Post by Adminenkainen on Nov 7, 2015 14:54:41 GMT
Can I even talk about this issue without feeling disappointed? I had such big plans for Major Magus.
This was the Winter 2013 issue of TTC, 18 pages long, 16 of which were all content. Supplement IV: Captains, Magicians, and Incredible Men; Part 1 had just been released and I was feeling inspired to finally do a comic book of my own. The problem always was...I draw too slow to ever finish an entire comic book. So I decided to do something more practical.
Major Magus was going to be a quarterly feature, a text story of original superhero fiction, but inspired by the early adventures of Captain Marvel Adventures and re-using artwork from there whenever it fit my story and did not show Captain Marvel. Plus, I was going to illustrate each page with up to 2 original drawings of my own (it never worked out to be 2 per page, though; I could only draw enough for 1 per page and still make my own deadlines). I made it through 8 Major Magus stories before deciding Major Magus wasn't attracting an audience and stopped.
This particular issue had other things unusual about it -- it was my last collaboration with Walt Jillson, who had written some articles for TTC, before I discovered that he was copying material from the original superhero RPG, Superhero 2044, in this submission. I heavily edited it, changing the content so much that I only thought it fair to bill myself as co-author.
This issue also marked the debut of Allen Trembone in TTC. Allen would send me lots of drawings and, later, statted superheroes, over almost a two-year period. This issue also marked the debut of my then-girlfriend, now wife, Megan, who designed the second character sheet for H&H, featured at the back of the issue. Megan has been playing H&H, off and on, ever since the start.
Rounding out the issue is the second installment of "Madame Fatal" (republished with permission from David Brashear), an article I wrote using the 1940 Census to help plan Hero backgrounds, a new ability for Magic-Users called "contest of wills" (which became an "official" H&H rule finally in Supplement V), a write-up of the undead as a Hero race (I liked it at the time, but I now prefer the ghost race in Supplement V), and my second attempt at converting Fox's The Green Mask into a humor strip by re-writing the balloons.
This was the Winter 2013 issue of TTC, 18 pages long, 16 of which were all content. Supplement IV: Captains, Magicians, and Incredible Men; Part 1 had just been released and I was feeling inspired to finally do a comic book of my own. The problem always was...I draw too slow to ever finish an entire comic book. So I decided to do something more practical.
Major Magus was going to be a quarterly feature, a text story of original superhero fiction, but inspired by the early adventures of Captain Marvel Adventures and re-using artwork from there whenever it fit my story and did not show Captain Marvel. Plus, I was going to illustrate each page with up to 2 original drawings of my own (it never worked out to be 2 per page, though; I could only draw enough for 1 per page and still make my own deadlines). I made it through 8 Major Magus stories before deciding Major Magus wasn't attracting an audience and stopped.
This particular issue had other things unusual about it -- it was my last collaboration with Walt Jillson, who had written some articles for TTC, before I discovered that he was copying material from the original superhero RPG, Superhero 2044, in this submission. I heavily edited it, changing the content so much that I only thought it fair to bill myself as co-author.
This issue also marked the debut of Allen Trembone in TTC. Allen would send me lots of drawings and, later, statted superheroes, over almost a two-year period. This issue also marked the debut of my then-girlfriend, now wife, Megan, who designed the second character sheet for H&H, featured at the back of the issue. Megan has been playing H&H, off and on, ever since the start.
Rounding out the issue is the second installment of "Madame Fatal" (republished with permission from David Brashear), an article I wrote using the 1940 Census to help plan Hero backgrounds, a new ability for Magic-Users called "contest of wills" (which became an "official" H&H rule finally in Supplement V), a write-up of the undead as a Hero race (I liked it at the time, but I now prefer the ghost race in Supplement V), and my second attempt at converting Fox's The Green Mask into a humor strip by re-writing the balloons.
) but that Origin Story actually made me care about that character and made me see how it could actually work.