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This is where I’ll post my character submissions and other stuff.
My first contest submission was this cover for a comic book (or will it end up as a novel? flash movie? something else?) that I’m working on. I couldn’t seem to focus my thoughts past the first page, but here’s the basic idea:
For whatever reason, I decided to make a heroic zombie. Sure it’s been done before, but not as big as this. Our title heroine wakes up in total darkness, her body screaming with pain (because duh, her body is just bones, muscle, and raw nerves at this point). She has no memory of anything that happened before she woke up, but she’s fairly certain she shouldn’t be alive–was in fact dead at some point.
Through the course of her story, she emerges into a world overrun by Decay (grey, zombie-like host bodies controlled by some sentient viral parasite), discovers that not only is her ravaged body healing itself, but that her touch can also somehow kill the parasites and revert newly infected hosts to their human form, effectively healing them. But there turns out to be a larger, more sinister purpose to her gift that she is unaware of. So I ask the question again: Is this the face of a hero?This was another Gods Contest submission. How did I come up with Kauket, you ask? Well, at this time, I was reading the first two books in the offensively, brilliantly funny David Wong series (John Dies At the End and This Book Is Full Of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don’t Touch It) and came across a section about the series’ main villain, Korrok. In it he is revealed to be the son of a pagan god known as Kuk (who is the Egyptian frog god of darkness, chaos, and all things bad).
In my research (which amounted to about ten minutes on Wikipedia), I discovered that Kuk, like the other three main deities in Egyptian mythology, has a female counterpart called Kauket.
Kauket, like her male counterpart, is a goddess of chaos and darkness (symbolized by a snake), but also has domain over “the waters” and serves as the bringer of light. The giant blue eye and the jaws floating in the darkness are a nod to David Wong’s Korrok character.This Gods contest submission was an interpretation of Agloolik, Inuit god of hunting and fishing, and eater of ships.
He also goes by the name Super Mega Ghost Sharktopus-nadoWho says a god has to be from mythology? The God contest rules certainly didn’t say anything about that. So rock gods should qualify, too. Right?
So I took a leap and submitted AC/DC guitarist Angus Young as the Australian God of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
But I got the Jack instead.Here’s another Family submission, the Fifth Hour team, who got their powers from touching a crash-landed meteorite.
Fever, based on the phrase “Five O’Clock Fever,” is your basic pyrotechnic hero, and the father of the team.
His wife, Shadow, is a ninja and the team’s tactical expert, based off that old shaving standby, the unfortunate Five O’Clock Shadow. She can blend in with almost anything black or shadowed for a brief period of time, and even travel between shadows like a form of line-of-sight teleportation.
Their son Rush (inspired by that time of day when everyone gets off work and mobs the supermarket at once) is an impulsive speedster.I’ve been trying to build characters that have a common item theme (not necessarily built from the same category, but from similar-looking items). Could this have led me to create the first albino superheroine?
I created her as kind of an homage to Chris Cornell (lead singer of Soundgarden, Audioslave, Temple of the Dog, etc.) via word association: First I decided to do a costume with holes in it. That led me to thinking moth-holes, then to black holes, then “Black Hole Sun,” then back to “Moth,” so I had to put the flame in there, and so the flying albino superheroine known as Moth was born. She won’t fly around your fire anymore, but she just might suck it into another universe (perhaps one where there’s a “Shadow On the Sun?”). Somebody stop me before I hang myself with a “Pretty Noose.” Goodnight.
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