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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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DAVE SIMONS! TESS! FACEBOOK COMIC CON ROLLS ON! Tuesday’s Update

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Dave StevensWelcome to Tuesday’s Daily Mega Comics Group Updates!

Dave Simons is an inherently notable artist in comics history!  🙂 Dave Simons has been doing comics either inking or penciling or both for the better part of 4 decades! Most of his work has been at Marvel but he has also had some work for DC and some in the animation field as well. Dave has worked on one project or another for nearly every character in the Marvel Super-Hero Universe including Spider-man, Ghost Rider, and Conan to name a few. He has worked with Frank Miller, Rich Butler, Gene Colan and many other notable talents in comics. He has done a large body of work and done it very well. He may not be one of those names that is as recognizable as the ones above because he has always taken the back seat in assignments, being mainly an inker/embellisher and always more concerned with contributing to the team than in gaining notoriety for himself. More on his career in just a moment…

Dave & DaredevilRecently Dave was diagnosed with cancer and the prognosis has not been good. Having worked all his life amassing a large archive of art as his resume but never having garnered a lot of headlines or  generated a lot of royalties. Now, he finds himself struggling to make ends meet with the added cost of medical bills along with the normal day to day bills. The comics community has been finding out little by little because Dave has been keeping it all to himself never to be one to ask for a handout. NHaving learned of the ordeal, Comics Fans and Professionals are rallying to his aid to help a guy who has always helped others, in his time of need.

Dave participated in the big Gala Kickoff Celebration launching the Facebook Comic Con. Several sites have been set up for him and in his honor. Also his own personal web site and his new Wikipedia entry. In addition there are some auctions of his work and other notables who have contributed works to raise money to help ease Dave’s financial burden! The art at the below and to the right is one such piece by Dave himself being auctioned on eBay.

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Now here’s a little more about Dave as promised above from his recently added Wikipedia entry by Daniel Best.

Dave Simons is an American comic book writer and artist. Simons has worked in comics since the 1970s and is well known for his work on Conan, Ghost Rider, Howard the Duck, Dracula, Forgotten Realms and more recently Courage the Cowardly Dog. He has worked with some of the giants in the field such as John Buscema, Bob Budiansky and Gene Colan.

Black Cat Sketch Trading Card

Early Years
Dave Simons grew up in New York and always wanted to be a comic book artist. “I always wanted to do comics since I was about eight years old,” Simons said, “so I started making a point of drawing something every day. I figured if I just kept doing that, then eventually I’d get better at it.” After a stint in the Coast Guard, and a chance series of meetings with Frank Robbins, Simons elected to undertake formal training to be an artist. As part of his education Simons attended the now legendary art workshops run by Marvel Comics artist John Buscema. It was while attending these classes that he became friends future comic book artists Ken Landgraf and Armando Gil. It was through Landgraf that Simons produced his first published work, which consisted of mainly commercial illustrations and the occasional soft-core pornographic comic book. Breaking away from Landgraf, Simons and Gil formed an alliance and friendship that continues to this day.

Human Torch Sketch Trading Card

Marvel Career
Approaching then-Marvel editor Rick Marschall at a convention in the early 1980s, Simons was able to get his samples seen and assessed. At the time Marschall was overseeing the black and white magazine line for Marvel and Simons was duly assigned the duty of inking the first issue of the Howard the Duck magazine. After submitting the story Simons was assigned a fill-in Falcon story, which he inked with the assistance of Gil over Sal Buscemas pencils. This marked his first professional work for Marvel and in mainstream comic books.

Simons was then assigned both pencilling and inking jobs for Marvel. One of the artists who’s pencils he inked was Gene Colan. “Gene Colan was always my favorite penciler to work on,” says Simons today. “That was like a match made in heaven because a lot of people didn’t understand Gene’s shading. I thought ‘this is great, this is a great jumping on point if you’re gonna do black and white stuff’.” Simons attention to detail came into high demand in the 1980s and his inking credits include artists such as Keith Pollard, Ron Wilson, Frank Miller, John Buscema, Marc Silvestri, Greg LaRoque, John Romita Jr, Ed Hannigan, Walt Simsonson and more. Titles that featured his inking include Thor, The Thing, Marvel Premiere, Night Thrasher, Iron Man, King Conan, Dr Strange, Star Wars, Star Trek, Thundercats and others.

