CHRIS GUMPRICH

CHAD IMBROGNO

Chad Imbrogno is one of the founders of the the Omega universe, also known as the "magic guy." He actually knows very little about magic as far as people who know about magic go, but is a grand master of the art of making stuff up. His Omega titles include Covenant, Full Deck, Stingray, and various short stories in annuals and the Psitations anthology.

If you wish to know about Chad outside of Omega, simply read Covenant #1-18 and pretend it's an autobiography. While it is all fiction, it says everything you need to know about the author and is much more entertaining than his real life.

CHRISTOPHER JASON SNYDER

CRAIG RETTIG

DES DAVIES

D.J.HARRIS

JOHN MORGAN

JEFF MCCOSKEY

As documented elsewhwere (Kulaks intro I believe), I was not in on Omega from the beginning. I only started reading it around Christmas, what 1994? Fact is at that time I didn't know who Marc and Chad and Matt II were, tho' Badge had previously won me over with his promises of leather upholstery and free market reform. Once I started reading it, I mean really reading it, I got hooked. That quartet really resonate off each other in an amazing way, and in the time honored tradition of jumping on the bandwagon once it gets rolling, I "me tooed" the loudest.

It really killed other writing for me, which is good and bad I suppose. My LNH work withered and died, and I struggled to finish my last PULP novelette. Fact is, the interaction, feedback and universe building that continues to this day was more compelling and vital than me writing to myself with fingers crossed for a voice from the void saying 'Saw it.' Part of that is the gratification of being incorporated as an equal partner despite my conspicuous hesitation.

(Who else can say they took out a major league sport?) They do have better stock options though. It helped that I came in with a concept I'd been toying with for a while that fit well with the OMEGA universe. At the time, before Pete came back and stole my thunder, then proceded to bludgeon me about the head and shoulders with it, there wasn't a lot done with the common man and his view of this psionical/magical place.

Up stepped Voyeur.

For a while I'd had this thought exercise of a normal man really campaigning against crime—how it'd have to work to work at all. The obvious points are legion: no one can dodge bullets; no one knows where and when crime will take place; authorities must treat vigilantism as crime; there's only 24 hours in a day and you've got to have a normal life or someone will notice; masks don't work to people you know, and neither will your voice be a mystery; anyway you get my drift. Somewhere along the line I decided outright physical confrontation was out—even accomplished fighters can't win all the time, in all scenarios. Once I landed on the video vigilante idea, it cascaded from there.

It'd be a lie to say I brought this conception whole cloth into OMEGA. It was more of a germ and really looked different (jeezuz, wave runners in the sewers? Did I really think that idea was worth writing down?). OMEGA shaped the concept, gave it home, a grounding, and thematic impulses. And from that start point I just developed as coherently as I could an everyman (ok, slightly twisted but…) that could succeed because he needed to, and because he thought things through.

And it turns out that Video is a mileau rich in conflict and themes (Truth v. Illusion, Perception v. Reality, Public v. Private, Mass Media v. Independent Thought) So despite a galcial pace, I've got ideas out the wazoo for this title. There's a lot of angst (no, the good kind!). There's very little fighting, and what there is ain't fun or glamorous. There's a lot of relationships and greed and pride and plot twists. I'm proud of most of it (and there ain't a lot), but mostly I'm grateful to the originals to moving over and letting me in the sandbox.

JOEY O'LEARY

KAY GREEN

MATT DEMPSTER

Matt Dempster is even more difficult to get details out of than Marc Singer. At least everyone else is vaguely narcissistic.

MATTHEW "BADGER" ROSSI

Matt Rossi was born December 7th, 1971. He isn't dead yet. He has written Pulse, Tempest, Battery and co-written Invasions for Omega, and is currently co-writing Scions with Matthew Dempster. He is one of the founders of the Omega Writers Group, a native of Prudence Island, Rhode Island, and currently resides wherever the wind takes him. He's six foot one, 265 lbs, bearded, and likes the poetry of T.S. Eliot and Hart Crane, the fiction of Thomas "Look Homeward Angel" Wolfe, Julian May, Thom Jones and Larry Niven, and the music of White Zombie, Gustav Holst, and Warren "Pete Milan likes me more" Zevon. He drinks cheap Vodka and MacAllen Scotch, refuses to stop reading comic books even though everyone thinks he's got to grow out of it sooner or later, and has loved three women and lost them all. He hopes to love at least one more. He earned his BFA in Creative Writing in 1996 at Roger Williams College. He has no desire to be more than he is, but he would like to be better at what he does. If he died tomorrow, he'd have a hard time finishing any of the six stories he's currently working on. He finds it really odd to write about himself in the third person, and he's pretty much out of anything interesting to say. His favorite story of his own for Omega to date was INVASIONS, with Tempest Annual #2, "Time's Hammer" a close second. His favorite Omega story he didn't write was either EPITAPHS or the Voyeur TRIAGE arc.

MARC SINGER

PETER MILAN

Peter Milan discovered alt.comics.lnh in the winter of 1994. After writing several issues of Decibel Dude and Vigilante Guy and introducing Matt Rossi to the LNH, Rossi returned the favor by creating Omega and convincing Milan to write something. The result was Rapidfire, a series everyone else thinks is okay but Milan can't read without wincing. Later, after co-creating the Crossroads universe, Milan took over for Matt Dempster as Rossi's co-writer on Scions and wrote Suspects, a mini-series featuring one of Marc Singer's characters. Milan's professional work can be found at Television Without Pity and Apemen, and his other online work will soon be found at his site, Further Adventures. Peter Milan lives in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

POET

STEWART BROWER

SPECTER

TERRI KORTHASE

TED VICIAN

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