[JR19759]

Pack (Gotta love obscure Marvel superheroes from the 80’s and no I’m not talking about the Power Rangers).

[JR19759]

Here’s mine. I can shade her if you wish. Based on a mixture of Saxon/ Viking mythology and Christian demonology.
A white elf from another, magical, dimension, who was corrupted by a malevolent spirit whilst practicing dark arts outlawed by her people. This action caused her banishment from her home and the branding of her skin with the dark marks, to identify her as a practitioner of black magic. She spent many years wandering her world, learning from powerful dark sorcerers until her magical power was unparalleled. Using this power, the malevolent spirit inside her transformed her image into a much more demonic form. She summoned an army of darkness and tried to overthrow the Elven Council, the government of her world. When this coup failed, the grand wizard banished her to another world and another dimension, our own. Even though her power is diminished away from her home, she is still a formidable opponent.

[JR19759]

Psycho

[JR19759]

Nice.
Is that all done on HM? If it is, then that is amazing work!

[JR19759]

Lady

[JR19759]

@fluffy123 said:

do another plz

As you wish.

How about this. Lets see you redesign the crew of the Star Voyager Lazarus

Ambrosia
Real Name: Samantha (Sam) Matthews
Species: Human
Bio: A human who accidentally gained immortality through a scientific experiment gone wrong. She became hardened and distant after seeing her friends and family grow old and die and she vowed not to let any one get close to her again. When humanity colonized the stars, she enrolled on many star voyages, looking for a way to end her immortality. She has tattooed much of her upper body with numerous strange markings, as well as dyeing her eyes and hair (pink and blue respectively). She wears glasses.

Captain Raad
Real Name: Olanna Raad Nimor
Species: Kaaneno
Bio: The captain of the Star Voyager Lazarus, Olanna Raad Nimor is a first class star pilot. He is also an outcast from his own race, after his gambling habit built up huge debts amongst the wrong people. However, he is trying to atone for some of his more unsavory actions in paying of these debts. He looks much like the classic humans image of an alien, green skinned and big eyed. He wears Star Voyager captain’s uniform (a black coat with gold detailing).

Carla
Real Name: C218
Species: Cyborg
Bio: A cyborg originally designed by Andro Industries as a pleasure ‘droid for soldiers away from home. However, she broke her programing and deserted. She joined Captain Raad’s crew as the technical officer and he has taken her under his wing and helped her come to terms with her past. Much of her synth-skin has been lost in battles, but she refuses to replace it, saying it makes her feel more individual.

Morag The Space Gorilla
Real Name: Morag
Species: Gorilla
Bio: An ex-lab animal with hyper intelligence, Morag negotiated his way out of the lab and into Captain Raad’s Star Voyager. He is now the chief mechanic aboard and works on fixing the ship, as well as Carla and Wrench.

Tarak
Real Name: Tarak Nar Kanakk
Species: Nephropidae
Bio: A crustacean with a kind heart and a hard shell. Tarak was sentenced to death by his war-like race for helping prisoners of war escape. However he escaped and now lives in exile, serving as the medical officer on the Star Voyager Lazarus. He is very patient and gentle, unlike the rest of his species, but he has a brutal strength that can destroy large chunks of the equipment in his medical bay if he loses his temper.

Vala
Real Name: Vala Namwa
Species: Mermoid
Bio: The ships cook and resident alien mermaid, Vala was brought up in the richest part of her planet. Her father made his money building Star Voyagers and tried to fast track his daughter to the top of the business. However, Vala, who had spent much time amongst the crews of her fathers’ ships, refused, saying she knew many people who deserved the job more than her. When her father rebuked her, she ran away. She joined the Lazarus as a cook to spite her father, as he viewed the cooks as the lowest job on a voyager. It also helped that the Lazarus was a Voyager run by her fathers’ rivals’ company. Her species is bipedal with fins, no nose, webbed hands, gills and tentacles instead of hair.

Wrench
Real Name: Paul Hana
Species: Human
Bio: A tech nerd from the Titan colony of the human space colonization, Wrench came by his nickname in his teens, when he built and raced his own zero-g hover pods. He used his winnings to buy upgrades, until one race he crashed horribly, losing his arms and legs. He designed cybernetic replacements and used his remaining winning to commission Andro Industries to build them. He then got a job working as a service engineer for Andro Industries, before being hired by Captain Raad to aid Morag on the Lazarus, as well as to keep an eye on Carla.

Maluma
Species: Kinanti- Human
Bio: A rare inter species hybrid, Maluma is the offspring of a Kinanti space farer and a human nurse. As kinanti are a hermaphrodite species Maluma has traits of both sexes, however she prefers to identify as female. She is itentifiable as a human hybrid by her fingers and toes, of which she has more than a normal kinanti (4 compared to 2 on each hand/foot and a lack of a prehensile thumb on each foot) as well as her legs, which are human in structure. Kinanti are much more muscular than humans and are slightly taller, averaging at around 6.5 foot. As a hybrid, Maluma isn’t as muscular or tall as a normal Kinanti but she is still more muscular than a normal human woman.

