The 3 Primary Types Of Superheroes

 So, for a while I've been thinking about the different types of superheroes and what exactly qualifies a hero as "super", and I think I've figured out the three basic kinds of superhero that all superheroes are derivative from, think of these as kinda like genuses of the animal kingdom kinda, but for superheroes.

The first primary type we have is

This one is self explanatory and probably the first type of superhero one would think of when thinking about what a superhero is exactly.

The second primary type of superhero I've figured out is

Another one that's expected and self explanatory, most likely this is the second type of superhero one would think of after heroes with inherent abilities.

Now finally, the third primary type of superhero, and most likely the most controversial, and it's

Of course this is a bit of a hot button topic when it comes to superheroes and what one would consider to be a superhero.

Like most of the time when I get into conversations or arguments about what characters qualify as superheroes and bring up individuals who don't have any superpowers, but are pretty much superheroes due to their insane skill level and/or skill set, like Rambo, El Santo and the like one of the biggest arguments I see brought up against them being superheroes is that "they don't have superpowers/super qualities therefore they can't be considered "super" heroes", And personally I see advanced levels of skill as a super power, especially in a lot of fantastical fictional worlds were advanced skill basically equates to being superhuman.

Like I think of Batman for example, and people talking about how without his billions of dollars and various gadgets he would just be a crazy guy in a bat suit, when that is far from the truth, given how many times in the comics we've seen Batman deprived of his gadgets and wealth and how he still is able to operate as a superhero, even without these things, because of his hyper refined skill sets such as his immense knowledge, mastery of martial arts and hyper refined deductive reasoning skill.

I've even heard people argue that Batman isn't even a superhero because he doesn't have any superpowers and only uses gadgets, which is an entirely different argument/conversation but something I feel pertinent to mention because it shows how selective and discriminatory people can be with calling characters superheroes. 

Especially since using that same logic, Ironman is also not a superhero, neither is Warmachine, or Steel and so on cause all those characters need power armor which is a type of gadget, or hell using that same argument one could say Ben 10 isn't even a superhero or green lantern isn't a superhero and so on because again, they need gadgets to fight or be super.

Ultimately though everyone has their own interpretation of what makes a superhero a super hero, this post/article thingy is just me explaining my personal standpoint and view on the subject, which won't necessarily line up with how other people think about what a superhero necessarily is, or what qualifies as a superhero.

And in this post I didn't go into any the morality bits or the finer minutiae of what makes a character qualify as a superhero, because that is a conversation for an entirely different post, this right here is just a post explaining my viewpoint about what I qualify as being super when applied to characters who can be considered heroes, if that makes sense.

Also a heads up, I don't plan for this to be my last post on this particular subject matter, I've been studying superheroes, both classical and modern for quite a while now and developing my own thoughts and theories about them, and what exactly qualifies as a superhero both modern and classical, so expect more posts like this discussing similar subject matter.

In particularly I plan on discussing subtypes of these three primary genuses of superheroes, including some subtypes that overlap between various superhero genuses, and once I'm done figuring that all out I might even post a full idea web type image with all the different superhero genuses and subtypes.

Anyways that's about it for now and I hope you found this post informative and please if you have your own input on this, let me know and maybe we can discuss.

Atto the Artificial Man: The Birth Of A Hero (comic script)

 

(Authors note: here's a script I wrote a while ago that I really want to have made into a proper comic at some point, probably a part of an anthology taking place in the Diamoverse of my canon of work, already have a name for this anthology, MULTI-TEAM COMICS, named after the primary superhero team in the Diamoverse, at some point I'll either have the drawing ability to do it myself, have the money to hire artist or do it as a collaborative project with my friends, or maybe even some mix of the 3, anyways, here's the script, hope you enjoy)

Pg1

Panel1: skinny rectangular panel at the top of the page.

Action: we see Atto running through a wall at a criminal.

Title: Atto the artificial man in, the creation of atto.

Panel2: somewhat large vertical rectangle panel right below the first panel on the left side of the page.

Action: we see a scientist sitting in a dark room with other figures that are masked in shadow.

Scientist: welcome gentleman, as you may or may not be aware I've been researching and developing a fantastic new technology that is set to change the world, but you probably don't know the specifics of my scientific work as I have specifically kept this information out of the papers.

Panel3: somewhat large vertical rectangle panel right below the first panel on the middle of the page.

Action: the scientist stands up and begins to walk to a curtain.

Scientist: you see my dear friends, years ago on an expedition to an ancient Temple in the far east, I found an anomalous and strange stone that exuded a power beyond a person's wildest imagination.

Panel4: somewhat large vertical rectangle panel right below the first panel on the right side of the page.

