Category: Superhero
Day 14 Mannequin
In Japanese comics the Magical Princess often had a familiar, usually a cute animal. In my comic Unlikely Savior Chyler, the idea was this was an American girl who became a ‘Sailor Moon’ type demon fighter. This made her the equivalent of an angel and Mannequin was her Halo.
Manny was a favorite of the few readers, unfortunately he fell to the side when I changed the direction of the comic from a Princess comic to a teen drama.
However Manny made a surprise appearance in the final pages of the comic, when Chyler embraced her abilities again for the 1 st time in about 2 years.
#17 Jazmi Uruka
Jazmi Uruka
It was difficult growing up in the orphanage. The nuns couldn’t tell Jazmi anything about her parents except that her mother seemed lost and ragged when she left the infant on their door. All Jazmi ever knew was that she was the ugliest girl anyone had ever seen, and so she grew up quiet, cold and alone. When she was old enough to go out on her own, she never stayed in one place. She grew hard and self-reliant, and she might have gone down a darker path, had she not discovered the manuscripts of the old north god of storms, Dokhor. His code of honor and strength gave her purpose. Jazmi lived to follow Him, until she met the one man, Jokull Alfarson, who seemed capable of loving her for who she was.
#17 The Molten Man
“Let’s not do this the hard way. It won’t go well for you.â€
Once Molten changes from his human form, it’s too late to negotiate.
Day 17: Bishop Blood
The creature known as Bishop Blood has a murky past mired in murder and mystery. Earliest accounts have him as a late 8th century Irish preacher working the countryside spreading fire and brimstone, death and doom before the events that would turn him into the figure known as blood. He was said to be attacked by some sort of creature that latched on and transformed him into a hideous parasitic creature that is forced to survive off the blood of the living. Skulking in the various underground haunts and back alleyways of Europe, Asia, and The Americas. Blood has justified his countless murders as “purifying sinners, and ridding the world of wickedness.”…
#17-Oblivious Lad
Oblivious Lad is the most distracted, absent minded superhero ever. A crime could be happening right in from of him and he will most likely be paying attention to anything else. He is so oblivious that he doesn’t even realize how ridiculous it is to use the Lad as part of his name at his age.
16 – The Forbiddenaut
… continued from Character #15, The Man of the Moon…
… the FORBIDDENAUT!
Professor Robert “Spaz†Spassky was a geologist, astronaut and crew member a mission to the moon with the goal of setting up an American observation base to track Earth’s burgeoning superhuman population from an inaccessible location. He was present when they made the shocking discovery of the Man of the Moon’s unconscious body on the lunar surface. When loading the strange man onto their escape craft, Prof. Spassky’s eye caught a glint of metal in the bottom of the crater where the man was found. Bounding down the slope into the crater, Spassky unearthed a long metal rod with the symbols of Earth and the moon at the termini.
Spassky shouted to his teammates to show what he found. His teammates looked on in horror as the ground by Spassky’s feet erupted with the appearance of enormous tentacles crackling with unearthly energy. Spassky’s attempts to fend off his unseen attacker with the staff in his hand resulted in a massive discharge of energies that threw Spassky up into the air only to be caught by another tentacle and dragged beneath the surface.
The professor was entombed in soil and darkness that was sporadically interrupted with hypnotic lights and blinding pain. Spassky’s body was grabbed by an unseen force and pulled back to the surface. As he was losing consciousness, Spassky saw that his savior was the grey man that they had found.
Professor Spassky, or what passed for him, regained consciousness back on Earth in a quarantined laboratory. Attempts to remove his space suit failed and even resulted in a nurse sustaining a mild electrical shock. Spassky’s suited body awkwardly got off the gurney it was laying on and, after some stilted walking, rose a few inches off the ground and levitated to the door of his room. In a voice like Spassky’s, coupled with electrical feedback, he demanded to see the Man of the Moon. The soldiers guarding the astronaut provided little resistance to the changed man who threw them aside like ragdolls with a pair of energized tentacles that exploded from his face plate.
