like an iron fist cast in spandex

Told you I would go to superhero territory next.

I have written few different books about them, mainly contributing to a somewhat pre-existing small press comic "universe" by scripting and creating new characters. But as I have done my own hardboiled detectives I have written stories of my own in this genre too.

While everyday adventurers, be it common people on vacation, spies, mercenaries or reporters, have tremendous appeal there are things superheroes can do that "average" people can't. Their continuity can stand better effects of say...dimensional and temporal travel, alien invasions, zombie curses, getting cloned and of course death in superhero comics happens more often than changing their trademark uniforms....

Today at work we had to re-new some roofing and found some, literally, bloody drugsyringes with my collague and while this didn't make us too happy it made me think once more the metalworking superhero I have in development mentioned earlier in here.

A welder fighting the Robot mafia, but why is there a robot mafia?

oh yes there is advantage of having pictures like this:

sure that works and stuff like robocop is brilliant but really? the motivation for robot mafia?

There has to be some logical one and today's workday brought it: drugs. People want to screw their heads up so they don't have to think about how and what they actually are so there is always been a supply for that.

The robots sell drugs for humans so they can upgrade themselves and have proper maintenance and spares.

so mashing up cyborgs, crime and commentary on both our technological fears and putting in some serious butt-kicking.
Not a bad deal.

I have sometimes pondered is it because we are basicly just animals the reason behind why we are so afraid of technology. Because we are too lazy to find out why something ticks and therefore it's magic to us.
Or is it mere biology: we cant understand or control speeds over our running speed yet we do our damnest to train ourselves over that and emulate circumstances through repetion daily: in cars, planes, buses, trains. Yet we know, deep down, that we fool ourselves.

But robots, our mechanical slaves, are scary.
Men out of metal, coldly logical and having capabilities far superior than ours.
And visually they are rewarding.

the other factor contributing to robot mafia is documentaries about gangs, I watched recently one about Dead Man Incorporated and as the Ross Kemp one is beginning soon will have more material to work with.
After all, robots are a minority.
I use plenty of cut and paste real-wolrd stuff to create my scripts. You can not make all that crap up that reality spews out in regular basis.

now I need to figure out if my hero is a lone dog or a part of a team.

Ah, worldbuilding. So much fun.

Actually writing these ramblings down has helped with planning out stories somewhat.
soon I will dive in to one of life essentials in this blog.
What exactly?

let these gents tell it to you


oh yes.