Major Minor

[Kelvin Green]

Hmmm... seeing as "Major Minor" is a clear riff on General Jumbo, I'd say it's likely that Jumbo is to appear in the next lot of Wildstorm/IPC projects.

Except Jumbo's not an IPC property, so DC/WS don't own him... hmmm...

[Dave Wallace]

I was coming here to say the exact same thing (well about the similarities to Jumbo) - is it an intentional homage? If it is, it's not exactly being acknowledged, is it?

Originally Posted by Chris Weston

Occasionally, I won't be able to resist coming up with my own ideas for series I want to draw. Here's a design I came up with for my very own Golden age comic strip characters: the kid in the army outfit is Major Minor... a genius, juvenile military-strategist given the rank of Major during WW2, and equipped with his very own platoon of remote-controlled robot soldiers, The Machine Marines. His muscly sidekick is, of course, The Crimson Commando.

Is this a tongue-in-cheek statement, or what?

[Kelvin Green]

Yes, I'd assume that Weston knows who General Jumbo is, so he must be joking. It's one thing to independently come up with a similar concept, but to give it a name almost identical to the original too?