Author Archive: Beausephus

Day 30 | The Junior Partner

2012 – DAY 30

All characters are created by my 5 year-old son, The Junior Partner.  He has either drawn these characters on his own and I have recreated them here, or he has sat at my elbow dictating design and conceptual ideas like a creative, but frenetic, taskmaster.

THE JUNIOR PARTNER

This character was a surprise my co-conspirator.  Combining all of the characters and genres he likes this is a mystery-solving, trap-making, monster-fighting, time-travelling, crime fighter kid and his cyborg dog.

Day 24 | Spiderfly

2012 – DAY 24

All characters are created by my 5 year-old son, The Junior Partner.  He has either drawn these characters on his own and I have recreated them here, or he has sat at my elbow dictating design and conceptual ideas like a creative, but frenetic, taskmaster.

SPIDERFLY

Gentle Reader, you may have noticed a trend toward spider themed heroes in this 30 Day contest.  This particular spider hero was a combination of an armored version of Spider-Man and an old Batman villain named Black Spider discovered in an old DC Comics’ “Who’s Who” issue.

Spiderfly wears an armor that grants him agility and strength but also can allow for short periods of weightlessness.  Spiderfly has a series of “web bombs” that he wears in a utility belt, but can also shoot blasts of sticky fluid tendrils out of a special gun or from nozzles in his forearms.  He also could use the same fluid to create an underarm “cape” of this spider web fluid which allows him to glide along from building to building or over distances when used in conjunction with his weightless ability.

Day 23 | Monk Manchu, Private Eye

2012 – DAY 23

All characters are created by my 5 year-old son, The Junior Partner.  He has either drawn these characters on his own and I have recreated them here, or he has sat at my elbow dictating design and conceptual ideas like a creative, but frenetic, taskmaster.

MONK MANCHU, PRIVATE EYE

After staring at some of the Hellboy statues in the home office, the Junior Partner, mentioned that Hellboy looked like a big red monkey with a giant gun.  I threw together a sketch on a post-it of a chimp holding a giant Hellboy gun.  The  Junior Partner then asked who he was and his story and I turned it around on him.  I suggested the name “Monk” and then the story unfolded that the chimp was a cop who solved crimes and his gun shot grappling hooks and nets, etc…  I drew a fu-manchu style mustache  and gave the character sixties love beads and patterned kung-fu shirts for a hippie vibe.  Those were all vetoed and eventually the character became more of a orangutan with no ‘stache so the name, “Monk Manchu” doesn’t really fit anymore.  Nevertheless, here he is…a monkey private eye with a big gun and knows king-fu.

Day 21 | Mechaninferno

2012 – DAY 21

All characters are created by my 5 year-old son, The Junior Partner.  He has either drawn these characters on his own and I have recreated them here, or he has sat at my elbow dictating design and conceptual ideas like a creative, but frenetic, taskmaster.

MECHANINFERNO

The Junior Partner prefers Batman to Superman in almost all ways, but he loves the villain, Metallo.  He loves armor and robots of all kinds, but Metallo is very fascinating to him mainly, I think, due to the whole concept that the villain is powered by the hero’s ultimate weakness.  Plus, the whole skin coming off and revealing a robot underneath .. he’s going to freak out when he gets to see Terminator 2.

So Mechaninferno is a guy who controls fire via mechanical/cyborg/robot arms.  That’s pretty much all of the backstory that I could wrangle out of him.  The new Ninja Turtles cartoon was on.

Day 20 | Redbreast

2012 – DAY 20

All characters are created by my 5 year-old son, The Junior Partner.  He has either drawn these characters on his own and I have recreated them here, or he has sat at my elbow dictating design and conceptual ideas like a creative, but frenetic, taskmaster.

REDBREAST

Ok, so take The Falcon, add some Iron Man and Hawkman and boom…Redbreast…honestly, I’m not in love with the name, but I kind of like the color scheme.

Day 18 | Quick Storm

2012 – DAY 18

All characters are created by my 5 year-old son, The Junior Partner.  He has either drawn these characters on his own and I have recreated them here, or he has sat at my elbow dictating design and conceptual ideas like a creative, but frenetic, taskmaster.