With no assistance and through ineffectual opposition, Spassky made his way to the recently awakened Man of the Moon located several miles away and became docile. The Man of the Moon studied the transformed Spassky and concluded his interaction with his staff and, what he called, the black hole beast on the moon created a sort of hybrid being. Dubbed the FORBIDDENAUT by a public relations firm, Spassky accompanies the Man of the Moon most places displaying great loyalty to the man. Whether this loyalty driven by a sense of obligation for saving Spassky or if the beast within is bidding its time to attack remains in question. Only the future holds the answer.
The Man of the Moon and the Forbiddenaut are unusual additions to the pantheon of powered individuals operating on the Earth. However, their strangeness pales in comparison to…
#17 Unnamed Space/time powers girl
Sadly, i haven’t come up with a name for her yet.  Her powers involve manipulating space/time (on a small scale).  If anyone has an idea, i’d LOVE to hear it.
#17: Hejira
Real Name: Cynthia Wooderson
Age: 26
Height: 5’5″
Weight: 125 lbs
Powers: Flight, intangibility
Character info: I love this design for Hejira! Another name that I came up with years ago, but never designed a character. Until I drew this sketch, I had no idea how I would use her, but now, I definitely know what comic she’ll be in and she’ll be a perfect addition to it! As stated above, she has the ability to fly and turn her body intangible, which helps to gain access to locations and avoid confrontation from villains.
#17: Brain Man
Brain Man is crazy looking. He’s a bad guy and he can control people’s minds. He can also shoot brain slime out of his hands.
Thanks, Xavier
17 – Birq of the Ninja Bros. by Beausephus+Son
CHARACTER NAME: Â Birq, of the Ninja Brothers
DATE OF CREATION: Summer 2011
CONCEPT:  â€Birq is a ninja who uses guns and lasers because sometimes a sword isn’t going to work, so he has to use a blaster to blast the bad guys.  He also has a magic little sword like all of his brothers in the Ninja Bros.â€
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So when the mood strikes my son (and that is quite often) and he wants to make up “superguysâ€, “superdudesâ€, “supermansâ€â€¦ I pull out a bunch of templates I made for him and he picks out everything from the style of boots to the color scheme of the various costume options presented before him.  I then draw quick sketch, and he edits, adds, etc…  I then draw up the character and he hangs them in his room…if they meet his ultimate judgement.  Then I make him come up with a story for each character.
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THE NINJA BROTHERS is a story that my son started to tell me one night before bedtime.  Perhaps in an attempt to put off the impending lights-out, the story of three long-lost brothers became almost epic in its proportions spreading out over a few evenings and interweaving all of his interests  – superheroes, spies, ninjas, and magic.
BIRQ is the middle brother of the three siblings who make up the NINJA BROTHERS. Â Like his elder brother, KOKU, BiRQ trained in the martial arts for years in the hope of getting to be strong enough to take on the evil ninja master that kidnapped their youngest brother, STINGUT, as a baby.
When the brothers are ready, BIRQ and KOKU infiltrate the evil ninja master’s fortress, rescue their youngest sibling, and dedicate their lives to battling the evil ninja master.
BIRQ, for all intents and purposes, is the tech guy in the trio.  While he trained in martial arts and ninja magic, he prefers technology that he can rott around in , rewire, and rebuild.  he makes high-tech devices to use in tandem with his brothers’ more mystic tricks and tactics.  Like all of his brothers, BIRQ is  master at hand to hand combat, and “super old, magic ninja tricks.”  He carries a small magic sword that is identical to weapons his brothers carry.
Thanks for checking out our stuff, my son is very excited to share his ideas with everyone here.
