State Your Opinion on a Character - Part 2

[Wesley Dodds]

Zenith

Today's.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Grant Morrison's early cult character. From Wiki:

Zenith (Robert McDowell[1]) is a British superhero, who appeared in the science fiction comic 2000 AD. Created by writer Grant Morrison and artist Steve Yeowell, with original character designs by Brendan McCarthy, he first appeared in 2000 AD #535 (22 August 1987).
Shallow and sarcastic, Zenith was a distinctly Generation X superhero. Morrison used the Zenith serial to explore cultural differences between generations and criticize the Conservative Party.
Zenith was featured regularly in 2000 AD from 1987 until 1992, with occasional appearances since. The series was an early success for Morrison, who has since written popular works for DC and Marvel, and using his own characters.

Zenith, real name Robert McDowell, is the son of two members of Cloud 9, a super-team of the 1960s who had been created by the British military but rebelled and became hippies and psychedelic fashion icons. Zenith himself used his somewhat unreliable superhuman abilities not to fight evil but to promote his career as a pop singer. Shallow, spoilt, self-centred and initially cowardly, he was reluctantly dragged into the struggle against malevolent supernatural entities known as the Lloigor or "Many-Angled Ones".

Just moving this over.

 

[Duke]

Any character that has a bottle of an unknown condiment sticking out of his crotch is weird.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Heh. Well, he is a Morrison character. Weird is a given. And it's a Christmas cracker.

Besides, in a comicbook age where tedious, seen-it-all-before nonsense like this:

Spoiler

can be last months's top selling comic, I'd say we could all probably use a little bit more "weird", no?

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Is that more crazy than Frank Miller's Spirit movie?

 

[Wesley Dodds]

I wouldn't call that movie crazy per se. It wasn't interesting enough.

"****" is a much better word to use there I think.

 

[Anubis]

That looks interesting as hell, and hardly the weirdest thing to ejaculate from the mind of Grant Morrison. Go read Filth.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

The first fight between Spirit and Octopus is funny
Dude used a clean toilet on the head of the title character

 

[Wesley Dodds]

That looks interesting as hell, and hardly the weirdest thing to ejaculate from the mind of Grant Morrison. Go read Filth.

Or The Braille Encyclopedia. No, seriously, Google it.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Or The Braille Encyclopedia. No, seriously, Google it.

I'm in shock and awe

 

[Anubis]

Jesus.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Little Lulu

 

[Anubis]

All I remember of her was the cartoon. Reminds me of Lucy from peanuts. So you know, b***h.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Last I saw of her was over 17 years ago

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

She seems to pop up alot in pop culture ,but i got nothing! So next!

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

Last I saw of her was over 17 years ago

Was this why you were questioned by local authorities? t:

 

[Spider-Aziz]

Was this why you were questioned by local authorities? t:

I was 10 back then
Can't be questioned =p

 

[Duke]

I've never read anything on Lulu, but I have seen her on comic book covers & some sporadic appearances of her in comic strips.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

Shadowhawk

 

[Wesley Dodds]

From Wiki:

"Paul Johnstone grew up as a troubled youth in Harlem, New York City. He avoided a life of crime due in part to the encouragement of a man named Richard Woodroe, who was originally assigned as a caseworker to Paul when he was caught stealing, and eventually married his mother, becoming his stepfather.

Eventually Paul became a lawyer and, beyond that, a district attorney. While his life was going so well, his half brother Hojo had taken his success in college, moved to Wall Street and developed a coke and crack addiction. Using Hojo, some gangsters tried to leverage Paul into letting their men off, but Paul refused. Soon after he ended up the target of an assault intended to serve as an example to others who got in the way of these mobsters. This incident culminated in his attackers injecting him with HIV-infected blood.
After the encounter, Johnstone was left uncertain regarding whether he had been infected or not. The attack had been made public and word of his possible infection spread through Johnstone's workplace, making it a very inhospitable environment to be in. Tensions between Johnstone and one of his co-workers led to an altercation between the two which landed Johnstone out of a job and in jail.

After he was released, Paul received medical confirmation that he was HIV positive and he descended into depression. While walking the streets to clear his head, Paul was threatened by a group of young gang members. He went berserk and attacked them, leading to his brutal mugging and return to the hospital. During this time he resolved that he would use the rest of his time to dispense justice to the individuals who preyed on innocent victims. One of his friends, a cop named Christina Reid (who had been kicked off the force that day for use of excessive force), was also in the hospital and came to visit him. She informed Paul that she and a man named Carlton Sun had been developing an exo-skeleton suit of armor that could help aid him in accomplishing this task.

Johnstone decided to don the suit, christening himself "ShadowHawk" after his favorite superhero (a name that would eventually lure out the psychotic and racist villain Hawk's Shadow, who believed he was the one entitled to bear the mantle of ShadowHawk), and was taught how to fight effectively with the help of Christine, promising to "take back the night." Johnstone also kept the pills needed to slow his reaction to his HIV infection in small pouches on his belt so he could take them as needed."

 

[Anubis]

That cat had just about everything going on. HIV, drug addict brother. Racist bad guys. Jeez.

 

[Wesley Dodds]

"WolverBatman"

 

[Duke]

"WolverBatman"

with a little dash of Hawkman.

 

[BLACKVULCAN]

That cat had just about everything going on. HIV, drug addict brother. Racist bad guys. Jeez.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH for real though!! i mean everything! it was like "Whats the most controversial stuff we can come up with! and put it in this dude's comic!" not to mention that his "no-kill" rule was to just go ahead and break the spine of every bad guy!( like dudes in wheelchairs cant do evil!) haha!
by the time dude came out. i was pretty much spent on all the Wolvie-Dark knights-Comedians- Vigilantes- Punisher guys so a big..eh! and trust me i tried to like it! i really tried!

 

[Mrs. Sawyer]

That cat had just about everything going on. HIV, drug addict brother. Racist bad guys. Jeez.

Agreed. There's a such thing as trying too hard to make a good origin story.