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Simons’s tenure at Marvel wasn’t limited to inking. He proved himself to be a very capable penciler and his pencils and ink combination were featured in titles such as the Spectacular Spider-Man, Team America, What If, Marvel Comics Presents, Bizarre Adventures, Red Sonja, Web Of Spider-Man, King Conan. He also provided cover art to titles such as Power Man & Iron Fist, Ghost Rider, Darkhold, Machine Man, Kull The Conqueror, Marvel Team-Up, Marvel Two In One, Crystar, Moon Knight and many others. “Pencilling, if you’re doing it right,” said Simons, “is a much tougher gig than inking. Even though I usually liked to know what was going on, with inking you don’t necessarily have to be involved with the story. With pencilling you have to be intimately involved with the story because you’re the one who’s bringing the writers work and intentions across to the readers, as to what he’s trying to communicate there. You have to think of the drama, the camera angles, and the composition, make sure you leave room for the word balloons, all those sorts of things.”

Ghost Rider
Simons’s best known Marvel work was his run on the first series of Ghost Rider. His run on the title saw him first inking veteran artist Don Perlin before joining with Bob Budiansky to create one of the best remembered runs of the characters history. Budiansky and Simons worked with writers Roger Stern and J.M. DeMatteis. “The only speed bump we hit in this whole thing was when Simons, who of that team is the unsung hero, left,” Budiansky recalls. “He used to come to the office dressed in leather. I mean, this was not an act, he’d come dressed in one of these black leather, zipper jackets. I don’t know if he also wore leather pants. He might have worn them. But anyway, the point is, he knew how to ink leather, which was really important for Ghost Rider. So when he left the book we never really were able to replace that look that he gave the book. The rest of the team was all somewhat saddened by his departure.” Marvel attempted to duplicate the highly detailed and rendered look that Budiansky and Simons were able to give the character when the character was relaunched in the early 1990s but never quite succeeded.

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DC Career
In the 1990s Simons left Marvel and crossed companies to DC. At DC he worked on titles such as Deathstroke The Terminator, Spelljammers, Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms, the latter he inked over Rags Morales’s pencils. “I liked the combination of me and Rags Morales,” says Simons, “He has that Frazetta thing going on and I was hip to that and tried to bring that out a lot.” Simons also worked on a number of cartoon based books during his time at DC and his work is featured in titles such as Cartoon Network Block Party. During this time he also illustrated Roger Rabbit at Disney.

Animation Career
In the late 1990s Simons left the comic book industry and moved into animation. As an artist he provided storyboards to such shows as Captain Planet, Exo-Squad Masters Of The Universe, Zula Patrol, Psi-Kix and Maya and Miguel. Recalls Simons, “The list of shows I’ve worked on is certainly longer than the list of comic books that I’ve worked on at this point.” Simons also directed the show Spy Dogs and worked again with Gil on this show, hiring him as a storyboard artist. Simons has the distinction of working on both an animated TV program and the comic book spin-off at the same time, this was when he worked on the animated show Courage The Cowardly Dog, which he subsequently drew the DC comic book of the same name.

Post Animation
Simons is known as a creator of characters. He has developed his own co-creation, Beastball Saga, with Sebastian Mondrone. He is also developing a new character, Donna Thyme, with writer Daniel Best.

Simons’s most recent work has been on the book Army Of Darkness, along with contributing art to various trading card sets issued by Rittenhouse. He has also contributed art to variant covers for series such as Red Sonja and the ‘100 Hulks’ project. Simons is also active with commissions.

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Tomorrow we’ll have a Dave Simons Gallery. Now let’s finish up today with some Mega Comics!

Tess Cover Art Preview

Mega Tales # 1 is a couple of weeks from it’s web debut featuring Greg Legat’s character: Tess! That’s short for tesseract. The image you see to your left is a back cover Mark Poe did back in 1987.

If you don’t know what a tesseract is Wikipedia defines it as: In four dimensional geometry, the tesseract, also called an 8-cell or regular octachoron, is the four-dimensional analog of the cube, which is in turn the three dimensional analog of the square.

Below is another artifact from Wikipedia, a neat little gif animation released into the public domain by its author, Jason Hise which gives us a little better undersatanding of the concept…I think.

tesseract model animated

Anyway, 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 named Nostradamus. The book was originally to be published by Dimension Graphics but unfortunately never saw print.

Greg Legat created and wrote Tess while Mark Poe, and J. Adam Walters did the art. The series for  the web will be in full color.

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The Image Comics 1963, 1993 Paradox • Project New Man # 4 Page Revisons

Friday, March 16th, 2018

Welcome to Friday’s Mega Comics Group Updates!