I’ll give you guys around a week, maybe more if there are more entries.

[JR19759]

@prswirve said:

i think a good cover would inspire more of us…. how about we make one?

I think that’s a good idea.

BTW a slight edit you could make to Panel 28, I imagined that Shu would be bigger in relation to the shadow. Because the size he is now it’s either he’s only 3 foot tall or the other guy is 20 foot tall.

[JR19759]

@Iscarioto said:

Loved your post too JR, really liked how you mentioned a mall. I mean Hong kong has heaps anyway, so it could have been any mall, but the fact you mentioned it and then kept moving had me go “Oh, he’s going to… no wait, ooh that’s interesting.” That and how you acknowledged the timeline, there would be nobody from the group in times square for another 12 hours or so, so good stuff.

Everyone is so intuitive!

I did mean for it to be the same mall, for that reason. I would be really surprised if Ascension didn’t start levelling all malls, stations and airports in Hong Kong soon, or at least getting rid of any pockets of resistance within them.

I’ve done a design for Ge Hong now, dunno if he’s like people imagined him, but I thought that this is what he’d look like after disappearing for an unspecified amount of time.

Edit: Updated to make him look older

[JR19759]

@Iscarioto said:

Yeah i was thinking the same thing, started doing some coloring for it last night and changed Terrence up a bit, as well as started researching the standard dress for a Saudi business woman, making changes accordingly.

Just trying to work out a pallette really, trying to keep the colours very muted but will see how it comes across. We are going to try have seperate people shade right?

I’ll shade if you want.
I was thinking for the colours, use natural colours for the outside bits before the invasion (Shu’s cell can be the same before and after….dark.) Then make the same colours darker when the invasion starts, with the exception of the lasers and fire which should stand out against the dark colours.

BTW, Vampyrist, loving the references you put in you newest bit, especially the Cybermen joke.

[JR19759]

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awright let me start so we could go on…. this is JR’s panel 2… Terrance and Shanda at the Harbor Scene…. Code’s in the spoiler above….

Can I just make an observation here, and I’ll let Iscarioto have the last word on this because they’re his characters, but isn’t Shada from Saudi Arabia? So wouldn’t she have some sort of burka or other Islamic female headwear. Even if not, I can’t imagine her showing that much skin. It could be changed during colouring if it is changed, but as I said, it’s Iscarioto’s call.

[JR19759]

So, to recap, my life has become majorly weird since I arrived in Hong Kong for what was meant to be a nice relaxing holiday. First there is a mini earthquake and then there is an invasion of evil cyborgs. Right now I’m stuck around the back of a coffee shop with a complete stranger surrounded by gun wielding cyborgs and I think I’m going to be sick.
My entire body is shaking. My hands feel really weird, as if the bones are being rearranged very slowly, but it doesn’t hurt. My stomach feels awful and there is a ringing in my ears so bad I can’t hear the cyborgs guns being set to kill or whatever (if they even have settings).
Then it hits me, my stomach spasms, causing me to fall to my knees. Even over the ringing in my ears I hear the lasers shooting above my head, where my chest would have been a few seconds ago. My hands have started to hurt, my nails pulling at the skin of my fingers. I open my eyes and stare at them. To my horror, my nails are elongating and curving, becoming much thicker, almost claw like. My stomach spasms again and out of the corner of my eye I see the body of the barista slump to the ground beside me. My entire body starts to go numb and my mind becomes foggy. I can feel something else bubbling up from my subconscious.
The cyborgs are advancing on me; I can see their shadows and their feet as the draw closer. Then my mind changes, as if some primal animal instinct takes over. It happens so swiftly I’m not really sure I know what is going on. I remember leaping up, slashing out at the nearest cyborgs with the claws on my hands. It all seems blurry, but I know that none of the cyborgs survived, because when I regained my mind they were all lying on the floor in various different pieces, with long claw marks covering what’s left of their armor. I look down at my hands. They have returned to normal. My t-shirt is covered in a mixture of blood, oil and coffee. I’ll definitely need to replace it after I get out of this mess, although I doubt many of the shops are open at the moment.
Oh God, that guy, the barista. I rush over to him, but he is dead. His body is covered in scorch marks and dried blood from the lasers, but he looks so peaceful. Then I notice something, a piece of paper folded up in his hand. I carefully remove it and am taken aback when I see it has my name written on it. I open it up and begin to read.

