Just a quick update on a Sunday. The Ultimate Game comic work is almost done. The bridging pages have allowed me to expand on the two opponents' interactions and develop things with a twist.
The use of pages, some with minor touch ups, from 1993/1994 seems to work as we are messing about in time and space and things that happened in the Black Tower Universe never happened. Or might have happened. Probably differently. The Thinker once quoted Plutarch:
"What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality"
That is pretty relevant to this story which, as I announced on the Black Tower blog, WILL be a self contained book. Yes, comicdom as a whole is now taking a deep breath and waiting for the virtual tsunami of comic book genius that will set the industry ablaze (doubtful though).
Page count? No idea. I think I've gone over a hundred but have not been counting to be honest just trying to tighten up the story and enjoy drawing while I am still able. Had I redrawn all the 1990s pages then the book would not be ready until 2022. I've done this one just for pure fun and not tried killing myself over getting something right to the point of 3-5 redraws or panels or pages. this is my "screw it -I'm having fun!" project.
If you read the above over on Comic Bits Online here is a little more information (between us and the G7 Summit).
The two main opponents in this story....I will tell you that one is The Thinker. He was almost a sort of hippy version of Marvel comics TheWatcher -except that the Thinker had met the Beatles, Janice Joplin and was also great friends with people like Donovan. His origins and age were/are unknown and if you get him a bit tiddly on Elderberry wine he will describe his job as being "an inter-parrallel peeping tom".
The other......well. Not telling.
But established Black Tower history is changed -NO.No one comes back from the dead and events in the Invasion Earth Trilogy are "untouchable" so meddle free. Which raises the question of who is it that seems to be walking the corridors of time and space and interfering in established history? Why? And just who is "The Enemy" this person refers to?
Obviously, the "Game" takes place in time and on different Earth parallels while the"other person" alters things so the question is at which point in time and space is this all taking place? There is reference to events from the Invasion Earth trilogy but no direct interference and the two opponents are at a point between parallels and space-time so the simple answer is that I do not have a clue. They never told me.
Although it is not a "must buy prequel" to the Invasion Earth trilogy there are things happening that explain some of the characters and situations they find themselves in -for the Thinker its 30+ years later. Some of the characters appearing do die in the Invasion Earth storyline. So unless you are into "possible first appearances" (Midge appeared in the first Crime Busters UK story in Adventure vol. 1 1985 for instance) it is not "essential collecting".
It is intended as a buy, be entertained, be confused as to who/what is or are the villains and enjoy!
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