Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Who and What Are The Countless?

You may have seen this picture floating around my Facebook page and my personal profile and thought to yourself, "Cool." and "Huh?" at the same time. Allow me to explain. . .


The Countless is an evil organization with Count SpudMuffin as its current leader. Count SpudMuffin is the very potato that kidnaps Princess Brielle in conjunction with that, he is who Corn Ladyman is looking for. Find the spud, find the princess. Unfortunately for Corn SpudMuffin has a "countless" army at his disposal, consisting of other cold hearted characters that have dabbled in the dark magic such as himself. 

Originally Count SpudMuffin was practically on his own, paying people along Corn's journey to make sure he never reached the princess, but that just seemed to be rather bland, I just had to spice things up a little. Thus the organization was born and it should not be any wonder why the name Countless was the first and only considered  title that came to mind. Through the creation of the group Corn's stumbling blocks along the way quickly turned to walls. . . cliffs would be more appropriate of a term. 

Through the years I have been greatly entertained by each addition to the group and even more so about the twists and turns involving members backgrounds and identities. Having a history to the Countless prior to SpudMuffin was key and WILL be key as the series progresses. This is no normal band of miscreants where the closest thing to a name you get is, "Generic Bad Guy #5". 

In closing, The Countless is a force not to be reckoned with, but Corn can handle it right? Below is a music video by Snow Patrol preforming "Take Back The City" from their album A Hundred Million Suns. This album is the very thing that brought these villains to mind. The very first members were inspired by listening to this very song on repeat. The rest of the album inspired other members as well as a variety of other characters. Which is why I have Snow Patrol to thank for being the band that allowed me to expanded Corn's universe.


Can you guess what this song might imply corncerning The Countless?


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