Hey at least it wasn’t the “Everyone Gets An Award Today” award.
How will the Sticky Buns – Generic Kung-Fu Superhero Sidekick affair resolve itself? Do they keep things professional or skip immediately to playing doctor? You will have to be patient (ha!) and find out in 2 weeks! Because it’s way past time Kickman finally showed up in his own strip…
Yep. Sexually oriented Power. Talk about being Blessed with Suck…
I was thinking about how I would do a 1-page origin story for Sticky Buns. And for someone who was supposed to be a comic foil character, all my ideas turned pretty dark pretty quick.
Don’t knock it. You’re taking a fictional concept and figuring out how it would work if it *were* real, and I love reading creators who do that. Take a look at Terry Pratchett’s work; he does just that – to the characters in the books, their world is the *real* world and *ours* would be considered poorly designed and implausible (“You need Chelonium…”).
If you can put together a bunch of whacky powers and make them plausibly *work* – the good bits and the bad bits – then you are a good author. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Sticky Buns origin story involves a horrible accident in an extra-dimensional bakery. Timelords love Krustee Kreme Cinnabun Roles (sic). But when making up the glaze, the baker, Hiram Phai V, didn’t notice when the lessor of two weevils let his bugs escape and they got into the Meshuggeneh Engine. The whole batch had to be tossed out.
Opening up a convenient garbage dimension (ours), Hi Phai, tossed the concoction out where it landed on the very bus seat that our heroine SB was just about to plant herself on.
And that’s how it really happened. Pay no attention to the B.E.M. behind the curtain.
That’s better than my “groped by a radioactive ape” storyline… 🙂
I’m not up on that one. B.E.M…?
…wat?
B.E.M behind the curtain. Tried looking it up and drew a blank. What do you man, Joyce?
The quote from Wizard of Oz is “ignore the man behind the curtain,” so…. ignore the Big Evil Man?
Huh. I wouldn’t have seen that, but it fits…
BEM? Seriously, no one recognizes this? Need more sci-fi geeks here. Bug Eyed Monster from all the SF magazine covers in the 20s to 50s.