As I wrote yesterday, at the print shop I work for on my Day Job we are in the midst of doing High School Football Program Books of 75-150 pages each. Time is a premium for the next few weeks so I will have to keep it short.

On top of that we had the funeral of my Wife’s Grandmother yesterday. She was 85 and had a very good life. She was also our next door neighbor and will be missed greatly.  She was one of the nicest people I ever met and I never heard her say a bad word of any one. She always had an encouraging word for whoever she met. I knew her for more than 25 years.

Here’s page 1 of the Free Preview of Humants we passed out in the conventions and gave to retailers I showed you the cover of yesterday.

Today we have the debut of Humants #2. This issue was a landmark issue in my opinion. I thought Freazie and I turned in some of the best work we had done since our small press days. We learned a few things from the publication of the first two books with Legacy Comics and applied them to this issue.

This cover I did the pencils and inks on and Nathan Massengill did his usual extraordinary job of painting it in blazing color! Remember to click the images to see a larger views.

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• Updates Online DAILY - Humants #2! - The lead story in Legacy Comics 1992 Black and White 48 page Independent Comic: Humants!

Five Lakes Megalopolis: The appearance of unusual individuals wielding supernatural powers called Humants was nothing, it seems, compared to the arrival of their sworn enemy, the Dark Lord of the Hecati, Megeddon! With his chief servant, the powerhouse called Devastax, he plans not to rule the world, but rather to destroy it! First, however, they must get by The Herald, Magistar, and Man Ark! The Herald attempts to administer the judgment called The Experience which Omni Spawn told him last issue was his destiny to perform. His first guinea pig, Mageddon, is none to happy about it!

Meanwhile Krystal McCliston, investigative reporter for the TV show A Cyrstal View, tries to capture all of it on video which may be easier said than done amongst the falling debris.

We meet the family Rosebud of Rosebud Diversified Financial and in particular Janeta who will soon meet Omni Spawn.

Last but not least we meet a new villain: The Tower!

Written,  and drawn  by Freazie White, Jr., embellishment by Mark Poe and featuring awesome lettering by Billy Leavell.

Coming Soon Next: Never before published material in Humants #3!

• Updates Online DAILY - Project: New Man #2! - The Full Length back-up feature from Legacy Comics 1991 Black and White 64 page Independent Comic Humants #1!

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!

Written by Freazie White, Jr. with art by Mark Poe, Allan Lewis, and Alan Baker. Lettering by Billy Leavell.

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. 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.

• In just a few more weeks! Our third title starts out with a  short feature from Legacy Comics: Bearcat! This 8 page story is never before published material!

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Overtime continues on my Day Job even on Sunday as we are in the heat of battle doing High School Football Program Books of 75-150 pages each. I’ve already put 2 down of 64 and 88 pages each. Time is a premium so I will have to keep it short.

Today we begin Project: New Man #3. The first part of this story was originally published in Humants #2. This cover was drawn by me, Mark Poe, embellished by Allan Lewis with colors by Freazie White, Jr. and a little digital enhancing by your humble publisher. Hope you enjoy our efforts.

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We are in week 3 of Creative Printers marathon High School Football Program deadline crunch! We figured up yesterday that we probably have 2-3 weeks of work left on this project if the current trend continues. Whew!

Here’s a couple drawings by Freazie White, Jr. The first is the color guide for The Humant’s costumes he penciled, inked and colored. We used a black and white version for the inside cover of Humants #2.

The second is from our small press days: Captain Testament, the Christian Crusader. We hope to share some of those in Mega Tales later this year. Again Mr. White did his usual bang up job penciling and inking this little gem! Enjoy!

Sorry my time is short but things will be back to normal soon. Thnaks for your patience.

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I’m on page 17 of another 64 page  High School Football Program for Creative Printers. The marathon continues! We should compete in the Olympics!

Here’s more drawings by Freazie White, Jr. The first is another version of the 3N1 art I originally did. Freazie penciled this one over my layouts. This one is a favorite of mine and actually appeals to me more than my own version. Great job, pal! We’ll finish the Legacy Continuum book, which this was to be in, one day soon.

The second is New Man from the same incomplete title I just mentioned: Legacy Continuum. Again these are Freazie’s pencils over my layouts. Freazie was never comfortable doing pencils over my layouts. I don’t understand why because the combination of our talents in this way was always great! At least I thought so. I liked it almost as well as my inks on Freazie’s pencils. Freazie was a good inker over my work too. I hope we’ll be able to have time in our schedules in the next year to collaborate again like on these drawings. And I definitely want to ink Freazie’s pencils again on Humants or whatever he has a mind to pencil.

The third is a re-creation, more or less, of the Humants #1 cover. I roughed out the layouts and Freazie penciled over it and even began to ink it. This one I really want ot see completed! Another one which was done for the  Legacy Continuum.

Again my time is short. Thanks for your patience.

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• Updates Online DAILY - Project: New Man #3! - The Full Length back-up feature from Legacy Comics 1991 Black and White 48 page Independent Comic Humants #2 and never before published material!

