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I had the idea for Eugene Manx about five years ago now, however the idea in question didn’t really fit in with the established continuity of the Felney universe, so was not turned into a comic. This idea was a dream I had, set in Berlin circa 2010, and featured a secret agent with a talking, high-tech Toyota MR2 Mk1, which was able to change colour, and shape to a degree. He was using it to infiltrate a large criminal gang. And that’s as far as the dream really got. I had several ideas to create a comic based on this dream, in these his car became various iterations of the MR2, and one planned (and almost started) story involved terrorists plotting to bomb a world cup game in 2006. I later had a "prequel" dream about him, in which he met a villain in a hotel in the south of France, and after foiling some nefarious plot chased his quarry across the coast in Aston Martin's, before they both crashed off a cliff. Eugene being rescued by a passing boat and his enemy getting away, shouting "I'll be back!" in a bubbly voice XD. I also planned to make him British and star in a 60's-set "Professionals" type story, after yet another dream involving a failed assassination attempt on the Prime Minister. Finally, on the 7th of September 2006, I was browsing the directory at Keenspace, and felt inspired, so I turned to my desk and picked up the pen and decided to "just draw something!", Eugene Manx was born!, I did the logo before the character, and as I drew it I decided to make it into a classically styled newspaper adventure strip, in the style of Modesty Blaise, Garth etc. All of which I'm too young to remember (except for vague recollections of seeing Garth in the Mirror when I was very young, but ignoring it because it wasn't funny). Now set in 1950, it follows a former Wehrmacht officer and betrayer of the nazi regime coming to London to help a super-secret arm of British intelligence hunt down escaped nazi fugitives, without regard for national conventions or treaties. While the rest of the world concentrates on the threat of Communism, Eugene sets out to bring these criminals to justice by any means necessary! |
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