I got this wood chest where I keep everything creative I’ve ever done; all the way back to my very first Wolverine drawing (Circa 2nd grade).
With the move and all I ended up really going through the box yesterday for the first time ever. I started with the most recent stuff because it’s all on top; college and high school cartoons on loose leaf paper… art projects and feature length scripts written long hand in copy books… Nothing to blow your mind.
Then I get to the grade school stuff and I stumbled on the very first super heroes I ever came up with on my own. This team of characters, all original, and a series of lil comic books I made about them – complete with fully fleshed out story arcs and a rotating cast of villains and conflict and character development and life and death and revenge… all these great things about comic books I must have subconsciously learned to emulate even then.
Obviously the dialogue and the art are poor. I was prolly in 4th grade when I worked on all this nonsense… But its more original and imaginative nonsense than I’ve been able to come up with ever since. There’s a creature that eats everything in it’s path, a guy with a cruise missile strapped to his back, a super genius who has to keep his head shaved because when he thinks too hard his brain steams. They’re deadliest enemy is the sole occupant and sovereign ruler of the sun.
These heroes were celebrities and they lived in a super high tech fort on the Ben Franklin Parkway, later relocating to the Navy Yard after the government black mailed the heroes into working for them and completing more politically motivated missions…. Pretty crazy stuff to be doodling in Social Studies Class.
I can’t tell you how jealous I am of 4th grade me, cause I don’t really remember coming up with any of that stuff but I’m sure I had a blast doing it.
Above from L to R/T to B:
Savage Man, Super Sonic, The Abdominal Glutton.
The White Owl, Up Girl Mistress of Flight, Ultra The Unknown, Johnny Tomorrow, Baal The Artificial Man, Missy, Doctor Chronos, Lil Miss Mighty.
Digital Boyd, Waldo Wrong, Metal Marine, Phantom Detective, Runaway: Master of Escape.
The Mad Alchemist, Sea Sprite, Comet Kid, Every Man, Major Liberty.
Fang, Special Agent Knighting Gale, Gone Girl, Justice Lad, Rapid, Street Cheetah, The Superlative.
