So the battle between New Man and the Thunder Hawks with Cyber-Tech is over, and the mad cyborg is subdued thanks to the inventiveness of Emmanual Reyes a.k.a. Bearcat and Thomas “Tom Thumb” McBride and the resourcefulness of Jonathan Thunderstorm. Ah, but that’s not the end of the story. Now we have learned some interesting clues to where the tech for the cyborg came from. It’s a link that will eventually have the paths of New Man and the Thunder Hawks cross with that of Omnispawn and the Humants!

No Project New Man updates this weekend. We’ve got some maintenance to do on the sites. Next week: we’ll wrap this issue up and get ready to start the conclusion to The Haunted Man in Project: New Man #4! CUMonday! Have good weekend!

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.

Yow! Things really heat up with this page! Yeah, that pun was intended.

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

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?

Dr Jonathan Thunderstorm, A.K.A. Chief Thunder reveals a little more info about the Thunderhawks and the Fortress Foundation on this page. 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 headquatered at the Moriah Building in downtown New Harbour city. Whew! That should bring you up to date!

Christopher Torres did an awesome job and we would have asked him to do a lot more penciling had Legacy Continued. If memory serves me he might have also done some backgrounds on Humants # 3 or 4. Can’t remember which.

The…uh…guy does not look the least bit happy. But Cyber-Tech isn’t gunning for New Man. No, he’s got a beef with the Thunder Hawks. In this chapter we will see a little character development of Jonathan Thunderstorm, Thomas Jeffry McBride, and Percival Patton Parker.

Also please welcome the long awaited debut of penciler Christopher Torres!

This is not what anyone would want to see in their living room after coming home from a nice jog in the park! Just look at this mess!

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.

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.