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Maximize your enjoyment of MATTER-EATER LAD: THE SERIES with this handy dandy guide to the issues thus far!
MEL:TS is set in current Legion continuity.
ISSUE CHECKLIST
# 1 Good Things Come To Those Who Eat
Issue 1 begins on page 1 of the MEL:TS thread and resumes on page 4.
Re-intro Tenzil Kem, former chef to the Legion. Intro of The Kem family, Ma, Pa & Renkil. Intro Taryn Loy, Tenzil's neighbor and life-long friend. Intro Lester Spiffany, working as a government courier on Bismoll.
SYNOPSIS
Tenzil is miserable at home with his trashy family when Lester delivers his senate draft notice. Between Tenzil, Lester and Taryn, they manage to get Tenzil elected to senate by buying his family its own reality TV show-- Kem Family & Friends-- making Tenzil a celebrity!
Meanwhile, shadowy figures watch and plot and Tenzil barely escapes an assassination attempt!
Lester's secret origin s revealed during a flashback and it begins to become apparent that he has a special gift where money is concerned.
Tenzil, Taryn and Lester capture an escaped Boom-Boom Beast. They also capture the assassin from issue 1, and she reveals that Tenzil has been targeted by Prince Evillo of Tartarus.
Meanwhile, on Tartarus, Evillo holds tryouts for the Devil's Dozen. Only Lotus Fruit Lass makes the grade and his Dozen now stands at 5 members.
Intro Sugyn, Apollo, Wild Huntsman, Degree Damsel, Stick With a Nail in it Kid and Two-Face Tess as the rest of the Devil's Dozen. Intro Thora of Taltar, one of Evillo's ex-wives.
SYNOPSIS
Using a special Vacation episode of Kem Family & Friends, Tenzil, Taryn & Lester venture to Tartarus to find out Evillo's nefarious plans.
While Ma, Pa & Rnkil are busy, Tenzil, Taryn & Lester debate the best way to go about it, eventually settling on infiltrating the next Devil's Dozen tryout.
Tenzil as "Sir Prize" and Taryn as "Miss Terious" get close to succeeding, but Lester interferes when Evillo threatens to banish "Sir Prize" to the Realm of Darkness.
All 3 are then captured by the Devil's Dozen!
DEVIL'S DOZEN MEMBERSHIP
Apollo Sugyn Wild Huntsman Stick With a Nail in it Kid Lotus Fruit Lass Two-Face Tess Degree Damsel
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# 4 The Night the Lights Went Out in the Realm of Darkness
Issue 4 begins on page 11 of the MEL:TS thread.
Intro Infectious Lass. Intro Azura, one of Thora's 2 allies.
SYNOPSIS
Banished to the Realm of Darkness, Tenzil, Taryn & Lester meet some of the quirky residents there, icluding Evillo's father King Malefico!
The King reveals his plan to have Tenz and the gang-- along with his League of Scantily-Clad Overendoed Assassins-- kill Evillo. Malefico teleports himself, Tenz, Taryn, Lester & the League back to Tartarus to do just that.
Meanwhile, Thora forms an alliance with Evillo and one of her 2 allies is revealed as Azura.
Pa and Renkil stay occupied while Ma makes a new friend-- Drura, also known as Infectious Lass.
Intro The Super-Companions. Intro Anti-Lad and her Fatal Femmes. Intro Dev-Em. Intro The Super-Moby Dick of Space.
SYNOPSIS
Spotlight on Spiffany! Once Tenzil makes it clear to Lester that he loves him, but doesn't love him "that way", an enranged Lester ventures out on his own.
He meets a group of men called the Super-Companions, who have watched him on the Kem Show. They try to get him to join their group, but are attacked by a gang of females called The Fatal Femmes, led by Anti-Lad. They unleash the Super-Moby Dick of Space to attack the men.
The Companions defeat the Moby Dick, but are being bested my the Femmes themselves until Lester singlehandedly turns the tide.
Lester decides to venture with the Companions to Thrann, their all-male paradise planet.
There, he meets Dev-Em, an honorary member of the Companions, and is smitten instantly by the Kryptonian rogue.
Meanwhile, Tenzil & Taryn find out the Kem Family & Friends Show has ben cancelled!
THE SUPER-COMPANIONS MEMBERSHIP
Othar Splash Shower Treehugger Shadow Mzgrzz the Magnificent Dev-Em (honorary)
Intro Tiffany Spiffany. Intro unnamed group of Metas. Intro Heroes of Tartarus.
Issue 7 begins on page 17 of the MEL:TS thread.
