Heroes,inc. has been going kind of slow lately, but we’re actually just a couple of pages away from the end of Book IV. So it’s time to think ahead a little bit.
I WAS planning on a re-boot of sorts. Not re-doing the whole thing just re-drawing some of the stuff in the first issue (Some of those panels make me cringe!) and adding some stuff that I hadn’t planned on revealing until later. There’s a lot of different paths we can go down from here.
Thus the poll below.
Lets go over the options:
1. Archie’s (The American Crusader) origin and Boone’s (Black Terror) return. With this option we’d pretty much continue showing flashbacks of Archie and Boone, only this time it would be the beginning of the Project. We’d learn HOW Archie became The American Crusader and in “present” time we’d see how Archie and the gang continue after being shut out of Heroes,inc. and how Benton (Black Terror) gets out of prison. (No spoiler there, you knew it would happen sooner or later, right?)
2. Diana is off to Africa with Bart (Daredevil) to see someone named ?Merryweather? We’d see her origin in flashbacks and maybe some of Daredevil’s since he’s hanging around. We’ll see the rise of “new” Golden age villains and there’s still guys trying to get her (And it’s NOT Bamadam… 😉 )
3. We’d follow Dan Garret, Sparkington’s (Blue Beetle and Sparky) and Sanders’ (White Streak) journey to Germania. We’d get a glimpse of how Germania became the country that it is. Of course we’d get their origin in there too.
4. We’ll follow Andrew Bryant (Captain Future) and Dr.Hugo Strange (Doc Strange) as they head for the Antarctica to recruit some more Golden Age Heroes. Along the way we’d get their oirgins.
5. Something else… Maybe you’d rather see something I haven’t planned. Leave a comment and let me know.
So that’s the plan. We should be done with issue/Book IV by Christmas and with the new year we’ll start Book V. What will it be about? Let’s hope you readers vote.
EDIT: The poll was acting up so I changed to Polldaddy.com. Lets hope this one works.
EDIT 2: I think 100 votes is the highest I can go wityh the free version of Polldaddy. To use aversion that can receive a bit higher you have to pay €100 or something ridiculous. So consider your vote carefully! It’s still possible to turn the tables! 😉
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-Scott-
Well, I tried to vote but it said I had already voted… FWIW, I tried to vote option #1 although truth to tell I want to know all of it! There again, by focussing on a particular set of characters you avoid the trap that the TV show Heroes fell into of showing tiny fragments of every story and having too choppy a story-telling style.
I just like your writing and your art and want to know the story.
Well darn! I’ve been trying all day to get one of these poll plugins to work. Hopefully it’s something at your end, otherwise it’s back to the “Working Poll Search”
As to your comment: That’s what I’m afraid will happen, that we fall into the same hole as the TV series Heroes. If this was read from cover to cover there wouldn’t be any trouble about waiting for answers, but since this is the painstaking format of webcomics (which has trickled down to once a week) things take FOREVER to tell.
But I’m glad you like the writing and art, because I’m trying to keep the quality up…
Same thing…..said I voted but I did not
The updated poll worked for me – thanks!
YOU could avoid it by dedicating a entire issue to each of these stories(10-15 padges?) and change the polling thing to which story will come first.
Well, thats what it is basically. All of those storylines will be told, but it’s just a matter of which ones first.
Now the stories have been intertwined (a bit too much) but I plan on isolating each character a little more. We’ll still have our present day story chugging along, but each issue would concentrate on one or two characters.
on that note what about the child with the energy (sound?) abilies, is he going to be on some future team made a scapegoat? It seams to be a great idea for a public relations situation.
He’s around… 😉
I see what you did there- well played LOL
Poll worked for me BTW
Thought you’d like that. 😀
Oh… and Christmas… just 12 days away!! What will the Heroes,inc Santa bring…?
apparently a lump of coal LOL
Here’s your lump of coal.
indeed and some REALLY nice “lumps” at that
You still Da Man
Well, off course, I would like to know how a Germany will be in this other universe.
But I think it is more important to push the story ahead, so Archie’s and Diana’s adventures should be told. (“told” not “cold” 😉 )
I like the flashbacks into WWII, and don’t stop them, but more different adventures with other the heroes today the story could fall apart. (It would be like some separate comic books – spin off’s.) And with the speed of webcomic-publishing… Ach du liebe Güte! 🙂
The other storylines, you could mention them with one page time by time, and if they are necessary for the main story, it can be two pages, hehehe.
I’m sure, you will have later the time to tell all these stories to us.
But if you feel to make one of these by preventing a writers block…, do it!
(And: Yes, I like your art, and your story is much more interesting than this commercial “Project Superpowers”, really!)
Well, the thing is all of these stories will be told. Each storyline “ends” at a common global event. From there they all continue together.
It’s just a matter of what story readers would rather read first.
No question. Tell Archie’s origin. Once we know that, then some of the other stories have context. Preliminarily, I’d say the order ought to be 1, 2, 3, 4.
Hell, I want to know how we have mecha in the 1940’s. It is one thing to say research went a diferent direction for 1 project (super humans instead of the Atom bomb), but it is quite another to postulate multiple techs we still don’t have 70 years later. Aside from interaction with advanced aliens, no other explanation strikes me as resonable.
Somehow that 1940’s world faught a war with advanced tech, millions of people knew about some of the tech, though maybe not how it came to be, yet we ‘lost’ and the super men became secret despite some of them fighting crime. THAT world does not make sense, and I very much want that world to make sense. It is cool, but it is like a mass forget spell was cast.
I still vote option 1, Archie’s origin, because I think that is closest to the reasons for the tech explosion, lost war, and secret crime fighting.
You make some valid points there and if/when the Archie and Benton story unfolds you’ll get some of those answers and MORE. 😉
I’ll add that we’ve seen both the USA and Germany have both mecha and super men. That represents an implausible amount of espionage. Ultimately I want to know what the points of departure are from our world to this one. Was it aliens? Where? How? When? In one story I’ve read, the characters determine what world line they are on by asking who landed on the moon in what year, and who was president when x. Now those were not causes, but they were identifiable effects. For Heroes, inc I can see some effects like the mechas and super men, but I want to know what lead to such a widespread radicaly different world.
Personally I think it’s because a Mister Albert E. got a set of tinker toys and a f aux chemical set for his birthday. If you don’t get that I feel sorry for you. Also the the super soldiers could be both sides being some sort of giant field test for the work of Doctor Hormone playing both sides against each other for the interests of science.
The correct answer is “All the above”
“All the above” will happen, just a matter of which one first 😉