I’ve made no secret about my love of superheroes. For as long as I can remember, I’ve loved the superhero concept. I first became exposed to superheroes likely through the 1978 Superman film, though I don’t remember the first time I watched it. From there, it was the 1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series, Batman (1989) and then Batman: The Animated Series. And I give a lot of credit to the X-Men animated series from the same era as BTAS (and quick sidenote: how awesome was the first season of X-Men ’97?).
But another superhero show also grabbed my attention in the early 90s, and that was Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers. If you’re too young to remember (or if you were too old to care at the time it launched), the Power Rangers was a hoot and a half for a young kid. Taking footage from the Japanese Super Sentai superhero show, they then spliced in footage of American actors and had them dub over the Japanese action footage. Teen heroes using pseudo-magical powers and martial arts to fight off monsters, and then they would transition to giant robots based on dinosaurs when the monsters were enlarged.
Yes, it was campy as hell and cheaply produced. But kid Perry didn’t give a damn. I watched the show every day after school and forced my family to spend a small fortune on the toys (including the transforming robots, because of course).
As I grew older, that fire of Power Rangers fandom faded in a way it never did with other superheroes. But the concepts of the Power Rangers is something that always stuck with me, and for years, I’d thought of doing my own take on something inspired by them.
And now the time has come. Enter the Omega Knights!
When thinking of how I would approach this series, I knew I wanted to do something that was cleary inspired by Power Rangers, but also its own thing. And so with that in mind, I started to think of questions I’d have about this type of concept: what’s the history of this organization, how dangerous is this kind of work, why is it always young people who are chosen, how do they deal with the sudden changes in membership?
These types of ideas and more are things I wanted to explore. And before I knew it, I had a wealth of story ideas that I’ve now begun exploring as a serial on Ream.
So that leads me to the next point: what is Ream and why am I on there?
Ream is a site where people can subscribe to their favorite authors and support them. Omega Knights will be serialized on Ream and the basic subscriber level will have access to two new episodes per week. I have several different subscription tiers available, but the basic tier gives you access to all new episodes of whatever serial I’m currently working on. The basic tier also gives you access to each of my first-in-series books through the Ream platform.
Other tiers have other perks as well.
You can read the first four episodes of Omega Knights for free. But starting with episode #5 (just released), you’ll need a subscription plan.
However, I am offering a free trial: all you have to do is go to https://reamstories.com/percivalconstantine and complete the following steps:
- Click the “Join Ream” button at the top of the page.
- After you create your account, go to my Ream page (https://reamstories.com/percivalconstantine) and click the button under the “Starters & Serials” tier.
- You’ll be taken to a check-out page. Enter your payment info, but don’t worry, you won’t be charged yet.
- Under promotional code, enter “NEWBIE” (without the quotes). This will give you one month of free access to the Starters & Serials tier of my page.
Check out the video below for a walkthrough of the process:
Now, what if you aren’t interested in another subscription? That’s fine, I don’t begrudge you that. Omega Knights, like every serial I do, will be eventually published in print and digital formats. But this way, you get early access to the episodes far in advance of when everyone else will.
Again, you can check out the first four episodes for free right now, then you can access further episodes with a one-month free trial. Click the button to get started.
