Character Count (so far)

I was recently asked how many named characters I have in my universe and it was a good question, one I didn't readily have an answer for at the time.  I guessed about 400 or 500 hundred, with what I have planned it will probably come out that way or more by the end of the series, but I'm nowhere near that yet!

At the moment I just published issue # 13 and I'm currently wrapping up issue 14 to have out in probably close to 2 weeks.  

By the end of issue 14, I will have introduced 110 characters!  Although we don't know the names of all of them yet, you will soon.  Here's a little look at who we've met so far:

Issue 13

Issue 13 is now up!

After arriving in Diodarius' realm, the Ultra-Elite Team finds a handful of his children battling the forces of the G'Ion, who are attacking from behind a mystical barrier that they used to crash their realm into this one.

The heroes go to their assistance, but a shocking ending may change the fate of the team forever

Here's the link:

Issue13

Issue 12 a look forward

After having spent the last 11 issues building the team, I'm kind of happy hitting issue 12 - although to be honest, it was a wake up call in a way - I set out to do this as a monthly comic and I'm kind of mad at myself that I didn't stick with that schedule.  If I had, issue 12 would have come out in April of 2019 instead of November of 2019, so my resolution for next year is to try my best to keep the comic monthly.

This issue kicks off a 3 part story, although it was originally planned to be a 2 part story, issue 12 was running very long so I broke it up and had to hurry up to come up with a cover for it.  What was actually going to be the cover to issue 12 got pushed back to be the cover to issue 13.

In this story line we see the villains invading Diodarius' realm where they find just a small handful of his children there.  This leads the Ultra-Elite Team to come to their assistance, but the question remains - will that be enough?  This story introduces several new characters and has some shocking twists and turns, leading to the set up of what is coming later that will affect the team for years to come.

Here's a link to the issue, if you want to check it out on Youtube:  Issue 12  or you can go to Fotki and check it out there was well.

One of the things that interesting is that we get to see some of Diodarius' ream:

We also get to see the whole team in action - and boy has the whole team grown from the original six members it started with back in issue 1, today it looks like:

Well, enough chatting - I better get back to work on issue 13. 

Three Part Story

Over the last 11 issues the Ultra-Elite Team has been assembled - now they face their greatest threat - all out war!

When the forces of G'Ion Detheon invade Diodarius' realm, the children of Diodarius are greatly out-numbered, but when the Ultra-Elite Team arrives to help - will it be enough?  Can they all make it home alive?

We'll find out when the first issue comes out later this week!

Below are the covers for the next three issues:

Saxx and Cord

In the newest issue I introduced two new characters, Saxx and Cord.  

There is a lot of mythology already in the comic and there is more to come as time goes on.  With their introduction, I pay homage to the Norse Gods.  Up until this point in the issues I've only been dealing with the Greek Gods.

Saxx and Cord are interesting characters for me - when I wrote the original stories for my comic (years ago) I actually didn't plan to reveal what the relationship was between them - boy/girl friend, husband/wife, brother/sister, etc... In fact in the original stories I had it more of a running joke as to not reveal their relationship and keep everyone guessing.

When I was working on getting ready to launch my comic back in 2012 I decided to take a different approach to them and reveal what their relationship to each other was; which we learn in issue # 11, I actually thought it might be funnier this way.

They've come a long when from when I first designed them, but I thought I'd give you a look at my first drawings of the characters:

Issue 11

Issue # 11 is finally up, titled Team Building.

The team gets ready to move into their new headquarters, and along the way we find out how they are paying for their operation.  Meanwhile, the forces of G'Ion Detheon are on the move and that attracts the attention of some Norse Gods.

Here's the link: Issue 11

Ultra-Pedia

In order to make my universe more user-friendly, I decided to create mini-encyclopedia pages for each of my characters, which I'm calling Ultra-Pedia.

I'm attaching the first one here, but all of the rest will be Webtoons and the Fotki photo-hosting site (both in the links)