There was an update yesterday so don't forget to check that out too!
The Master Assassin is totally nuts, there's no doubt about that. And yet his theory is 100% spot on… he, and everyone in Magellan are, after all, a characters in a story. However, his chances of ever getting the upper hand over his creator (ie… me!) are little to none. He surmises that the creator makes his life miserable and he's right because that's the way I've written him. But being aware of the fourth wall has effectively driven him insane because there's nothing he can do to escape it. MWAHAHAAA! Ain't I evil? Anyway, he has effectively debuted in the pages of Crossoverkill - I have had him in mind for a loooong time and once Al suggested using the Character Assassins as part of the Magellan sequence in CROSSOVERKILL I decided that the Master Assassin had to be a part of that process too. Also in today's update a small hint as to what happened to the reality that Syko Suki hales from.
There's another update tomorrow as Energize, Mindmistress, Hoodoo and the rest of Force Magellan drop in to ruin the party. See you then!
Apologies for the down time folks. It's thrown our update schedule out of whack but providing DD stays online we plan to have the next page up tomorrow and Monday thru Friday next week. Please make sure you check out any of the previous pages you may have missed!
"The Gods must be mad" is only supposed to be a saying you know. Did he ever consider the fact tht The Creator would have to purposfuly GIVE him insight into the 4th wall for him to be aware? As such The Creator created him specificly to rebel against The Creator and fail missirably, and what's more I wonder if he knows it as her recodniezes plot devices to bring his hated enemies to his secret base.
OMG - avatars are back!
Another reader wrote elsewhere: [i]The Master Assassin is not quite correct- there ARE other creators out there. Also his comment about how the Creator perverts everything belies the fact that the entire Magellan-verse would never have existed without the Creator.[/i]
Which is true - I think the Master Assassin's prime gripe is that he wants to live in a 'normal' world - whatever that might be. I've trapped him in [b]Magellan[/b] and he hates me for it. If anyone reads the Vertigo series [b]The Unwritten[/b] there's a similar concept with a thug being trapped in a children's book as a 'bunny'...!
I guess you could say that by cursing the creator (Stephen) the Master Assassin is cutting his nose of despite his face!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Ah-heh... Ah-heh.... Sometimes I crack myself up.
its kind of hard to escape the idea of being a god of your world when you touch the fourth wall.
you create the good, you create the bad, you inspire wonder, you conjure the mad, good men die, and tyrants fall, we writters to blame for it all.
In a way, Stephen has cast himself as the ultimate villain of the comic. He controls their fates, creates strife, and laughs at their inability to escape any of it.
Ozmandious at 8:49AM, Jan. 24, 2011
gotta catch 'em all!
crazy_goodfellow at 12:54PM, Jan. 23, 2011
I wonder what Fusion will say about this, considering that somehow she is aware that in other dimensions, her adventures are told as a comic.
kriss1989 at 6:53AM, Jan. 23, 2011
"The Gods must be mad" is only supposed to be a saying you know. Did he ever consider the fact tht The Creator would have to purposfuly GIVE him insight into the 4th wall for him to be aware? As such The Creator created him specificly to rebel against The Creator and fail missirably, and what's more I wonder if he knows it as her recodniezes plot devices to bring his hated enemies to his secret base.
xmung at 7:47PM, Jan. 20, 2011
OMG - avatars are back! Another reader wrote elsewhere: [i]The Master Assassin is not quite correct- there ARE other creators out there. Also his comment about how the Creator perverts everything belies the fact that the entire Magellan-verse would never have existed without the Creator.[/i] Which is true - I think the Master Assassin's prime gripe is that he wants to live in a 'normal' world - whatever that might be. I've trapped him in [b]Magellan[/b] and he hates me for it. If anyone reads the Vertigo series [b]The Unwritten[/b] there's a similar concept with a thug being trapped in a children's book as a 'bunny'...!
Neilsama at 6:41PM, Jan. 20, 2011
I guess you could say that by cursing the creator (Stephen) the Master Assassin is cutting his nose of despite his face! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Ah-heh... Ah-heh.... Sometimes I crack myself up.
dwrean at 11:13AM, Jan. 20, 2011
its kind of hard to escape the idea of being a god of your world when you touch the fourth wall. you create the good, you create the bad, you inspire wonder, you conjure the mad, good men die, and tyrants fall, we writters to blame for it all.
Zephyrion at 10:00AM, Jan. 20, 2011
Master assassin has some acute genre awareness.
Neilsama at 3:34AM, Jan. 20, 2011
In a way, Stephen has cast himself as the ultimate villain of the comic. He controls their fates, creates strife, and laughs at their inability to escape any of it.
alschroeder at 2:35AM, Jan. 20, 2011
IS it narcissistic? After all, they want to get the upper hand on their "creator". They're cursing him.
xmung at 11:49PM, Jan. 19, 2011
It's brilliantly narcissistic! :D
AzuJOD at 10:19PM, Jan. 19, 2011
So you have essentially created a cult that, in a way, worships [b]you[/b]. I dont know whether that's brilliant or narcissistic!