Image Comics 1963

The 1993/1963 Paradox

1963 Image Mystery IncIn 1993 Image Comics brought us 1963! 25 years ago Alan Moore wrote a 6 issue mini-series, with art by Steve Bissette, John Totleben, Rick Veitch, Dave Gibbons, Don Simpson, and Jim Valentino. Image Comics published the series which was intended to be their Silver Age heritage. You may recall Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee, Whilce Portacio, Marc Silvestri, Erik Larsen, Jim Valentino and Rob Liefeld left Marvel Comics in 1992 and began Image Comics. They had several successful titles including Youngblood, WILDcats, Savage Dragon, Spawn, Cyberforce and Shadowhawk. Alan Moore and his group of artists were to do a half tribute, half parody of Marvel’s silver age titles as the backstory for the Image Comics Universe. The six issue homage to the Marvel Age of Comics even featured spoof advertisements on the rear covers and throughout the books. Moore came up with his own Stan Lee style clichés and included a fictional “Bullpen”of  himself and the artists as the “Sixty-Three Sweatshop.” They were “Affable Al,” “Sturdy Steve,” “Jaunty John,”  “Roarin’ Rick” and so on. The stories were true to the flavor of the early Marvel comics and a respectable homage. The parody was in the text pieces and fictional letter columns which contained many inside jokes about the business practices of 1960s comics publishers. “Affable Al” was the lovable tyrant who claims credit for his employees’ creations modeled mainly after the reputation of Stan Lee but with a tip of the “Sizzling’ Six Three Sombrero” to  some of DC’s Editors as well. Moore takes a little jab at Stan Lee‘s book Origins of Marvel Comics when he recommends that readers rush out and buy his new book How I Created Everything All By Myself and Why I Am Great. 😉

1963 Image No One Escapes The FuryNo Closure. The series was very popular and fans were clamoring for more but due to several behind the scenes factors it was never finished. Originally, the limited series was supposed to be followed by an 80-page annual, illustrated by Jim Lee, in which the 1963 characters would find themselves hurtled thirty years into their future to 1993. There they would meet the aforementioned 1993 Image Comics characters. With the series as it would have concluded, Moore was making commentary on how Marvel Comics innovations of more realism in their stories in the ’60’s which inspired creators to keep pushing the envelope with ever more “mature” and “grim and gritty” style of storytelling in comics leading into the ’90’s. Moore has made it known in numerous interviews, even regretfully so, that he felt his own work, Watchmen, is at least partially responsible for that development.

1963 Image Horus, Lord of LightThe Missing Link. Moore was almost halfway done writing the script for the annual which was to be the finale and tie up all the loose ends when news reached him that Jim Lee was taking a year-long sabbatical. He would still be doing publisher duties and some art but not be doing any sequential comic book art. Moore shelved the script, and after that year had passed, he felt so many things had changed there was no need to revive it. Rob Liefeld had left Image, which meant that some of his characters could not be used. As a result Jim Lee had more work than he could get done, a lot of which was executive tasks related to being a publisher, so his art time was being limited. The bloom was off the rose. The novelty of Image Comics had faded and fans began to look at them as just another publisher. Comic book characters and story interests were changing. Superhero comics had begun to become less gritty, a little less dark and more polished but also more creators were doing retro titles. The Animated Adventures of Batman was inspiring a whole new genre not only in animation but in the comics. By this time Moore stated that his interest in writing superheroes had waned.

1963 Image Tales of the UncannyFalling Out. In 2007, Erik Larsen was asked about the status of the project, and explained “Alan had a falling out with one of the creators on the 1963 project and he did not want to re-open those wounds. That ship may have sailed, sorry to say.” Moore has publicly expressed his disagreement with Jim Lee for selling Wildstorm Comics, which not only owned all of Lee’s WILDcat characters but also owned Moore’s America’s Best Comics line, to DC Comics.  Moore had sworn he would never work for DC again. It is unconfirmed whether this is what Larsen was referring to or if he may be, more likely referencing the fact that Moore had cut ties with Steve Bissette due to personal issues. Bissette has given his own account of the disagreements he had with Moore in an interview he gave to The Comics Journal:

“I think what happened was, I talked about business practices. I really got into the nuts and bolts of the limitations of working comics as a writer. And what examples do I have to draw from? I mean, look at my career. The main writer I’ve worked with is Alan Moore. The interview hadn’t seen print yet. I sent copies to anyone I mentioned by name, of the transcript of the interview with a cover letter, saying “If anything upsets you, I will take it out. If there’s anything I got wrong, I will change it. Please read this, go over it, and let me know.” Alan, I never heard from. But when Neil [Gaiman] saw him, Alan… Neil called me before he left England, and I called Alan that night, and it was the last sentence he ever said to me. He said “Right, Steve? I’ll keep this short. Don’t call me, don’t write me, as far as I’m concerned, it’s over, mate.” Click. That was it. All done. I don’t know what offended him… But I remember clearly feeling the change going on, because a phone call to Alan that used to be a friendly, peer-level co-creator chat was turning into more and more business. And Alan hates doing business. And it was becoming more and more of an intrusion in his life.” 

