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Thor-El
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That's a shame. I love the characters, and I'd love to have backed. I just can't justify that amount.
JakeEkiss
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A baseline $450 buy in would be a hard sell for nearly any toy kickstart that wasn't something like the Mythic Legions dragon. Doing it for obscure and dated feeling superheroes is... well, that's a level of "can't read the room" that makes me think the project would have issues completing anyway.
I've been collecting comi s since 1982, with no gaps and no slow down ever, AND I've never heard of these guys. I'm looking at over 20,000 comics right now and I know I do not have a single issue among them of Justice Machine. These guys are OBSCURE! And I don't think they're $450 worth of obscure.
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As a teenager in the '80s, I had single issues of books like Justice Machine (mainly because of the John Byrne cover), Megalith, and Ms. Mystic. That was about as obscure as I got at the time. I've always liked the look of the team, but yeah...WAY outside what I'd pay.
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I read up on wikipedia and... look, this does not sound like it was a great comic:
One word: "Georwell"
In the first two versions of the team, the Justice Machine is an elite law enforcement agency from the planet Georwell, a parallel world with advanced technology that the Machine members believe is a utopia. "Georwell" is a play on George Orwell, the author of Nineteen Eighty-Four, and the society of Georwell is based on the society of the novel, though much more technically advanced.
Arriving on Earth in pursuit of Maxinor, a criminal and accused terrorist from their world, the team members soon discover that Georwell is much more fascist and dystopian than they had previously believed. Meanwhile, the Georwellian authorities have activated a second team, called The Guardians in the Noble Comics series, or the New Justice Machine in the Comico stories.
Zarren, their superior, recognizes that Georwell's government is corrupt, but he has no desire to change the system; he merely wants to advance to a position of more power. The Machine's idealism might interfere with Zarren's personal goals. He has the Machine indicted as traitors, and they have no choice but to remain on Earth. Later, Zarren falls victim to his own schemes and must flee to Earth, where he sets himself up as the president of a small South American island, the Arriba Atoll.
In "The Chimera Conspiracy", scripted by Mark Ellis and Darryl Banks, drawn by Banks, and published by Millennium Publications, it is revealed that Georwell is actually Earth in an alternate future, some 900 years hence. Rather than traveling from one dimension to another, the Justice Machine went sideways and backward in time, drawn to a temporal nexus point where the events which eventually create Georwell are in a state of flux.
Arriving on Earth in pursuit of Maxinor, a criminal and accused terrorist from their world, the team members soon discover that Georwell is much more fascist and dystopian than they had previously believed. Meanwhile, the Georwellian authorities have activated a second team, called The Guardians in the Noble Comics series, or the New Justice Machine in the Comico stories.
Zarren, their superior, recognizes that Georwell's government is corrupt, but he has no desire to change the system; he merely wants to advance to a position of more power. The Machine's idealism might interfere with Zarren's personal goals. He has the Machine indicted as traitors, and they have no choice but to remain on Earth. Later, Zarren falls victim to his own schemes and must flee to Earth, where he sets himself up as the president of a small South American island, the Arriba Atoll.
In "The Chimera Conspiracy", scripted by Mark Ellis and Darryl Banks, drawn by Banks, and published by Millennium Publications, it is revealed that Georwell is actually Earth in an alternate future, some 900 years hence. Rather than traveling from one dimension to another, the Justice Machine went sideways and backward in time, drawn to a temporal nexus point where the events which eventually create Georwell are in a state of flux.
One word: "Georwell"
Is that exposed flesh along the big guy's chest? How does the top part of that costume work?
Also, this image from the crowdfund campaign was created with chatgpt (ptui) and it doubled up on including Awkward Headlights while omitting another of the characters included in the campaign. What a mess.
PantherCult
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Looking at that image... what is going on with the costume with ketchup-and-mustard man? Why is his crotch painted a different color than his thighs to extra accentuate the package he's packing. At least as awkward as the exposed lower pecs of the giant dude. And whty they doubled up on Princess High-Beams is a mystery, for sure.