-Beausephus
Day 16: The Hyena
The identity or identities of the assasin known as The Hyena is shrouded in mystery. Stories of the trail of blood and murder of this almost urban legend character go back to the early 40’s in Ethiopia. Where villages that had been attacked by invading Italian facist forces and sacked were said to have been visited by what was described as an almost ghost like figure who would massacre entire groups of up to 50 men single handedly in a ritualistically bloody manner. This persisted on until the end of the war. From there things were quiet for a few years . Then other tales began around the beginings of the cold war of an assasin who also fit the physical description of the Hyena, who was contracted by everyone from The CIA, The FBI, The KGB, various organized crime groups, corporate intrest, MI5 and anyone who could afford his price. No known photos were known to exist. Then in 1972, for reasons yet unknown, but again unsubstantiated claims point to an organization known as ICE contracted him to take out several masked crimefighters. He is said to have killed the original Juryman, and to have perminently crippled the silver age Jack of Hades along with up to 5 other heroes, before disapearing again into shadow and hushed murmurs. Some said he was involved in everything from the Iranian Revolution to several high profile assasinations. It is not even known that if he is the same man who has operated the same 70 years, or a series of killers? Recently he has been seen in several hotzones accross the globe again under the contract of ICE (International Covert Espionage).  He lives in shadows and few have ever lived to tell the tale. Fewer still are bold enough to tell it!..
11# Courageous Cluck
Hello everybody out there. Yo, this character is inspired from a cartoon show call Super Chicken. This fowl was crazy but I thought about I’ll be off my rocker if I drank too. Every time I  watch that cartoon show that bird was drinking and going psycho, good times man, lol. Well My version of Super Chicken would be call Courageous Cluck. I’ll have him  drink a magic potion to get his super strength but he want be an alcoholic,lol. enjoy everybody. One…
#15 – The Gray Gentleman
Working with the Martian was a pain in the ass.
Mostly, because he took offense on being called a Martian. He had explained countless times he did not come from Mars, and neither did the creatures that invaded in 98 for that matter, that he came from a planet thousands of some alien distance measure he and his people used away from Earth, and once again repeated the name of his planet. Trying to even attempt to transcribe what came out of his mouth is an exercise in madness. So when asked what he would like to be called, he would respond he would like to be called by his name, and muttered more illegible gibberish. And that’s how people usually got right back to calling him a Martian.
His biggest issue with being called that, he explained is that it was also the name the common folk used to refer to the Invaders, the other aliens that almost burnt England to the ground. He took great offense in being compared to them in any way. He hated them, more than he hated anything. From his own recollection, he’d been chasing them from halfway across the galaxy until finally managing to catch them here. Many times he admitted both privately and publically, that at that particular junction he didn’t really cared for us. We were many, and we wanted the Invaders dead. That was enough to consider us allies.
And without the Martian’s assistance, England and the World probably wouldn’t have survived the invasion.
Now, Her Majesty’s Secret Service, on the other hand, had a very different name for him. They’ve codenamed him “The Gray Gentlemanâ€. He’d joined just as soon as the century turned, after we were done with all the rebuilding, but only under one condition: He would serve Queen and Country only in matters of extraterrestrial treat and he refused to borrow his services in any matters that pertained to our planet’s science and politics. He also refused to let anyone examine his very peculiar sidearm, which he carried with him at all times for fear of it being stolen.
Many thought Gray, as many finally settled on calling him as the years went on, was just being a prick. England had all of this extraterrestrial technology in their hands, scientists and scholars pouring over it day and night trying to get even a small glimpse of how it all functioned and he refused to lift whatever he had instead of fingers to help us in that effort. That’s because Gray knew better than anyone that no sooner had he explained the British how to use the Invader’s weapons, they would’ve turned their armies against all nations and brought the entire World under their flag. He knew we weren’t ready yet. He knew whatever we could learn from that technology, we would have to earn it on our own. And again, while most people hated him for that attitude, other really respected him.
For the most part, Gray lived a very quiet, boring, English life. He had a small flat only a couple blocks away from Scotland Yard, where he worked in a consulting capacity for the detective department. He did this entirely pro-bono. His Secret Service stipend was more than enough for him to live a very posh lifestyle, but for him it was something to do to pass the time in between alien sightings. And not only did it kept his mind nimble, it also helped him to slowly understand mankind a little better.
