Happy New Year! • 10th Anniversary MCG.com • Revised PNM Pages
Friday, January 19th, 2018Welcome to Friday’s Mega Comics Group Updates!
Happy New Year!
2018 is here! And here we are half way through January! Belated Happy New Year! We hope everyone got a few days off for the holidays the latter part of December and first of this month. The powers that be even gave ye ol’ Mega Minions, maintainers of all things digitally Mega, a little time to relax. Now, it’s back to the ol’ grind!
MegaComicsGroup.com tuns 10 years old in 2018! Yep! This year is MCG Blog’s 10th anniversary! It was actually June of 2008 when we went live with our blog page which was followed first with the Project: NewMan and Humants pages. We have since added the Mega Tales pages. There was a couple years involved in the actual building of this group of web sites. The original goal was to post all our comics projects from the 90’s Legacy Comics independent comics venture. There was a lot of unpublished art and stories from the days of the Independent Comics Boom/Bust era of the late ’80’s and early ’90’s. In addition we had a few other projects which for one reason or another never got published. One was the Tess story of Mega Tales #1, but there is still more to come. There are a few art pages but mostly a lot of plots and scripts that were not finished. We hope to get around to all of it. In the meantime we’ve been revising what we have posted here on the MCG web sites. Case in point…
Project: NewMan # 3 – The Dream Sequence. It is officially chapter 4 of The Haunted Man saga which began in Project NewMan #2 and ran through issue # 4. It started with a page designed, drawn, inked and scripted beautifully by comics professional Nathan Masengill. 3 pages were added with the first page to round out a whole chapter. Mark Poe, our fearless leader, doesn’t remember if Nathan did more than one dream page or if the others were done and lost. That’s understandable since the segment was plotted nearly 25 years ago! Since then, Mark added some of his own art, mimicking Nathan’s style as best he could and using a few production tricks utilizing parts of Nathan’s art on the different pages as well. See how sharp eyed an art enthusiast you are at spotting these creative manipulations. We think he did a great job, especially with the latest revisions. Mark had always intended to revise those three pages sometime and make it better. Finally, that day came.
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Archives Spotlight
We Have Not Done This In A While Department: Archive’s Spotlight was designed to look at all which has come before and adding new comments as well. This posting we are previewing Project: New Man #3 pages 1-4!
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Project: New Man #3 – Page 2 – Originally this was a 2 panel page. Mark never felt satisfied with the job he did a very hectic time in his work schedule. So since he has been prepping these books for printing with Ka-Blam Comic Book Printing and digital sales at IndyPlanet as well as DriveThru Comics, he did what he had promised and revised pages 2, 3 & 4 of chapter 4 of the Haunted Man storyline.
Mark’s Remarks: I like this page better… I hope you do as well. The original 2 panels and skimpy scripting was just not enough. It was done during the Autumn of 2010, if memory serves me. That time of year is always the busiest part of my work schedule each year. I had way too much on my plate so I did not do as well as I would have liked. I’ve added some panels and some more script too, hopefully, to clarify and add to the overall storyline, as well as weight to the chapter itself. I’ve done this on other pages as well but mainly in PNM #3 and 4. In issues 1 & 2 I’ve not done much more than cosmetic production changes. Issues 3 & 4 were put together for web comics publication with material from the early ’90’s but also some new art and script. Issue 4 was plotted but never written or completely drawn out. After it’s web comics debut in 2008-2011, I realized Freazie and I had gotten away from our original concept somewhat. There were some contradictions with scripting and some art which needed to be corrected. There are still some areas in need of revisions which I plan to make before we go to press with the rest of our 25 year Anniversary Re-Issues. So keep watching! More on all that later. Onward!
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