QUICK STORM

Quick Storm is capable of moving at hyper sonic speeds rendering him almost invisible to the human eye.  His special suit absorbs the friction of his superhuman movements and converts it into electric energy used for offensive blasts or electric force fields.  He can also call down lightning bolts which supercharge his abilities for limited time beyond their already impressive normal levels.

Day 17 | Laser Spider

2012 – DAY 17

All characters are created by my 5 year-old son, The Junior Partner.  He has either drawn these characters on his own and I have recreated them here, or he has sat at my elbow dictating design and conceptual ideas like a creative, but frenetic, taskmaster.

LASER SPIDER

A victim of violent crime Laser Spider is in reality a man with significant injuries that prevent him from walking or living a normal life.  When wearing the Laser Spider suit, he gains superhuman dexterity and agility and enhanced strength.  There are two cybernetic arms that are capable of firing intense laser beams capable of precision attacks and microscopic accuracy even from great distances.  The suit also contains compartments for throwing spikes, knives, and a specialized grappling hook that can also function as a “claw-axe”.

Day 16 | All-American

2012 – DAY 16

All characters are created by my 5 year-old son, The Junior Partner.  He has either drawn these characters on his own and I have recreated them here, or he has sat at my elbow dictating design and conceptual ideas like a creative, but frenetic, taskmaster.

ALL-AMERICAN

A professional athlete who excelled at every sport, All-American became a soldier and went on to work with the Army to wear a special suit that absorbed physical and energy damage and then stored the energy to be used as various physical attacks.  All-American could achieve significant superhuman strength, speed, or endurance depending on how he chose to use the energy stored in the suit.  At its base levels  the suit allows All-American enhanced durability in extreme conditions as well as basic defense against physical and energy attacks.

Day 14 | Spider-Kid

2012 – DAY 14

All characters are created by my 5 year-old son, The Junior Partner.  He has either drawn these characters on his own and I have recreated them here, or he has sat at my elbow dictating design and conceptual ideas like a creative, but frenetic, taskmaster.

SPIDER-KID

Inspired by the modern incarnation of the Blue Beetle, Spider-Kid finds an ancient medallion that creates an organic, chitin like exoskeleton that grants him strength, agility, “all-around sight”, and the ability to shoot sticky liquid that can either be adhesive, or burn like acid.  Unlike similar spider themed heroes, Spider-Kid does not swing from a web-line (which was surprising to me).   The armor also give him claws which he uses to climb walls and rip open “bad guy armor.”  I liked the concept of “All around sight” which was described as sort of trance that allows Spider-Kid, when he focuses to get a general idea of the location of objects and people all around him… a combination of Spider-Sense and Radar-Sense.

When asked why the armor isn’t all over his body the reply was, “I dunno…it just looks cooler like this.”

Day 13 | Foursquare

2012 – DAY 13

All characters are created by my 5 year-old son, The Junior Partner.  He has either drawn these characters on his own and I have recreated them here, or he has sat at my elbow dictating design and conceptual ideas like a creative, but frenetic, taskmaster.

FOURSQUARE

After hearing about the playground game “four square” the Junior Partner got the idea that it should be played by guys with four arms and then as his imagination will often to, he started talking about the game of four square but with swords and four armed guys.  Soon the concept of the game disappeared and the idea of a four armed superhero with guns and knives stuck.  He dictated certain aspects (like the vest) but vetoed other idea…such as the use of squares anywhere in the motif.

So there’s not much really beyond the fact that this guy has four arms and bunch of weapons.

Day 11 | Jerry Jerkpuncher

2012 – DAY 11

All characters are created by my 5 year-old son, The Junior Partner.  He has either drawn these characters on his own and I have recreated them here, or he has sat at my elbow dictating design and conceptual ideas like a creative, but frenetic, taskmaster.

JERRY JERKPUNCHER

Jerry Jerkpuncher is a a normal everyday kid until he is teased and humiliated by bullies once to often.  After taking a particularly embarrassing beating, he wishes that there was some way he could stand up for himself.  he knows his parents would be upset if he fought back and he made a silent plea for someone to help him.  magically, enchanted metal gloves appear on his hands and begin whispering words of encouragement and support to him.  he grows confident and brave.  he ties a mask around his face to hide his true identity and patrols playgrounds and schools defending children from bullies, creeps, and jerks of all kinds.