He was fond of the tuba, tea and biscuits, reading and, especially, stargazing. He would sit in the roof of his flat, with a gigantic telescope of his own invention and just look into the emptiness of space for hours, a look of nostalgia on his face every time he did. No one ever asked him. It was very clear not only by his attitude but by the way he never tried to leave our planet, regardless of how many spacecrafts descended on British soil, always a convenient excuse right after the flying saucer had departed. Anyone could tell that the Gray Gentleman simply had nowhere or no one to return to.
Gray died on December 20th, 1961, on a private room in St. Mary’s Hospital in London. On his bedside were the director of MI6, the Prime Minister, Her Majesty the Queen and Nina Mumford, her housekeeper and close friend. He had a private funeral where his body was cremated and his ashes spread from the top of the London Bridge.
1934: Gray’s first and last ambassador mission for the Secret Service.
The fact he showed up naked is, in hindsight, the indicator that this was not gonna end right.
#16 Christopher Moros
> Enter
You’re dreaming, Chris tells himself, but it’s a lie and a bad one at that. Dream or not, he’s still rooted to the ground, too scared to even shiver as the tentacles don’t belong there thing destroys building after building. The world is falling around him, and he can’t run. His legs won’t obey him. It’s like they’ve declared autonomy from the rest of his body, and that means doing absolutely nothing.
A long appendage covered in too many suckers and eyes swings out above him and becomes embedded in the brick building above him.
Chris wishes he could have thought of something clever for his last thoughts, or maybe even something mundane like I hope someone remembers to feed the cat but his mind is stuck on oh shit oh shit oh shit
The first pieces of rubble break loose, followed by the rest when the Thing frees itself, and–
> Return
“So you do this for a living or something?” asks Chris, much later, and his hands are shaking too much to light the cigarette he needs to make his hands stop shaking but he’s nothing if not persistent. How he managed to roll it is better left unmentioned.
Ananke – which is his name, but Chris isn’t entirely sure on that entire statement, the name and the his part, but whatever – frowns at the cigarette but doesn’t comment on it. “It’s more like volunteering,” he says, still dressed in the same double-breasted suit that he was wearing a few hours ago when that Thing was around and causing trouble.
Finally, after a good five minutes of constant attempts, the cigarette is finally lit. Chris takes a long drag on it, filling his lungs with acrid, earthy smoke. “That’s pretty shitty,” he says.
> Return
Ananke starts sleeping on Chris’s couch. When that arrangement started, Chris doesn’t remember. Some time after the second time Ananke saved everyone’s asses. It might have to do with how Chris is the only person who was at both scenes besides Ananke, or it might have to do with how Chris offered to buy him dinner for the second save and Ananke followed him home and never left.
Guy saves your life twice. It’d just be rude to not offer something in return, even if it is a shitty meal and a shittier couch.
> Return
Oh god help someone help please help me help us help him
> Enter
“I didn’t know there were two of us,” says Ananke, without any recognition in his eyes.
Chris’s chest tightens briefly before destroying the Thing-With-Tentacles-Where-There-Should-Never-Be-Tentacles. “Me neither,” he lies.
> Return
“–and then suddenly, I can make energy bolts come out of my hands,” finishes Ananke, complete with the necessary hand gestures and sound effects. “How did you get your powers?”
“I made a wish.” He wants a cigarette badly, but that would mean having to leave the apartment and he can’t go now.
“Like with a genie? Does that mean you get two more wishes?”
He shakes his head. F***, really need that cigarette. “Used them all up,” he admits. Damn stupid idea, too, but genies are tricky bastards. They’ll twist your words around and make anything a wish (should have remembered what Mom said, but Mom doesn’t talk to you any more, not after you stepped out of Narnia).
“On what?” he asks, and that’s it, you need a smoke now.
> Return
This was wrong, all wrong. He wasn’t supposed to die here, not now and not like this. But he is. He’s dead and the blood is still seeping out of him but that will stop soon and he’s looking at you with his brown eyes that still look alive but he’s not he’s not he’s not
> Enter
“Go home,” says Chris, before trapping that Thing in a Bubble. One rotation, and it ages instantly and turns to dust.
