7 years ago today almost 3,000 everyday, ordinary people working 9-5, regular jobs died in the largest Terrorist Attack this country has ever seen. For them and most of us it started out just like any other day, rushing off to work, grabbing a cup of coffee, saying bye to family members and friends, fighting rush hour traffic, and all the usual day to day routines.  I had just come up stairs to work in my home office that morning. My brother was already working and he called my attention to the TV. We saw a smoking hole in one of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. We discussed it and like the commentators we thought it a pilot error leading to a terrible accident. As we watched, the second plane hit. I will never forget that cold feeling as I realized what we were watching was no accident. That was a long, terrible day, one we will never forget. The only bright spot in it was the reports of acts of real heroes that emerged from the smoldering ruins of our shattered sense of security. The Heroes of 9-11: The firefighters, the police men, the passengers of the planes, and just average people who in spite of tremendous danger, injury and loss of life rose above it all and did things they never thought themselves capable of. They, above all else, will never be forgotten!

Hurricane Ike is now at Category 2 strength right out in the middle of the Gulf Of Mexico after it’s rampage through Cuba. It’s expected to be a Cat 3 by the time it makes landfall somewhere just south of Houston, Texas around 2 A.M. Saturday morning. Evacuations all along the coast have already begun. The only good news is there isn’t another storm anywhere on the radar right now.

The third and final page of the Legacy Communications Page from Humants #2 is up today. This also marks the last page of this issue to be followed by the Inside and Back covers. Originally Humants #2 was a 48 page book but since we’ve separated the New Man back up feature to it’s own title, as it was always meant to be, we’ve reduced this web version to 32 pages which is the format all our books follow. That gives you a page per day with one or two bonus pages, depending on the number of days in a given month, and it gives us a nice neat package if we go back to press with any of these classics. But it’s more likely we’ll collect the whole run in one handy, dandy Trade Paperback edition sometime next year. Keep your fingers crossed.

In Project New Man # 3 today, Dr Jonathan Thunderstorm, A.K.A. Chief Thunder reveals a little more info about the Thunderhawks and the Fortress Foundation. In case you are new here, Project: New Man is 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. The Fortress Fighters are the security team for the Foundation which is headquartered at the Moriah Building in downtown New Harbour city.

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Hurricane Ike is gaining strength in the very warm water of the central Gulf of Mexico. Looking at the radar, the outer bands fill up the entire Gulf! It’s almost bigger than the state of Texas! In the next 24 hours, Ike could become a Category 3 or even a Cat 4 Hurricane. Landfall is expected somewhere around Galveston, Texas at about 1 A.M. Saturday morning which could bring 10 to 20 foot storm surges and winds in excess of 115 mph.

Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast residents were ordered to evacuate Wednesday and Thursday with more evacuations likely today. Houston could have heavy flooding and strong winds from Ike this afternoon and all day Saturday.

Hurricane Ike is moving about 35 Miles Per Hour right now. Damage from a Monster Storm like this could be extensive but if  it slows down as it makes landfall the damage and flooding could be as bad as Katrina.

Humants #2 is ending. We have the inside back cover with the “Next Issue” preview of the cover for Humants # 3 and a shot of the cover for Project New Man # 3 which is ongoing right now!

We are looking into offering printed copies of these books after the first of the year and possibly a collected Trade Paperback later in 2009. While we no longer have any copies of Project: New Man #1 and Humants #1 we do have a few of those rare, original 3,000 copy press run of Humants #2 . We will be offering autographed copies of those real soon. Watch for the announcement!

In Project New Man # 3: No, we didn’t forget our star. New Man is in the building and the action is about to begin!

Christopher Torres sent us a couple copies of pencil pages with New Man battling Cyber-Tech, and we hired him on the spot! I’ll get those scanned in soon and let you see them. There is not a lot of difference in the battle you are about to see and those two pages except the local was a warehouse setting and New Man was in full uniform and battle gear. Chris of course like nearly everyone at the time was heavily influenced by Jim Lee and Rob Liefield. This would have been their pre-Image Comics days when they were still doing X-Force and X-Men. Hmmm… didn’t Liefield do New Mutants too?

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Hurricane Ike made landfall as a high Category 2 Hurricane, almost a Cat 3. Reports from the coast are not good. This could be worse than Katrina. Galveston, Texas’s seawall was reported as having held up but right now, late Saturday morning, very sketchy details are available. Houston has a lot of flooding. Our hopes and prayers are with those that remained behind and those First Responders and Search and Rescue Teams in the area.