The tale we call The Haunted Man began late one night in Project: New Man #1. While on patrol in the city of New Harbour, New Man overheard the aimless braggadocio conversation of congregated street hoods. The name Ebenezer Baal had been at the center of the conversation. It was an alias of one incredibly elusive crime lord, whose true identity remained a mystery.

New Man made his way to the warehouse and was met by an ambush. Better than a dozen heavily armed men had found New Man’s Unified Field to be more than a match for their armament, alas, Baal himself had managed to escape.

A young costumed adventurer called Bearcat arriving on the scene, spots Baal’s timely exit and follows Baal to his hideout. Being somewhat new to the heroing business, the ofttimes presumptuous Bearcat soon finds himself face to face with Cyber-Tech, a cybernetic lackey of Baal’s.  Cyber-Tech holds a grudge against the Thunderhawks (New Man’s trainers) and is intent on their destruction. No one, not even Bearcat or New Man, will stand in the way of the cyborg’s goals!

Written by Freazie White, Jr. with art by Nathan Massengill, Mark Poe & Christopher Torres. Expert lettering by Billy Leavell.

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. 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 of New Harbour.

• Updates Online DAILY - Humants #2! - The lead story in Legacy Comics 1992 Black and White 48 page Independent Comic: Humants!

The Humants, The Herald, Magistar, and Man Ark are introduced to and 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! The Herald is intent on stopping them as he administers the judgment called The Experience which he recently found out from Omni Spawn is his destiny to perform. Mageddon, is not very cooperative!

Krystal McCliston, investigative reporter for the TV show A Cyrstal View, tries to capture the action on video while dodging falling debris. This, it turns out, is good practice in survival when she later comfronts a new villain: The Tower!

Introducing also in this issue Janeta Rosebud of Rosebud Diversified Financial who will soon meet Omni Spawn and things will never again be the same!

Written,  and drawn  by Freazie White, Jr., embellishment by Mark Poe and featuring awesome lettering by Billy Leavell.

The Humants are by no means mutants by another name. The series, is about a loose-knit band of characters from diverse walks of life who have been summoned to partake of an incredible power called Khosmotic. This enigmatic force re-creates its chosen, not mutates, and gradually conforms them into its own image. Thus it’s chosen become Khosmotic Warriors. They are the appointed of the Khosmotic Conjunction. The team’s base of operations is in the in the Five Lakes Megalopolis area and more specifically Municipal City.

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Sorry for the delayed updates. I had some issues with my Hughes Net Router this morning after logging on to the web. I’ve worked on Macs and PC’s for 20 years, used this router for 5, built websites, troubleshooted all kinds of computer, printer and network problems for myself and clients but I’ve never seen any thing like this before. I could get any web site except my own. I rebooted the Router and everything was fine. Strange. Then I had some thick cloud cover blocking my satellite reception. Geeze! If it’s not one thing…

Here’s my favorite panel from today’s Humants # 2 update. The Herald confronts Mageddon for the second time! As you can see he’s more than a little ticked off that this has to be the second encounter after his botched first attempt to subdue the Dark Lord of the Hecati!

On the lighter side over in Project: New Man # 3, Dave is fulfilling a special request with two young fellows he met while doing his morning jog through the New Harbour Central Park. I always loved the scenes where Stan Lee and Jack Kirby had The Thing of the Fantastic Four entertaining some kids on one of his leisure outings in New York, which was what inspired this little exchange.

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What a day I had Saturday! Everything seemed to be about 6 degrees off center. First there was the Hughes Net Router problems, then the thick clouds blocking my satellite reception. So I finally got everything updated on the sites and had to rush out to finish mowing the yard which I started Friday afternoon. Actually 3 yards, ours, the vacant house next door, and my wife’s Grandmother’s old yard. She passed on a few weeks ago. All these are in our extended family out in the country where we live, so it’s up to my Father-in-law and I to keep them up. Unfortunately he has had to work overtime all week covering for someone on vacation. My oldest son use to help out but he’s off at college now. My younger son is not yet old enough to do much mowing, but he’s learning. I’ve got the mowing down to a tight routine and usually it’s not hard at all and goes off on schedule, about a 4 hour job tops, but not the past two weeks. All the rain we’ve had  from the storms in the Gulf has the grass growing like crazy! Then of course I ran out of gas and had to go pawn the TV to buy 5 gallons. Just kidding about pawning the TV, but to fill my 5 gallon can it cost $21.00! I wasn’t that long ago that it only cost me 6 or 7 bucks! So after wasting an hour getting gas I got back and got the mowing done, all except the trimming around the edges. 6 hours mowing! Geeze!

Today, I have a couple small outside jobs to do but for the most part, I work on web sites!

Above is a nice panel from today’s Humants # 2 update. The Herald and Man Ark converse on plans for the Humants to pool their resources as a team. The best lines of the script actually are in the last panel but I didn’t want to show that here and ruin the joke.

In Project: New Man # 3, New Man leaps into action, literally. A cool shot of the Moriah Building. This building was inspired by an actual skyscrapper in Birmingham, Alabama. I almost got arrested getting reference photos for this. Those guys in the Bellsouth Building were pretty ticked off that I got all the way up to the top floor without a security pass! It’s amazing what you can do when you put your mind to it and watch for opportnities.

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