Wasn't JILLIAN supposed to be spelt with a G?

1. I was wondering if it was John who'd actually written the little bios on the back of each trading card ?

2. On a different matter I just realized that there's a slim chance (or none?) we should ever see HILLTOP as SATHANAS again since he "dies" at the end of JBNM 30 when he is at the same time replaced by M4.

Indeed, according to Thomas Kirkland in JBNM 23 Sathanas makes his first appearance in the year 2025 after the "60,000 day war"...

Could he be seen after the Next Men's time travel adventure? I sincerely hope so. Sathanas is my favorite Nextmenverse character.

Whether or not I will ever go there is a whole 'nother question!

That's the 6000 day war, Joss. I too loved those 4 pages giving us a brief glimpse of the time between the Next Men's present and 2112.

" From 2009 to 2025, the human race is plunged into the most desperate situation it has ever faced. Human survival itself seems unlikely. Then, in 2025, Sathanas reveals himself..."

Really cool. A sort of mélange between H.G.Well's Things to Come and James Cameron's Terminator.

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'Course, even tho I thought I was setting my dates nicely distant, I've still caught up to some of them!

Fortunately, as some of you have, I think, already deduced, there is more to all this than immediately meets the eye!

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Heh! As you also may have noticed, one of the points I have been hitting most relentlessly in the Forum, here, since the announcement of the relaunch, is that I REALLY DO HAVE IT ALL FIGURED OUT. I've mentioned many times that I know, and have known all along, the very last line of the series.

One of the "fun" (in the sense of nerve-racking) experiences of starting up again, as I think I mentioned, was sitting down a few months ago and pulling out of mothballs all the bits and pieces that make up the closing arcs. "What comes next? And what's after that?" For a short while -- hence the nerve-racking part -- a few of the bits and pieces remained elusive, but as I worked on the recap portions of the first issue, they served as a neat little mnemonic to get things started. As I mentioned previously, the only real change has been cutting to almost nothing the amount of time spent "walking with dinosaurs" (and THAT'S one of the reasons for a new cover for the "next" issue).

Something that was surprising for me, reviewing the previous issues as I selected the parts that were absolutely necessary for the recap, was just how much of the story was already there. I'd sown a lot of seeds, almost without realizing it in some cases!