Untouchable
01-08-2012, 01:50 AM
Louis Michaels: Hello readers of Comic Book Central and welcome to Louis' corner. As usual, I'm Louis Michaels and I'm joined here by comic author Adrian Addison of Grey Dog Software Comics.
Adrian: Always a pleasure.
Louis: So you're best known for a mini series starring Modern Mad and Moving Target of The New Breed. Prior to that you had only worked as an assistant on the Xtinction solo series. How'd you get such a role?
Adrian: Well, Mr. Ryland was looking for some ideas fora couple of filler comics to release in the downtime following the Hell on Earth event. So I decided to write something involving a couple of characters that I felt an affinity for and Adam seemed to think my work was pretty good. He let me have head writing duties on the mini-series that would initially be non-canon depending on how it was accepted.
Louis: And it was accepted quite well. The plot about two teenagers taking it upon themselves to protect Hub Burough from the sort of villains that the major villains generally wouldn't fight.
Adrian: That's true and I was pretty proud of it. I was also quite partial of an original character that I created, a scientist called Jeremy Akermanis. He would partially exposit on the terror network, having been a double agent within their ranks.
Louis: And then he was killed by Terrorbot Slaughter after Terrorbyte discovered that he had stolen one of the Terrorbot designs and had fashioned his own robot.
Adrian: You kinda have to kill a guy after doing that. But while the New Breed and the Terror Network proceeded to brawl across the entire city, I decided to include a scene at the end of issue 5 where a thug breaks into the lab to steal some tech to sell on the black market. We ended the issue with and expression of horror on his face to kind of sell the point of what happened.
Louis: And then Ironside was born.
http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee406/Thrace-TW/K-0Z_jsilver.jpg
(all thanks to jsilver who created this awesome render K-0Z for the Infinity+ mod)
Adrian: I'd talked to Mr. Ryland about introducing a new hero that would be canonical and ran a few ideas and designs past him. He settled on Ironside, the terrorbot that Akermanis had created then downloaded his personality and memories into the robot before he died.
Louis: So Ironside flew off to get involved in the battle and destroyed Terrorbot Slaughter. The battle ends with the escape of the Terror Network while he gets left there by the two heroes who he had tried to help because he had still created his own Terrorbot for his own objectives.
Adrian: It was supposed to convey that Akermanis had been so cut off from the world and so selfish that he thought that by saving the day with a robot that he had stolen from a major villain then everything would not be okay since he was still using a weapon known for murdering heroes.
Louis: And this led to your own comic, Man of Steel where Akermanis sought out redemption for his selfishness by using Ironside to change the world.
Adrian: Indeed. It all started with.......
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Man of Steel #1
The Eyes Have It
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Plot Synopsis: The story begins with a prologue showing the origins of Jeremy Akermanis. A gifted robotocist, he was so caught up in his own world that he drove away any friends or family he once had. He is recruited by Terrorbyte following a robotics demonstration and placed in charge of working on a new Terrorbot design. It flashes forward to dialogueless scenes of him stealing the Terrorbot design, creating Ironside and then his death.
It returns to the present where his internal scanner detects the presence of the Terroreyes. He sets off to fight them but suffers armor lock during the battle preventing him from acting. He is peppered by optic blasts from the tiny robots but his systems are soon online again and he drives them off without any effort. He picks up and crushes one of the damaged Terroreyes
and the issue ends in the sanctum of the Terror Network where Terrorbyte is watching a video feed from one of the robots. He mutters Akermanis' name under his breath and hurls his glass at the screen. The final panel is of the shattered screen with Ironside crushing the Terrorbot.
--------Notes--------------------
*The solo series begins on a strong note with sales over 25% of what was initially forecast.
*Terrorbyte and the Terroreyes are introduced in this issue.
(I've aimed for something more along the lines of what Clarity has created in his great Alpha-1: Thoughts Into Reality dynasty. I'll only have the interviews for the conclusion or beginning of a new arc or if a created character turns up)
Adrian: Always a pleasure.
Louis: So you're best known for a mini series starring Modern Mad and Moving Target of The New Breed. Prior to that you had only worked as an assistant on the Xtinction solo series. How'd you get such a role?
Adrian: Well, Mr. Ryland was looking for some ideas fora couple of filler comics to release in the downtime following the Hell on Earth event. So I decided to write something involving a couple of characters that I felt an affinity for and Adam seemed to think my work was pretty good. He let me have head writing duties on the mini-series that would initially be non-canon depending on how it was accepted.
Louis: And it was accepted quite well. The plot about two teenagers taking it upon themselves to protect Hub Burough from the sort of villains that the major villains generally wouldn't fight.
Adrian: That's true and I was pretty proud of it. I was also quite partial of an original character that I created, a scientist called Jeremy Akermanis. He would partially exposit on the terror network, having been a double agent within their ranks.
Louis: And then he was killed by Terrorbot Slaughter after Terrorbyte discovered that he had stolen one of the Terrorbot designs and had fashioned his own robot.
Adrian: You kinda have to kill a guy after doing that. But while the New Breed and the Terror Network proceeded to brawl across the entire city, I decided to include a scene at the end of issue 5 where a thug breaks into the lab to steal some tech to sell on the black market. We ended the issue with and expression of horror on his face to kind of sell the point of what happened.
Louis: And then Ironside was born.
http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee406/Thrace-TW/K-0Z_jsilver.jpg
(all thanks to jsilver who created this awesome render K-0Z for the Infinity+ mod)
Adrian: I'd talked to Mr. Ryland about introducing a new hero that would be canonical and ran a few ideas and designs past him. He settled on Ironside, the terrorbot that Akermanis had created then downloaded his personality and memories into the robot before he died.
Louis: So Ironside flew off to get involved in the battle and destroyed Terrorbot Slaughter. The battle ends with the escape of the Terror Network while he gets left there by the two heroes who he had tried to help because he had still created his own Terrorbot for his own objectives.
Adrian: It was supposed to convey that Akermanis had been so cut off from the world and so selfish that he thought that by saving the day with a robot that he had stolen from a major villain then everything would not be okay since he was still using a weapon known for murdering heroes.
Louis: And this led to your own comic, Man of Steel where Akermanis sought out redemption for his selfishness by using Ironside to change the world.
Adrian: Indeed. It all started with.......
-----------------------------------
Man of Steel #1
The Eyes Have It
----------------------------
Plot Synopsis: The story begins with a prologue showing the origins of Jeremy Akermanis. A gifted robotocist, he was so caught up in his own world that he drove away any friends or family he once had. He is recruited by Terrorbyte following a robotics demonstration and placed in charge of working on a new Terrorbot design. It flashes forward to dialogueless scenes of him stealing the Terrorbot design, creating Ironside and then his death.
It returns to the present where his internal scanner detects the presence of the Terroreyes. He sets off to fight them but suffers armor lock during the battle preventing him from acting. He is peppered by optic blasts from the tiny robots but his systems are soon online again and he drives them off without any effort. He picks up and crushes one of the damaged Terroreyes
and the issue ends in the sanctum of the Terror Network where Terrorbyte is watching a video feed from one of the robots. He mutters Akermanis' name under his breath and hurls his glass at the screen. The final panel is of the shattered screen with Ironside crushing the Terrorbot.
--------Notes--------------------
*The solo series begins on a strong note with sales over 25% of what was initially forecast.
*Terrorbyte and the Terroreyes are introduced in this issue.
(I've aimed for something more along the lines of what Clarity has created in his great Alpha-1: Thoughts Into Reality dynasty. I'll only have the interviews for the conclusion or beginning of a new arc or if a created character turns up)