Action: the scientist is at the curtain and pulls at it slowly revealing the window behind it.

Scientist: I brought the stone back to the States, I began doing studies on it and realized, it was the perfect power source for a project that I had dreamed of since I was a young boy and learned of the made men of myth.

Panel5: large horizontal rectangular panel at the very bottom of the page taking up a good portion of it.

Action: we see the man has fully removed the curtain from the window and behind the window stands a man that is clearly not human with palish blue skin.

Scientist: behold my Adam, Atto the artificial man.

Pg2

Panel1: large rectangle panel at the top of the page.

Action: we see the man behind the glass as he looks around as the scientist stands in front of the glass.

Scientist: I made him to be more than just an ordinary man as well,

Panel2: small square panel under previous panel on left side

Scientist: just watch.

Action: the scientists press a button.

Panel3: small rectangular panel under previous panel taking up the middle and right of the page.

Action: a hatch opens on the side of the room, out of it rolling a table with a steel bar right in front of Atto.

Scientist: watch what my artificial man can do to a steel bar.

Panel4-6: small square panels going from left to right

Action: we see the artificial man as he picks up the bar and begins to bend it with ease into a pretzel.

Panel7: medium sized rectangular panel at the bottom .

Action: we see from the perspective of the crowd there silhouettes seen as they react emotively to what they see in the spotlight, that of course being the scientist and atto behind the glass.

Crowd: incredible, amazing, astonishing. 

Scientist: yes but I intended for him to be that strong, now look at what I didn't intend.

Pg3

Panel1: small square panel of the scientist's face.

Scientist: Atto I want you to bring me a genuine Arctic penguin.

Panel2-4: two small square panels starting from the middle of the top right of the page going to the right of the page, then In the middle of the page a largish rectangular panel.

Action: Atto appears to disappear and then immediately reappears with a close up on him and his smiling doofy expression with a penguin squawking in his arms.

Crowd: impossible, how'd he do that, the thing can teleport.

Panel5: small square again with the scientist.

Scientist: not teleport my good man, but move at such incredible speeds that appears to rival even the likes of Mercury, now watch this, Atto, bring me the penguin.

Panel6-8 same pattern as before with two small square panels starting from the middle going to the right and ending on a large rectangular panel at the bottom of the page.

Action: atto begins to walk towards the glass as his body begins moving and vibrating into a blur of green and orange and smeared details The birds still in his hands with this final panel showing him from the front super close to the glass seemingly about to break through it.

crowd: oh my Lord, he's coming right toward us, he's a walking explosion.

Pg4

Panel1-4: 3 normal small square panels and then a final rectangular panel with the penguin.

Action: we see as almost by magic the artificial man walks straight through the glass and wall as if nothing was there at all not even breaking anything, then presenting the squawking penguin to his creator.

Crowd: how, impossible, he's a ghost.

Scientist: no gentleman I assure you he is not a ghost.

Panel5-6: medium sized rectangles.

Action: we see the scientist walking over and grabbing the penguin as he talks.

Scientist: But instead it appears that the ancient power source I had used on my mechanical man has allowed him to move not just his entire body at impossible speeds but move his very atomic structure In such a way that he could walk through walls.

Panel7: medium rectangle on the left side of the page.

Action: we see a close up of the scientist as he holds the penguin under his right arm.

Scientist: possibly even allowing him to physically change his form whether that be in appearance.

Panel8: medium rectangle on the right side of the page.

Action: we now are looking at the audience with one shadey member of the crowd perking up at the mention of the precious metal.

Scientist: such as stretching his limbs or even potentially reconstructing his very atoms into that of lead or gold.

Panel9: a rectangle taking up the rest of the page.

Action: we see from the crowd again as they look at the spotlight but this time they are all giddy and clapping.

Crowd: truly awe inspiring, I still can't believe it and it's standing in front of me, doctor doctor, what do you plan on doing with your man-made man.

Panel10: small square panels in the right corner of the page covering some of the 9th panel.

Action: we see a close up on the scientist's head.

Scientist: well.

Pg5

Panel1-7: the upper left corner panel is a circle with the scientist's head but the rest are rectangular in a grid pattern, with the majority being vertical and rectangular with the final large panel being horizontal.

Action: panel 1 with scientists's head.

Scientist: with the recent uptick in crime, the looming horseman of war.

Action: panel 2 we see a skeleton in a cape, hat and Domino mask with whited out eyes looking head on at the camera.

Scientist: and the recent rise of the mystery man and super powered vigilante.

Action: panel 3 we see the scientist face again but from a different angle, clearly he's serious.

