years ago!

Any questions or comments? All are welcome.

July 15, 2008

Humants 1 Page 13

Humants 1 Page 13

Now let’s meet the rest of the team: Man Ark, Sojourner,

…and…

…and…

Well, all of our heroes lacked the power of flight or fancy grappling hooks and ropes so The Herald makes his entrance to the roof top meeting site in his own way. But if I were you, I would not mention it to him! Heck! I might even consider moving to another state! ?

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Mark’s Remarks: Freazie put a lot of character development into his scripts. I mean look here… even just having been introduced there radiant personalities just seem to bubble to the top! Right? Already we can tell Magistar is a timid leader, trying not to let on to the others how he is not as confident as he wants to sound. It’s clear with Soljourner that he was brought up to be a gentleman. His demeanor hints at a royal lineage. Man-Ark, is a big, fun loving type that enjoys a good belly laugh. Then there’s the Herald. He’s the gruff, no nonsense, fighter! The telling of his origin, later on, reveals that he was a homeless person whom Omnispawn found and issued the Call. He doesn’t remember his past of much of anything else except his mission. What’s the Call? Well, now… we’ll be getting to that soon as well, Stay tuned!

Any questions or comments? All are welcome.


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It is officially SPRING!

But we sure couldn’t tell it this morning at 34 degrees!  It could have been worse and recently it has been! But we’re not complaining, even if this brings us to the close of yet another weekly MCG Blog Posting. Time to get something which always seems in short supply around here… Eh? No, we don’t mean money, we’re referring to REST! Let’s get it while we can. 😉

CU Next Week!

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AAF Ends Early • Avengers: Endgame • Eagle Ranger • Resolute Comics • Project: NewMan 1:15 • Humants 1:15

Friday, April 5th, 2019

     Welcome to Friday’s Mega Comics Group Updates!

AAF Week 9 Begins CANCELED!

The Teams of the AAF

AAF App

Everything on the AAF App for iPhone and Android Still works except ticket sales.

AAF week 9 WAS this weekend! There were 2 more games left in the inaugural, regular season, with 2 playoff games and a championship game yet to be played.  Now there are none! 

The Alliance of American Football has suspended operations. Yes, for true football fans, those of us who would watch the game year round if we could, this is indeed a sad day! The AAF was meant to be a feeder or farm league for the NFL. The football side of the operations was set up well enough but from sources we’ve heard the business side was not. We noticed early on there was almost no advertising of the new league so we wondered just how many football fans really knew about it. We also noticed the stadiums were not drawing large crowds. The record was set by San Antonio a couple weeks ago when thy reached 30,ooo. Most we observed did not look like they had a thousand people in them so it’s safe to say they were probably losing money on ticket sales. We also noted that the games were not broadcast on the regular outlets. CBS put most games on there CBS Direct Access pay app rather than the CBS national broadcast channel. There were no games on ESPN. There were games on the NFL Network. The others were cable networks like TNT. You could get a raw footage view of the game on the AAF App which was nice but there was no announcer or on screen score box or clock.

All that leads us to believe that the AAF was launched a year too soon. Had they waited another year and built their infrastructure during that time they might have pulled it off. Rumors were flying that the XFL was going to relaunch in 2020, so the AAF powers that be probably thought they needed to get ahead of the competition. They had trouble meeting payroll and covering a lot of other costs which came to a head about the second or third week of play. That’s when Tom Dundon came to the rescue with a promise of 250 million dollars to help bankroll the start-up. After $70,00o,ooo into it, he decided to pull the plug. He had been given total authority over the AAF when he came on board with the needed and promised funds. That was probably a mistake. There are a lot of rumors an accusations flying around now but who knows what is true.

AAF Standings

The AAF Standings FINAL STANDINGS! 

So here we are. Players and coaches are out of work and fans are denied seeing the full season played out. No more Winter/Spring Football League! Even though the games are over the web site and the phone app are still working as of this writing, all except ticket sales, of course. The App was/is cutting edge! You could watch the box score to follow the game and play a game in itself by predicting the next play for your own points while you monitored the scoring. You could also watch a raw footage view of the game which was nice but there was no announcer or on screen score box or clock. Previous weeks games could be replayed from the App Score Box too. All this is still available at the time of this writing but it probably won’t be up much longer.

