Saturday, April 11, 2026

E-Man and Wildfire

 

This is another cover that required some background building before I could add in new elements. Here's a look at the behind the scenes progress:



15 comments:

Carycomic said...

Oh, how the original antagonists must've had their butts handed to them!

As for your revision of the original cover? Brilliant! I don't know what reason Wildfire may have had for coming all the way from the 31st century.* But, as for E-Man? I'll bet the High Evolutionary made the mistake of "conscripting" Teddy the Koala for the Knights of Wundagore! Yet, even if I'm wrong, this still makes a wonderful prequel to STF #5047, from two months ago. Keep up the good work, Ross!

*Maybe he was on a recruiting trip for the LSH a la Adventure Comics v.1/#247.

emsley wyatt said...

I'm not familiar with "E-Man", but maybe I should be given that's been one of my nicknames.

Bob Greenwade said...

This is, most likely, just a distraction from E-Man's effort to recruit Wildfire into The Nuclear Option.

But say... I wonder if there's any way to "amalgamate" E-Man with Prince Adam, to turn the combination into "hE-Man"? The result could later team up with Iron Beetle and Green Devil!

Another interesting combination possibility: E-Man and X-Man. I could just visualize them going through other potential teammates for an "Alphabet Crew":

"How about N-Man?"
"That's a start."
"There was a guy called I-Man."
"Maybe."
"I could get W-Man."
"Hard pass."
"How about R-Man?"
"Forget it."
"K-Man?"
"The rapper? No way."
"Elliot Ness? He's a G-Man."
"No."
"Etrigan the D-Man?"
"You did not just say that."

Anonymous said...

How about amalgamating R-Man and X-man...as a prescription delivery service?

Carycomic said...

That's better than amalgamating R-Man and A-man...as noodle sellers!

Anonymous said...

*process

Ross said...

No, progress.

Bob Buethe said...

Animal Man was originally just called "A-Man, the man with animal powers." Harvey Comics had a B-Man, apparently because "Bee-Man" was too long to write. There was a golden age hero named Captain V. And let's not forget Metamorpho the L-M-N Man.

Detective Tobor said...

oh, the rehearsals that had to be done to get this show just right! You have a fantastic staff, Ross, all 1 of them!!

Anonymous said...

Another rarely seen LOSH member gets a solo team up on here. Yea!

Another rarely seen Marvel villain (not named Mr. Universe) gets his due. Yea!

E-Man is a bonus that I had completely forgotten about. Maybe he should join this universe's Forgotten Heroes & battle some of this universe's Forgotten Villains (the earliest ones that haven't returned yet).

Anonymous said...

How about Savage Dragon facing off against the Blue Devil??

Carycomic said...

The proverbial antonym of Congress!

Carycomic said...

But, teaming up against a common enemy (like Mr. Universe)? Or engaged in a mistaken identity slugfest against each other?

Alex Johnson said...

Love this cover. Great idea.

Carycomic said...

Maybe someday we can see Vamfire (E-man's sister) take on Sparkplug (Flare's sister).

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