Magellan History | 4
xmung on Sept. 17, 2010
First of all, this is indeed page 4 (not 5, there is an error in the art). Anyway today's update looks a bit more closely at that awful day in 1972 when the Q'Arth demons came thru a mystical rift in Moscow and attacked Earth! Two Soviet era supers are introduced - then swiftly killed… sorry, Red Vlad and Comrade Katya! Today's history is brought to us by Force Magellan member Hoodoo (aka Xian-Li Jiang, or Xian to her friends!). Hoodoo had her first cameo appearance on page 1.48 - and she is, as her codename might suggest, a witch. Panel 1 is not a great drawing of her, and her costume has gone thru a number of revisions since this page as I've attempted to steer its design away from its “Raven-esque” roots. Tommorow… more on the Q'Arth invasion and the attempts by Magellan and his super-fr… uh… the IJF to defeat the demons! Thanks for reading and commenting! :D
xmung at 10:34PM, Sept. 19, 2010
The history, although very compacted and word dense, was a great way for me to expand the set-up/Magellanverse in a short number of pages and also help plant a number of seeds for later stories.
jamoecw at 9:46PM, Sept. 19, 2010
ya, you did a good job of that. i first skipped over the history, but had to go back and read it due to its importance. i'd bet there would be plenty of racial stuff do to the introduction of non-humans to human society, not to mention this incident as well.
xmung at 5:08AM, Sept. 18, 2010
It's certainly something of magnitude and (as we'll see) something with a lasting impact too. It seems that DC and Marvel have major apocalypses every second week and I don't really know how any human society would be able to cope with some of the stuff that's brought down on them in those comic book realities. In DC alone they've lost how many cities now? And yet the effect appears to be shrugged off... I tried to at least make the Q'Arth incident mean something in the grand scheme of things.
alschroeder at 4:58AM, Sept. 18, 2010
Sort of the same impact for Magellan's reality that Pearl Harbor, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and 9-11 had...all rolled into one!
AzuJOD at 10:21PM, Sept. 17, 2010
Truly these Q'Arth are things of nightmares!