To Kate Quinn
You do not know me but I know you, my name is Wong Li An and our meeting today was not a chance meeting. You have been dosed with an experimental drug known as Empty Vessel. If my plan has gone wrong and you are reading this note, then I am dead and you will know what the effects of Empty Vessel are. You are needed.
In my right trouser pocket you will find a small earpiece. If you put this in your ear it will translate speech from Mandarin to English for you, and your speech to Mandarin. We were aware of your problems in learning the language so this precaution was a necessary one.
You must find Ge Hong, the creator of Empty Vessel. He will help you. You must be brave. And you must run.

I screw up the note and shove it in my pocket. I then look over the dead body in front of me. I didn’t really want to go into the pockets of a dead man, it felt wrong, but I guess I had to. If the guy I was meant to be finding didn’t speak English, it would be much easier using the earpiece than my rubbish Chinese. I quickly slipped my hand into his pocket and grabbed this small metallic earpiece. It looked kind of like a futuristic in-ear headphone. Luckily it wasn’t damaged (or dirty, that would have been nasty), so I stuck it into my right ear.
As I got to my feet and waded my way through the bodies of the cyborgs my mind switched back to the note. What exactly this guy going to help me with exactly? Was he going to get rid of this Empty Vessel stuff from my body, or was it something to do with these cyborgs. I prayed that it wasn’t the later as I stepped out onto the street.
The street was deserted, bar the corpses of the unfortunate people who weren’t quick enough to escape the cyborgs. Luckily there didn’t seem to be any of them around, so I ran across the street and down an alleyway and out of sight. Those triangle ships were still hovering above the streets, so I didn’t want to take the chance of being seen and attacked, especially as I’m not entirely sure how to get back those claws.
I started to walk, starting my search for this Ge Hong, where ever and who-ever he is. As I walked I noticed a large mall off at the end of one of the streets. I smiled to myself. It would be nice to get a new t-shirt, but I have more important things to do at the moment. Anyway, those cyborgs are more likely to search for survivors in places where lots of people congregate. So I kept walking.

A Number Of Hours Later

I’m most definitely lost now. I’ve been walking for I don’t know how many hours and all I’ve managed to do is realize a map would have been a good idea. At least I’ve had something to eat. Luckily the shops are all abandoned. I grabbed myself some food and left the money by the till (it’s not like I’m a thief). The sun set as I sat down for my makeshift meal. I had reached the harbor by now and I had found myself a nice little spot to sit. It’s funny, but here you wouldn’t think there was anything going on at all, it just seems normal. I haven’t seen a single cyborg in hours.
‘Katherine Quinn. You are wanted by Ascension. You will come with us.’
Just my luck. I looked over my shoulder to where the voice had come from and, of course, a whole squad of them, at least a dozen. Me and my big mouth.
‘You will comply or you will be eliminated.’
I could feel the effects of that Empty Vessel stuff starting to happen again. My stomach tightened and my body felt numb, as if I was going to be sick. I looked down at my hands and I was surprised that they still looked normal.
The cyborgs advanced on me, raising their guns. The leader spoke again.
‘You have three seconds to comply or you will be eliminated. This is your final warning.’
As he spoke, sparks started to flicker between my fingers. I smiled to myself. Not exactly what I was expecting, but it’ll do. I stood up and smiled at the cyborgs.
‘Not this time boys.’
I raise my hands and huge arcs of electricity shot from my hands, wrapping themselves around the cyborgs. Grating, metallic shrieks filled the air as the cyborgs twitched and spasmed, their flesh burning and their robotic parts short-circuiting and flashing. Soon they all dropped to the ground, dead, and the electricity faded away.
I breathed a sigh of relief as the effects of Empty Vessel released their grip on my body and I turned back to the sunset.
Then a sharp pain shot across the back of my head and I fell forwards, unconscious.

Some Time Later

When I woke up my head was pounding. I could feel a welt starting to rise on the back of my head. Someone must have hit me with something.
I suddenly realized that I wasn’t in the same place anymore. I was in a building of some kind, possibly on of the warehouses on the harbor, judging by the large crates pilled up the walls. Then I noticed I wasn’t alone. I was surrounded by people, Chinese men, all dressed in black with red gloves on. One, I’d assume the leader, approached me. I shuffled backwards across the floor until my back was pressed against one of the crates. The man kneeled down until he was at eye level with me and he seemed to study me for a minute before he spoke.
‘”
I was slightly taken aback. The translator thing worked. I cast around in my mind for an answer, but none presented its self, so I decided to go for the obvious question.
‘[Who are you?]’ I asked, hoping the translator would mean he could understand me.
The man stood up and his compatriots moved forward until I was totally surrounded.
‘[My name is Yi Quantou,]’ he said proudly as he gestured to the other men, ‘[and we are the Crimson Hand.]’

[JR19759]

Are (Raises little finger to lips)

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