“No way,” replies Ananke. His eyes are so bright and wide, looking at Chris as if he’s the most amazing thing in the world.
“Don’t expect me to save your ass again,” he bites back. What a liar.
> Return
He stopped smoking, but the urge is still present. He figured out how to use his powers to speed up through getting past the physical withdrawal but right now, he really wants a smoke.
“Wanna go get dinner?” asks Ananke, like fighting monsters from the Eighth Ring is considered to be an appropriate segway to a date.
Whatever.
> Return
“How did you wind up here?” asks Ananke, a few weeks later. He is still sleeping on the couch, but it’s large and comfy enough that even Chris, all six feet two inches and one hundred and sixty-eight pounds of him, could sleep on it and not wake up regretting it. Ananke is much smaller, and is using Chris as a pillow. “In this city, I mean?”
How is a great question but not one that he likes to think about. “I had a fight with my parents,” he replies, summarizing a six hour long yelling match that resulted in him storming out with nothing but his wallet, his laptop, and the clothes on his back. He never got the rest of his belongings back – Mom always went overboard and burnt the whole lot – but Dad at least helped cover the cost of replacing some of it. Behind her back, of course. “I left, got the first bus I could get out of town, and wound up here.”
“How serendipitous,” and it’s so earnest that Chris can’t help but laugh despite everything.
> Return
Third time unlucky, and this time Chris is the one bleeding out, or was, but he can’t stop time forever. His concentration will lapse and suddenly it will be all over.
“F***,” swears Ananke, for the first time ever since they met. He didn’t even swear when Chris caught him stark naked one time, curling up upon himself like what was between his legs mattered to who he thought he was. It’s different now, though, because Ananke’s hands are covered in blood when he first tried to apply pressure to the large laceration.
“It’s okay,” Chris tries to tell him, but the words get caught in his throat and blood comes out instead. He chokes, and suddenly there’s no more time now. The Bubble bursts and his life starts to flow away from him again. It’s now or never (again).
“I’ll see you soon,” he can’t say. Spins the wheel backwards and
> Enter
#16 The Last Crusader
Its 2012 and God has chosen his disciple, young Tomas Miller. Thomas was never a man to shirk from a hard fight. His task to eliminate all the non-believers, If he can do this before December 12th 2o12, him and all other faithful peoples will go to heaven. Is this the challenge of a life time or a cruel trick?
15 Anton Provic
What to say about Anton Provic, he was born in Poland in 1982 and moved to Russia at the age of 15. He is the only Russian to become a member of secret service. He holds the uncanny ability to move people just like marionettes.
14 Jungle Dude
Jungle Dude is a total bro to the animals, he was abandoned in the African jungles and has lived there for over twenty years. Hunters beware he is not a friend of humans, his clothes are made from man killed animals, and he won’t stop till they are avenged or the human beasts leave.
#16 The Hare-oscopist
The Hare-oscopist is an unusual augmented animal hybrid. He escaped the medical experimentation facility to find he had an unusual clairvoyance which he parlayed into a meager living writing Horoscopes for the local news paper… hey it’s a gig, and they don’t ask him to come in to the office. Which is important when you are an odd crystal encrusted rabbit with the ability to levitate… just sayin’.
#16 Autumn Wind
Autumn Wind
Born into a legacy of a super-enhanced family, Autumn Wind was expected to live up to the clan name of strength, honor, and legend. Through her developing years, she was raised to carry the torch as a revered American hero, and stand as the living spirit of the Autumn. She made her family proud as an honest, loyal, and optimistic young woman. But as she grew into maturity she began noticing the flaws in her family: her super-powered criminal uncle who is kept out of the papers, the way the family runs the monopoly on crime fighting in the city, the villains who sometimes disappear without ever seeing the court of law. This young lady has to start answering questions about the importance of true justice and the importance of true family loyalty.
