Young Immortals

In short, the Young Immortals are this universe’s Justice League or Avengers, pending on your comic company preference. It is thanks to my former roleplaying group that the name came to be along with the inspiration for certain characters. The organization started out small, a few seasoned heroes guiding a couple youngsters whom wanted to use their skills and talents for good. Just like the Justice League and Avengers, overtime it grew to have many members with the founders being in charge. Twinstrike, an ageless master martial artist, Olympus the lightning-wielding WWII veteran, vigilant crime fighting sentinel Darkwatch, and Allseer, a clairvoyant mystic, watched over their young protégés in the early years. Eventually the time-manipulating warrior Temporis, divine-armored Armorella, Ironchain the blood-controller, young-bodied and sugar-dependent Brain Lad, Caliber, a super soldier clone of Queen Elizabeth II, and cursed immortal weapon master Ankh grew to be the best champions of the era. Those senior members governed the organization well, until the villain Chimera the Devourer used a smear campaign on them. Chimera convinced the world that their heroes were to blame for the devastation following the Atlas Reversal event because they knew of the impending doom and failed to stop it. With a majority of the public outraged, the world’s governments began sanctioning heroes through registration. Most of the Young Immortals disbanded; some went into hiding or retired while others fight the good fight as regular citizens. But the team’s founders secretly work on to restore their honor and name watching as Chimera steals their legacy for his own clandestine plans.

Update 15.2308.001

Before releasing the new post, I realized some terms might not be understood by all. To rectify this previous and future posts will have hyperlinks for terms that can be explained by Wikipedia or the like. While terms without hyperlinks usually mean they exist only within my comic and that I have not gone to explain them yet in detail. So far the only previous post to be updated is Universe-1689.

Earth-1689

For the most part, the impact of historical events is the same as our world. However, the method and/or outcome are slightly different. Such events include Princess Diana becoming permanently crippled instead of dying in the car accident, the 9/11 terrorists ramming the plane into the Statue of Liberty, President Lincoln was in fact a vampire slayer, and Adolf Hitler sold his soul for artistic prowess which allowed a demon to possess him for the purpose of gathering more souls. Significant changes in this world’s history compared to ours include these few events: Barrack Obama being assassinated a few weeks into his presidency; Joan d’Arc surviving her conflagration (big destructive fire for the layman) and being knighted by King Charles VII; Rasputin escaped before the fatal gunshot, went into hiding, repeated his dastardly deeds throughout history, eventually coming to the states and going by the name "Charles Manson" before being killed in his would be arrest. While the biggest difference between our worlds is that the Mayan prophecy for December 12, 2012 came true. Like it has in the past multiple times, the planet’s geomagnetic poles reversed, which became known as the Atlas Reversal event. This reversal caused massive global damage. Its destruction was further exacerbated by the release of Jormungand to catalyze the creation of this new world. Now most people think an apocalypse means the literal end of the world, but what it really means is the end of the world as we know it, i.e. the world continues but after a great revelation has occurred. So what could possibly be a great revelation in this day and age? Multifaceted is the answer to this question for not just one but several revelations were brought to light. Humanity discovered that the lost continent of Atlantis existed when it resurfaced, that we are not alone in the universe when irrefutable proof was unearthed, that the Cosmic Surge irradiated our momentarily unprotected planet causing the small posthuman population to proliferate, and that our gods and goddesses are in fact real living beings.

Universe-1689

This neutrally-aligned universe residing in the Balis cluster is the main setting of the comic. As the number may suggests it is not the only one, much like DC/Marvel and Sliders have a vast multiverse to contend with. In fact, every fictional universe imaginable is a possible destination for macrocosmic travelers (at least a facsimile there of so I don’t get sued lol). Now being neutrally-aligned means the characters are capable of morally gray decisions much like our reality. While positively-aligned ones can have heroes being okay with playing a game of baseball with the villains or the converse, negatively-aligned ones where the good guys are actually the villains like evil Spock and my favorite, Heroic Decepticons vs. Evil Autobots. As far as the Balis cluster goes, the multitude of universes within it shares several common cosmic phenomena. The Sieve of Maga pours a vast supply of mana, the power source of magic, from the Magic Plane into all open dimensions within its universe. The Planar Keys unlock the ability to travel to each dimension, which in the process allows magic to function within that plane of existence. The Cosmic Surge pulses an exotic and evolution-inducing energy from the center of the universe outward. And finally, all universes within the Balis cluster are observed with a keen eye by the omniversal race known as the Deithans, especially since they use Universe-1689 as one of their penal facilities.

Maintenance

Over the many, many months things have progressed rather slowly for my comic. However, I have been really delving into it much more as of late. Because of this, I plan to "reboot" the blog site which means getting rid of many of the posts I have while putting new ones up that center around the first issue of the comic. So come back often to see the new changes I will be making in the upcoming week.