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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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GIRL GENIUS! HUMANTS 5:22! Thursday’s Comics

Thursday, January 22nd, 2009

Airship EntertainmentWelcome to Thursday’s tinkering, technological, Transylvanian Daily Mega Comics Group Updates!

WOW! 🙂 Thursday?! Where has this week gone? Today we want to review another web comic which we have found we enjoy here at MCG.

Girl Genius is an ongoing “gaslamp fantasy” webcomic available at girlgeniusonline.com .  Girl Genius follows the life of Transylvania Polygnostic University student Agatha Heterodyne as she discovers that she is not as hapless as she, and others, thinks she is. The series is written and drawn by Phil and Kaja Foglio, Professors in residence at TPU. 😉

Agatha“Girl Genius is an ongoing adventure story in which the characters grow, change, run around the landscape quite a bit, and occasionally even die.” The Professors Foglio proclaim on the New Reader Page first. It’s followed by an admonishment to start reading with the first story, it all makes more sense that way.  The entire Girl Genius comics archive is available online so it’s easy to access this tales right on your home computer. If you have a lot of downtime, and we emphasize A LOT, on your job you might be able to read them there too, but don’t tell your boss we said you could, okay? We can get in enough trouble on our own, thank you very much! 😉

Agatha Clay

The authors claim influences which include Jules Verne and H. Rider Haggard. If you want a more modern point of reference think the movie, inspired buy the TV series of the same name, Wild, Wild West. You will find big, clanking Victorian-style tech, old-fashioned clothes, Frankenstein monsters and Zeppelin style airships. It could be magic or science or a little of both or what the Professors Folio refer to as it’s Mad Science.

Girl Genius began in the year 2000 as a quarterly comic book then the Professors decided to take the curriculum online. They faced a dilemma: How to present the story from the beginning to a new webcomics audience without making the established audience of the printed comic book series wait for the web comics to catch up. The  anser was simple: Two Webcomics! So they made the earlier chapters a three-times a week webcomic while simultaneously continuing the adventures from the point where the regular printed comic series was, in the new webcomic version. The two strips were titled The 101 Class and The Advanced Class but the two caught up to each other in July 2007, and now the two have been merged into one archive.

Girl Genius Mad ScienceEven though the original comic is not published any more, you can also order the Trade Paperback and Hardcover Collections online from their store link or as PDF downloads from Drive-Thru Comics.

Master PayneThe Professors recommend Girl Genius for an audience of 13 and up. Even though by today’s TV standards there is nothing offensive there is lots of running around in Victorian underwear, occasional innuendo, a certain amount of violence and the occasional “damn!” But a lot of their readers still say they read Girl Genius to their kids and the Foglio’s own kids like it and read it.

AirshipThe Art: Girl Genius is influenced by the Manga style but more like the original Robotech series. It’s very well done, and very detailed. The art in the Volume One is all black and white but beautiful line work! Color begins with Volume Two.

To get an idea of what you will be reading we present The Girl Genius Story So Far exactly as it is on their web site:

Spoiler Alert! By its very nature, the following synopsis will give away the plot.

BASIC BACKSTORY
Girl Genius has been being written for some time now, and there have been a lot of twists and turns in the story. Not all of that is covered here, because really, beyond a certain point it’s just easier to read the story itself, but this should be enough to get you up to speed:

Circus CrewThe setting: In a time when the Industrial Revolution escalated into a full-on war, rival mad scientists, (“Sparks” to be polite), are the ruling powers in most of Europe. Keeping them all in line is Baron Wulfenbach, a particularly powerful and cranky Spark who, when someone starts causing trouble, simply steps in and makes them stop. His captial is the gigantic airship fortress Castle Wulfenbach.

Jager MonsterZeethaThe main character: Agatha Clay was a student at Transylvania Polygnositc University, who had truly rotten luck until she was revealed as a Spark. (Some might argue that this, also, was rotten luck.) She has also recently discovered that she is the last of the famous Heterodyne family—beloved heroes who disappeared under mysterious circumstances many years ago. Folk legend claims that they will someday return, but so far they haven’t managed it.

And as requested by Transylvania Polygnostic University Legal Department: This site is not approved by, sponsored by or affiliated with Studio Foglio LLC or Airship Entertainment.

Now let’s check out Legacy Comics’ Humants’ offerings for today!

Humants # 5:

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As you recall in Project: New Man # 4, Bearcat suffered some physical abuse to his face at the end of a cattle prod from the villainous Ebenezer Baal.

