I suppose that might grow naturally from the stories as they unfold - characters do write themselves sometimes - but it's not something I'm too excited about including. For the most part I think Mumph will be happy to sit by the fire with his Times crossword, complaining about the cricket.

This might be a good time to mention some of my thinking about the new team and their adventures. The line-up is one of the largest we've seen. I don't expect to use every character in every story, or equally. I'd like to stay away from the "everybody pile on" massive end-of-the-world stuff for a while and concentrate on other plots (we'll see how that goes).

I think character interaction, including tension and disagreement, are part of the fun of team books. I expect the new line-up to come with some of that built in. But I think that stuff works best against a background of cameraderie, respect, and affection. Some comics readers clearly want to read about teams full of heroes who are arseholes but I don't want to write them.

I suspect that the way to use the new, larger team will be to send them out on missions in sub-groups. The subset that would get fielded for a mystical incursion would be different from that dealing with an undercover gangbusting case or that handling the theft of alien technology. In the first proper story of the new line-up I expect to send all the newbies on an exploration mission with their training officer, leaving the old hands to deal with something else entirely at home.




I'm happy to promote Mumph in Mumphrey stories, but Untold Tales has generally been a different kind of vehicle that tries to give equal time to everybody's characters. It's hard for the writer to judge the right levels of interaction when his own character is involved.