Entire nations grow nervous when random citizens intermittently manifest powerful abilities they cannot explain. Dubbed "synergenetics," apprehensive governments arrange for them to attend controlled evaluations in the U.N.’s ultra-advanced labs when an unfolding mega-disaster entangles the boldest half-dozen to work against the clock in order to save millions of lives! Welcome to the home website of ANGELCORPS, Allied Nations Guarding Earth Life, a bold new take on Earthlings endowed with new and potentially dangerous powers! Independently created by newcomer Eric Linquist, this fresh take on classic super-heroes starts with Science Bay Alpha, an advanced super- funded Unified Nations research facility that has been charged with getting to the bottom of reports alleging humans are displaying dangerous powers and abilities they often cannot control. Nervous governments help pass a U.N. resolution that will charge ultra-advanced Science Bay Alpha with verifying whether or not humans really are being imbued with dangerous new abilities, notoriuosly difficult to prove up to now. It's not that the idea of a super-powered Earthling is so revolutionary. It's just that in the last ten years, there has only been one on the entire planet. A guy named I-Force. A guy who used to be a Manhattanite named Paul Michaelson, but his world changed when he suddenly became able to psionically absorb and store any form of energy (kinetic, potential, thermal, gravitational, sound, light, elastic, and electromagnetic) and use it to generate incredibly powerful strength, propulsion and psionic shields in an instant. His eyes, which can see telescopically and detect a broad spectrum of energies, became able to function as energy emitters able to project wide or narrow beams of heat, cold or concussive force at the speed of thought. No one has been able to determine how or why it happened. It just happened. Just as the life-changing gifts of these powers changed his world, he decided to use his powers to try and change the world in a classically heroic manner. I-Force soon became known as the world's first global hero, using his gifts to save millions of lives, expediting aid, fighting disasters, negotiating solutions and combatting crimes. In fact, much of the world regard him as some sort of Earth-bound angel. Now, are there more angels in the wings? |
| Can people from different nations, with different backgrounds, with different values and different upbringings now step up for their home countries, and for the world, to work together as part of a U.N.-sponsored team to keep Earth safe from harm? They're going to have to give it their best shot because Earth is about to undergo some serious revelations! And this is what I wrote on the inside cover of the first issue! Enjoy, Angelites! "If men were angels, no government would be necessary. " - James Madison (1751 - 1836) It is ten year's into Earth's future and ten years after the inexplicable emergence of the first synergenetic human, Paul Michaelson! A Manhattanite who became capable of impossible energy-wielding feats, Michaelson used his gifts in a classically heroic manner to became a global humanitarian for good named I-Force! But now a rash of energy-wielding incidents have purportedly sprung up around the globe and apprehensive governments, perceiving a dangerous threat, agree to use a super-funded, state-of-the-art U.N. and their advanced research facility to get answers! Suspected synergenetic nationals are volunteered to Science Bay Alpha smoothly when an unfolding mega-disaster compels the boldest of them to work against the clock in order to save millions of lives! Welcome to the first Issue of ANGELCORPS - Allied Nations Guarding Earth Life - where nations worldwide populate U.N. teams of powerful operatives to help protect life on Earth! Or are there ulterior motives in play? Will ANGELCorps be used to advance the globalization of Earth? Will newfound powers divide up Earth's biggest players or will Earth's biggest players divide the newfound powers? Ride along as this blistering, action-packed and, at times, humorous new series takes you soaring, where super-powered characters get realistic treatment and where power, corruption and subterfuge keep the savviest readers guessing issue after issue! Strap in tight as Writer/Artist Eric Linquist delivers ANGELCorp fans a little taste of Heaven on a ride to Hell and back! Halos optional. Eric "E-Man" Linquist |
Angels can make or break our world.
The good ones will have your back.
The fallen ones will break your back.
And what about the ones in between?
Leading Edge Comics is going to tell the new stories that need to be told.
Some may make you think. Some may scare the hell out of you.
And most are just going to rock your action sensors off the charts!
Welcome to a new universe, an angelverse, with new kinds of angels. And more.
What's the Angelverse? Simply the nickname for the infinite universe Eric has created for
the characters of Leading Edge Comics, an homage to his first two published creations,
the megahuman team called ANGEL CORPS and the angelic warriors of When Angels
Return: W.A.R.! Here's some things you need to know about the Angelverse.