Scientist: I feel it is my duty to make sure that my mechanical creation.

Action panel 4 and another shot of the scientist this time looking at the reader. 

Scientist: nigh my mechanical son be a symbol of heroic values and protect those who cannot protect themselves.

Action: panel 5 we see a side view of a line up of various different shadowed out heroes including a guy who looks like a blue version of the flame, a woman in a spandex suit with a clear blindfold on and the previously mentioned skeleton guy in front.

Scientist: so I have decided to allow Atto to join the ever growing ranks of super americans fighting the good fight and protecting the freedoms of our great countries people.

Action: panel 6 we see over atto's shoulder as the doctor reads to him from a book of American history.

Scientist: and I have taught my mechanical son those great American values and have trained him to use his powers to the best of my ability.

Action: penel 7 we see the scientist again as he stands center in the spotlight, a full view from the front as atto stands to the side, his upper half being unilluminated by the spotlight.

Scientist: and he will begin his fight against corruption and villainy soon, very soon.

Pg6

Panel1: a medium sized rectangular panel taking up the upper left and upper middle of the page.

Caption: more than a few moments after the conference concludes our good doctor and his mechanical man are met by an unwanted surprise.

Action: we see the old doctor being accompanied by his robot as he is walking but a knock is heard.

Panel2: square taking up the right corner of the page.

Action: we see a close up on the scientist with Atto in the background looking back at the scientist, the scientist on the left side, atto on the right.

Scientist: Atto, I'll go grab the door and see who's there, probably another reporter who missed the conference wanting a private scoop, can you prepare me my tea.

Atto: right away pops.

Panel3-5: two medium sized squares on either side of the page and a big rectangle at the bottom, so big that the third and fourth panel are over the 5th.

Action: We see the scientist crack open the door with a close up on his face in the first two panels with the first panel showing an expression of annoyance and the next one of horror with the final panel showing him being pushed backwards as a group of mobsters barge their way in.

Scientist: I told several of you already there is no private scoop, you're too late.

Mobster: we are never late doc.

Pg7

Panel1: square in the upper left hand corner.

Action: one mobster pistol whips the doctor to the floor.

Panel2: a rectangle taking up the right and middle of the top of the page.

Action: We see the mobster towering over the frail old scientist.

Mobster: alright Mr science, here's what ya gonna do see, you're gonna give us that mechanical monstrosity and make him turn into gold, or you'll be eating a dinner o lead with the fishes.

Panel3: rectangle panel in the middle of the page.

Action: we see the scientist angry wiping blood from his mouth while in the foreground we see the silhouette of the mobster standing over him.

Scientist: I will not buckle my morals to some poorly dressed racketeers and their miniscule muscles.

Panel4: square panel.

Mobster: why I'll show you.

Action: The mobster shoots his gun at the doctor with a bang.

Panel5: square panel.

Action: a blur of color is seen emerging from seemingly nowhere and appearing in between the doctor and the mobster.

Panel6: square panel.

Action: and to the shock and surprise of the mobster the man he just tried to shoot is not hurt in any way.

Mobster: what the.

Panel7: thin rectangular panel.

Action: the mobsters eyes as they look irritated and atto stands behind and to the side from him holding a bullet inspecting it.

Atto: discharging a weapon at an elderly man for some vain attempt of monetary gain through a sentient miracle of science, clearly you have egos the size of Texas, that or you have brains the size of atoms.

Pg8

Panel1: rectangular panel.

Action: clearly insulted by what the artificial man is saying, the head mobster turns around pointing his gun at the robot.

Mobster: all right then Mr wise guy, rattle him boys.

Panel2: another rectangle but thicker than the last one.

Action: The two other mobsters point their tommy guns at atto who stands in the middle between both of them and the head mobster and they all begin shooting.

Panel3: large square bottom left.

Action: moving in a blur Atto is able to grab every single bullet out of the air making after projections of his arms as he goes and seemingly makes the bullets disappear.

Panel4: large square bottom right.

Action: the mobsters seeing this are shocked and frightened.

Mobster: alright boys, clearly this isn't our day, let's scram.

Pg9

Panel1-4: three square panels at the top and a rectangle underneath.

Action: The mobsters try running away but fall and after looking at their feet discover with shock and horror that their shoes are now solid lead blocks around their feet.

Mobster: cripes, how is this possible?

Panel5-7: square panels.

Action: we see atto's head in a caption box on the top of the first panel showing from a different angle atto grabbing the bullets as he's shot at, then the next panel shows him with one bullet walking over to the head mobster, then we see atto mold the bullet like clay onto the mobsters shoed foot.

