Your favorite public domain superhero?
(only a few of the MANY are pictured here.
Not pictured, but it's definitely Micro-Face.
Good news: your character has a new comic book.
The (not really) legendary superhero Micro-Face is revived by the (not really) legendary publisher NPR Planet Money
Give us a few moments to explain. Suffice it to say, you can order the character's revival The Myserterious Micro-Face #1, written by Alex Segura, penciled by fan-favorite artist Jamal Igle, with a main cover and character redesign from legendary veteran Jerry Ordway, colored by Ellie Wright, and lettered by Taylor Esposito right now.
https://shopnpr.org/micro-face-a-planet-money-comic-book
NPR Planet Money has done these things a number of times. Like, they go out and start a tiny record label and publish a song, or buys some oil as an investment, shorts stock, or whatever. Then they do a story on it and explain how the economics involved work.
https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/38dc8141-e1ac-4d2b-a133-7225e56f6ce7.jpeg
EDIT: And here are the relevant eight podcasts for their creation of the comic book:
https://www.npr.org/series/967404527/planet-money-buys-a-superhero
Superheroes from the “what if the sideshow weightlifter was also a vigilante?” phase of the industry
Black Terror...and his sidekick, Tim.
That's quite a pairing.
Some people call him... Tim.
Magno & Davey because their powers only activates when they dock with eachother. Their origin story is wild
Hydro Man. Saw the covers in some book as a kid, created a bunch of adventures based on the concept
O no, these are all amazing, the names, the dorky costumes! I think personally it's gonna be Lady Satan for me but The Face "Mr. Face" and "Black Terror and Tim" are amazing as well.
Power Man & Sub-Zero Man!
I'm just glad that there aren't TOO many women!
Eww, no you can't have women being superheros! They're just supposed to stand around shouting "hayelp! hayelp!" and being rescued by the burly chap in the improbable costume. Surely everybody knows that?
For the avoidance of doubt, this is very much /s
I actually really like the simple black/gold with skull and crossbones for Black Terror and Tim.
There are those who call me…Tim
Anybody seen Austin McConnell's cinematic universe of public domain characters? It's at least partially on his YouTube channel. Here.
Yeah I wish ppl would utilize them more as background characters at least, would be cool to see different takes on superverses using them
The public domain super group was a fun idea
Fearless Flint looks rather Oiled Otto. Amazing Man is just He-Man without the silly hair
Got a link for more of those folks, op?
I choose.. Tim.
Amazing! I recognize a few from my Marvel history book even. The drawings are so great, who did them?? I want to say Alex Ross, but I don't think it's him?
This is fantastic!
Are there more you say?
