For as long as we can remember, the Troll lived under the bridge. Every day he’d just relax and take it easy. When he was hungry, he’d just sit by the river and catch fish. Fish for breakfast, for lunch, for supper, it was all so easy. It was a pretty pleasant life for the […]
Damager
When John Leong first woke up in smooth silver armor that he couldn’t account for, he was confused. It vanished into the thin air as soon as he removed it, but returned when he awoke the next day. This became a daily routine for Leong. A teenager at that time, Leong kept this secret and tried to continue his life as normal. But Leong had problems other than this. He had anger issues. He was greedy. Together, these made him a violent man, the type who would mug someone on the street or hold up a liquor store. It didn’t take long for him to realize that with every selfish crime he committed, the mysterious armor grew more villainous looking, getting larger and growing spikes.
That was when it occurred to Leong to try keeping the armor on. He wore it to a bank and demanded money, in the process learned that it tripled his strength and was utterly bulletproof. And by removing it, he could blend into a crowd and make his escape. And, of course, it kept growing more powerful with each crime.
I drew Damager and I was like “Well that’s pretty generic. My options are: bury him in a team of supervillains, or make his story unusually unique.” I aimed for the latter and hopefully I did a sufficient job.
Swarm Master
Doctor Emily Clayworth was always good at multitasking. Attaining degrees in several scientific fields by her early twenties, Clayworth had a promising career ahead. That is, until she discovered her great invention: tiny robots that she could control with her mind. A discovery like that would have plenty of legitimate uses, but Clayworth decided to go another way. The crime way. None of her associates are sure why she chose a life of crime, but some suspect that the fact that she places one of her own brain cells into every one of the robots she creates could be a contributing factor.
With drones that fly and drones that slither and even drones that are equipped with weaponry, Clayworth is, at all times, receiving sensory information from hundreds or even thousands of different sources, but she somehow manages to keep it all straight and organize intricate, if questionably motivated, crimes.
The Swarm Master is a character I actually sketched when I was planning to do a post of lady mad scientists, but I misplaced it and sketched the other ones instead. But now that I’ve found this one again, there’s no point in letting her go to waste. The thing about the robots having Clayworth’s brain cells in them is, I’m sure, totally unscientific, but I think its madness makes up for that.
Captain Chivalry stood on a rooftop. People on the street below looked up. Mothers whispered to their children, “He saved the city,” “He stopped the explosion,” “He fought the aliens.” The children didn’t understand; such threats were unimportant to them. One man thanked God that the Captain was there to save the day whenever trouble […]
So anyway, a buncha years ago I created a blog on which I wanted to post stories while hiding my identity. A secret pseudonym identity where I could just write more things and nobody would know. Why? Why do I do any of this? For my own amusement.
But, as should be evident by this site alone, I haven’t had the time to write as many prose things as I’d like. For a while I was getting stories done both here and there, but I let it slide. And then I started a webcomic and then I went back to school and then I started my Super Sunday things. Before long I was getting things done here with some consistency, but I pretty much forgot about that site (but never the story I was telling). I recently realized I haven’t updated that blog since 2012. So, I quit. I’m going to fold AbatwaX’s stories into this site over the next week or two and hopefully get back to them here someday. I admit, it was somewhat foolhardy for me to try working under a pseudonym before I even had a regular writing thing going on here.
Also, I did some short stories for my Creative Writing mid-term. I’m going to transcribe those and have them up over the next week or two as well. This will bulk up my prose section a bit. Obviously, nobody cares about prose stories, but hey, they’ll be there for me and that’s what I want.