Atto: while you were shooting at me so recklessly, I grabbed every bullet you guys shot and without you even noticing it, i began forming each bullet you shot at me into shoes of lead around your feet, how? well by using my incredible abilities of speed and power over matter of course.

Panel8: big bottom rectangle with a caption box on the bottom right hand side.

Action: we see atto standing in the typical hero pose, hands on his hips as his scientist father and creator congratulates him.

Scientist: You did good my son, this was truly a remarkable test of your incredible abilities and wit, I'll call the police to take care of these ruffians.

Caption: and triumphantly the day is saved by the artificial man ATTO, but where will our young hero go next, what's his next step as America's newest man of mystery and super powered hero, come back in the next issue of MULTI-TEAM COMICS to find out.

Here's a sketch I made of how I imagine
Atto looking like, I used two golden age
Comics to trace over to create this
Specifically a depiction of the hero
Cyclone from issue #2 of whirlwind comics
And The lower half is from a story
Involving the hero blackout, I don't know
What issue this one comes from do to
How I archived it but he appears in 
The Holyoke comics line Catman Comics
All of which can be found on comic book
Plus, also his design is a mix of the
Two mentioned superheroes plus some
Inspiration from Volton, the wizard of speed
And time and even iron man

Atto the Artificial Man (character bio)

The world's fastest biomechanical being with the core of speed and time at his center, created by an adventurous scientist by the name of Fox Carmichael to fight crime and bust gangs and was eventually drafted as one of the first members in the Multi-Team during world War II.

Atto is an interesting case, being a robot you'd expect him to be rather humorless, constantly speaking about logic and such, and although that might be what you meet at the beginning you will quickly find out that that's an act to mess with people, with the real Atto being a lot more humorous and clever.

Always found with a smile on his face, Atto was created in the late 1930s by The adventurous doctor Fox Carmichael after a trip to a forgotten, beyond ancient Temple where he discovered a mysterious artifact of impossible power, the Core of Speed and Time.

Using this artifact he constructed a artificial body around it, a body not just of steel and aluminum, but also flesh grown with the doctor's own DNA, with Atto soon being born and shown to the world.

With his first demonstration being to a privately assembled group of fellow scientists and reporters who witnessed Atto's fantastic abilities of immense strength, speed and self molecular control.

Needless to say in the small middle American city he called home he would end up making quite the splash, busting crime and evil around every corner, soon catching the attention of the enigmatic hero The Skeleton, one of the big and first widely known mystery men, who would approach our metal speedster with a proposition, to be a part of a team of fantastic heroes like himself and fight the good fight overseas against the forces of evil.

Atto being the hero he was, was excited and giddy at the idea and already planning to accept the offer, especially since it was coming from such a legend as The Skeleton, and after discovering his new arch enemy, the evil wizard of time and speed, Speedstorr was allied with the Germans, Atto was more then willing to join.

Atto was soon fighting not only alongside his fellow Heroes such as Lady Justice, The Ice Cube the 2nd, John Joe Shootem the 3rd, Captain Electron, Tanko The Man Tank and of course The Skeleton but also the soldiers of the allied forces in some of the wars most important battles, most notably a clash at Normandy where Atto faced off against Speedstorr and his apprentice, Hans Blitzer nicknamed Blonde Streak by Atto, this conflict being were Atto unlocked the true power of the core of speed and time, but that is a story best saved to be told in the comics rather then explained here.

The sketch at the top I made of how I imagine Atto looking like, 

I used two golden age

Comics to trace over to create this

Specifically a depiction of the hero

Cyclone from issue #2 of whirlwind comics

And The lower half is from a story

Involving the hero blackout, I don't know

What issue this one comes from do to

How I archived it but he appears in 

The Holyoke comics line Catman Comics

All of which can be found on comic book

Plus, also his design is a mix of the

Two mentioned superheroes plus some

Inspiration from Volton, the wizard of speed And time and even iron man

 

Sgt Spook in Haunting Hoodlums

(Note: this script is actively being edited)

Hello all whoever may be reading this, my name is holo and I'm a cartoonist, Writer, storyteller, comic historian and archivist and all around lover of sequential art.

And this is one of my comic scripts based on the golden age hero Sgt spook, a police officer who died do to a chemical explosion he caused and came back as a ghost to fight crime.

I personally am a huge fan of this character and the golden age as a whole and since this character was public domain I decided to try my hand at writing a comic story starring him but for various reasons it didn't exactly work out that way.

another reason I wanted to do this is because I discovered this characters existence through a YouTube video made to literally just make fun of the character, so I wanted to make this story to show the characters potential.

