Pages 5 and 6: issue 12 - Empty Spaces

shastab24 on Dec. 11, 2012

I'm putting together a crossover project for next year which will run through multiple comics and also try to benefit the Hero Initiative. If you want to join in on the crossover fun, e-mail me at karamesser@hotmail.com or PQ me on this site. You don't exactly have a deadline to sign up, but the sooner you do, the better you can guide your comic through the storyline and the more immediately you can get the cool crossovers set up.

Heroes Alliance is currently running chapter 7, which was written by myself. It's over halfway done with its epic length and features a lot of great art. Check it out here on Drunk Duck!

And check out Trans Dimensional Trans Superheroes, my new community project comic, also on Drunk Duck!

Onto the pages at hand: Two pages this time because yesterday I had to skip. I was at my mom's house on Sunday and couldn't get things done. I did have a sliver of time yesterday to upload page 5, but felt too much time had passed. I've done double (and quadruple) updates before when I missed a day, so this isn't unprecedented. I just don't like doing it.
But anyways, Tempore now makes his move against the others. And I reveal little things. The universe that the Runner and the Swimmer inhabit actually hasn't been affected by Tempore. I do this because I don't want to ascribe what's happening here to the Superherouniverse.com universe, and to show that Tempore hasn't affected everything. It's definitely how I can say we still exist, despite what Tempore has done (if you want to argue logic with what happens in the fictional world in opposition to the real world). Also, any comics that mine interacts with later never has to mention this event. It's just simpler this way all around.
We also find the names people go by. The Runner has taken the Swimmer's suggestion for a real name, and we get the Swimmer's last name. Also, finally definitive confirmation that she's Native American, because the previous cues have been subtle or hard to read. So I wanted to mention it here, unambiguously. Of course, anybody who has heard the name Immookalee before will know she's Cherokee (actually Cherokee/Choctaw, but I emphasize the Cherokee in her), but it isn't a common name (I had to look it up, myself, to find a good name for her).
And we find that out just before they are taken away. The situation is getting more dire for my characters, as they are being taken out by a vastly superior foe. The question is whether there's any way they stand a chance of voctory.