V11 – Pg02
Secret’s Out
Pendragon is back and in a big way. This will become one of those, “Where were you when you heard that Pendragon was back?” moments that people will talk about for years. And we continue to see some more people from Pendragon’s past popping up as well as some new, furry faces.
Issue 11 is off with a bang and there’s going to be plenty of action. Pendragon’s return is like a stone thrown in a quiet pond and the ripples are going to be felt for quite a while. Check that. He’s more like a hand grenade.
– Gary
Hello you!
Some news regarding VANGUARD updates. For the next few weeks, we’ll only be updating on a Friday. I have a hefty chunk of work drop in my lap that requires a fair bit of time. Once it’s done, we’ll be back to two pages a week. Yuss!
In other news, The Awesome Comics Podcast is here!. Click the link for full details!
– Dan
Fan-art!
@VanguardComic morning ten minute sketch is PENDRAGON! pic.twitter.com/dnY4BvBHBP
— !MBER (@RECKLESS_IMBER) August 21, 2015
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Dan
Art, writing, etc.
Dan
Edited/written by
Gary Cohen
What!?
But!!
How!!
What? Who? What?
Pretty sure he’s dead…. you guys are tricksy, aren’t you?
Who? Who’s dead?
Wait, who’s dead? Who are you talking about?
I guess they haven’t picked up on the eye; that’s MaXtreme, right?
Im thinking xbow still has a gradlon fixation.
And eye Max, long time no see.
Tssssk alpha prime genes incompatible with implants.
My poor fellow me eye bleeds for ya.
Ps. I wonder what luke could do to him now ? Notice the eye damage never healed properly.
the eye was kingsword
Think he’s talking about the burn mark around the eye, where Luke blasted him.
I was indeed talking about the burn mark.
to me it looks like the burn has healed, all the hair grew back, and the flesh around the socket has just rotted
Was it for cake?
was what for cake? none of the comments make sense this week!
Told you he was going to add those two to the list. Power armour or not.
wait until you see how long his list gets.
So… many… questions…
…I’ll bet you anything that Maxtreme’s eye is still bleeding because he tried to do something fancy with it for publicity’s sake
is that….bone? has th flesh around his eye rotted away?
Burn scars can look quite nasty, especially if they’re from deep tissue burns. In that case, some flesh really would rot away in the course of healing.
I like MaX as a literary character, it will be interesting to see what he has been up to and how he’s changed. He looks pretty ominous with the Black and Red gear, that’s not the style of the old MaXtreme.
He’s a greedy, selfish, abusive jerk to be sure but he’s not necessarily evil on the world scale. He pretty well considered himself to be bulletproof but he got quite a reality check when the crap hit the fan – 1) he was forced to go into the fight against the Vanguard 2) He got scarred up pretty bad and 3) Someone else reaped the rewards of his efforts and pain
I am really interested to see if he’s changed much, for better or for worse. Is he humbled after the whole fight? Is he pissed at the Vanguard for his wounds or at the Daedalus faction/Behind the Scenes people who forced him into that fight using the Alpha One Virus as a leash?
Wow, that’s Max? I really didn’t recognize him. I’m surprised he’s still alive. I thought for sure that his poisoners wouldn’t actually cure him. After all, as one of the few people with AlphaONE enhancement, he would be a possible threat if left alive. If it were me, I’d have let him die rather than risk him becoming an enemy.
He’s useful, and if they’re offering a treatment rather than a cure, he’s on a leash that can become a noose at a moment’s notice. Unrelated to that though, his current look is eXtremely 90s, my nickname for him will be MaXX Bludd.
Not only will you see what MaX is like going forward, we plan on revealing a couple very interesting tidbits about his past that may make you reconsider some things you thought you knew about him.
Awesome, most eggscellent! That was going to be another question of mine: Origins/Origin Stories for the characters and the Meta-human aspects as a whole, will we be seeing much of this kind of stuff in the new Renegades arc?
That’s a good question. The short answer is, “I’d like to.” The medium answer is, “I’d like to but I don’t know if we will,” the longer answer is, “the fact that we do 1-2 pages a week makes me hesitant to digress into a 4 page origin story and have everyone wait 2 weeks or a month to get back to the main story. I also don’t want to do an exposition dump where someone just vomits out their entire backstory. Maybe I can do some backstories as prose? So it doesn’t take aways from the main thread. Like character sheets with some backstory on them?
I personally would love that! The things for Eagle-5 we’re cool too.
Maybe for the setting too? The history of AlphaOne enhancements, the first meta-humans, how they were created/discovered. Stuff like that is really interesting (to me at least haha).