The best way I can describe spook is like if the DC hero Deadman got crossed with a pinch of ghost rider and the irreverent silliness of Deadpool while also having the deductive reasoning of Batman and somehow the innocence of Jimmy Olsen.

So now I'm releasing this, the raw script to the internet, and as far as I'm concerned this script is in the public domain just like the rest of Sgt spooks story canon, all I ask if you do decide to reprint, retell, adapt or otherwise redistribute the story is that you credit me the holozler as the creator of the script and of course shout out to the original creator of Sgt Spook Malcolm Kildale.

I'm told this is creative commons.

Anyways, that's enough of my rambling, your here for the story, so here it is.

Sgt Spook: Haunting Hoodlums

Pg1

Action: we see Sargent spook happily walking down the street, whistling a tune, walking and phasing through a fire hydrant until he hears a siren from the distance.

Sgt spook: what's that?

Pg2

Action: quickly, sgt spook runs/floats to the commotion and finds a bank, the police have just arrived surrounding it.

Pg3

Action: out of the bank comes a group of robbers 4 strong and shooting at the police as they suck out and run down an alleyway fleeing the police as sgt spook watches.

Sgt spook: I better stop those fiends.

Pg4

Action: sgt spook floats over to the robbers car and grabs their fender.

Sgt spook smile on his face.

Sgt Spook: surely this'll put a stop to there rampage.

Quickly the hit the engine and they drive away, spook looking a tad surprised ripping off the fender instead of stopping them, it looking to passers by as if the fender fell off.

Sgt spook: well, I still can stop them, just have to get a bit more creative.

Pg5

Action: we see sgt spook find a fire hydrant.

Sgt spook: if I time it just right, I can use this hydrant to wash those crooks out, really rain on their parade.

Action: he waits until there in the perfect position.

Pg6

Action: and then he starts his plan, opening the hydrant when the crooks are right in his crosshair, only for the gushing water to give the crooks a boost instead of "raining on their parade" leaving spook viably a tad bit frustrated.

Sgt spook: oh shoot, I need to find something else.

Pg7

Action: over this page we see several attempts of sgt spook trying to stop the bad guys, each attempt fails and only serves to aid the criminals, like him trying to fling some thumb tacks in the street only for them to hit the police cars and cause them to spin out, him trying to create a barricade by knocking over a few things into the street only to create a ramp and so on and so forth of failed attempt after failed attempt.

Pg8

Action: we see sgt spook, the Sun is going down and he's been following them for a while as the once City landscape is now country nowheres of greens and tans.

Sgt spook: I am getting these guys, and I'm tired of stuff not going my way, I'm getting these crooks, once and for all.

Pg9

Action: it's now dark as we see the crooks drive in and park at an old shabby farmhouse, it's night time and the crooks exit their car and quietly make their way to the farm house, shiftly looking around as they do so.

Pg10

Action: they all enter the house and the last one in shuts the door all done as quietly as a church mouse, they all walk over to a table.

Pg11

Action: they all sit down one by one at the table, they sit there for a moment.

Pg12

Jerry: well boys.

Action: one of them pulls up and slams a big bag of money on the table, they all begin laughing and bring out booze and go through their spoils.

Jerry: we did it ha haaaa.

Pg-13

Jerry: alright boys, get to counting, once your done will split our earnings.

Bill: aw common Jerry, can't we celebrate a little more before we start countin.

Jarry: no, we gotta get this done and taken care of quickly, we're taken a risk staying here to long.

Dave: aw common, you saw how it was out there, it's like God himself sent an angel to protect us, relax yourself and have a drink.

Action: Dave offers Jerry a bottle of booze.

Pg14

Action: Jerry looks at the bottle for a moment and ponders until grabbing it.

Jerry: alright, but we can't get carried away, we'll have some drinks and celebrate a little, but by sunrise we're outa here, got it.

Jon: alright boss.

Bill: gentleman.

Pg15

Action: we see bill holding his bottle up.

Bill: I propose a toast not only cause we didn't get caught, not only to the loot, but also to Jerry, our leader and brave planner, untightening his ass for once haha.

Action: everyone begins giggling except Jerry.

Bill: but in all seriousness.

Pg16

Action: we see bill hold his bottle high into the air over the table.

Bill: here's to us and our new found moolah, here here.

Action: every one clinks their bottles together over the table while here herring.

Pg17

Action: the lights go out as soon as the bottles meet.

Jerry: oh #$&@ it must be the coppers, we gotta-

Bill: Jerry calm down, it's probably just the fuse box is on the fritz, this place was abandoned for a while before we came along, now Jon.

Jon: yeah boss.

Pg18

Bill: can ya go and check the box and fix the lights.

