I had thought about this story for a number of years before even committing it to paper.
A dystopian near future where the U.S. is ruled by three dictatorial supermen, identical triplets who rise to power via their genetic abilities (strength, speed, pyrokinesis) after breaking free of the institution that had the hubris to artificially engineer them in the first place. We also meet the group that is trying to formulate a plan to destroy them.
Having gone the route of straight Superhero, Twilight Zone, sci fi comedy then back to super villain comedy, I wanted to get serious with his one. This one was pretty dark and I think holds up pretty well. It was the longest story I’d done to date at 64 pages.
This was also the biggest technical challenge for me at the time, as I’d not figured out certain things in Photoshop at that point when putting the book together in late 2001.
All in all, I think the story, dialog, effects all work pretty well and come together fairly okay. I think I hit all the notes I wanted too.
Relative side notes: Mike Sobey once again did the cover only this time inks with color.
And in general, I look back and think about how much I’ve improved from these early days. Woo!
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