It was fun while it lasted! The AAF was a good package but it was not given long enough to build a fan base. The original plan was based on a 3 year building process. That’s why we think it was a bad thing to allow Tom Dundon to have the authority to shut it down if he did not think it was working. Sure he was investing the money so conventional wisdom says he should call the shots, but it takes time to build something like this. We can understand, he may have been looking at the rate of return on the $70,00o,ooo he had already sunk into the league and did not think it would catch on in time to return a profit. True, not many have $250,00o,ooo to just throw away on a risky venture. So it may not have been avoidable. We certainly don’t know all the details so we will cut Mr. Dundon some slack. What do all know is that the NFL was not built overnight, it was years before it reached profitability. So have we come to a point in our society where everything just cost too much to start and see through? Or is it people in business are far too impatient these days? Maybe a little of both and more besides.

 

The AAF Was a Great Attempt!

Rest In Peace AAFHow many Pro Football Leagues, outside the NFL, have we seen come and go? There have been 6 since 1969 not counting Arena Football which may have lasted longer than any of the others. The XFL only lasted one season but at least they got past their post season championship game. Rumor has it the XFL is suppose to start up again in 2020.

Will the AAF return? It’s doesn’t look likely. Had they finished the season, maybe, but as it is now the brand is damaged. It would take a lot to restore confidence to players and fans for a reboot. However, if they got the right funding…that is someone to back them until it actually has a chance to grow a fan base and start making a profit, well, anything is possible. People tend to forget how things start. Amazon started and ran for years without showing a profit. Now Amazon is the biggest merchandiser on the web and expanding out into brick and mortar stores as well. Just think where we would be now if they had pulled the plug on Amazon less than a year after it started up!

(Read more about it at Wikipedia or go to the AAF website.)

Avengers Endgame

Wow! Another Avengers movie will be released at the end of this month.

Avengers: Endgame is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics superhero team the Avengers, produced by Marvel Studios and set for distribution by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the direct sequel to 2018’s Avengers: Infinity War, a sequel to 2012’s Marvel’s The Avengers and 2015’s Avengers: Age of Ultron, and the 22nd film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). The film is directed by Anthony and Joe Russo with a screenplay by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely and features an ensemble cast including Robert Downey Jr., Chris Evans, Mark Ruffalo, Chris Hemsworth, Scarlett Johansson, Jeremy Renner, Don Cheadle, Paul Rudd, Brie Larson, Karen Gillan, Danai Gurira, Bradley Cooper, and Josh Brolin. In the film, the surviving members of the Avengers and their allies work to reverse the damage caused by Thanos in Infinity War.

The film was announced in October 2014 as Avengers: Infinity War – Part 2. The Russo brothers came on board to direct in April 2015, and by May, Markus and McFeely signed on to script the film. In July 2016, Marvel removed the title, referring to it simply as Untitled Avengers film. Filming began in August 2017 at Pinewood Atlanta Studios in Fayette County, Georgia, shooting back-to-back with Infinity War, and ended in January 2018. Additional filming took place in the Metro and Downtown Atlanta areas and New York. The official title was revealed in December 2018.

The film is scheduled for release in the United States on April 26, 2019, in IMAX and 3D.

Source: Wikipedia 

Check out the Avengers: Endgame trailer!


Another Big Brother Report

“Seattle is dying.” according to veteran Seattle reporter Eric Johnson of KOMO. Last month he did a documentary which exposes the epic homeless problem which city officials have done nothing about other than install policies to encourage the problem. A real journalist in the city finally had enough. But rather than admit there is a problem the city officials are doing their best to discredit the reporter and the documentary. In effect that are saying “It’s not as bad as it looks on TV. There is no runaway homeless problem. Everything is fine. nothing to see here”

According to leaked documents, the City of Seattle and its allies have retained a crisis-communications firm to discredit, the reporter, Eric Johnson, and insist, despite all evidence to the contrary, that “Seattle is making progress to end homelessness, and proven solutions are working.”

Can you say, “Orwell’s Ministry of Truth.” The strategy seems to be dependent on Seattle mayor Jenny Durkan using taxpayer resources to attack a respected local journalist and convince taxpayers that they shouldn’t trust their own eyes, with homelessness and addiction and piles of human feces on the streets. Remember, Big Brother always tries to propagandize the exact opposite of the real. This development begs for further observation.

Source: RushLimbaugh.com,  City-Journal.org


Steve Cioccolanti of Australia tells it like it is! Pastor Cioccolanti explains why we should not submit to the Big Brother tyrants of the world…

 Since we began our 3 part article on “Big Brother is Watching Us” 3 weeks ago, we keep seeing more and more evidence of the reality of 1984 in 2019. As we run across more we’ll keep you informed.