Jon: sure thing boss.

Action: the giant of a man lumber's out of the house.

Bill: alright, wall he's fixing the problem we can do a little bit of celebrating, bottoms up boys.

Dave: wait.

Pg19

Dave: gentleman, you mind if we say grace before we-.

Action: the lights flicker back on.

Bill: well would you look at that, Jon got it fixed faster then I expe-.

Action: before bill can finish two blood curdling screams are heard causing the three men to start reacting their own ways, Jerry seems very freaked out, Dave is worriedly looking towards where the sound is coming from and bill is freaked out but keeping a stern face.

Jon: YEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHG.

Pg20

Dave: oh my Lord, did y'all hear that.

Jerry: sounded like Jon, do ya think.

Bill: you guys really think Jon is in trouble, he's probably just messing with us.

Action: the two stare at bill for a moment.

Bill: what, you don't believe me.

Pg21

Action: they stare for a moment more.

Jerry: no we do not.

Bill: alright then, grab your guns and come with me, and will see that I'm right.

Pg22

Action: they walk outside, and something is watching them from atop a windmill, Jerry sees the thing and quickly turns to his friends as they walk, but as soon as he looks back the thing is gone. (this is shown by a group of four landscape panels the first is of the guys walking and the thing on the windmill in the pale moonlight, the second is Jerry noticing it, the third is Jerry turning back to his friends reaching out to them as his head covers the thing, and the final one is Jerry turning back after his head passed the windmill and the thing is gone).

Pg23

Action: they continue walking to the back of the farm, Jon holds a lantern and his pistols, while the other 2 only have their pistol, they turn the corner, they all seem to be shocked at what they see.

Pg24

Action: the power box is busted up, seeming to be absolutely savaged by a blunt object, there are definite signs of a struggle besides that with some of the overgrown shrubbery around the area being broken, Jon's pistol and family heirloom that went through three wars lay broken to pieces on the ground.

Jerry: do ya still think this a joke bill.

Bill: well, at least I'm not afraid of my own shadow.

Pg25

Action: we see bill and Jerry start their argument in the background as in the foreground we see Dave notice something, Wall they argue we see Dave find a blood splatter that leads him to markings that implies someone was dragged, then he looks where these markings go and sees the field behind the farmhouse with a scarecrow in the center of it.

Jerry: the hells that supposed to mean.

Bill: you heard me you big sissy, your a coward and you've always been yellow between the ears.

Jerry: I think you're forgetting who the boss is around here boy, I planned the Robbery and.

Bill: and you hid behind us as we did all the heavy lifting, you may be smart but you have the backbone of a chicken.

Pg26

Action: Dave begins looking closely at the scarecrow and as he looks squinting to do so more and more of the scarecrow becomes more and more visible with the camera perspective of the panel zooming in, while the face is still masked by shadow and darkness, then a cloud passes by the moon and the lunar light is shined on the scarecrow, and Dave is horrified.

Bill: and even then I think I'm giving you to much credit.

Jerry: now you just listen here you mindless brutish wild gunman, I ain't cowardly, I'm cautious, and think more then just one step ahead, if you didn't have me I bet you would have all just ran into that bank shot everyone took the money without even setting up a home base and-.

Bill: and look how good having a home base is turning out.

Pg27

Dave: Jesus almighty!

Bill: what the hell i- oh god.

Action: now completely visible the scarecrow is clearly Jon crucified, his face bloody and vacant, the men stare in shock and horror, a sorrowful breath leaving his lips, seemingly his last.

Pg28

Action: all of them quickly run back into the house and Jerry and Bill begin barricading the door.

Jerry: what the hell man what the hell.

Bill: I don't know, I don't know.

Dave: did y'all see it.

Pg29

Action: while the two men are barricading the door, the two turn to face Dave as he stands looking away from them into the house.

Bill: yes I saw it, Jon was beaten to death and hanging on a cross.

Dave: no, no not that, the thing next to it.

Jerry: what do you mean next to it.

Pg30

Dave:...

Jerry: Dave, are you ok.

Dave: I saw something next to Jon out der, it looked like a, like a copper, but, but all wrong.

Action: while Dave speaks Jerry and Bill are looking concerned as they look at each other.

Dave:... I don't think god aided our escape today gentleman.

Pg31

Dave: I believe it was the devil, and he has come for our sinful souls.

Bill: Dave are you ok.

Action: Dave turns to bill and Jerry shocking them, Dave's face contorted in horror and humor.

Dave: and he's come after me second.

Pg32

Action: Dave lunges at his comrades laughing and crying manically, bill and Jerry doge out of the way, Dave crashes into the barricade Jerry and Dave made.

