New Rip Regan: Powerman posted!

Don't miss the latest page in the Rip Regan: Powerman online comic I'm writing for Excelsior Web Comics!

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Check out Rip Regan!

Pages 1-8 of the Rip Regan: Powerman story Eric Johns and I are doing for Excelsior Webcomics are posted. Please drop by and check them out and leave Eric a nice comment about that amazing art.

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Rip Regan: Powerman goes live!

"RIP REGAN-POWERMAN", written by Sean Taylor,  with art by Eric Johns is now online at Excelsior Web Comics!

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Click the link above for the full story.

"Rip"-ed from the Pages of Fight Comics Comes Rip Regan: Powerman!

Coming Soon from Excelsior Web Comics!
Rip Regan created by Herman Bolstein & John Celardo
Written by Sean Taylor
Pencils by Eric Johns
Colors by Celso Ludgero

It's time to see the golden age man of might in a brand new light as he teams up with a new partner, the lovely and mysterious martial artist Yoshi, as they try to protect a returning war hero from a gang of bank-robbing thugs. You don't want to miss this re-imagining of the classic pulp comic book hero, retold with with respect and admiration for the original source material.

Regan originally appeared in Fight Comics #3 in March 1940 and ran as a support feature until issue #14. To download the original appearances to whet your appetite for the new adventures, visit the Digital Comics Museum.

Excelsior will produce books in both online and print formats for graphic novel collections. Don't miss the unveiling of this new line of classically inspired comic book tales.

Teaser art for Rip Regan, Power-Man

 

These preview pages are from a new revival comic I'm doing featuring the public domain, Golden Age character Rip Regan, Power-Man, for Excelsior Web Comics. Art by Eric Johns.

For more info on the character try these two sites:

http://www.internationalhero.co.uk/p/powmanus.htm

http://pdsh.wikia.com/wiki/Rip_Regan_the_Power-Man

The Writer Will Take Your Questions Now (#76) -- Public Domain

Why all the interest in the public domain stuff lately?

Wow. I hadn't thought about it, but it does seem like everything I'm posting about lately is a revival of a public domain property, doesn't it? The truth is it's just a timing issues. I've had the H.G. Wells and Frankenstein projects in the works for years, and they're just now getting traction and making progress art-wise, which excites me to no end.

In addition to those, I'm also doing an online comic revival of the golden-age powerhouse Rip Regan, Powerman. And I recently did the Blue Lady story with Jim Ritchey III for All-Star Pulp Comics, now long ago.

On the prose side, a lot of pulp stuff is hitting recently, however. I'm doing a new adventures of Armless O'Neil for Pulp Obscura, and several others that I can't mention yet until I get approval from the publishers. (Yeah, I'm a tease. I know it. Sorry.)

Why do I pursue so many of these public domain characters? Several reasons.

1. They're fun to write.

2. It's a way of continuing the mythos after the original writers have died.

3. The characters ultimately belong to the fans, and it's a way of rewarding fans for their love of these otherwise forgotten heroes.

4. I'm getting paid for it. (Got to keep the groceries on the table, you know.)

5. I think these heroes deserve to come back. Sure, it's easy to keep Superman and Batman and Spider-Man in front of the masses, but that doesn't mean they are any more deserving of that spotlight than folks like Richard Knight, Armless O'Neil, The Black Bat, or The Domino Lady.

6. Alan Moore shouldn't be the only writer who can make a name for himself (and a living) by giving public domain characters a new spin. (Okay, I'm probably reaching for that one unless I redefine what "a living" is, but the spirit of the statement is still true.)