Out For Vengeance 9 Notes

This chapter starts the build-up to our first year bang-up with issue twelve that will in turn set up the big bad to finally reveal himself later in the year. I think this one came together quite nicely with a few good character points.

Gasman, sadly enough, took more time to name than a lot of characters so far. I wanted a character with a gas gun, but it took me hours before the mildly painful name came to me.

Having only recently revived Rulah, Jungle Goddess in the pages of Timeline, I have brought back another jungle girl in this chapter with Rima. Rima is a rather unique South American jungle character. In the public domain for some years, she first appeared in W.H. Hudson’s 1904 novel Green Mansions. (Read it here.) DC Comics gave her a book in the seventies and will soon revive their version in the pages of First Wave, but I thought my more mystic take would be fun for this chapter of Out For Vengeance.

After writing this, I really wanted my own combat spider monkey. Anyone else?

Super-Powered Web: First Wave, First Look

I am comfortably sitting just above my goal for today, so I thought I would take some time out to look at one of the most exciting projects coming down the comic pipeline next year. DC has decided to revive several pulp concepts in a shared universe (presumably one of the DC 52) and it looks gorgeous. The story actually debuts tomorrow with Batman / Doc Savage by Brian Azzarello (the perfect writer for this project) and Phil Noto. Then some time next year it continues with The First Wave by Azzarello and artist Rags Morales. The project seems to have an interesting combination of pulp characters and powerless DC heroes. Check out the amazing Rags preview images below (and be sure to click on them to see them full size and more easily read Azzarello’s commentary on each).







All images courtesy The Source.