INSPIRATIONS: Energy (Blue) Superman.
Oh, the 90’s! Gave us the Clone Saga, Azrael Batman, and Energy Superman. A story in 1998 gave Superman electric superpowers and in this state he had to wear a special containment suit in order to stay corporeal. Hmmm…sound familiar? Yep, part of the Molecule character was derived from this character here. Something about Energy Superman always spoke to me: look at that design. That’s powerful. Simple, elegant, not CLASSIC Superman, but as A SUPERMAN figure, a science fiction superhero, it’s iconic.
However, it was the blue/white combo and the energy powers that most inspired me about this character. The blue/white would be colors that would find their way into the seed of my graphic novel, despite Molecule being primarily red/black. Crackling energy, incorporeal state of flux, and that blue skin stuck with me until finally I found a way to tie them into something of my own.
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OTAKUism: the suit was so nice that DC used it later for a female Super-related character called the Strange Visitor....
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About me
CK Burch is a novelist, poet, father of two, and assistant editor for ZED Presents...Publishing. Born in 1982 and floating somewhere between adulthood and immaturity, he writes science-fiction and horror, love letters to geekdom and his childhood spent growing up in the 80's. When not writing or composing, he's spending time with his little rugrats, who also walk a fine line between adorable and deportable. They take after their father. When he's not trying desperately to write in a few more chapters and ignore those lovable children who serve to remind him not to cuss so much, he's playing video games with the volume up real loud. It drowns out the sound of neighbors yelling at him to turn it down.
