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Reception Man p. 8
See? The cat thing doesn’t go unpunished! This concludes Reception Man’s origin story. I’ll get back to the character and his world in future GATE CRASHs.
Reception Man, P. 7
If a hero isn’t defined by the moment he gets his powers, but by his decision to use them for good, this page is Reception Man’s true origin. Looking back, the shot of Broder going through the drawer compiling the costume has always been one of my favorite Reception Man moments. To be concluded next […]
Reception Man, P. 6
This was the very first Reception Man page I ever drew. Looking back, it seems kind of strange that I started on a page that’s half text, but I was still in the process of pacing the rest of the story, and for this one, at least, I knew how it was to begin and […]
Reception Man, P. 5
I got called out on that cat thing a lot. Mostly by people who hadn’t bothered to read the rest of the book. Since none of that has been translated yet, let me assure you: The cat is fine, or will be. It was supposed to play a major role in one of the next […]
Reception Man 4
This was a tough page to translate. In the German version, the revolutionary addresses the people as “German citizens”. Now, while i still consider Reception Man a German superhero despite his English name and the English translation, mentioning Germany here won’t have the same impact anywhere else as it would have in Germany. Chances are, […]
Rception Man 3
This is it! The all-defining moment! The scene you’ll keep seeing in recaps for years to come! Or maybe you won’t. After all, this story is twelve years old, and those recaps should have happened by now.
Reception Man 2
Trivia you didn’t ask for: There’s a broadcasting tower much like this one pretty close to where I live. When it’s very windy, I can hear it whistling. I was living on the other side of town when I wrote the story, but I moved back here before I finished it. But it wasn’t living […]
Reception Man 1
This story was written some time in the mid-Nineties and published in 1999 as the lead story of the first-ever Dreadful Gate book. I’ve replaced the hand lettering with a computer font and added some grey backgrounds, but apart from that I’ve left everything the way it was. Oh, right, I translated it, too.
