Post by Adminenkainen on Nov 14, 2015 18:03:28 GMT
This was the Summer 2013 issue of TTC and the third to feature Major Magus on the cover. It was 20 pages long, with 17 pages of content.
This Major Magus story was important to me, as I wanted to show heroes responding to the escalating War in Europe, try to decide what to do about Hitler, and come up with a reasonable explanation for why they don't just take him out right away. For this story, I did manage two pieces of art per page, though on some pages only one piece of art was mine. It was my first story showing that Major Magus existed in a world of other costumed heroes, including Fox's Yarko the Great and my renamed versions of Spy Smasher and Ibis the Invincible -- Spyhunter and Prince Inaros respectively. Even the Phantom Companion should look familiar to Captain Marvel fans. I also did my homework, so Bernard Paget, Alan Brooke and, of course, Hermann Goring were all real people. I can't remember if Erhard Milch was a historical figure, or if I made that guy up. My friend Jeremy did the German translation for me, since I know better than to trust Google Translate for such things. This was also the first Major Magus story to have bonus material on the H&H website, with a "prologue" (really a deleted scene that started the story too early).
Other than that, this issue had two outtake Heroes from Supplement IV: Captains, Magicians, and Incredible Men (by me and Steve Lopez), the final installment of David Brashear's "Madam Fatal", fan art from Allen Trembone again, a new Hero class -- the Spy, a review of Simon Washbourne's superhero RPG Triumphant!, and a project I borrowed from my own blog -- randomly rolling up hero histories from published stories.
This Major Magus story was important to me, as I wanted to show heroes responding to the escalating War in Europe, try to decide what to do about Hitler, and come up with a reasonable explanation for why they don't just take him out right away. For this story, I did manage two pieces of art per page, though on some pages only one piece of art was mine. It was my first story showing that Major Magus existed in a world of other costumed heroes, including Fox's Yarko the Great and my renamed versions of Spy Smasher and Ibis the Invincible -- Spyhunter and Prince Inaros respectively. Even the Phantom Companion should look familiar to Captain Marvel fans. I also did my homework, so Bernard Paget, Alan Brooke and, of course, Hermann Goring were all real people. I can't remember if Erhard Milch was a historical figure, or if I made that guy up. My friend Jeremy did the German translation for me, since I know better than to trust Google Translate for such things. This was also the first Major Magus story to have bonus material on the H&H website, with a "prologue" (really a deleted scene that started the story too early).
Other than that, this issue had two outtake Heroes from Supplement IV: Captains, Magicians, and Incredible Men (by me and Steve Lopez), the final installment of David Brashear's "Madam Fatal", fan art from Allen Trembone again, a new Hero class -- the Spy, a review of Simon Washbourne's superhero RPG Triumphant!, and a project I borrowed from my own blog -- randomly rolling up hero histories from published stories.