Pg33

Action: Dave is staggered.

Bill (hushed tone): we gotta hide, upstairs quick.

Action: Jerry nods, panic in his face, and they quickly go up stairs as Dave slowly gets up from the floor.

Pg34

Action: Dave gets up and looks around, his arm broken, grotesquely snapping back into place.

Dave: it is no matter, the devil will get you soon he'll get all of us soon, all of us sinful.

Action: Dave's head shakes violently for a moment, and his voice seems to change.

Dave?: villainous crooks and Your Ill gotten gains shall be taken to justice.

Action: Dave continues his manic laughter and crying.

Pg35

Action: we now see Bill and Jerry upstairs hiding freaked out soon the laughter and crying gets accompanied by crashing and bashing.

Pg36

Action: the commotion stops, Jerry looks out the window and sees Dave, (the next moments we see from Jerry's perspective), Dave's hands are glistening red in the moonlight covered in his own blood, as he walks out of the house and towards the edge of the field.

Dave: I am ready dark lord, I have accepted my sin and I want my punishment, take me, so my soul may be punished.

Action: Dave opens his arms like he's about to hug someone in the sky and after he's done talking he slowly begins to rise into the air.

Pg37

Action: and then dave quickly gets yanked above the field, he begins screaming in terror as he's pulled back and forth in the air until quickly being dragged straight to the ground with a mighty thud, we see Jerry in the window, absolutely terrified.

Pg38

Action: Jerry looks back at bill.

Jerry: bill, did ya see that.

Action: bill silently nods.

Bill: ye-yeah I did, what the hell is going on.

Jerry: I don't know, I think only god knows.

Pg39

Action: there's silence for a moment.

Jerry: well, I don't think we should stay here.

Bill: are you crazy, you saw what happened to Dave didn't ya.

Jerry: yeah, that's all the more reason for us to bolt.

Pg40

Bill: wha.

Jerry: think about it, whatever that thing is, it'll come in for us eventually, and when it dose where cornered, best thing to do is book it to the car and drive as fast as we can.

Action: Bill thinks for a moment.

Bill: alright, let's get out of here, but you lead the way since it's your plan.

Action: Jerry nods.

Action: they walk back down the stairs from their hiding place.

Pg41

Action: we see Jerry and Bill slowly making their way through the dark decrepit farmhouse to it's back exit, the only light coming from the Moon outside shining in through windows and the doorway, it's blue glow barely noticeable and illuminating something That is following them.

Pg42

Action: the backdoor is seen, Jerry silently jestjers to bill as they begin approaching the exit.

Pg43

Jerry: it looks like we may be home free billy.

Action: bill does not respond and he's not seen behind Jerry as Jerry's at the precipice of the exit.

Pg44

Action: Jerry quickly speed walks out the back door, he then turns back a smile on his face.

Jerry: looks like where almost ho-.

Action: Jerry's Joy quickly evaporates into utter fear as he looks back at something.

Pg45 

Action: we see over the shoulder of Jerry into the house through the backdoor, inside the dark dim hallway the legs of Bill are seen, he's being pushed up against the wall and light choking sounds can be heard until his legs disappear into the darkness.

Pg46

Action: silence for a moment until a blood curdling scream is heard, Jerry petrified and fear as he looks at the back door, he sees a foot step out from the darkness into the pale moonlight of the night.

Pg47

Jerry: wha, wha, what are you.

Action: the thing completely steps out into the light yet we only see bits and pieces of its chard cadaverous form alongside various shots of Jerry's reaction to it's horrible visage.

Creature: I am here, to take you away.

Pg48

Action: Jerry looks pale as he begins slowly stepping backwards tripping in the process which in a moment causes the creature to lunge in a blur of advanced motion.

Pg49

Action: we see a full double page spread as the creature is seen in its entirety, it appears to have been a cop at one point but the entire front part of its body is charred and blackened, guts hang out of its stomach as the skin and clothing that once covered it has now been burned away, his face is nothing but a skull, an angry skull with putrid ripped and torn skin around it, it's completely lit by the blue moonlight with a light transparency to its form and towers over Jerry as it lunges towards his terrified miniscule crawling cowering form.

Pg50

Action: black panel.

Caption: the next day.

Action: we see officers outside a police station looking at something, Them all baffled and confused.

Cop 1: these are them all right from yesterday.

Cop 2: what happened to them, they seem different, like they've seen something that made em paler then ghosts.

Cop 3: that don't matter.

