Ishtar will be back this year I'm pretty sure.
Mr. Cryptic wrote:I think it's important to show the heroines winning a lot of the time, if for no other reason it makes it more exciting when a villain manages to capture or otherwise defeat them. If the heroine is a pushover, the mind control and perils become kind of like "dog bites man" and not interesting.
Ocelot Woman is indeed a powerful ally of Ishtar's. I think I portrayed her in a way true to the BC's stories. She was somewhat easily captured and controlled when Agent Beauty darted her in the breast, but then when she was left alone, she recovered her senses very quickly.
When Adventures of Ishtar #10 comes out, it will explore who Maria Jones is when she doesn't know that she's a goddess and a superheroine. Not sure when that will come out. I miss Ishtar too, and I do plan for her to come back!
Victory Legion won't have different versions of the characters that are here at MC Comix. The main difference will be that it will be less continuity heavy. The stories will be more self-contained. For example, I don't plan to end a story with a heroine suffering amnesia, like I did with Ishtar #9. This will free me up to tell stories that otherwise might not fit into the overarching plot.
Mr. Cryptic wrote:I wrote a reply but I lost it .
To make a long story short, most of the time Ishtar wins, but at HIP and MC Comix, we focus on heroines in peril or being mind controlled, so a disproportionate amount of screen time is spent on heroines being defeated. Adventures of Ishtar #1, where Ishtar solves crisis after crisis, is more representative of a typical day in her life.
Prospero is probably the most formidible villain in my stable of characters. To Victory City, Prospero is, or will be, like Max Indeks, Lex Luthor, or Doctor Doom. So Ishtar being totally defeated by him is not quite as humbling as it might seem.
Mr. Cryptic wrote:It's funny, because I was worried that Ishtar being so powerful that she might just go around solving every problem herself, with little effort and no need for help (which would be boring). But I guess the image of Ishtar in my head and what readers see in the comics may be different. I imagine her defeating evil all the time, so maybe I'll need to show more of that. The point of the montage at the beginiing of Adventures of Ishtar #1, to show how formidible a heroine she is.
I consider her to have completely triumphed in Ring of Domination. The thug who defeated her stopped being a criminal. The money he stole was returned. That he died and went to a pleasant afterlife is, to Ishtar, preferable to having him rot in jail, or worse, rot in hell. Ishtar wants all good things to happen to everyone, as much as possible. So for her, that was a complete triumph (well, not quite complete since Thundervolt, Cloudfall, and Bonebreaker did not convert to her side, but still pretty good).
I'm not sure I'd say Prospero's the star, but he is the constant theme in the current storyline. He'll be present in all the series, but the star will be the heroine, either Ishtar, Brickhouse, or possibly others.
Hi Cryptic !! I've been thinking if i should reply to these comments, because i'm a big fan of your work, and don't agree completely with your comments. Don't want to upset you, but i've always been honest with you. First your right !!,Ishtar does seem very powerful, but it seem her powers are used to defeat her are to serve a villain. We haven't seen her using her powers to defeated villains a whole lot, as least to me , she's been a slave more then a hero in her Adventures. I know ,I'd like to see more of her defeating evil, than being defeated by a evil villain!! I'd like to see some of Ishtar's happy moments, to see her be with someone she really care for and wants to be with, instead of always being with strangers and villains, but that just me !! and i know these stories aren't about that In a nutshell, i like the character Ishtar!! it only make sense to me, sense i like her, to want to see good things happen to her!! I'm not one of those people that like to see their favorite characters being tormented.
Second when it come to the ring of Domination story, Ishtar is a Goddess of love and you said she wants good things to happen to everyone,as much as possible! This show that she's a very caring and forgiving Goddess!! But i still don't see that story as a story of triumph for her. He used her for what he wanted, as least to me, their was no point in the story he treated her like a person, he spoke to her and treated her as nothing but a slave, someone to be used in anyway he wanted!! A powerful Goddess, there to grant his wishes Plus to me in order for this story to be a triumph for the Goddess, she would have found away to break free of the thug's hold on her, but she never did, if he would have told her to stand on her head she would have did it, even after he died she still ended up on her knees in the afterlife serving him!! The Goddess only got her freedom thru a twist of fate, not from anything she did!!
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I realize the storyline is about Lord Prospero rise to power! I just hope these other heroines don't lose as much as Ishtar did!! (Herself!!) The story of how Lord Prospero learns magic from Ishtar, was very good, the artwork was outstanding!! I'm looking forward to seeing how it turnout!! But i wouldn't be honest if i didn't say the biggest things i'm looking forward to is Lord Prospero being defeated!! I didn't like the way The Adventures Of Ishtar ended, with the villain coming out the winner( evil winner over good) and Maria Jones not remembering who she really is, Ishtar the Goddess of love and war!! A FORCE FOR GOOD!!!
The reason i said Lord Prospero was the star, the star of a story always has challenges they have to overcome, but they find away to win in these end. Even those the title of the series was named the adventures of Ishtar, she didn't overcome her challenges, he did. Ishtar facing hard challenges wasn't a surprise, what was surprising was she wasn't able to overcome those challenges in both stories. To me as least in the first nine installments of the adventures of Ishtar, lord Prospero was the star, because the story was about evil defeating good! That was my reason for saying that. (Sorry for such a long reply,) but i was trying to give you a idea on how i see those two stories,both stories were well told and very good!! They weren't stories about a heroine victorys over the villains, but about the villains victory over a heroine, totally defeating her in everyway!!
I have talked a lot about the theme of the heroines being defeated a lot in the storyline, because i'm pro-hero, pro-good guy. But from this point on i won't be bring that subject up again. I'm going to change the way i been viewing the stories and the heroines feature in the stories. I been thinking the stories would be like what you read in DC and Marvel comics, with heroines like Wonder Woman and the men-x storm. Where the heroines battles evil and defeated evil! But these are adult comix, from what i'll seen online most adult site that feature superheroines, the heroines don't win a lot. I'm going to think of Ishtar of being more like Ms. Americana, brave,sexy and strong, but you don't see her won a whole lot. Then i won't be so disappointed when she's defeated.
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