V11 – Pg20
Suit up!
Luke (aka Spitfire), suits up to go out and help his old friend Pendragon. Little does he know he’s too late… or even if he’s capable of doing so. The 15 years have been a long time for this chap. The team’s defeat has weighed heavy upon him. Luke wants to set things ‘right’
– Dan
Also – Great news everyone!
I’ll be appearing at London Super Comic Con this February. I’ll be at the Awesome Comics Podcast table with fellow hosts Vince (Red Mask) Hunt and Tony (Down The Tubes) Esmond. I’ll sell copies of VANGUARD book one (which went to the printer today) as well as prints and sketchbooks. I’ll post up the table number as soon as I know what i is. Pop along and say ‘hello’ if you’re there.
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Dan
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Gary Cohen
That’s an awesome homemade suit thing!
Thank you!
Back in Black!
… Er, so to speak.
Yeah, sort of. It has faint tones of his older suit in it.
Why do I have the feeling this won’t end well
It so rarely does go well in this comic… does it! Heh.
Had a plot related mindcurl. Some of the supers where infected with a virus that robbed them of their superpowers right? At least I think that is what killed Kingsword and Maxtreme had to be medicated. In hindsight I wondered.
– Was it tailored to AlphaOne level superhumans only?
That would explain it did not effect the others or… it was not contagious?
What happened with that? seems a neat way to kill of all potential opposing superhumans. Make it contagious and reserve the antidote for your own superhumans.
All great questions. All these points will be covered in the story. Can’t let on too much ’cause it’ll spoil things! I will say that the virus only affected Alpha-One level meta-humans, who were/are the most powerful ones.
I would guess by timing this was part of the coup plot. They may have been tailored to those individual Alphas so that their own Alphas were safe. And now we know its been 15 more years into the future from the “20 minutes” we already were which means maybe just 5 more minutes added. We don’t need any specifics. Hope we get a world view too. And a flag of the new country.
He might be too late to help, but he’s just on time to start getting ready. Things are going to start happening soon, and he’s gonna want to relearn how to use his powers.
Yeah, he’s going to be far to late to help Pen (as it’s all over), but yep, he’s going to have to learn how to do ‘it’ again… and quickly!
I have a question about the vanguard universe. If this is based on real Britian, what was in the letters of last resort? This was nuclear strike level damage to the British govt. Would they have had orders to fire? I mean it was pretty clear to the people at the time that they were being attacked.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letters_of_last_resort
I’ve not read these letters. I’ll have to take time to read them and get back to you. Thanks for sharing though.
Upon reflection its fairly easy to say that the letters just said do not fire with the loss of command and control. But Its fascinating to think of all the things still around after the cold war, and how far man is willing to go to protect what is theirs. Also for all I know the vanguard universe does not even have nukes, so there is that.