Kirby’s DC Comics Covers

Mr Miracle and the Feamale Furies

Jacks’s DC 1970’s Covers #3! Probably our last look at Jack’s covers from the early ’70’s five year stint at DC Comics.

Jack’s best concepts were the Fourth World  books of New Gods, Mr. Miracle and the Forever People. However, Mr. Kirby had several more titles while he was under contract with DC. Kamandi was the most commercially successful title Jack did at DC which lasted 59 issues, with Jack editing, writing and drawing 37 of those and providing pencils on an additional handful. There was also the Demon series, The Sandman,  OMAC and several tryouts in First Issue Special. Jack also told his World War 2 stories in The Losers, did art in Kung Fu Fighter, Kobra, Justice Inc. and a few others.

Hmmm… come to think of it, they’re might be enough for a Jacks’s DC 1970’s Covers #4!

Enjoy!

 

Jacks’s DC 1970’s Covers #3


Like the Man said, ’nuff said!

 


 

Mark’s Remarks:

Things to Come

Eagle Ranger

One of the flagship characters for the new Resolute Comics imprint. His name? Well, we’ve called him Eagle 1, Bald Eagle and Eagle Ranger. Which name will we settle on? That remains to be seen. We are still filling in the blanks in his backstory and origin tale. Stay tuned!

I know you can find this info in other areas of the web site but I feel obligated to share with you, briefly, how we got to where we are now in order to set you up for some new information. Also there may be a few things in this telling which have not been shared before. Why retell it? To clue you in on where we are going and giving you the background which hopefully explains why we are going there. Make sense? Well, hang in there, wayfarer, all will be made clear. I hope…

Mega Comics Group: I started this web site back in June of 2008, 10 years ago, to showcase previous comic book stories and art I have been involved with in my life. Since I was a very young child I’ve had an ambition to draw comic book stories and that’s really all I wanted to do. But also, if need be, do the writing, lettering and coloring as well. In other words whatever it would take for me to accomplish my desire to draw comic book stories, that was what I was going to do. This desire came to light in my brain when I first saw animated cartoons on TV, the Batman TV series circa 1967-68 and later comic books.

Legacy Comics: Freazie White, Jr. and I  began Legacy around 1990, if memory serves me, but the first published comics were still a few months out. Actual publication began in 1991. There were several folks involved in that first Project: NewMan story in addition to us. (You can find that info on the inside front cover page of PNM#1 on this web site). The concept, characters design and story were mine but of course Freazie White, Jr. added a lot of his ideas and did the writing of the scripts for the most part. When I began this site it was with the idea of re-publishing what we had published in the Independent Comics Market which were available at Comic Book Specialty Shops, as well as those issues we had finished but never had a chance to print due to lack of funds at the time. Since turning the whole kit and kaboodle into web comics, I then proceeded to re-package all of the issues for a second printing under the category of Legacy Comics 25th Anniversary Re-issues and MCG.com 10th Anniversary Special Editions. Unfortunately, getting all those out to the printers has again come under budget considerations as well as time to complete the whole re-packaging process. Doing comics publishing in my spare time in addition to a full time, regular job, taking care of family and eating and sleeping occasionally is a big trick! One I’ve not totally mastered yet. Being an old dog now doesn’t help, because you can’t teach an old dog…. Never mind! 😉 In addition to all that, there is the weekly care and updating of this very web site plus I have given aid and assistance to some of my peers in the field such as good buddy Edgar Camp and his A-Men Book Line as well as some of Freazie’s up and coming projects. But let’s not get out in the weeds on this, time is short. Ahem! Anyway, sum it all up to say, “Things have not gone exactly as planned the past year.”

Now Enter: Resolute Comics! Yes, I can hear it now, “What? Another imprint? MCG is already hosting the Legacy Comics titles and Dimension Graphics pre-Legacy title Tess, the Living Tesseract and you are not even done with those yet!” Absolutely correct! But the character above is not exactly new, having been in our very second post way back on Sunday June 22, 2008 and on a follow up Monday, July 14th, 2008. We called him Eagle Ranger in that last post. He will be one of the flag ship characters for Resolute Comics.

