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Post by Defiant1 on Jul 15, 2004 8:10:27 GMT -5
The Broadway Comics archive now has a temporary home for select scans of the Miracle on Broadway Comic. These scans include the 1st appearance of Spire and the Knights On Broadway. It also features a very early appearance of Cor, the Star Seed. These scans are temporarily linked in the Reading Room section. broadway.port5.com/index.htmlThanks to Pauline Weiss for providing the scans. Defiant1
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Post by Todd Luck on Jul 16, 2004 8:56:09 GMT -5
The Broadway Comics archive now has a temporary home for select scans of the Miracle on Broadway Comic. These scans include the 1st appearance of Spire and the Knights On Broadway. It also features a very early appearance of Cor, the Star Seed. These scans are temporarily linked in the Reading Room section. broadway.port5.com/index.htmlThanks to Pauline Weiss for providing the scans. Defiant1 Nice stuff (though Col with Superman's hair was a little wierd). Is this the only thing Ernie Colon drew for Broadway? I don't recall his name on any of the other comics. Also interesting to remember this was done probably way before Knights on Broadway was written or even fully developed. It's wierd they picked Spire to be in it, since he was one of the characters that had no set date for a series. I don't know if I could've seen the character in an ongoing series but Spire would've made a great miniseries at the very least. I wish they could've worked in Malachy Reilly("The Hell I Am") or Technomancers. I always wondered what those series would've been like.
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Post by Pauline Weiss on Jul 19, 2004 5:28:48 GMT -5
Is this the only thing Ernie Colon drew for Broadway? I don't recall his name on any of the other comics. Also interesting to remember this was done probably way before Knights on Broadway was written or even fully developed. It's wierd they picked Spire to be in it, since he was one of the characters that had no set date for a series. I don't know if I could've seen the character in an ongoing series but Spire would've made a great miniseries at the very least. A few notes in response: - This was the first and only thing we worked on with Ernie Colon.
- The background on Knights was developed fairly early--there was certainly enough background (character names, profiles, backgrounds) done before Miracle was written. One of our missions was to come up with merchandisable characters, and of our Universe, Knights was probably the most commercial.
- I also recall that we chose Spire because we wanted to use characters that were essentially New York based--don't forget, we were creating this Christmas card for the "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" company. Spire's visuals weren't fully developed when we put Miracle together, however. As noted elsewhere, we didn't go with Fatale because we were to keep it family/holiday oriented...and adding the Technomancers, on top of the Knights, would have made for too many bodies and an unwieldy story.
This book really wasn't about promoting Broadway Comics to the world so much as it was about giving us a context to other areas inside our parent company. Our character launch plans, therefore, were kind of irrelevant. pw
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Post by Todd Luck on Jul 19, 2004 7:29:14 GMT -5
A few notes in response: - This was the first and only thing we worked on with Ernie Colon.
- The background on Knights was developed fairly early--there was certainly enough background (character names, profiles, backgrounds) done before Miracle was written. One of our missions was to come up with merchandisable characters, and of our Universe, Knights was probably the most commercial.
- I also recall that we chose Spire because we wanted to use characters that were essentially New York based--don't forget, we were creating this Christmas card for the "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night!" company. Spire's visuals weren't fully developed when we put Miracle together, however. As noted elsewhere, we didn't go with Fatale because we were to keep it family/holiday oriented...and adding the Technomancers, on top of the Knights, would have made for too many bodies and an unwieldy story.
This book really wasn't about promoting Broadway Comics to the world so much as it was about giving us a context to other areas inside our parent company. Our character launch plans, therefore, were kind of irrelevant. pw Thanks for gracing us with the comic scans and your answers, Pauline. I loved all the stuff you guys did at Broadway. It's just ashame we never got to see all of it.
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Post by riptide on Jul 19, 2004 21:13:45 GMT -5
Thats a ditto for me. Pauline, I really believe that your company was on the verge of something big. I just wish it would have lasted longer!!!
BTW...thanks for taking time out of your day to post on the boards. It's great when the originators of Broadway and Defiant check in with us. It shows us that you care about us....the fan. Thanks again!!!!
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Post by Pauline Weiss on Jul 20, 2004 18:16:37 GMT -5
You're welcome. As I've noted to Defiant1, I was quite amazed to see that anyone still cared about any of this stuff after all this time. As stuff surfaces, I'll be sending more material to both the Broadway and Defiant sites. I'm not much inclined to post on message boards, but if I see a question that I can answer, well, what the hey.
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