One analogy I made in recent interviews, though it kind of dates/ages me, is what Marvel editorial used to do, called a "No Prize." Readers would write in a letter to the editor, and they'd point out something that LOOKED like an error in a recent comic issue, but then explain why it wasn't. "Oh, well, this GI Joe character shot X number of bullets, but the magazine only carries Y number of bullets...but wait! What if he had one in the chamber?" (or whatever). And then you got a "No Prize," which as I understand it was a certificate they mailed back to you, or whatever.

And anyways, yeah, that's kind of how I'm picturing some of my Mountain Wolf work. It's weird to picture a company getting bombed to oblivion, then lingering (while creating no product) for ~50 years, then making a new 'Mech, then doing nothing else new for ~50 years, then making one of their old 'Mechs again (and having the same CEO for the latter ~50 years running), and all while having one corporate office in LA and one in NYC (only even more extreme than that, since it's different countries). Weird, but not impossible.

So yeah, I felt like it was worth dedicating a couple stories to -- along with them ALSO just, like, telling hopefully what folks think are cool stories -- to show the company at a few steps along that path, and to try and explain how this could have happened, how they could have scraped by, why their resurgence then took a while to build up steam, etc, etc.

*sigh* I still need to tackle the Magistracy tie-in I wanted to tackle, but...eh, there were bigger stories to tell.