Thread "HA #9 - Wrath of the Zombie Queen (page assignments & references)" in forum "HA Stories"

Posted at 6:02PM, Feb. 14, 2015

Checked the artist lineup again–Neil agreed to six pages? Awesome! Also, he sure he won't go insane with all the art he's going to do?

Posted at 2:02PM, Feb. 17, 2015

I'm as happy about Neilsama's projected contributions as you are! He ran into some problems apparently, but I really hope he can deliver the six pages he promised.

Posted at 5:02PM, Feb. 17, 2015

Has anyone tried reminding him about his pages?

Posted at 8:02AM, Feb. 18, 2015

He's been contacting me on facebook every few days, saying that the next page is just about to be done.

Posted at 8:02AM, Feb. 18, 2015

Copy that, good Abt!

Posted at 3:03PM, Mar. 13, 2015

Hey guys, I need your opinion. It's been almost 2 months now since the last update, and usually, I'd start reassigning pages by now. However, I'd feel very bad about this, since (1) I love Neilsama's art, and he's never contributed pages before, (2) he seems to have been working on the next few pages, just not been able to complete any, and (3) the reason seems to be a sensitive family issue. So, it wouldn't feel right to take the pages away from him. Yet, I feel the responsibility to update HA.

Any thoughts?

Posted at 2:03PM, Mar. 21, 2015

Hm, that's a difficult situation…but has he given a time frame for when he'll be able to finish them at least? Maybe he cant do that because of the nature of the situation, which i think we would all totally understand, but maybe at this point, the pages are just more pressure on him. Say this is something that'll continue to be prolonged, HA cant wait forever,can it? Maybe ask him and see if he can give any time frame for when he'll have the pages done and if he misses that timeframe, then it could be time to move on.
As much as I do sympathize for his situation and I hope he's okay, it's not exactly fair to the other people who have pages after him to have to keep waiting.

Posted at 6:03PM, Mar. 21, 2015

To throw a third option into the pot: Rather than leave it on hiatus or continue the issue without Neil, are we able to do some short stories or other filler to keep HA going in the meanwhile?

It'd mean pulling in artists at short notice but we'd have to do that anyway.

I think there are a few short story ideas already floating around or we could quickly produce a handful of ~HU Adventures length shorts to fill the space?

We haven't done origin stories for a while, either. This wouldn't be a bad spot to publish origin stories for Militia and Target. (And to a lesser extent, Bones, Fury, Archangel and Coldcut, but those are lesser priority because their origin stories are all somewhere else on the Duck, albeit not in compact form).

Posted at 6:03PM, Mar. 22, 2015

Or we could do one-shot things, like gags and the like, such as when Hero created the little comics with stuff like Cherry Kim: Agent of HU.

Posted at 6:03AM, Mar. 24, 2015

It would be great to have some HU-Adventure-style stories, origins, or one-shots to post. If any of you reading this can whip something up, I'd be glad. And I should advertise on the main site…

Posted at 6:03PM, Mar. 25, 2015

I like the idea! But still, I think even doing that we should set some kind of time frame so the story isnt just lingering on perpetually. I hate to be the debbie downer, but this is the internet. Sometimes people just DONT deliver.

Posted at 1:03PM, Mar. 26, 2015

Good point. Personally I'd be fairly generous and say, give Neil up to the end of June to supply the next page (and the others shortly thereafter).

But that's dependent on us being able to start producing bonus content in a hurry (say 12-15 pages worth in total), so the sooner we can get that sorted, the better.

That character portrait of Monsieur Monkey would be okay filler and I'm guessing CDMalcolm would have a poster of Solarcell he wouldn't mind contributing, but mostly we want short stories, 1-4 pages each, ideally but not necessarily tangentially related to where we paused the main story. For example a quick origin tale for Bones and/or Militia. But at this point probably just about anything would be great.

Posted at 4:03PM, Mar. 26, 2015

Hey, that'd be awesome! Maybe we could colaborate on a co-origin story for Mailitia and Bones. like say if maybe they arrived at about the same time. Or even just Mailia. Fandango is pretty much almost ALL Bones. Maybe that'd be overkill?

Posted at 6:03PM, Mar. 26, 2015

Bones *is* very prominent recently. He's like HA's answer to Wolverine! :D But being so prominent is also a good argument for having a 2-3 page origin story to tell readers who this suddenly-prominent character actually *is*.

It could be interesting to combine that with Militia's origin, especially if there are thematic similarities or contrasts. I don't actually know very much about Militia at all, so idk.

