Happy Holidays!

Wishing everyone Happy Holidays and a very Happy New Year!

I was going to put out another issue this month (I have one almost ready and its the biggest one yet), but with the rush of the season I thought it would be better to wait.

I'll try to get two issues out in January!

Lots planned for 2019!

See you then!

The Story Behind the Story, so far.

Now that I've finished the Time-Tossed story, I thought I'd look back and reveal a little bit about the stories that I've done so far.

Issue 1 (April 24, 2018) - Something that I had debated about for a long time was if I should just jump into the story or give an overview of the characters without getting into too much the first issue.  I decided at that the time to just give a brief overview and build off that.  It took so long to get this issue up and running, I've second guessed myself if that was the right choice or not.  There were also a few conflicting artistic styles with the first issue as I struggled to try to get used to digital artwork, something I had no practice with before. 

Issue 2 (May 22, 2018) - This issue was done for a specific reason.  When I was working on prepping my comic for publication Marvel's Black Panther character made his cinematic debut and I when I saw that I was a bit shocked.  The reason is that I didn't want anyone to think that I was copying that character, while both he and Cat were mostly black in color, there is nothing similar between the two in terms of story, origin, etc...when I created Cat I didn't know of Marvel's character, but when I first learned of Black Panther he was in his original costume.  In my original stories I didn't have Cat's return home until later in the series, but I moved it up to make sure people knew that Cat was a unique character in his own right.

Issue 3 (June 5, 2018) - This started the Time-Tossed story line and it gave me a chance to set up a lot of subplots that will affect the characters for years to come.  In the first issue the Golden Arrow and the two prophecies that Crossbow hears will be very important to the future of the team.

Issue 4 (July 31, 2018) - This issue serves to introduce Serpent, the next member of the team.  This was also the last issue created digitally.

Press Release 1 (August 13, 2018) - This issue was not scripted or even planned.  When I did issue 4 I made so many typos, I was pretty sick at the time I did 4, I didn't even catch the mistakes.  One afternoon I drew this and did the dialogue as I went along.  This serves as the unofficial debut of Magno 2.

Issue 5 (August 28, 2018) - This issue serves to introduce Freedom, a character that we return at a critical time in the team's future.  On an artistic note, by this time I had realized that whole digital artwork wasn't really working for me so with this issue I tried a new approach, which I would also do for issue 6.  It was also with this issue that YouTube did away with being able to brighten the colors, so the issues going forward are march darker than they should be. 

Issue 6 (September 24, 2018) - This issue introduces the future version of the team,  if you look closely you might get some hints as to who some of the parents might be. The inside of Phantom's room also contains some clues about future stories.   

Issue 7 (November 4, 2018) - This is the only issue that has a character bouncing through other dimensions instead of through time.  When I wrote the original story, I hadn't stopped to really think about the fact that Titan wasn't moving through time, but I thought it fit with the story and I decided to leave it.  It was also with this issue that I switched the way that I'm doing the book artistically.  With the new method, I have greater control and can produce material much faster.  This also introduces Commander Foo, the Terminators of Evil and the Ultimate Team, all of which will play a role later on.

Issue 8 (November 30, 2018) - Much like issue 3, this serves to introduce several new characters and concepts that will impact the characters for a long time to come, with Vapor, the mysterious Brian and the guys with him as well as Magno's faltering sense of being on the team.

This set up for the next issue, actually the next three issues will be stand alone stories, leading up to a pretty major two-part story then we move on to reveal origins to kick off our second year!