Mega Tales

From our second posting back on Sunday June 22, 2008: “Coming Soon! More short features from Legacy Comics, Magi Graphics (our small press label) and more! Solo adventures of The Cricket, The Herald, Bearcat, Capt. Testament and more! Including more never before published material!”

Originally he was intended to be in Mega Tales but most likely we’ll keep Resolute Comics isolated from the rest of our work, for reasons to be revealed later. This comics imprint itself will be different from anything we’ve done before and I dare to say from much of anything that has ever been published before. But we’ll let you be the judge of that. I’ll just leave you with that tease and leave myself something more to talk about in my next column.

Mark's Profile PicOnward!

Mark

 


Okay, now let’s take a look at some comics from the Mega Comics Group!…

MCG Turns Ten!

Project: NewMan #3 AND the Humants #3 will both be available soon from our  Comics Store and the fine folks at IndyPlanet and DriveThru Comics.

MCG Turns Ten!Here, from our Archives Spotlight, enjoy the first postings of Project: NewMan and Humants exactly as they were 10 years back in June 2008. Keep in mind as you read, back in the day, we were posting a page everyday rather than weekly as we do now. So any references to “tomorrow,” was then and this is now. Rather than tomorrow, our next pages from 2008 will be posted next Friday. However, if yo don’t want to to wait, just keep reading. All the pages are there. We are just spotlighting what we’ve done here.

Coming Soon to the Archives Section! We will be adding in the postings for Mega Tales #1 featuring Tess, the Living Tesseract!

Alternatively, for an even more awesome comics reading goodness, go to our Comics Store and purchase the PDF for a measly buck! You can read the pdf right in your browser which is not nearly as limited as reading it on the web page! In addition to that, you can download the pdf to your computer or iDevice to read it whenever and wherever you like even if you don’t have an internet connection. But for now let’s go to the Way Back Machine 10 years ago…

New Man 1 Page 14June 23, 2008

Project: New Man 1 Page 15

Here we have a life and death standoff. New Man has no options here and there is no way he can reach the woman before the killer pulls the trigger. So, the super hero, with all the powers, is essentially powerless and has to rely on reasoning with a person who is on the verge of  total mental meltdown. There’s no way to predict what such a person will do. What would you do?

Mark’s Remarks:

Mark's Profile PicThere is not much action in this chapter but the dramatic tension is high. I like the idea that in this instance, after having been trained to use his power over the Unified Field, NewMan has to rely on his wits to over come this situation. He probably did not get much training in that area from the Fortress Foundation or in his previous line of work. And what of that previous line of work? We’re about learn more on that! Stay tuned.

Any questions or comments? All are welcome.

July 17, 2008

Humants 1 Page 15

Humants 1 Page 15

Now that the hero introductions are out of the way it’s time to prep for the introduction of our chief villain. Watch as Freazie pulls off some nice storytelling here and leads us through the origin of our baddie.

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Mark’s Remarks: We had the name first! A few years ago one of the big two comics companies, Marvel I think it was, swiped our chief villain’s name: Mageddon for use on a totally different villain in one of their big crossover events. I’ve always heard if your stuff is worth stealing, that’s a big compliment… No, wait… it’s “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery”… or something like that. So I guess we’re flattered.. yeah, anyway… just so you know, we had that name first!

It was the same with the name NewMan. We used it first then one of the guys at Image Comics used it for his own character. So this happened more than once. Coincidence? Maybe… Of course in comic books, names have been used for characters, especially villains, by more than one company over the years. It use to be fairly common. For instance Marvel and DC had villains called The Thinker. But these days, lawsuits, and more so, threats  of lawsuits over copyright infringement are easy to come by. You will notice on book covers now the small TM (trademark) by just about every name used. It should be noted here, the one threatening a lawsuit has to have the money to pay the lawyers to back it up, which, naturally is no problem for the big two. It’s been an interesting  observation of mine, that usually it’s the small companies, who don’t have the money to defend themselves in court, the big guys usually threaten with “cease and desist” letters. They seem to be far more tolerant of each other with such characters as Captain Marvel, for instance. Just saying…

Any questions or comments? All are welcome.


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MCG T-shirt PNM #1!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!

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The End Again!

So sad!  So many endings this week. We had the AAF end, the Avengers: Endgame, AND now we’ve come to the end of another MCG Blog Posting. Will it ever end? 😉 GULP! Let’s hope not. We’ll be back next week, God willing and the creek don’t rise! 😉 Have a great weekend!

CU Next Week!

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