The agency you recognize as the United Nations evolved differently in the Angelverse as
The Unified Nations: it's bigger, better, more advanced and a more fiscally powerful global
entity than what you know! Check the Unified Nations page for more detail!
For the last seven years, the Earth has been blessed with its first global superhero, a
Brooklyn fire fighter named Paul Leon Michaelson who the world soon came to know as
the heroic I-Force. I-Force used his vast array of powers to save lives and improve the
lot of humanity wherever possible. His revered humanitarian deeds earned him worldwide
respect and a position as an Honorary Security Advisor Pro Tem for the Unified Nations
Department of Global Security. Find out more about I-Force on his profile page!
Within the last month, however, the Earth experienced a global phenomenon the media
has dubbed "The Neogen Flux" wherein random humans seemed to undergo Maximum
Evolutionary Genetic Advancements, beyond the typical scope of homo sapiens, spurring
the application of that acronym to reference such changed humans as megahumans or
Megas. Their special abilties became known as megapowers. Early subjects were touted as
genetic anomalies or "genomalies" while others narrowed their hypotheses to posit that
the megahumans are synergenetics like I-Force, housing multiple DNA codes working
interactively.
But the so-called megapowers surfaced so sporadically that they were quickly dismissed.
They didn't work all the time. They weren't very powerful. It was hard to get them on video
because they couldn’t be duplicated reliably in scientific testings. No one could really get
to the bottom of the alleged phenomenon. This made the world think the whole idea was
some silly hoax. Until more dangerous episodes came to light.
One U.S. Senator got scorched on his way to a Congressional hearing by a clueless
teenager who is now being poked and prodded in a containment facility. A retired soldier
inadvertently liquefied a Nicaraguan general's arm during a military parade. Autopsies on
that soldier proved inconclusive. A Parissienne super-model unleashed a ball of light
from her torso that disintegrated the end of the catwalk and an attendee's left foot before
dissipating. To this day, she still cannot explain the phenomenon from her jail cell.
A televised Royal Navy fighter jet turned transparent around a pilot just prior to landing
on the deck of an aircraft carrier. The explosion killed the pilot and 21 servicemen. In
Israel, a Merkava 4 battle tank became reduced to the size of a Matchbox car killing the
crew inside. A Tyrannosaurus Rex appeared on the deck of a cruise ship creating a panic
that killed 21 persons, including a family of six that jumped into the freezing waters off the
Alaska coast. In one of Russia’s cabinet meetings, four members faded from view
screaming, disappearing like wisps of smoke, as if their molecules simply drifted apart.
These incidents got very little press but made already nervous governments panicky and
paranoid. A UN global resolution was quickly passed to send anyone displaying any kind
of megahuman ability to Science Bay Alpha, the most sophisticated research facility on the
planet and headquartered in the UN's Synidome in Manhattan. The UN would run every
possible test under controlled conditions to get to the bottom of the changes to various
humans kicked off during "The Neogen Flux."
Nations sent those they felt needed to be sent to the scheduled orientation. But before
they could even get started an unfolding mega-disaster compelled six of the boldest of
them to fight against the clock to save millions of lives! Through a demonstration of their
abilities, their grit and determination, the band of strangers partnered together to evolve
into the global protectorate called ANGEL Corps!
See how it all unfolded in ANGEL Corps #1 and 2 here and own a little bit of Leading Edge
History!
Later on, when the examinations resumed, most of the megahumans were found to have
become synergenetic, housing multiple sets of interactive DNA in one body working
together. In most cases, synergenetic men underwent physique changes that
transformed their bodies into near peaks of physical perfection, augmenting muscles,
strengthening bone, eliminating excess body fat. Women had similar transformations
geared for their gender, enlarging breast sizes dissolving excess body fat and elongating
legs but also a unique change that altered the bones in their feet causing sky-high heels
to become the only comfortable shoe-wear!
The good ones will have your back.
The fallen ones will break your back.
And what about the ones in between?
Leading Edge Comics is going to tell the new stories that need to be told.
Some may make you think. Some may scare the hell out of you.
And most are just going to rock your action sensors off the charts!
