Posted: 20 August 2019 at 8:39am | IP Logged | 1
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A few decades back, DC published 100 page Super Spectaculars, and when the page count wasn't quite sufficient, they would throw in little two page items (e.g., different artists did their own wildly different takes on drawing Superman and Clark Kent.)
One of these, in a Batman super-spec, was pondering what would have happened if Bruce Wayne has been impressed by some other element than a bat. These included a shooting star, a suit of armor*, etc., complete with different names.
I thought about it recently, and wonder what the board might do with such an assignment. Take a character, and change their name (and possibly different costume and accouterments.)
For example, Steve Rogers might have felt that "Captain America" was too military for just a basic guy, and might have decided to become The Patriot instead.
Or Bruce Wayne might have been in a zoological park when considering what identity to assume, when he found himself in front of a tiger cage. Dark, deadly, and striking, without warning, Bruce Wayne decided to strike terror into criminals as - Tigerman! The Striped Crusader hunts the jungles of Gotham to protect the innocent and hunt down the guilty, his prey.**
Take a crack at it, fellow boarders. Pick a character, and put a little twist on his name and maybe outfit. Don't change the character... just a name.
*When I reconsidered this, I immediately realized that Bruce Wayne as an armor clad warrior might be known as the Night Knight. Then my wife gave me my medication and tied me into bed for the night...
**In point of fact, I sometimes wonder that Bruce chose a bat to play on crooks' superstitions and fears. There are other creatures or entities that I think would be much more frightening... for example, a tiger. Or perhaps a grey ghost. Something like that.
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