10# Heroic Hound
Hello hello cyber world. I hope everybody is doing good out there. it been awhile for me and I’m alittle behind but I will get back on track. this character is inspired from a cartoon show I use to watch when I was little call Under Dog. Underdog was so cool. To me, under dog was the first hip hop cartoon show cause he was rhyming every time he talk and he was doing drugs to become strong, Awesome. Well, if I had my cartoon show, I would call him Heroic Hound. Not only would he take pills to become strong he’ll shoot up as well, in between his paws, lol. Enjoy everybody. One….
#16 Rusty and “Shiny” Shane Toledo
Universe/Storyline: The Band
Universe details: In the isolated city of Crescent where these characters live, superpowers spring from close encounters with death. Only people born in the city can gain these powers, and since this is a relatively new settlement, the first generation of people born there are just starting to show signs of super-fication. This means mostly kids and teens. Of the teens, Camille, Max, Amelia, Walter, and Rin decide to team up and form a band. They take it upon themselves to realizes that everyone deserves to be informed about the city’s unique predicament, they try to reach every kid in the city at once by putting on a live concert.
Besides the fact that they’re identical twins of age 13, these two have little to nothing in common.
Rusty was born first. He was named for his copper red-brown hair. He despises the infantile associations with the name but embraces it nonetheless. His brother Shane was born moments later, with the same copper red-brown hair, but his parents didn’t name him based on that. Recently Shane has started dying his hair black and calling himself Shiny.
The best way to sum up the personalities of these two is by comparing them to one manic-depressive individual. Shiny is the manic and Rusty is the depressive. While Shiny is bouncing off the walls, getting excited or angry, and just emoting to an absurd extent, Rusty is cowering in the corner, trying to drown out Shiny’s noise with a pillow over his head. The two brothers do not get along.
Rusty and Shiny don’t have any superpowers. They missed out on the concert, Rusty being too depressed and Shiny having fallen into a coma-like sleep that follows an intense day of hyperactivity. When Shiny wakes up to the chaos of the Powers Riots, he decides that he’s going to participate. He gathers up all of the sharp and shiny weapons he can find in the kitchen and sets out to start his own faction of non-superpowered individuals called The Vigilantes. However, no self-respecting teen even a year older than Shiny will join him, so The Vigilantes ends up being composed of a bunch of imaginative kids. To The Band, The Vigilantes are more of a nuisance than a threat.
Shiny and his new friends plague Rusty, hardly allowing him any time alone or peace and quiet. When he overhears what The Vigilantes are planning, he decides to go to The Band and share what he knows in exchange for sanctuary.
#11 Wind Shear (aka stage name: Wyndsong)
Wind Shear : neovidual abilities : complete control over air currents at tornado/hurricane strength levels , intangibility at will, invisibility at will.
Aliases :Â stage name: Wyndsong
Wind Shear is an intergalactic singing celebrity using the stage name “Wyndsongâ€. Being one of the most famous singers in hundreds of galaxies she credits the talent of her voice to her neovidual ability of influencing the air current through her lungs and voice box with complete control while instantaneously phasing & solidifying choice sections of those organs at will. Wind Shear is able to achieve notes and pitches that no other can match due to those abilities. The uniqueness in her sound, and being able to sing in thousands of intergalactic languages, has won her interstellar acclaim.
Wind Shear is also a public and proud neovidual heroine and adventurer. She is respected for the good she has done in these areas. Through this activity she has encountered the hero Moonwill, and is quite fond of him. The feeling is mutual. Wind Shear will become a deeply important aspect in Moonwill’s life and those around him in ways he is not yet aware of.
#8 The Duke of Brixton
Courageous acts made him legendary. And after saving the King’s only son, a medieval peasant named Henry, with extraordinary abilities far beyond that of common men, was given the honorary title of Duke of Brixton. That title, along with flight, superstrength, & nigh-invulnerability has been passed down from generation to generation ever since. They’ve always stood to protect England & to protect the crown. Nowadays, the threats are even bigger, but the Duke is always at the ready.
