![]() Most pre-superhero comics were either reprints of newspaper strips, or pulp detective stories, and post-Golden Age stories were mainly crime and science fiction, but cowboy strips definitely had a large presence in the comics scene.) This is not to say Badell is not extremely knowledgeable about the comic book industry. Then some writer was like, ‘How about we put him on a team of galaxy-hopping weirdos?’ Comic book history is bizarre and delightful.” (Side note, cowboys and westerns in comic books were actually just a small subgenre of comics. Groot was an old Jack Kirby villain, a weird tree monster. In an interview with The AV Club, Badell said, “Comic books, before they were about superheroes, were mostly about cowboys.” Badell added, “I mostly had this story in my mind that this company, Sentinel Comics, long ago used to write cowboy stories, and that a writer came around and said, ‘Let’s use one of our old characters.’ That’s where Groot came from. Credit: Adam Rebottaroīadell and Rebottaro wanted to create a sense of history to the characters and the imprint, so they created characters such as Chrono Ranger. ![]() ![]() Sentinels of the Multiverse: Expanded Edition. While Chris and Adam haven’t filled in every issue, the history of the fictional Sentinel Comics company goes back to the 1940s.” When Sentinels Wiki contributor WalkingTarget was asked about it, they said “It’s too long and complicated for me to lay things out. He slowly created an entire story in his mind, with multiple arcs, created characters for it, and then spun off of that with new heroes, villains, and stories, until he had a comic history that rivals those of DC and Marvel. So, with artist Adam Rebottaro, he created his own. Christopher Badell wanted to create a board game based on superheroes, but the problem is, he had no superheroes he could use. Sentinel Comics is not a comic publisher, rather it is a brand by board game company Greater Than Games. Yes, you read that right, the comics with a massive fan base do not actually exist. How does it have a fanbase, and yet no one has read the comics? That’s simple: the comics don’t exist. It has years of history, hundreds of characters, multiple company-wide story arcs, and many, many heroes, all with a dedicated fanbase. What if I told you there was a comic publisher much like DC and Marvel, that has a rich history, large company crossovers, and years of storylines, and yet no one has ever read their stories? You may think I’m insane, but that is what happened with Sentinel Comics. ![]()
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