Tenzil and Taryn attempt to put a spin on all the hijinks of the previous few issues, and manage to make Tenzil one of the most popular people on 2 planets.
Meanwhile, an unnamed group of Metas is captured by androids.
Renkil, traumatized by events on Tartarus, encounters a man in Metropolis that gives him life-changing advice.
Thora continues to plot with Azura and Eve.
Tiffany Spiffany shows up at Tenzil's office and demands to know Lester's whereabouts. Tenzil and Tiffany leave to find him, but Tenzil has ordered Taryn to meet with Thora as part of their deal for avoiding an interstellar incident with Taltar. Taryn decides to tail Tenzil secretly instead.
Lester, smitten, decides to join Dev-Em in his space-wanderings. They are almost struck by the spaceship that carries the Metas captured earlier.
On Tartarus, Queen Drura debuts the new super-team she has formed, The Heroes of Tartarus (or HOTties).
THE HEROES OF TARTARUS
Infectious Lass Sugyn Policy Pam Spaceopoly Lad Echo-Chamber Chet Brittle Boy Incredible Girl
UNNAMED GROUP OF METAS
Key Kid Negative Nell Weight Wizard Itch Witch Took Multi-Maid Blockade Boy
Intro Nardo the galactic tyrant. Intro Plant Lad, False Pretenses Lad and Biron the Bowman.
SYNOPSIS
Dev-Em and Lester are captured by Nardo and become acquainted with some of the metas captured last issue.
To Lester's chagrin, Nardo alludes to nefarious plans that involve Dev-Em.
Meanwhile, Tenzil and Tiffany get ever-closer to catching up to Lester but the ship Taryn is tailing them secretly in breaks down!
On Tartarus, Infectious Lass trains the HOTties, along with their newest member... MATTER-EATER LAD...?!!?
On Taltar, Evillo is "acclimated" into Taltaran society as Thora wonders why Taryn hasn't arrived for her visit yet.
At Nardo's Stalag, we meet 3 of the prisoners there: False Pretenses Lad, Biron and Plant Lad. Plant Lad is foiled in his escape attempt as Nardo arrives with his new inmates!
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Lash, Thank you for posting these synopses (sp?). To be honest with you, I haven't read the whole series. I plan on printing out all the pages in order to read them, but that'll happen later on. I'd like to work out some rough sketches for the covers to each issue! I have some ideas already, but I'd love you and EDE to give me some direction on what *you'd* like to see cover-wise, each issue. I'd also like to do some character sketches, especially characters that you guys have made up. Like, what does Tiffany Spiffany look like? Post a list of who and what you'd like to see, and I'll get on it as I can. I can't commit to sequentials like Obadiah, but quick sketches and cover roughs would be fun.
Eryk Davis Ester
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I've been thinking about adding some character profiles to this thread as well, so character sketches to go along with them would be great!
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Eryk, I had hoped you would want to add character profiles but I hated to ask you.
Dean, ANY artwork you want to do related to MEL:TS will be welcomed! Meanwhile, I intend to sprinkle the SECRET FILES will pictures of the castmemebrs I come across on LW, as I did with the Tenzil & your Drura pic above.
I'm glad you like the synopses; I figured it would be a nice way to be able to go DIRECTLY to the issue you want to read without having to scroll through 20-odd pages looking.
Eryk Davis Ester
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My first character profile:
Tiffany Spiffany
Lester's kid sister (by a year), Tiffany was clearly Daddy Spiffany's favorite. While Lester whines and complains whenever he doesn't get what he wants, Tiffany is more perplexed than anything else by unfulfilled desires. She's especially used to males doing basically whatever she wants, and doesn't understand when they don't. She's incredibly flirtacious, but not truly manipulative. Her flirting is more a matter of habit than anything else.
Tiffany overall has been far more sheltered and protected than Lester was, and shares the rest of the family's shock at much of Lester's 'scandalous' behaviour during his party phase. There's also a side of her that really enjoys being out on her own, though, and to be traveling with Tenz and the gang. To her, it's all a big adventure. She's a good kid at the core, though she can be incredibly insensitive and naive. She is incredibly polite and likeable on first impression.
Presently, she's still trying to find purpose in life as she grows beyond being "Daddy's little girl" and has to stake her own path in life.
Appearance wise, she should clearly resemble Lester, though her hair should be somewhat lighter (kind of a sandy blond, maybe?). She's attractive, bustier than Taryn, and dresses very expensively. She stands with a certain amount of poise and confidence, even when she doesn't feel it.
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