The current duke, Simon, has carried the title since 1981. Before that, he was just a kid, listening to ska, wanting nothing to do with his family’s wealth or status. He rebelled against authority, having no intention of ever becoming it. That was until his father died while selflessly thwarting a nuclear blast over Sheffield. It stirred something in the young punk. It was then that he buckled down, realizing that being Duke wasn’t only an obligation, but a symbol of national pride. And in his day, Simon came to be regarded as one of the greatest Dukes in history. He fought terrorists & supervillains. He stopped his own nuclear attacks, & even an alien invasion or two. This also put him directly in the public eye. He had a series of PSA’s with the BBC, he used his likeness to endorse special superscience projects throughout the UK, Hollywood movies based on his exploits, & for a time, his own line of organic yogurts. In the late eighties, he even became a tabloid fixture, sparking a relationship with his then Cold War rival Zavtra, whom he later married & divorced.
More recently, Simon’s fallen out of the limelight. A single father, for a time, he put off superheroics to raise his & Zavtra’s daughter, Alina. When he was ready to come back, the world was different. An influx of other superheroes meant less crises to go around; usually it’d be averted by the time he got there. More than anything these days, The Duke uses his celebrity & pretty substantial means to forward scientific & humanitarian projects at fundraisers & charity dinners, feeling there’s more than one way to be a hero. This, of course does nothing to help the popular belief that he’s too old & washed up to be saving the day. The thing is, he’d retire in a second if his now-grown, & awfully rebellious daughter was ready to assume her inevitable role as the first ‘Duchess of Brixton’. But it seems she’d much rather party & tear up half of London in her own drunken escapades than gear up & save the world. Secretly, Simon can relate. At the same time, he remembers the jarring incident that woke him up, & only hopes Alina pulls herself together before she’s forced to.
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Earlier this year, I had an idea for an Entervoid character. She was an entitled, bratty party girl who just happened to be the daughter of superheroes. She was sort of the black sheep & fodder for the tabloids. I started developing her but not much into the family she came from. The furthest I got was that they were a long line of superhumans going far back into the middle ages in the UK, & as a reward for their heroic actions, at some point received an honorary title & were famed protectors of the realm ever since. That was about as far as I got before I got distracted & started doing something else. So here’s her dad. But frankly, if I were to do another void character, I’m thinking right now it’d probably be Glorious Sentai Gokaider Red, my first character from this year. Probably because I think this family has a lot of story to explore, more than you could probably show in character battles.
There of course is no Brixton title in British Heraldry. Figured it was best to make one up as opposed to stepping on a real duke or something. I went with Brixton simply because of the Clash song (& why there’s also maybe a little bit of Paul Simonon going on in the face). Originally, I was just planning to make him look like an upper class, well-yet-casually dressed Englishman in a suit. But I thought that might be a cop out. So I started to work on something that might be his Hero suit, intending it to be something you’d see in like an X-men movie or Wildstorm book from the late nineties/early oughts. Ultimately I’m not super thrilled with it because I don’t think it gets the point across. What I really I wanted, was to kind of give the idea that he’s been a bit vestigial & out of touch, & the last time he was a big deal was that Oasis/Spice Girls sort of era. Oh & he’s supposed to be levitating, not standing on tip toes. It might look a little strange without a point of reference. And again, I’ll give it a proper color job if I ever have the time, but that’s looking less & less likely.
Sorry, that all got a little verbose.
#16: Mecoptera
Real Name: Drasdell Squirk
Height: 7’1″
Weight: 122 lbs.
Powers: Giant, flying alien insectisoid with a scorpion-like stinger.
Character info: Mecoptera was a character I came up with years ago related to the superhero/pirate storyline I wanted to do (see previous entry of Cutlass for more info). However, he’ll now be used in a future space arc of The Adventurers of Liberty City. He’ll be one of the alien villains that team will be facing. He’s essentially a henchman, using his flight and stinger to attack heroes.
15 – The Man of the Moon
… continued from Character #14, Maximilian Mote…
… the MAN of the MOON!