Welcome to a new universe, an angelverse, with new kinds of angels. And more.
What's the Angelverse? Simply the nickname for the infinite universe Eric has created for
the characters of Leading Edge Comics, an homage to his first two published creations,
the megahuman team called ANGEL CORPS and the angelic warriors of When Angels
Return: W.A.R.! Here's some things you need to know about the Angelverse.
The agency you recognize as the United Nations evolved differently in the Angelverse as
The Unified Nations: it's bigger, better, more advanced and a more fiscally powerful global
entity than what you know! Check the Unified Nations page for more detail!
For the last seven years, the Earth has been blessed with its first global superhero, a
Brooklyn fire fighter named Paul Leon Michaelson who the world soon came to know as
the heroic I-Force. I-Force used his vast array of powers to save lives and improve the
lot of humanity wherever possible. His revered humanitarian deeds earned him worldwide
respect and a position as an Honorary Security Advisor Pro Tem for the Unified Nations
Department of Global Security. Find out more about I-Force on his profile page!
Within the last month, however, the Earth experienced a global phenomenon the media
has dubbed "The Neogen Flux" wherein random humans seemed to undergo Maximum
Evolutionary Genetic Advancements, beyond the typical scope of homo sapiens, spurring
the application of that acronym to reference such changed humans as megahumans or
Megas. Their special abilties became known as megapowers. Early subjects were touted as
genetic anomalies or "genomalies" while others narrowed their hypotheses to posit that
the megahumans are synergenetics like I-Force, housing multiple DNA codes working
interactively.
But the so-called megapowers surfaced so sporadically that they were quickly dismissed.
They didn't work all the time. They weren't very powerful. It was hard to get them on video
because they couldn’t be duplicated reliably in scientific testings. No one could really get
to the bottom of the alleged phenomenon. This made the world think the whole idea was
some silly hoax. Until more dangerous episodes came to light.
One U.S. Senator got scorched on his way to a Congressional hearing by a clueless
teenager who is now being poked and prodded in a containment facility. A retired soldier
inadvertently liquefied a Nicaraguan general's arm during a military parade. Autopsies on
that soldier proved inconclusive. A Parissienne super-model unleashed a ball of light
from her torso that disintegrated the end of the catwalk and an attendee's left foot before
dissipating. To this day, she still cannot explain the phenomenon from her jail cell.
A televised Royal Navy fighter jet turned transparent around a pilot just prior to landing
on the deck of an aircraft carrier. The explosion killed the pilot and 21 servicemen. In
Israel, a Merkava 4 battle tank became reduced to the size of a Matchbox car killing the
crew inside. A Tyrannosaurus Rex appeared on the deck of a cruise ship creating a panic
that killed 21 persons, including a family of six that jumped into the freezing waters off the
Alaska coast. In one of Russia’s cabinet meetings, four members faded from view
screaming, disappearing like wisps of smoke, as if their molecules simply drifted apart.
These incidents got very little press but made already nervous governments panicky and
paranoid. A UN global resolution was quickly passed to send anyone displaying any kind
of megahuman ability to Science Bay Alpha, the most sophisticated research facility on the
planet and headquartered in the UN's Synidome in Manhattan. The UN would run every
possible test under controlled conditions to get to the bottom of the changes to various
humans kicked off during "The Neogen Flux."
Nations sent those they felt needed to be sent to the scheduled orientation. But before
they could even get started an unfolding mega-disaster compelled six of the boldest of
them to fight against the clock to save millions of lives! Through a demonstration of their
abilities, their grit and determination, the band of strangers partnered together to evolve
into the global protectorate called ANGEL Corps!
See how it all unfolded in ANGEL Corps #1 and 2 here and own a little bit of Leading Edge
History!
Later on, when the examinations resumed, most of the megahumans were found to have
become synergenetic, housing multiple sets of interactive DNA in one body working
together. In most cases, synergenetic men underwent physique changes that
transformed their bodies into near peaks of physical perfection, augmenting muscles,
strengthening bone, eliminating excess body fat. Women had similar transformations
geared for their gender, enlarging breast sizes dissolving excess body fat and elongating
legs but also a unique change that altered the bones in their feet causing sky-high heels
to become the only comfortable shoe-wear!
| THE ANGELVERSE |