I don’t know whether anyone else cares, but I’m at least happy that I’m getting to a part of the story in which I get to imagine the larger community’s response to Nick’s actions.
Continue reading The Legion of Nothing–Chapter Four: Fast Metabolism
Another installment in this serial. As ever, it includes things that I’m happy with and a few things that I’d like to fix.
One odd thing I noticed recently is that this story includes a character named Nick and a town named Jericho. Over at Tribe, a story I only began to read within the last couple weeks, I noticed that there’s a character named Nick and a town named Jericho. Fortunately, the characters are utterly different and Tribe’s Jericho is the main setting whereas this story’s Jericho was mentioned once and never will be again.
Well, enough commentary, click through to read the story.
Continue reading The Legion of Nothing–Chapter Three: On Patrol
Continuing the story…
Continue reading The Legion of Nothing–Chapter Two: DVD Night
Cassie held out the latest issue of “Double V,” flipping the front half of the magazine under the back to make it easier to hold. She pointed to an article titled “Twelve Threats: New and Notable.”
Halfway down the list of new supervillains was a picture of a group of men and women with automatic rifles. Below the text it said:
Syndicate L: A growing criminal organization originating in the northeast but with connections throughout the country, it specializes in acquiring materials-both legal and illegal. Staffed primarily by normal, unmodified humans, it employs a few supers as hired muscle.
“We could take them,” she said. “Not the whole group, but definitely a local branch.”
I stood by my locker, flipping my eyes between the magazine and her face.
This was the part where (in her mind) I should now be saying, “Great, let’s go out tonight and take on organized crime.”
Continue reading The Legion of Nothing–Chapter One: Villains and Vigilantes
Nick Klein never intended to be a superhero.
With the death of his grandfather, an active superhero from World War 2 through the early 1980’s, everything changed. Nick inherited his grandfather’s powered armor, his former team’s command center, and found that his friends (the grandchildren of other team members) were very interested in starting up the Grand Lake Heroes League all over again.
Nick had to make a choice. Go along with everyone else or avoid it? If he did go along with it, and restart the League, would any of the old League’s unfinished business come back to haunt them?