The Louisiana Gulf Coast is reported not doing well either. Still it is early and the storm is still blowing at Category 1 strength. It may be a while before this one blows out.

We have the back  cover of Humants #2 today. This is one of two nice pin-ups of the Humants which Freazie White, Jr. did all by his lonesome for the original printing of Humants # 2. This one was originally page 33. Pretty cool, huh?

Guess what! You will be seeing Freazie take pencil in hand once again for the first time in 16 years when he finishes Humants # 5 and does Humants # 6. These two issues will resolve the current story line. And guess who will be inking those little jewels. Yep, little ol’ me, Mark Poe. Remember you heard it here first! So don’t go away, we’ve still got a lot of never before published 1992 Freazie Art for Humants #3 & 4 to see first! 

For those sharp eyed fans out there, yep, I botched yesterday’s preview of the inside back cover for #2. That has been corrected now so you can go back and see what was suppose to be there now. We’ll use that Sojourner  Pin-up for the back cover of issue #3.

In Project New Man # 3: Yow! Things really heat up on page 23 of this issue. Yeah, that pun was intended.

Christopher Torres did a great job with the pencils of this issue and I really enjoyed inking them.

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Cyber-Tech seems to be having problems with his cybernetic body. He had not counted on having to face New Man so soon. The Thunder hawks were his concern this day. Ebenezer Baal warned him not to confront them too soon, but in his eagerness for revenge and to prove himself to those who had previously shunned him, he has made a critical error.

New Man has the ability to manipulate a Unified Field which is composed of electrical, magnetic, and gravitational forces. It is the secret of his power and what invisibly augments his natural strength. Even though it protects him from such things as flame and bullets, he can still feel some of the pressure and heat.

Humants #2 ended yesterday with the outside back cover. There is no Humants update today. Tomorrow  Humants # 3 begins!

Hurricane Ike, as you can see from those few AP photos, was as bad as we feared. 140,000 people may have stayed behind to ride out the storm. A massive Search and Rescue Operation is underway now. One lady interviewed by reporters, who has ridden out several Hurricanes and stayed for this one as well, said this one is the worse she has ever been in.

Ike’s effects were not limited to the the Gulf Coast but made it way inland and caused wide spread flooding. Rain from the storm is still causing flooding today, even after being downgraded to a Tropical Depression, as far away as Illinois! Wind has caused and still is causing damage as well. Here in North Alabama our power is blinking on and off as we have winds at 25 M.P.H. and gusts up to 35!

Gas prices have soared all over the nation! I was out yesterday and saw local prices over $4 per gallon in a lot of places and one place had over $5 per gallon. Some of that is retailers and maybe even distributors gouging the public. I hope the government fines them heavily, but even so we won’t get a refund. I got my tanked topped off before it went up hoping it won’t last more than a few days. I’m limiting my travel as much as possible to stretch it out as long as I can. They say Refineries may be down for as much as 9 days!

All we can do is hang in there and hope we don’t have any more storms like this.

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Today Humants #3 begins! This is exciting for us because we have had to wait a long time for this issue to get published. After 16 years, the wait is over! It may not be in the old school printed format yet, but we have it in the new school digital format for the whole World Wide Web to see!

This issue features the debut of the Savage Chaosta! Ain’t she a doll! I don’t think The Herald it too thrilled with her arrival! Our little band of heroes will never be the same again!

I, Mark Poe, did the layout for this cover and Freazie White, Jr. finished it and did a color guide for it. I used the color guide and added the color in PhotoShop.

In Project New Man # 3: Dave Davison, A.K.A. New Man is still in his jogging outfit in case you just came back from vacation and wondered where his uniform is.

It looks like New Man is pressing the advantage against his larger opponent Cyber-Tech, but then the tide turns… or does it

Christopher Torres art continues! Freazie has some awesome scripting on this one as well!

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Here’s the inside front cover for Humants #3, as it was originally designed in 1992, but now all the text has been brought up to date for this site. I did the art of The Herald attacking Chaosta. It was my first attempt at mimicking the fan fave’s Jim Lee, Rob Liefield and the other soon to be founders of Image Comics artists who in turn we’re mimicking Arthur Adams. The reason for my imitating the art styles as well as creating the new Humant’s logo was to try to be more appealing to the distributors and retailers.

