nolan_void

Last night I came up with some of the greatest comic book villains I have ever written while thinking up ideas for my next Mutants and Masterminds game. I've found I get a lot more joy out of gamemastering roleplaying games for my friends than I used to now, and I think this in part has to do with my approaching the process with a loving, conscious, present mindset as opposed to a worried, dread-filled, unconscious mindset. It looks like the next superhero game that I run is going to end up being really dark and gritty, with a definite sort of Twilight Zone/Gotham City kind of feel to it. This will probably end up being my favorite game of all, because it's going to allow me to introduce the greatest superhero and archenemy I have ever come up with, a character that has a great personal significance to me. I came up with this character when I was in 7th grade I think. I drew the entire comic by hand, and then made copies of it and passed it out to my friends. Everyone thought that they needed to hang on to it in case I ever got famous one day. About a year or so later, the character went through an evolution that made him less cartoony and comical and more mature and serious, and so I redrew another issue #1 by hand again, this time with a more Todd McFarlane/Spawn kind of feel to it. Ever since then I have been working on the character, trying to perfect his motives for doing what he does, the nature of his powers, and how he came to be the creature that he is. The same goes for his archenemy, who has undoubtedly become more suave and sinister beyond any measure that I had ever hoped for when I started drawing him eight years ago. I will always have a passion for superheroes and comic books. They are far more religious to me than any other holy books will ever be. I still hold my theory that one day scholars thousands of years from now will look back on the characters that we have created for entertainment now, and think that they were our gods. And if I'm right, I could possibly be responsible for some of the greatest mythology ever created, part of what teachers of the distant future teach their children in schools. Now THAT would be trippy.