Action: now we're looking at the criminals who robbed the bank all tied up together sitting on the concrete of the sidewalk in front of the police station, all of them seem too terrified to speak but in very different ways ranging from Jerry's twitchy terror, bills 1000 yard stare, Jon's brain dead teeth clenched fear and Dave closed eyes head down in some sort of prayer.

Cop 3: what's important now is that we have them in custody and we have the goods they stole to return to the bank.

Pg51

Action: we zoom out to see Sergeant spook looking at the situation from the top of a building across the street dusting his hands.

Cop 3: besides judging from the looks of it, I'd say we rather not know what got them.

Sgt spook: well that's a job well done, I wonder if They've learned their lesson, now off to continue my eternal patrol for justice, but I wonder, why were they screaming so much.

Hope you enjoyed my story.

Today is my birthday

 Today's my birthday, 

I'm now 22 And honestly I don't know what to say other than that

Life's been interested and it'll probably keep on being interesting as I continue to pursue my actions and work on my various projects

The Handy Man from Timbuktu (character profile) (in need of rewrite and editing)

 

Born in Timbuktu to a African father and Indian traveler mother, from day one, it was clear that The Handy Man was a unique soul being super strong right out of the gate.

As he grew up He became more and more hairy until he resembled more of a kind of werewolf than he did a man, however despite this his parents and extended family still loved and cared for him, He even got a pet tiger from his mom's side of the family.

And despite the turmoil in his homeland he had a surprisingly healthy life growing up, although he did have to learn how to defend himself and his family from those who wish to take advantage and exploit them.

many people came seeking to capture this mythical "hairy man of Timbuktoo" as some sort of freak show act, or try to capture his parents or other family members to blackmail him into becoming a freak show act and every time this happened handyman would rush over alongside his pet tiger and using his insane strength and cleverness, would save the day.

But as the years went on, and these people became more and more relentless in their attempts to capture him, alongside having a vision in his dreams, He decided to leave for America.

this decision came to a shock to his parents and family and took some time for them to accept but they eventually got around to accepting it, and before leaving he moved his parents home to a place where the people trying to capture him would never look and find them.

also before he left handyman's father gifted him a very special club that had been passed down for generations that had a head that resembled a star, handy man's father went on to explain to him that he comes from a lineage of royalty and that club first belonged to one of there ancestors who some called the richest man in the world.

And so, after they said there good byes the handyman and his tiger began walking and walking and walking until they got to the coast were upon discovering that it would cost money to travel via boat the two decided to swim to America instead.

this is were the beginning of the original comic strip happens in my version of his story, with many comic strips from the original handyman run still transpiring in this timeline.

however eventually he decides to settle down somewhat and joins a circus that pays him well, treats him and his tiger well and gives him a home and at this circus he meets two other good natured strong men.

Hugo Hercules (soft spoken gentle Giant Melungeon strongman whose uncle is one of the people running the circus) and Samson the Strongman (hot tempered, heroic, competitive and Jewish with a bit of a Napoleon complex), together the three (and with his tiger technically making four) made sort of strongman group.

there act involved them showing off how strong they were while Also showing their personalities off in various different ways, sometimes even incorporating comedy, (sometimes intentionally through a routine and script and other times unintentionally due to fumbles or Hugo and Samson getting into bugs and daffy-esque disagreements That would eventually have to be broken up by the handyman), aswell as competitive tests of strength and wrestling, and even a kind of cultural education/exchange in the form of Them casually telling stories from the cultures they come from as they perform incredible feats of strength, All of this incorporated into their routine.

it is also at this circus the handyman got his name as the handyman, it being suggested by Hugo who thought that hairy man sounded a bit demeaning and that handyman fitted his friend better.

as time went on the three strongmen grew so close that they considered each other brothers And even After Hugo left the circus going his own way and Samson took over the big top for Hugo's uncle they all still cared for each other and still kept in touch, All three inviting each other to important events in their lives such as family gatherings, marriages, funerals and so on.

Samson even at one point called Hugo for help as the circus was in Florida and having trouble with some gentleman who kept "burning stuff and dressing like dumb ghosts to try and scare em", Samson thinking Hugo could help especially since becoming a part of that fancy hero team the Heroics, this eventually leading to the brothers having a reunion and alongside the Heroics facing off against the klan.

However that's a story for another day.

This story is a part of my own version of Handy man for my own projects and the Handy man originally created by Carl "Bunny" Schultze and info about the original comic strip can be found here and a decent chunk of his comic run can be found here in black and white.

(DISCLAIMER, THIS VERSION OF THE HANDYMAN FROM TIMBUKTU IS NOT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN AND IS SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT FROM THE ORIGINAL VERSION WITH ADDED DETAILS NOT PRESENT IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN INCARNATION OF THE CHARACTER)