The Second City…
A city of opposites and challenges
In a world where superpowers are reality… Where unregulated powers are a “danger to the people”
How will you cope when your own powers emerge? Can you be a hero in a world that doesn’t think it needs you?
A Masks game of flawed, dysfunctional superheroes – based on Mystery Men, Misfits, and a bit of X-Men.
Season 2 Second Half Recap
S2E7: Meanwhile… Featuring: Aster, Izzy, Void, Red Last episode, we saw The Engineer disable Seraph’s technology, Bon Chance gather a band of villains to kidnap the Mayor, and the emergence of Janus, who had snipers shoot New Seraph and Sundog. Aster discovers that another version of her superhero tracking software is being […]
Season 2 First Half Recap
Season Two – First Half Recap Meet Our Heroes: Groups Thu 29th Oct: S2E1: The Bank Job Featuring Aster, Nightfox and Izzy Transnational Bank in downtown Storm City has been robbed, contents stolen from a number of private deposit boxes and data vaults. The police are looking for high tech criminals, but the bank branch’s […]
Season One Recap
Season One Recap Meet Our Heroes: Groups Ma*lrats, Season One: #1, #2, #3, #4, #6 Untitled, Season One: #1, #2, #3, #4, #6 Images: Newspaper headlines with picture of the superhero Seraph: “STORM CITY HERO STILL MISSING”, “SUPERPOWERED CRIME RISES IN STORM CITY”. NARRATOR: In Storm City, the largest American city to reject the DPP […]
Ma*lrats: Issue 6
Scene 1: Aster and Blue are in Seraph’s old base with Jenny. We see Jenny take a swab from Blue’s mouth, and put it into a machine. The screen flashes up some numbers, and Aster and Jenny look at it. “It’s not an exact match”, ,Jenny says, “More like a relative.. a child maybe. Not […]
Untitled: Issue 6
Scene 1: A montage scene across two pages: Sienna standing by her bedroom door, hearing her mother talking to her partner! on the phone about the pawn shop raid. “What do you mean you’re not coming? Transfer to central precinct? I didn’t even know you’d applied!” Jesus sneaking out of his Maria and Scarlett’s apartment […]
Mallrats – Issue #4
Scene 1: Introducing…. Glitch! Aster is out buying a replacement carpet for her apartment with Sundog. They’re just loading it into the car, when .. Aster gets a phone call from Jenny Yoo, who asks her to see if she can provide some positive direction for one of the artists who exhibited in a […]
Untitled – Issue 4
Scene 1: Red is standing in Void’s Sanctuary, with the red gem in her hand, and a determined look on her face. She puts the gem into the medical scanner: “It’s the only scanner in here. Maybe it’s biological”. The scanner unexpectedly prints a message on a slip of paper. “Non biological. Use scanner B4”. […]
Mallrats Issue #3
Scene 1: Frank and Wren from Manchetti’s outfit visit Aster at home. They deliver a hamper of Italian foods, wine, coffee. The bottle of wine enclosed looks rather expensive. Cut scene shows Benji, working in the restaurant, putting the wrong wine in the hamper. Aster’s annoying neighbour is there for the start, but Frank […]
Untitled Issue #3
Issue #3 opens with a repeat of the last panel from Issue #2 Scene 1: Closing panel: the shocked look on Nightfox’ face as he could have left Maria in great danger… Nightfox runs for the teleportal without explaining – his teammates still don’t know that he is Jesus Martinez. Red picks up her […]
Untitled Issue #2
With thanks to Derek for most of the work on this issue Scene 1: Splash page opening is Nightfox leaping into a wall of sound and flashing lights as he dives towards the DJ console, and its speaker stacks and light rigs. He plummets into a kaleidoscopic tunnel which ends up with him crashing […]