Now here’s a trivia question for you sharp eyed readers. Why would Baal focus his attack on Bearcats face? Hmmm…? Come on read the stories. What? Yep, that’s right! Bearcats uniform is made from Micro-Mail woven from another of Emanuel’s inventions: Plastanium, the light weight, flexible material which is nearly impenetrable.

Baal would have attempted to cause Bearcat harm the usual ways of direct attacks on his body but once he discovered Bearcat’s padded Micro-Mail uniform protects him from the worst of the assaults, he revised his plan. It was also not possible for him to remove Bearcats uniform because of the special Static Seals which Emanuel built into the seems and openings.

So after figuring all that out, Baal realized the only course of action remaining was to torture Bearcat’s exposed face to get the information he needed.

Having survived the torture and being restored by New Man via his new found mastery of the Unified Field he wields, and even being free of the scars that normally would have occurred, Emanuel decides he will do something about his exposed face so that he is fully protected from any assault.

Any questions or comments? All are welcome.

Click the images for today’s web comics updates.

Check out Thursday‘s posts for Humants’! CU2morrow!

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2019 Is Here • Girl Genius • One Last 2018 Football Game

Friday, January 4th, 2019

Welcome to Friday’s Mega Comics Group Updates!

Football TackledWOW! 2019 is here! We had a fun New Year Celebration. Hope you did the same.

Can you believe those College Football Bowl Games!? We saw some really good match-ups this Holiday Season all during the week. New Years Eve, Auburn destroyed Purdue 63-14! Earlier it was Florida showing their value against Michigan, 41-15. Virginia routed South Carolina, 28-0. Syracuse beat West Virgina, 34-18. Wisconsin annihilated Miami, 35-3. Baylor squeaked by Vanderbilt, 45-38. Mississippi State got beat, but just barely by Iowa, 27-22. Kentucky triumphed over Penn State in a close one, 27-24. LSU ended UCFs bragging rights with a 40-32 thumping. Ohio State defeated Washington more soundly than the final scored showed at 28-23. Likewise Texas took out Georgia, 28-21.

Tua to Smith National Championship 2017

Tua Tagovailoa coming off the bench to start the 2nd half as Quarter Back for the University of Alabama Crimson Tide, in overtime after a sack, on a 2nd and 26, threw a pass to Devonta Smith for the winning score in last years thrilling National Championship game to beat the Georgia Bulldogs 26-23! This years match up promises to be close as well.

Last Saturday featured the College Football Playoff Championship games to determine who would play in the National Championship Game. The first was # 2 Clemson hosting #4 Notre Dame. Not much to see there. The Irish were no match for the Tigers who dominated throughout the game on offense and defense winning 30 – 3.

Next up was # 1 Alabama hosting #4 Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl! WHEW! This one was more like it! Not a dull moment! The Crimson Tide surged out to a 28 point lead by early in the 2nd quarter before the Sooners finally woke up and tried to rally! But they never got closer than 11 points, which was the difference at the end, 45-34! And so now on to the final game of the 2018 season, The National Championship Game, Monday. January 7th at 7PM (Central), featuring #1 Alabama and #2 Clemson for all the marbles!

Some have said “Alabama and Clemson again?!” Well, yeah… they have been regulars the past 10 years but that’s because they play out the year and prove they are the best. Both are undefeated this year, but only one will stay that way. Which one will it be?  Show up Monday night and see. Until then, like Tua says, Aloha!

And as always… just in case you are wondering who we are pulling for….

Roll Tide!


GIRL GENIUS Revisited!

(Originally posted Thursday, January 22nd, 2009)

Airship Entertainment

Girl Genius is an ongoing “gaslamp fantasy” webcomic available at girlgeniusonline.com .  Girl Genius follows the life of Transylvania Polygnostic University student Agatha Heterodyne as she discovers that she is not as hapless as she, and others, thinks she is. The series is written and drawn by Phil and Kaja Foglio, Professors in residence at TPU. ?

Agatha“Girl Genius is an ongoing adventure story in which the characters grow, change, run around the landscape quite a bit, and occasionally even die.” The Professors Foglio proclaim on the New Reader Page first. It’s followed by an admonishment to start reading with the first story, it all makes more sense that way.  The entire Girl Genius comics archive is available online so it’s easy to access this tales right on your home computer. If you have a lot of downtime, and we emphasize A LOT, on your job you might be able to read them there too, but don’t tell your boss we said you could, okay? We can get in enough trouble on our own, thank you very much! ?

