 The Master Assassin was designed specifically for Crossoverkill - while the Character Assassins have been kicking around the Magellan universe for some time now, the Master Assassin is only a recent conceptual addition. The keen eyed reader will have noticed that the Master Assassin is named "Brogan Matisse" above but is called "Wolfgang Kruger" in the story itself - the drafts have obviously been superceded and are not canon. Between this draft and writing the Magellan intro I had totally forgot about his original moniker. You have to admit that Wolfgang Kruger is a better name anyway! Not much to say about Suki - at this stage in the development she was only Suki Shimo... the "Syko" title came about a month or so later. Mainly because Al was so keen to have a code name for her ;-) As for Esteban Frio, I had no idea at this stage of development that I was going to kill him off during the Magellan sequence. Readers of my comic would know though that sudden death is frequently a fate for some of Magellan's characters! -Stephen |
 This is the second of our filler pages this week, today highlighting some of the contributions of Xmung of MAGELLAN. Next week the story will resume, and late this week we'll show you the cover of the second chapter. To see the huge montage/mural the Red Death did of about every webcomic superhero you can think of, either click on the "before" link or see it at the Red Death's comic, BAD GUY HIGH. This one highlights some of Xmung's contributions. Syko Suki is one of the most popular members of the Doppelganger Gang, and when he first proposed her, she was all in pink. We thought that made her look a little too much like ANT's opponent, Pink Flash, who had been a lot in CROSSOVERLORD---so Xmung changed the color scheme from pink to green and purple, added a silver lock for reasons that will become apparent, and the Syko Suki we know, love, and cringe at --was born. In the MAGELLAN strip, the Character Assassins proved to be one of Force Magellan's most persistent and fascinating foes, led by the Master Assassin, who was out to find his "creator" via mass murder, convinced he was just a character in a story, oddly enough. A fascinating cult, and for our story, Xmung added Esteban Frio, a member of the Doppelganger Gang, as one of the higher officials of the cult. -Al |