Awesome Storm Justice 41

Awesome Storm Justice is a collaborative webcomic. Awesome Storm Justice 41 is often referred to by the nicknames Assjay and ASJ41.

History

Awesome Storm Justice started as a community project at the Penciljack website. A piece of artwork posted by a member of the Penciljack community received the comment "Awesome Storm Justice 41." Another community member commented that it sounded like a Japanese superhero team.

A contest was held to create the designs for members of the team. The original contest winners are credited with the character design:

• Blazeguy - created by Oscar Padilla (Spidey)
• Bumblebee - created by Oscar Padilla (Spidey)
• USA Kid - created by Clint Smith (CS)
• Thunderclap NEO - created by Clint Smith (CS)
• Ika Nigiri - created by Warmule
• Grease Monkey and A.P.E. - created by Nate Lovett (Raede)
• Saiko - created by Nate Lovett (Raede)
• Trajan - created by Isa Richardson (Ishmiel)

A video game, Awesome Storm Justice 41: Dark Days in Summerside City, is being developed by Rusty Axe games.

Story concept

The superhero team battles dastardly villain and philanthropist Dennis Dennis III.

Collaborative nature

The Awesome Storm Justice 41 webcomic is a collaborative project involving over 100 comic creators. Each 6-page episode, or "webisode," has a unique creative team. It utilizes the talents of many professional, semi-professional, and aspiring professional artists, writers, and editors, on a volunteer basis.

Coverage

Awesome Storm Justice 41 has received coverage on Drawn!1, Silver Bullet Comics2, and is listed in the Comic Book Database3.

Many of the contributors to Awesome Storm Justice are an integral part of the 100 Artists Project4 a charity endeavor to raise money for art-related organizations starting with the Hero Initiative and the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund.

Contributing Artists

Notable contributing artists:

• Loston Wallace — A Joe Kubert school graduate, Wallace has contributed to some 65 role-playing books, Superman and Batman activity books for DC Comics as well as Klyde & Meriem from Basement Comics.
• Jeremy Dale — Past works include Wildguard Fool's Gold for Image Comics, G.I. Joe 25th anniversary comics and his own title Absolute Zeroes for Ronin Studios.
• Nate Lovett — Lovett was the artist on Xombie: Reanimated from Devil's Due Publishing and has done licensing work for Hasbro, G.I. Joe, Cartoon Network; and contributed to Popgun vol. 1 for Image Comics and General Jack Cosmo.