Agatha Clay

The authors claim influences which include Jules Verne and H. Rider Haggard. If you want a more modern point of reference think the movie, inspired buy the TV series of the same name, Wild, Wild West. You will find big, clanking Victorian-style tech, old-fashioned clothes, Frankenstein monsters and Zeppelin style airships. It could be magic or science or a little of both or what the Professors Folio refer to as it’s Mad Science.

Girl Genius began in the year 2000 as a quarterly comic book then the Professors decided to take the curriculum online. They faced a dilemma: How to present the story from the beginning to a new webcomics audience without making the established audience of the printed comic book series wait for the web comics to catch up. The  anser was simple: Two Webcomics! So they made the earlier chapters a three-times a week webcomic while simultaneously continuing the adventures from the point where the regular printed comic series was, in the new webcomic version. The two strips were titled The 101 Class and The Advanced Class but the two caught up to each other in July 2007, and now the two have been merged into one archive. Check it all out here.


MCG Turns Ten!

So let’s see what’s in the bag o’ comics today! We are still finishing up fine tuning on 10 year Anniversary Editions of Project: NewMan #3 AND the Humants #3 which will both be available soon from our  Comics Store and the fine folks at IndyPlanet and DriveThru Comics.

MCG Turns Ten!But no need to wait to celebrate… just go to our our Archives to enjoy the first postings of Project: NewMan and Humants exactly as they were 10 years back in June 2008.  We are providing the art pages as well as our ever evolving commentary for Project NewMan #1 and Humants #1. The postings were originally separated by a month’s time. As we went about posting the work, ye ol’ friendly neighborhood, publisher -in-training, Mark Poe began to highlight his comments distinctively from those of the dedicated Mega Minions in a style reminiscent of those early Marvel Age Bullpen Bulletin pages.

To retain that original charm, everything is as it  was first presented in 2008. (Albeit with any needed typos corrected.) All the comics sites under the MCG banner are so preserved. The posting dates are clearly marked to make your time traveling exploits somewhat less confusing. So keep that in mind as you read. Back in the day, we were posting a page everyday whereas this blog now updates weekly. That has become a nescessity in order to work one other things, like new material for new comics rather than just maintaining the blog. 😉 So when you read any references to “tomorrow” just know, that was then and this is now.

The next installment from 2008 will be posted next Friday. But if you don’t want to wait, just keep reading. All the pages are there so have at it! OR better yet go to our Comics Store and purchase the PDF for a measly buck! Then put it on your iDevice of choice or your computer and read it whenever and wherever you like even if you don’t have an internet connection. So without further ado…

 

 

New Man 1 Page 2June 10th, 2008

Project: New Man 1 Page 2

This was probably not the best way to start out a first issue. I mean, how exciting can breakfast be? Live and learn. Oh well, just 3 more pages until the actions starts!

July 4th, 2008

Humants 1 Page 2

Humants 1 Page 1

Billy Leavell came up with the idea of the wavy lettering for OminiSpawn. OmniSpawn is like a spirit being who floats about, walks through walls and the such but he also can take on a very solid form as will be seen in the next couple pages. Devlin Delano was Freazie‘s character which Mark got to name.

Mark's Profile PicMark’s Remarks: These midnight updates are beginning to be a habit. 😉

Back in our Legacy Comics days this first Humants story was being done simultaneously with the second Project: New Man story. Accomplishing that with a limited help was enough trouble all by itself! But then we had another problem. The stories were originally going to be two separate regular size comic books, however printing fund shortages dictated combining the two stories into one 64 page comic. While that saved us money on printing, it cost us in sales in the comic shops because of the higher price we had to charge for that one issue. Even though we were giving a lot more pages for the money, when it came down to comic book readers buying decisions, that $3.75 per issue beat out the 64 page count more often than not. Live and learn. 😉

Any questions or comments? All are welcome.


The Holidays are over! Unless you want to buy gifts for Presidents Day or Martin Luther King Jr’s Birthday. And if you do, we are good with that and we support your right to purchase gifts for any holiday you choose! To show our support, we are making available our printed books to impress your Holiday Gift recipients with the digital color OR if you had rather purchase the very inexpensive digital downloads for instant gratification, then we can accommodate you there too. No, no… Don’t thank us… It’s just what we do. 😉

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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!

And don’t forget we have all kinds of Mega Merchandise, like t-shirts, posters, mugs, phone cases and lots more:

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TGIF! So ends another brief but brilliant MCG Friday Blog Update. But fear not! We’ll return here next Friday. Same Mega time! Same Mega channel! 🙂

Hoping the best for you in 2019!

CU Next Week!

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