1963 Image Tales from BeyondBusiness Politics. In a later interview Bissette explained problems might have started earlier when the 1963 creators became entangled in the internal politics at Image Comics. He explained that “My perception of events, then and now, is that we did the 1963 series under the invite and umbrella of Image founding co-partner Jim Valentino,” however, “Rick Veitch and I found ourselves caught in the crossfire between the Image partners’ pissing contests.” These partners “quickly took the initiation of the 1963 project as an open door to working with Alan on their respective projects. Again, we didn’t realize at the time this also was tied up with their competitive natures: that is, it was Jim Valentino’s coup that he got Alan on board via 1963, and the other Image partners wanted a piece of that action, which would also trump Jim Valentino‘s initial coup.”

“We didn’t realize the Image partners were in competition with one another, and we unfortunately allowed our confusion to undercut Jim Valentino. At the 1992 San Diego Comic-Con … Jim Lee sent an emissary to intercept Rick Veitch and I to ask if he could “do” the Annual. We – Rick, me and Alan, as we somehow contacted Alan by phone, I think – stupidly said ‘Yes.’ We shouldn’t have. To make a very long story short, I believed then and I believe now had we stuck with Jim Valentino, the Annual would have been completed and seen print. Jim Lee simply never did anything.

1963 Image Tomorrow SyndicateRelated Projects? The comics also contained advertisements for 1963 1/2, which never surfaced either. This was a separate (unrealised) comics project created by Alex Cox and Paul Mavrides, which was previewed in a 2-page sequence in the final issue of 1963. It was not directly associated with Image’s 1963 and was also advertised in unrelated publications, e.g. Science Fiction Eye.

The Tomorrow Syndicate are the only characters to be featured outside of the original limited series, having made an appearance alongside Big Bang Comics’ Round Table of America, in an issue of Jim Valentino’s A Touch of Silver. The Fury also appeared alongside the Syndicate in an issue of Valentino‘s Shadowhawk, during which the title character traveled back to the past in search of a cure for the AIDS virus.

1963 Dynamite EntertainmentBissette has revealed that he and Veitch had been working throughout 2009 to produce a “bare-bones hardcover reprint” of 1963 at Dynamite Entertainment but the plan fell through in January 2010. However, he did reveal that there was a “1998 legal agreement signed by Alan Moore, Rick Veitch and myself dividing up our creative properties” that left Bisette with “N-Man, the Fury, the Hypernaut and Commander Solo & Her Screamin’ Skydogs” who, he thought, “fit nicely with a bevy of my own characters and concepts I’ve never had homes for: Curtis Slarch, Lo!, ‘The Big Dig,’ and much, much more you’ve never heard of or seen because I could never interest a publisher in those projects.” Together they formed “my own invented comics universe — the Naut Comics universe” which became the core of his revival of the 1963 characters he owned, to be published in late 2010 in Tales of the Uncanny – N-Man & Friends: A Naut Comics History, Volume 1. (Editor’s note: From all our research, to our knowledge, this last mentioned book was never published.)

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Mystery Inc in action!1963 Issue One – introduced Mystery Incorporated, a Fantastic Four surrogate featuring Crystal Man (based on Mr Fantastic), Neon Queen (based on Invisible Woman), Kid Dynamo (based on Human Torch) and The Planet (based on The Thing).

The Fury in action!1963 Issue Two – No-one Escapes the Fury, featured The Fury, based on Spider-Man with elements taken from Daredevil, as well as Sky Solo, Lady of L.A.S.E.R., a female version of Nick Fury, agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.., and mentions a character called “King Zero“, who appears to be a Namor parody.

Hypernaut in action!1963 Issue Three- an anthology comic called Tales of the Uncanny, featured USA, Ultimate Special Agent based on Captain America, and Hypernaut, who was based on Iron Man, with elements taken from Silver Surfer, Green Lantern, Arnim Zola (in appearance), and Swamp Thing. (The name Hypernaut is possibly a twist on “Supernaut“, a song by Black Sabbath, whose hits include the song “Iron Man.”)