The appearance of a super powered generation capable of miraculous feats increased the levels of distrust already present between nations. In the United States, this paranoia fueled a number of space programs to establish satellite-based monitoring of global superhuman movement. The destruction of one satellite over the U.S.S.R. at the hands of the Soviet Super Star pushed the scope of America’s off world activities to once again visit the moon with the goal of establishing a monitoring system out of the reach of current super human abilities. What the astronauts found on the moon when they stepped off their landing vehicle was unexpected to say the least.
Partially buried in a crater was the prone form of a pale gray skinned man dressed in 18th century clothing. After a moment of silent disbelief and upon orders from home, the astronauts loaded their anachronistic find onto their escape vehicle for departure back to Earth.
A silvery sheen at the edge of burial crater caught the eye of one of the astronauts as they boarded the craft. Upon inspection he began to free a tall silvery staff. The staff shone and as the astronaut turned triumphantly to show what he uncovered to his peers a massive tentacle emerged from the lunar soil and dragged him under the surface as the staff sparked with ethereal energy. The shocked astronauts aboard the escape vehicle were pushed aside as the body they found stood and dove after their disappearing compatriot unaided by any breathing apparatus. Moments later the strange man burst forth from the ground, staff in one hand and a critically injured astronaut in the other. With a mouthed “Good day, gentlemen,†the stranger collapsed.
Back on Earth, the strange gray man regained consciousness and related his story in a perfect 18th century English accent. The man called himself the Man of the Moon and indicated that he was once a sailor by the name of Joseph Williams working for a small American business whose ship was destroyed at sea when returning to the recently founded country from a trading venture in France. Adrift in the Atlantic on flotsam he was rescued in the middle of a night, lit by the full moon in a cloudless sky, by the previous Man of the Moon who had been protecting Earth from threats from beyond from his look out post on the dark side of the moon. In return for his rescue, Williams was trained as the next defender of our planet, as the previous guardian was growing tired after manning the solitary position for nearly a millennium. Williams did his job and protected our planet from many extraterrestrial menaces but has no recollection as to how he ended up in the condition in which he was found or what attacked the astronaut on the surface of the moon.
Through force of will alone summoned his staff to his side even though it was housed miles away at another facility and offered his services to his homeland. The Man of the Moon has become a media darling and sought after interviewee by talk shows and historians alike. The Man of the Moon has decided to spend time on Earth reacquainting himself with his home world, all the while keeping an eye on the skies.
The Man of the Moon is by far the most powerful extra-normal being on Earth capable of bending gravity to his will. He can personally channel his power into feats of strength and flight and, with the aid of staff, extend his powers outward and control gravity around him on scales that can affect global tides, though this exertion greatly drains him. Williams’ physiology has been greatly altered. His pale gray skin is invulnerably to all known forms of harm and has stopped his aging giving him the appearance of 30-year old even though he is over 260 years old! The Man of the Moon can exist unaided in environments of extreme pressure and in the vacuum of space for indefinite amounts of time as he no longer needs to eat, breathe or sleep.
The Man of the Moon was not the only addition to America’s super human stable. The fateful lunar mission also spawned…
#16 – Front Line
That’s right, kids, get in gear!
Nazi super villains need super patriots to punch them in the face, right?
#16 Firelight
Firelight
Nobody knows why Kendall Bright entered that field the night he received his powers, not even Kendall himself.
The fact is he was afraid to face an uncertain future without the love of his life, who left him for another without any warning. Maybe he wanted some alien force to just take him away from this planet never to return again.
Maybe he wanted to die that night and just rot out in the field.
Whatever the real reason, he laid in a field bombarded with astral radiation. It was a freak occurrence the local media reported.
The radiation left Kendall Bright with the headache from hell . . . at least the first night. It also caused his body to reach incredibly high temperatures, as if it was on fire.
No flames came from his body that night, but his body did burn through the hospital bed as well as through five floors.
A clandestine group took him in and transformed him into a weapon.
Codenamed “Firelight,” this hero took to night skies and became a fiery knight of justice.
All he wants is a normal life, but he’s not denying that he’s having fun in this new identity of his.
Firelight: (C) & TM Jeff Harris dba Studio Lightcount.
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