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// August 1st, 2005 // // Captain Kinetic
Here’s a version of this comic presented on a single page with an easier interface. I’m going to use this instead of the webcomic format for future previews and other stuff.
Just click the cover to start, then navigate by clicking the left and right-hand sides of the image itself to go forward and back.
// July 5th, 2005 // // Captain Kinetic
Mike Franzese created this promotional image for Captain Kinetic #2, featuring the Captain’s battle with misguided teen villain Volt. (Click to embiggen.)
// September 25th, 2003 // // One Man Guy
zan (aka Charles Christensen) started reading comics in earnest after picking up a copy of Power Pack #14 at the local 7-Eleven in his hometown of Gaithersburg, Maryland when he was in junior high school. They don’t have comics at convenience stores anymore.
He gave up comics upon leaving Gaithersburg for The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1991, and didn’t return to them until 1996, when he discovered that there was a small community online using the Marvel Super Heroes Roleplaying Game system from the 80s for online roleplaying. After a few months of participating in online games, he started a project of reproducing the original rules in their entirety in digital format, and his website Heroplay has been serving the superhero roleplaying community in one incarnation or another for six years.
zan began working in comics upon meeting Mike Franzese, a co-worker at the advertising firm he worked for, and they began collaborating on the Captain Kinetic project, the first comics work for both. zan also became active in the group now known as Prism Comics, a queer comics industry advocacy project.
There is currently no regular artist on this project. If you have a distinctive style and you’d like to tell the story of these characters, contact Zan. Artist Lucius Romero provided the artwork on these pages and in the first issue preview.
// July 1st, 2003 // // Captain Kinetic
Here’s a version of this comic presented on a single page with an easier interface. I might use this instead of the webcomic format for future previews and other stuff.
Just click the first image to start, then navigate by click the “Next” and “Prev” links on the image itself.
// August 5th, 2000 // // Captain Kinetic
Taa-daaa! The new site design debuts. There are finally some pictures in the gallery, though no scans from the hardcover book; my scanner has been on the fritz (AUGGHH!!!). Mike’s been doing a lot of drawings and sending them to me by email. He says he might be publishing a comic (!) this year with an independent publisher! Cool! In the meantime, he’s done some more CK sketches. Someone get this guy a job on Avengers or something!
// July 26th, 2000 // // Captain Kinetic
YES!! Still no actual comics, but I did find a copy of the Captain Kinetic hardcover collection from the late 70s from a shop in Chicago (!!!). It reprints the first three backup stories from Kinetic Comics plus Captain Kinetic #1-5. The dealer told me he had a few more CK items that he didn’t bring, and he’s going to call me when he gets back to his store. SCORE!! It’s just like the Wizard of Oz… you can look all over for Captain Kinetic merchandise and it’s waiting right in your own backyard. The second I get home, I’ll be making scans of some of the hardcover book for the gallery. In the meantime, I hooked up with a few CK fans at the Con, and they’re going to contribute some artwork to the gallery. This guy Mike (also from Chicago) did a sketch for me at the Con which you’ll love, although he got the logo wrong.
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