Day 10 | Lasermouth

2012 – DAY 10

All characters are created by my 5 year-old son, The Junior Partner.  He has either drawn these characters on his own and I have recreated them here, or he has sat at my elbow dictating design and conceptual ideas like a creative, but frenetic, taskmaster.

LASERMOUTH

Lasermouth is a robot that was built to absorb the energy and offensive lasers, absorb them and shoot them back at his opponents.  Something went wrong and instead on being able to shoot the energy out of his hands, it explodes out of mouth in a devastating blast.  Lasermouth is also able to use this absorbed energy to fly at high speeds and create force fields…imagine burping up bubbles of energy to surround you defensively… like that.

Day 8 | Devil Kid

2012 – DAY 08

All characters are created by my 5 year-old son, The Junior Partner.  He has either drawn these characters on his own and I have recreated them here, or he has sat at my elbow dictating design and conceptual ideas like a creative, but frenetic, taskmaster.

DEVIL KID

The Junior Partner decided that Daredevil needed a sidekick, so that’s what we have here, but then the story spun into something more original.  Devil Kid trained under the familiar red-horned vigilante but went off on his own to become a “city ninja master.”  When asked to elaborate what that means, The Junior Partner described it as like training in Kung-Fu Panda but in NYC and more guns.”  Not pictured above is the bazooka style “launcher” that Devil Kid uses to shoot his grappling hook and other blunt projectiles.

Day 3 | Firebat

2012 – DAY 03

All characters are created by my 5 year-old son, The Junior Partner.  He has either drawn these characters on his own and I have recreated them here, or he has sat at my elbow dictating design and conceptual ideas like a creative, but frenetic, taskmaster.

FIREBAT

After an afternoon drawing various styles of Batarangs and then helping me make them with duct tape and cardboard, the Junior Partner wanted a “really big Batarang” to wear on his back like a jet pack.  This then lead us down the avenue of making a Batman Armor, a favorite theme when sitting in his bad at night drawing by the glow of his night light when he should have been asleep.

I took one his own drawings and made my own version, he colored it in and then suggested some changes (“Bigger arm guns”) and viola, Firebat.

The backstory changes a bit depending on the retelling but essentially, Firebat was given this armor from a very familiar bat-themed billionaire vigilante to “fly around and make sure bad stuff doesn’t happen.”  When he launches himself into the sky, his metallic yellow wings ignite, leaving a glowing flame insignia in the sky as he makes his rounds.  His giant forearm blaster arrays shoot fire in various forms and flavors as well as heat based force bolts to knock down criminals and doors without burning them.

Day 2 | Birdclaw

2012 – DAY 02

All characters are created by my 5 year-old son, The Junior Partner.  He has either drawn these characters on his own and I have recreated them here, or he has sat at my elbow dictating design and conceptual ideas like a creative, but frenetic, taskmaster.

BIRDCLAW

The above design reflects a doodle I had left lying around…a redesign of the ROBIN costume for a Batman Fan-Art/Redesign Showcase I was toying with.  The Junior Partner took to the design and suggested various tweaks and after gardening at school, he wanted to add a garden claw style grappling hook/weapon like a bird of prey would use.

There’s not too much back story to the character except an “borrowed” acrobat/circus origin clearly inspired by hours of listening to my old 1970’s POWER RECORDS collection.

Day 1| Trap-Ninja

2012 – DAY 01

All characters are created by my 5 year-old son, The Junior Partner.  He has either drawn these characters on his own and I have recreated them here, or he has sat at my elbow dictating design and conceptual ideas like a creative, but frenetic, taskmaster.

TRAP-NINJA

Stemming from The Junior Partner’s love of traps a la Indiana Jones and Fred Jones (Scooby Doo), TRAP-NINJA is a character with light armor and ninja skills specializing in the creation and evasion/escape from various traps.  he carries various small tech devices for the creation of traps with items and available inventory.

The Junior Partner has a  penchant for hoods perhaps due to the ease of making hoods from towels and blankets allowing him to easily become the characters he has created.