The N-Man in action!1963 Issue Four- another anthology comic called Tales From Beyond, introduces readers to the Unbelievable N-Man, based on The Incredible Hulk, and Johnny Beyond, a beatnik version of Doctor Strange.

Horus in action!1963 Issue Five- Horus, Lord of Light, which appropriates Ancient Egyptian mythology as background for a modern era superhero in the same way that The Mighty Thor appropriated Norse Mythology.

The Tomorrow Syndicate in action!1963 Issue Six- told the story of the Tomorrow Syndicate, based on the Avengers. This comic brought back Horus, Lord of Light, Hypernaut, N-Man, and USA, and also introduced Infra-Man, based on Henry Pym, and Infra-Girl, based on Janet Van Dyne.

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(Sources: Wikipedia, and Mark’s memory, which  seems to work for comics trivia such as this 98.7% of the time. But falls flat when it comes to remembering two or three items his wife asked him to pick up at the market on his way home from work. That’s another paradox. ) 

Mark's Profile PicMark’s Remarks:

Tales of the Uncanny Collection1963 actually came out as Legacy Comics was about to go on hiatus. 1963 was inspired mainly by Marvel Comics, obviously, but also contained borrowed elements and concepts from several Silver Age and even Golden Age comics. A lot of titles can make this claim including Legacy Comics, but 1963 was the first to fully capture and distill the spirit of Marvel Comics from the early ’60’s so totally and accurately. Alan Moore is probably one of the few writers in the comics industry who could pull this off so credibly. Moore and his Sizzlin’ Sixty-Three Sweatshop did it with near perfection.

The FuryThis 6 issue mini-series was possibly my favorite collected comics from the 1990’s. I’ve read and re-read these issues many times. I can’t help but to marvel, pun intended, at the genius of these creative talents and how they so closely mimicked  everything about the Marvel Age of Comics and yet had fresh takes and original ideas on these old concepts.

It’s really tough to have favorites in this series. I loved the name Mystery Incorporated not only as the title of a book but a name for a super team. The book and characters were great take-offs on my favorite super team: the Fantastic Four. Not only did they do it like Stan and Jack, they tossed in many homages to other titles form the Silver Age.

But I really have to say No One Escapes the Fury is my favorite of all. As a homage to both the Amazing Spider-Man and Daredevil, the Man Without Fear it is unparalleled. There is so much to this book and character that the Fury would have no problem standing on his own.

That last comment is really the shame of it all. This series had so much promise and the fans wanted more! They had great sales and an audience which the creators could probably have held for years to come. What happened? The creative team couldn’t not get along! This show of egos was something we didn’t see at Marvel until after Stan and the Bullpen had put out many issues! The Sizzlin’ Sixty-Three Sweatshop only got out six! And to top it off they never finished the original project as planned just because Jim Lee wasn’t available!  Don’t get me wrong, guys, Jim Lee is one of my favs from that ’90’s era but there were other talents they could have gotten to fill in for him. But apparently the egos involved were just to big to make any sort of compromise with each other. Who was right and who was wrong? Does it matter? Not to the fans. All we know is we’ll never know how the story ended. But even so, it was an inspiring mini-series while it lasted!

Onward!

Mark

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Project: New Man #4 – Page 32 – We have a different type of art changes this time around. While we are still working on changes related to the background and the use simulated  Duo-Shade for the backgrounds of Project: NewMan #3, this week we strayed back into Project: NewMan # 4 to do a few revisions. The problem Mark had in PNM #4 was due to the speed in which he was trying to put these pages out to make the schedule he set for himself at the time. Originally we were doing updates on the PNM website daily. That was fine for the old pages from previous published and unpublished work, but PNM # 4 contained a lot of new art in the later pages of the issue. At first Mark tried to maintain the daily updates but soon had to go to every other day updates. From the beginning this site and just how to update it has been an ongoing experiment. Trying to update too often proved to cause the art to suffer from being rushed. For example: On  your right you can see the old page 32. (click the linked page to see a bigger version.) On the left is the new improved version. Other than some revisions in the relative size of the background figures in the parking lot, the main charges are in the interior detail of each character. In the original you can see all the inked lines are of the same approximate width. In the new version Mark has thinned out the interior detail lines while keeping the outside holding outlines bolder as is customary in comics art. Mark did better on the originals then what has been depicted on the website. Most of the problem was the poor initial scanning of the originals. Mark will be making similar corrections like this on several pages in issue 4.

More pages in PNM #3 and 4 will be updated in prepping these books for printing with Ka-Blam Comic Book Printing and digital sales at IndyPlanet as well as DriveThru Comics in the weeks to come.

CU Next Week!

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