There was another reason for my imitating the Image guys: During a conversation Freazie and I had, he made the comment, innocently enough, that my style was not really hot, fan fave material. I was chiefly inspired by John Byrne and Jack Kirby, but they were not the current “hot” artists at the time, so after getting over the initial offense, I decided Freazie was right, as he often was and still is. So I went about studying the Image guys and Adams and trying to adapt a lot of their style to my own.

In Project New Man # 3: Cyber-Tech in his battle with New Man has been partially disabled, but he’s not down for the count yet! The clearly insane cyborg has transferred all his anger and hatred to Dave.

Wondering what’s happened to The Thunder Hawks? Don’t fret, they have not abandoned our hero as you will see on tomorrow’s page.

I think Christopher really did a nice job with these action/battle scenes! What do you think?

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Humants #3: Omni Spawn meets with Janeta Rosebud and as a result, The Savage Chaosta makes her Humants debut!

Freazie White, Jr. once again does his usual great job penciling and scripting this issue. He had a plethora of inkers helping out with the art. Ralph Ellis Miley, who was one of our fraternity brothers from Alpha Omega, did lend a hand and brush. He’s someone you may see more work from in the coming months on other projects. Billy Leavell, while doing his usual legendary lettering, also assisted with some inking on a few pages as well. Freazie and I, Mark Poe, both did  a little inking as usual. I think Christopher Torres may have helped out on some of the backgrounds also, now that I look through the pages. I will have to check on that and add him to the credits if he did. In spite of all the helping hands this issue’s art actually comes off looking very uniform, that is, the style of art is consistent throughout the issue.

One last note on this page: That background with the wall of graffiti behind Omnispawn and Janeta, if my memory is correct, I did while we were sitting at the tables of one of the conventions we were guests with. I think some of the fans attending got their names enshrined on it!

Project New Man # 3: continues the epic battle between Cyber-Tech and New Man! Dave looks like he’s starting to lose ground to the fury of the mad cyborgs attack! But the battle isn’t over yet, The Thunder Hawks may be the cavalry charging to Dave’s rescue in this one! They will try anyway!

Tomorrow we’ll find out some more revelations concerning Cyber-Tech and his origin which will show he has strong ties to… Ah, let’s wait until then to find out. I don’t want to spoil the plot for you.

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Right now in Humants #3: Page 2 is a great splash page Freazie did of Chaosta immediately after her empowerment through Khosmotic Renewal by Omnispawn.

This is another page I inked on our convention tour in the summer of 1991. I actually started it at Freazies house. Since we live several states apart, I had made the long drive up to Michigan and had the privilege of living with Freazie and his wife, Angela and the kids for about 6 weeks while we trekked all over the Northeastern States to one convention after another. We had some good times then! We did a lot of art, a lot of plotting and logged a lot of miles on my ol’ beat up ‘85 Chevy Cavalier!

And over in Project New Man # 3: When things look like they are darkest, that’s often when something happens to turn the tide. He’s heard that kind of thing all his life. At one time David “Killer” Kane would have mocked the chances of miraculous last minute saves. More likely, he would have acknowledged, if anything could go wrong it would! His Special Forces training in ‘Nam, allowed him to only trust in his own abilities and training, never on any one else and certainly not in anything remotely resembling hope or faith. But that was before David “Killer” Kane was transformed into New Man. Since that time he has lived in a state of amazing events he would never imagined in his wildest dreams!

Okay, I know I said today, but it’s really tomorrow we’ll find out some more revelations concerning Cyber-Tech and his origin which will show he has strong ties to… but that’s for tomorrow’s update. For real this time! Really. Sorry I jumped the gun yesterday.

Did you notice the new Mighty Mega Checklist feature in the left sidebar? It’s a handy guide to all the issues we have posted so far on MCG! We’ll update our checklist every time we add a title so you will have those handy to go right to an issue you missed, or to go back to a page to refresh your memory on a current plot twist, or… GULP!.. to check up on how well we have done on our continuity!  If you are a new reader, well then! You are all set, web wayfarer! Just click on the cover or title link to go to our first book and get caught up! We have them in order from our first postings, at the bottom of the list, to the current comic updating daily, at the top of the list. But that’s not all. Yep, you guessed it, there’s more! We’ll be adding a lot of New Features in the next month to help you navigate our pages easier! Stay tuned.

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