Trivia / Jawbreakers

• Anonymous Author: "Color Channel" is the alias of a professional colorist who is working with Meyer anonymously starting from God-King.
• Inspiration for the Work: Richard C. Meyer has stated that Jawbreakers came about in 2014 after seeing both The Expendables 3 and Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), and the idea of a team of older mercenaries with superpowers going on zany adventures percolated in his mind as a result of both movies.
• Production Posse: Every book starting from God-King features Filipino artist Aaron Alfeche on art, "Color Channel" on colors, and South African artist Sashi Perdigao making a sexy pin-up, alongside Richard C. Meyer himself writing.
• Troubled Production: This work was possibly the most fought about yet-to-be published comic book in the history of the medium. Jawbreakers: Lost Souls writer Richard Meyer is a youtuber specializing in comic book critique and comments about the comic book industry who constantly criticizing comicbook writers for their "left-wing, progressive" political agenda at Marvel which he believes are ruining their comics. In response to his criticism they challenged him to try to make his own comic book.
  • Meyer then began to write and produce Jawbreakers: Lost Souls. Meyer then vowed to have the comic printed and mail delivered via crowdfunding. After securing a deal with Antarctic Press to print and distribute the comic book through traditional means, several outlets elected to not sell his comics, resulting in Meyer retaliating by publicly listing names and phone numbers of stores that joined the boycott, allegedly to inform his followers where not to look for his book.

  • But then publisher Antarctic Press canceled the print edition, due in September 2018. Meyer was forced to found his own comic book publishing house. Instead of this being the end of it, Meyer afterwards sued comic book writer Mark Waid for tortious interference with Meyer's contract with Antarctic Press after considering that Waid unduly pressured the publisher to break its agreements with Meyer to publish the book. This ultimately ended up working against Meyer, as he used the early controversy against his title to fuel interest in it, but suing Waid meant he couldn't talk about the case at all, which meant pretty much silence on his end. Interest in Meyer and the book waned, and the case was eventually settled out of court for an undisclosed sum, with the book coming and going with little attention from the mainstream press or any press.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Jawbreakers was originally going to be published by Antarctic Press, who would've delivered the book to comic book shops around the world. But, Antarctic cancelled the deal either due to the backlash for supporting Meyer, or because of direct interference from Mark Waid (depending on who you ask). Meyer also stated that this publishing deal would've extended to other books he was working on, such as Iron Sights.
  • The original premise of the Jawbreakers was that the older superheroes were forced to do mercenary work in third world countries because younger superheroes are significantly more powerful, and rendered them obsolete back home. However, this idea was eventually dropped.
  • Xaxi was originally a bit-part character in the first draft of the script, but positive fan reception to her design would make her an Ascended Extra. In the other direction, Meyer wanted Xaxi to have a much bigger role in the end, but Malin had it cut down because it was becoming too much.