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I had intended post a link to these pictures from the Mid-Ohio Comic Con earlier, but it’s been a busy week. (That link leads to our Facebook page, but I believe you can see it even if you don’t have a Facebook account).
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Ah…well that’s a mood killer.
No kidding! Nothing spoils a softball press junket like a hard question!
Well, the Nazis couldn’t be the only ones who killed many people in their attempt to create super powered soldiers.
When i read the second panel i thought of one of “those” journalists
Yep. Chuck Randall has obviously given General Hightower trouble in the past, and chances are he’ll show up again.
Reading this, I can’t help but wonder what the Soviets are up to. I know earlier it was mentioned that they were being pushed out of the war, but I can’t really see them taking that lying down. And if Stalin got wind of this “Ares project,” well, what’s a hundred–or a thousand–dead soldiers to him?
Actually, Stalin, like Hitler, would have experimented on Jews, Georgians, Poles…anybody he felt was expendable. Of course, the successes would then be vivisected. Can’t have superpowered Jews, Georgians or Poles running around looking for payback, y’know.
Our premise is that the Soviets simply got bogged down in Stalingrad and Irkutsk, expending so many troops and resources that they just couldn’t fight any more. Granted, this explanation may not be completely realistic, but it’s hard to say for sure what would happen if a fantasy element like super-soldiers had been introduced in the real war.
Yeah maybe not totaly realistic… But hey! I’m a Finn what do I care as long as the Soviets (and possibly the swedes) get their asses kicked?
I hate to say it, but this makes more sense than Captain America’s origin. He gets a shot, presumably he was the first subject (before they retconned the hell out of it) and he turns into Mr. Olympia. And, like Tigger, heeeeee’s the only one! What? Erskine didn’t keep notes? Really?
Captain Victory being the only survivor, while tragic, makes more sense and is far more realistic. Presumably there is something in his genetic make-up that allowed the process to work on him without killing him. Granted, he might have received formula 101, but then there would be more like him. Gotta go with the genetic factor on this. Ehhhhx-cellent!
Notes can be stolen. He wanted to prevent that.
As usual, I’m not going to reveal any details at the moment, but you’re on the right track!
I was guessing that, he won the genetic lottery.
Is it possible to have a archive link? It would be really helpful in reading this
Good idea, Joshua! I added an archive page, which you can access from the link in the red menubar above. (If you don’t see it, try refreshing the page.)
Ahhh why yes the hard questions. It’s not pleasant to hear them, but they are always welcome for the story. 🙂
Hmmm… “It didn’t take.” Ummm what does that mean again? I’m not English, so sorry.
BTW for some reason I couldn’t comment for the past few weeks cuz the system didn’t load the login page for my computer and I just found out that it works for my laptop. Any idea on this? 🙂
Hmm. Well, it means you tried to start something that had to grow on its own, and it didn’t. Starting a rumor, and finding it didn’t spread. Or lighting a fire except that the match burns out without igniting anything else. It didn’t take.
Yeah, “it didn’t take” is the kind of figure of speech that doesn’t translate well to other languages. As msmischief said, it basically just means the treatments didn’t have the desired effect.
I’m sorry to hear that you’re having trouble with the new comment system! I’m not sure what would cause that, but you might try clearing your browser cache or trying a different browser. If you continue to have trouble, shoot me an email at shawn@thespecialistscomic.com and I’ll see if I can figure out the problem.
In many ways the Allies were as callous as their enemies. Maybe not as institutionalized or as prevalent but still it was there even after the war. On who they considered inferiors. Sad but true.
It’s always the “trouble makers” the “rabble rousers” who mess up a nice propaganda ploy by the gov’t to gain Brownie points with the public. Go muckrakers. Theses days they are called “whistle blowers.”