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Post by HoM on Sept 8, 2015 16:23:14 GMT -5
Please let us know what you thought of our second issue!
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Post by HoM on Sept 12, 2015 17:53:55 GMT -5
Having finished editing #3 today, I have the pleasure of knowing that not only is this a brilliant second issue of an ongoing series, but a fantastic middle part of a three-part story. For the sake of not ruining or spoiling anything from that issue, I'll be feeding back as if I haven't read #3, so excuse my seeming ignorance...
Everything we need it set up here, the players on the board, the stakes they're playing for, we know what this Secret Six is up against and this issue does a brilliant job of selling the reader on why they should keep reading. There's no resting on the laurels of a great opening chapter, instead the stakes are raised, and the ongoing interaction of our core characters is great.
Using the Penguin is a great move, throwing together a number of combustible, albeit relatively minor, villains against one major one. I wasn't familiar with the Terror Twins going into this, but they're brilliant little shits and I'm looking forward to seeing where you take them. Penguin being this exasperated 'elder statemsman' of the criminal fraternity is inspired, a nice direction I don't think we've seen taken before.
The ending is sharp and funny, and if it's any indication of how the Six are going to go about their business in future then there are going to be fireworks.
Great second issue! Recommended!
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Post by UltimateDC on Sept 12, 2015 21:10:44 GMT -5
Having finished editing #3 today, I have the pleasure of knowing that not only is this a brilliant second issue of an ongoing series, but a fantastic middle part of a three-part story. For the sake of not ruining or spoiling anything from that issue, I'll be feeding back as if I haven't read #3, so excuse my seeming ignorance... Everything we need it set up here, the players on the board, the stakes they're playing for, we know what this Secret Six is up against and this issue does a brilliant job of selling the reader on why they should keep reading. There's no resting on the laurels of a great opening chapter, instead the stakes are raised, and the ongoing interaction of our core characters is great. Thanks! This is issue was a lot of fun for me to write, and I'm glad the results work out here. Penguin is one of my favorite Batman villains for a lot of similar reasons that the Riddler is one of them: Both are flawed, disturbed, or downright broken people, and they're doing their damnedest to hide it from everyone. In the case of Oswald, it's that he presents himself as the "gentleman of crime"; a classy, sophisticated mobster who's a step or two above the common rabble on the streets of Gotham. The truth is that he's just as greedy, selfish, violent, lecherous, or outright psychotic as any of them. He just has a better tailor. As for the Terror Twins, they, like Sickle and Copperhead, originated in a medium outside of the comics - in this case, the Young Justice cartoon that was flipping brilliant and that Cartoon Network should have never cancelled, seriously, what the hell. There was a lot of character to them and a lot of potential for storytelling, so I figured I'd add them to the mix here. Yeah, they certainly are dysfunctional alright. I'm not sure they'll make it through the first arc together! Many thanks for commenting. It's always appreciated. -UDC |
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Post by HoM on Sept 29, 2015 9:46:20 GMT -5
I'm sure I speak to for UDC when I say that we are so pleased to share the cover to our first arc, by the DC2's very own Roy Flinchum!  Similar to how DC's own digital line uses one cover for one arc of stories, we'll be taking the same approach, so this is the cover to our first three issues (#3 coming out soon!) and we'll hopefully have a new cover for UDC's next arc ASAP. Any takers? Nyuk. |
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