Here come...
Bops With Mojo!
by andrez bergen and dan watts
lettering by marie mour
lettering by marie mour
Notes.
The Fenders are Heropa's successors to the Equalizers from Who is Killing the Great Capes of Heropa?, set some years later — with far less dramatic bent than their predecessors. Clearly they're a poke at the monikers of the Avengers and the Defenders, while the masthead to the comic, kindly conjured up by Marie Mour, is an homage to the one from Daredevil #1 (by Sam Rosen?) in 1964. The Fenders were first introduced in Magpie episode 2, although at that point only their HQ and the Blow-In appeared. Onna Bugeisha here was vaguely modeled on Gogo Yubari (actor Chiaki Kuriyama) from Kill Bill. |
The Vibrator developed as a pastiche of Marvel's The Vision and DC's The Martian Manhunter, with a helluva lot of Dan's creative input as well. Charlie Atlas is a wink to body-building icon Charles Atlas, famous for the '60s comic book ad "The Insult that Made a Man Out of Mac" (with a Mexican wrestling mask added; the mini-cape was Dan's touch), and the Blow-In has been a collaborative entity that I started working on with artist Michal Dutkiewicz, fine-tuned with Frantz Kantor for Magpie episode 2, and Dan did the rest. He's clearly a reference to the Dread Pirate Roberts from The Princess Bride, and Zorro — an old love.
Lastly, the Fenders' Charter is a riff on an Avengers one that appeared in Avengers Annual #11 (1982). ANDREZ |