SUPERHUMAN TASK FORCE: DYNAMIC HERALDS! (Choujin Sentai Dainamikku Heraruzu)
The above picture was drawn on my tablet in Photoshop early this morning, and the logo was done very painstakingly in Flash, pasted into the file.
As you can tell, the Dynamic Heralds are my own answer to not only American comic-book superheroes (like the Fantastic Four or the Teen Titans), but also Toei's Super Sentai Series. (My personal favorites are 1975's Secret Task Force Goranger, created by Shoutarou Ishinomori, and 1983's Science Task Force Dynaman, the first Super Sentai to be seen in the US mainstream... sort of.)
Back in 1997, I started work on my own attempt at emulating the Super Sentai Series, and the project was called Five-Element Task Force Dynamic V (Gogyou Sentai Dainamikku Faibu), which would've been a sort of brother series to what became Rekira (called Tatsu-Man at the time). It would've been more marginally realistic than Toei's fare (ie. Ishinomori's 1977 series Swift Hero Zubat and the 1997 anime series Virus Buster Serge, which had one of the best "realistic" attempts at a Super Sentai-like team ever!). Later, I decided to combine the Dynamic V project into Rekira, and the working names for the team included the last one I used, Superhuman Task Force Hyper Heros (sic; 5-letter words), before I had worked and worked on the concept into what it is now, with the name being a reference to Dynamic V (paired with another 7-letter word). I'll share the concepts with you readers another time.
Below is the basic Dynamic Heralds Rollcall! Done in Photoshop (with a tablet) tonight.
Yep, the very same five youngsters I reviewed in my last post! Each member was genetically modified, or "die-cast," in a digital molecular machine called HERA (Hyper-Electric Re-Atomizer), and also given special mutant powers, depending on their talents. The basic features of each member is near-invulnerability, regeneration, and enhanced agility. And they also can't age because of that. (Maybe that could explain why 70+ year-old comic-book superheroes stay so young!) Their costumes, made of DynamiChrome, are synthetic suits, generated onto the wearer's body via digital watches called DynamiCores. The suits can also regenerate if damaged.
The Heralds are assembled by Verena's father, renowned scientist Dr. Victor Freston (alias "Prometheus") and his assistant, Raymond Wertz, who acts as the team's leader. This portrait of Dr. Freston was drawn on tablet in Photoshop on November 4th.
A somewhat more detailed description of the team:
Herald 1: Captain Vertex (Raymond Wertz - Red) - The leader and gadgeteer. Has no super-powers, aside from his own basic "die-cast" features, thus relying on his DynamiChrome suit, which has the ability to move for 30 seconds in just 3 seconds (which would've killed the average human being)!
Herald 2: Mysti-Girl (Verena Freston - Blue) - The ESPer of the team. Can telepathically move objects by first shooting them with a ray from her fingertip. Also has Enviro-Vision, in which she can see beyond her own surroundings like a map (as though she were seeing herself inside a labyrinth from above).
Herald 3: Steel Hammer (Isaiah Vanterpool - Silver) - The strongman of the team. His hands can change into hitting weapons, like a hammer and a wrecking ball. He can also discharge electricity, as well as generate magnetism to catch a metal object.
Herald 4: Therma-Gal (Theresa Lin - Pink) - The team's energy shooter. Shoots rainbow-colored Rain-Bolt beams from her hands, as well as shoot a very powerful Ion-Prisma Beam, which can burn her opponents to a crisp, or at best, temporarily blind them just from looking directly at it.
Herald 5: Aquati-Kid (Brian Copcutt - Yellow) - The submersible of the team. He can breathe underwater, and, when in contact with water, control it as a weapon. He can also talk to undersea lifeforms.
But the question remains... how will the Dynamic Heralds face the mighty Rekira!?!
Stay tuned for more Rekira stuff!
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