I've had a script for a three page Chaos story floating around for a while. If we don't want to foreshadow her yet, it would be *very* easily tweaked to star Mr Imp instead.

PIT_FACE wrote:
Hey, that'd be awesome! Maybe we could colaborate on a co-origin story for Mailitia and Bones. like say if maybe they arrived at about the same time. Or even just Mailia. Fandango is pretty much almost ALL Bones. Maybe that'd be overkill?

Posted at 9:03AM, Mar. 30, 2015

I don't know much about Malitia either but it'd be nice if we could pin something together. Who made her?

Posted at 7:03PM, Mar. 31, 2015

Him. He's the guy in the latest page with the blonde beard and helmet. Pretty sure he's one of SUX's characters.

PIT_FACE wrote:
I don't know much about Malitia either but it'd be nice if we could pin something together. Who made her?

Posted at 11:04AM, Apr. 1, 2015

Ah shit, you're right! I always get Target and Militia mixed up.Well, we can drop Sux a line and see if he has any particular input about Malitia.

Posted at 7:04AM, Apr. 2, 2015

Yep, Militia was created by sux. And it would be great to have a little primer on Bones, I think! So that people who don't read Putrid_Meat get to know him better (not that there should be any).

Posted at 7:04PM, Apr. 2, 2015

I wouldnt mind putting something together! I'm just not sure the best way to go about this. hmm..

Posted at 8:04PM, Apr. 3, 2015

Yeah you could do Militia's origin if you'd like. :D

Posted at 10:04PM, Apr. 5, 2015

I just found this forum about the delay. I hope everything is okay.

Any how, I was wondering how long until the next update? This way I have enough time to put together a poster of HA…. Anime style. I'm not use to drawing that way and it's taking me a little long to produce. So far, I'm still working on the inks. And their faces…the only one that will not have an anime like face but somewhat of a gundam look, will be shell. Also, I'm not really sure how many members are on HA. So I'm using the ones.

Other notes, I'm going to Mega Con this Sunday. So if any of you are going, let me know.

Posted at 2:04AM, Apr. 7, 2015

Do you have a script of Militia's origin? Or even just a rough outline of it?
I'd forgotten about Target - she'd be a viable subject for an origin story too. Whose character is she again?

We should nail down something really soon though. :O I'm happy to contribute a page or so to whatever (bearing in mind the usual caveat that I ain't that fast so giving me the first page of something would probably be a mistake).

EDIT: Okay, I'm an idiot - Militia's origin is on the Wiki. xD It's a bit dry though - pretty much the standard Captain America/Deathstroke the Terminator bit. Ideally we want to know a bit more about his character, especially since he seems to be the lynchpin of RISE. (For those of you familiar with the classic Suicide Squad, I see him as basically the Rick Flagg role).

sux wrote:
Yeah you could do Militia's origin if you'd like. :D

Posted at 10:04AM, Apr. 7, 2015

Target's a character by mind_reader.

Posted at 4:04PM, Apr. 8, 2015

I see him as a man trying really hard to keep a bunch of 'Ex" criminals on as tight a leash as he can. While he may be a Mercenary who has done a lot of bad things in the name of Democracy, he feels that in the ends will justify the means and the world WILL be safer with Secret US intervention around the globe.
That's all I can really say to his character since I myself don't know too much about him myself, which is strange since I created him XD

irrevenant wrote:
Do you have a script of Militia's origin? Or even just a rough outline of it?
I'd forgotten about Target - she'd be a viable subject for an origin story too. Whose character is she again?

We should nail down something really soon though. :O I'm happy to contribute a page or so to whatever (bearing in mind the usual caveat that I ain't that fast so giving me the first page of something would probably be a mistake).

EDIT: Okay, I'm an idiot - Militia's origin is on the Wiki. xD It's a bit dry though - pretty much the standard Captain America/Deathstroke the Terminator bit. Ideally we want to know a bit more about his character, especially since he seems to be the lynchpin of RISE. (For those of you familiar with the classic Suicide Squad, I see him as basically the Rick Flagg role).
sux wrote:
Yeah you could do Militia's origin if you'd like. :D

Posted at 7:04AM, Apr. 14, 2015

THat has some potential! Would we want to maybe make the story of how RISE got a hold of him? or a few of the characters? It may have to be moved to the begining of this current chapter maybe in order to avoid confusion. but that aint nothin. We could maybe pick like 3 or 4 characters and alot each of them two pages, real quick, showing what they were in the middle of when they got nabbed? lol. could be fun and exposing at the same time.