Issue 16

Issue 16 is out now and in this one we learn the origins of Titan and Magno!

Issue 16 - Here's the link!

Touching Base (and a few mistakes).

I hope that everyone is doing well in these scary times - with the virus that has caused so much hardship in the world, its a difficult time for so many people - some more than others.  

It has been a while since I wrote, for myself I had some downtime from working my regular job and I know I haven't posted in a while - that's because I've been busy getting ahead on the comic - something I've struggled with for a while.

Back before I launched issue # 1, I had written the first two years of the series, but the artwork has slowed me down a great deal, at times causing me to fall behind, and I've never gotten ahead of it.  With each issue I often finish it the day I publish it and that has caused me to miss months in the past.  

Now though I've been able to get ahead on the production - right now the May issue is done (not published yet), the June issue is inked and the July issue is penciled, but not inked.  I'm hoping that by the end of June I can have up to the October issue inked and that would really put me in a great place moving forward.  

As for the mistakes, well - as I start to prepare for the next year's worth of stories, I decided to go back and re-read all of the issue I've done so far to make sure I don't forget anything and I discovered two mistakes, that quite honestly I can't believe I made!

The first one goes way back to issue # 4 where we meet Serpent - in that issue she explains that she and her tribe were Aztec and that she was captured by the Tepanec tribe.  When Magno forces the tribesmen out of the temple, above them it says "Panic in Aztec", but that was wrong - it should have said "Panic in Tepanec", I don't know how didn't catch that.  

The other mistake was a slight math error.  When we meet Flavius Romulus Augustus in issue # 10, and also in the UltraPedia page that I created for him, I refer to him as being about 2,000 years old - however he would only be a little over 1,500 years old, but that one was far less obvious than the previous mistake!  

I'll be posting more soon - for now I hope that everyone stays as healthy as possible!

Rich

Issue 15

Issue 15 is now up, called the Gods of the Earth, we begin to learn the origins of the team and meet some interesting characters along the way!

Here's the link:  Issue 15

New Fan Art

Today I was surprised by some more fan art - also by a fellow creator on Instagram.  His user name on there is lazacomics and if you're on there, you should check him out!

Here's what he created:

Fan Art

Over the past few months I've gotten a chance to chat with a few other creators, all working on creating and building their own comic universes just like I am.

One of them has a page and on Instagram their name is @thecircleuniverse and if you are interested in comics and on Instagram, you should check him out.  

One day he surprised me and created a fan art using his characters and mine as part of a crossover image.  It was pretty cool to see and actually a nice surprise for me as I didn't know he was doing that.  I'm attaching the images here and the copyright for his characters belongs to him.

One is the image and other is how it appears on the story on Instagram:

Its was nice because it was also my first ever fan art of my characters.  I think that a lot of creators like to see how their characters look through other artists styles, I know I do.

What did make me stop to think for a moment, way back in High School a friend drew a couple of my characters, which I can't share yet as I haven't introduced them in the book, as sort of a Friend Art, but that made me realize that people that know me in real life know and/or have seen all of my characters, yet for the comic the world at large is just meeting them for the first time here and there.

It is for that reason that I can't post a lot of my old artwork for my own characters, it would reveal too much as I used to draw large posters with all of them.

Interlude 2

The second issue in the interlude series is now out.

Of course this one won't make much sense just yet - although it will in a few months!


Here's the link: Interlude 2

Traitor

With a surprise thrown in at the end of the last issue, we learned that one of the members of the team is actually a spy sent to infiltrate and destroy the team from within - but who is it?

Keep reading future issues to find out...