Starbolts #471: Moral Combat

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This week's comic has a few moral dilemmas for our heroes. Norad wrestled with the possibility of changing the timeline and Angela had her own insecurities with her powers to deal with. This Professor really does know the Starbolts well. What is his motivation? It seems that he has his eyes set on not just M'anta and Jenna but Firaxil and Angela. Could the whole team be in trouble?

There seems to be a lot going on this week and all will be revealed in time. The events the teams are going to are all in chronological order. So, next week we are going to see Jenna deal with her school issues and unfortunately we will be heading to the time period Crystal freaked out about a few comics ago. Trust me when I say it was well warranted.

As always, I will put a disclaimer at the head of the page. It's not going to be one for the faint of heart and I definitely took no pleasure in writing it. But, it needed to be done.

See you next week, gang! 

Starbolts #470: Race against Time

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This week's comic has quite a few Easter eggs in it. First we have toddler aged Crystal and Sara making a cameo appearance in the beginning of the comic. It's about a week before her death. Her first death, anyway. We'll be covering that next week along with Firaxil's shuttle. I'll be pairing up the next couple time traveling exploits. I'm doing that so we can save time and have space for a special event happening on July 4th!

I wanted to have a full comic this week for D.I.S.C.O.R.D. island because I wanted to show Marcus meeting up with his hero, Air Raid. Marcus idolized him just like how Crystal idolized her own mother, Lady Liberty. I can see five year old Marcus running around playing "Air Raid" much to the annoyance of a certain murderous snake.

Ty and the rest of Soldier Six were heroes to the Starbolts who knew them and of course to the Starbolts who came after them. They were their predecessors after all. They were the original young heroes with attitude and Jack couldn't be any prouder to be part of that once again.

Anyway, we have a few more time travel adventures to get through. Stay tuned because there's drama ahead! Like there wasn't enough drama this week?

See ya then!

Starbolts #469: The Call

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The Starbolts second mission through time has yielded quite a few important plot points. First, we've learned that the Professor intends to fix dramatic events. Why? Well, the minion has asked Jack and Takashi to ask M'anta. What does he have to do with this? Could the Professor have misinterpreted something he said or did when he visited him all those comics ago? It's possible.

The second thing we learned this week is that Jack is the one who called Soldier Six about the murder of Kevin's mother. Little bit of a predestination paradox there. I'll need to avoid those. It couldn't have been easy for him to call and hear his former girlfriend's voice. Definitely not easy. Chances are good that he hid in the bushes before he left and watched himself interact with his old friends. Poor guy. It should be noted that this comic takes place about a month or so after the incident at Harris Labs. That year was a bad year for the Agents!!

At any rate, two out of nine time travel adventures have been completed. These events are all going in chronological order. So, the next place we're visiting is D.I.S.C.O.R.D. island with Marcus. Will more secrets be revealed next week? Stay tuned!

Starbolts #468: Making Aquarius Great Again

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Sorry this week's comic was a little later than usual. I came down with a nasty stomach bug right when there were about ten panels left to work on. I couldn't very well work on everything. So, I had to delay it a couple of days. And despite all that, I think this week's comic turned out good.

I'll give you all just one guess as to who Yeena is pregnant with at the end of the comic. If you guessed Aquita, you'd be right. She was conceived shortly before the end of the Occupation of Aquarius. By the time she was born, reconstruction was underway and by the time the twins M'anta and Shrall were born two years later, Aquarius had begun to finally heal from the wounds inflicted on them by the insidious Mosqukatara.

The bug queen here just wanted to make Aquarius great again. Problem is that she was enslaving everyone. The planet is free and now Jacob and Firaxil can head back to the future. One timeline has been restored and there's eight more to go! Get ready for more temporal hijinks!

See you next time!

Starbolts #467: Dark Times on Aquarius

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The time traveling Starbolts are off on their adventure and their first stop is the Aquan Occupation. This was a dark time in Aquan history. For sixty years, aliens known as the Mosqukatara enslaved the people of their world. They were forced into labor camps, slums and exterminated for following their religion. There were other atrocities the bugs committed. The water was heavily polluted and that forced many to take shelter on land.

However, where there was strife there was hope. Sirak, Yeena and their resistance cell was one of many that oversaw the liberation of many camps, saved countless lives and preserved their planet for sixty years until they were liberated. Firaxil and Jacob have arrived at a crucial point in time. The Mosqukatara's losses have been mounting for years. All that was left was one final push to drive the insects from their homeland.

We know that the cell was successful in saving Aquarius. However, something is up with Yeena. I'll reveal what that is, soon. Readers might want to keep her in your mind. She'll be coming up a lot in future comics. Notably the ones concerning Sirak's eventual assassination and over course her rescue.

You might also want to take note how M'anta and Sirak share the same wardrobe. M'anta is wearing his father's armor. Heroism does run in the family. Actually, it runs in many of the Starbolts' families.

See you next time for part two of our trip to Aquarius! 

Starbolts #466: Time for Time Force

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And they're off to various points in time and space! Where are they all going? Well, here's a list of who is going where:

Number	Time team	Time period
1	Mateo/Angelo	Crystal’s farm
2	Aquita/Dendra	Jenna burns down school
3	Marcus/Rose	D.I.S.C.O.R.D. Island
4	Firaxil/Jacob	Aquan Occupation
5	Angela/MJ	Firaxil and New Inobus
6	Jenna/Sirak	Angela’s death
7	TK/Jack	Kevin’s mom’s death
8	Kevin/Kaori	Death of King Sirak
9	Norad	Sara’s death

The only ones not going on a mission are Sara, Shrall, Anya and the newbies. They'll be staying behind to monitor the crazy adventures through time and space. Let's not forget that Crystal and M'anta have their own missions to save Carter and Yeena respectively. That isn't to say the others won't have important things to do. They will. Oh, they certainly will if Stan and Andrea are planning something. They won't be left out of the coming conflict! And what a conflict it will be!

You might ask why Shrall wouldn't go to Sara's timeline with Norad. Well, it was decided off screen that the android has no emotional impediments at this time. He'd be able to solo it with no problem. No emotional issues. Shrall and the others have another job to do!

So, yes. Marcus is the heart of the team. There's this thing with the DCAU that if the Flash were to ever die, the entire Justice League would turn evil. This plays on that principle. Call it the "Speedster Principle". =)

At any event, the stage is set. We'll be going to these events in chronological order. So, the first event we're going to is event #4, the days of the Aquan Occupation. Fun times ahead, readers.

See you next time!

Starbolts #465: The Time Lost

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Looks like M'anta and Crystal are taking on a sidequest to save M'anta's mother, Yeena and the first Lady Liberty. The first Lady Liberty's death was shown in a flashback in Starbolts #447: The Legacy of the Shield and Yeena's death happened way back in Starbolts #52: The Aquan Front. Wow. That was ten years ago in real world terms. In the comic, it's only been a little less than two years. Crystal and M'anta have their work cut out for themselves as they work to bring those heroines back to the present.

We still have a few questions. Who is "The Chief"? Obviously she is someone who is familiar with the Starbolts. I wonder who she could be. What is "The Parental Directive"? We'll find out the answer to that one soon. For now, we wait as the teams are ready to go back in time and fix history.

Good luck, Starbolts! You're gonna need it!