Make Your Own Super-Hero
By Park
Have you ever looked at comics and thought, "Hey, this isn't rocket science. I could write these, too. If only I could think of a good super-hero"? Well, help is on the way. Just follow this easy, step-by-step how-to make a superhero guide and you too may become the next Mark Waid or Alan Moore (well, maybe not Alan Moore...). Let's begin.
Step 1: NAME Your Super-Hero!
Choose one from column A, one From Column B.
A Mister
Miss
Cosmic
Lord
Doctor
Master
Captain
General
Major
Lieutenant
Colonel
Field Marshal
Amazing
Kid
Micro
Macro
Lady
Bat
Wonder
Green
Red
Blue
Silver
Black
Professor
Spider-
the Incredible
Star-
Thunder
The
Baron
Duke
Forbush
Lethargic
'Mazing
Herr
Brother
Sister
She-
the Phantom | B
Man
Woman
Lad
Lass
Kid
Miss
Doom
Destruction
Destiny
Lady
(Your Name)
Marvel
Occult
Miracle
Girl
Boy
Glory
of Deception
Disaster
of Magnetism
of Hypnotism
the Aardvark
the Disposable Assassin
Octopus
(name of any other animal)
Devil
Lantern
Stranger
Light
Nukem
Radioactive
Pulsar
Echo
Lightning
Boomerang
Thang
Arrow
Canary
Evil
Death |
Step 2: Give Your Super-Hero POWERS:
Everyone needs at least a couple of good powers.
Choose one from Column A, one from Column B.
A Water Breathing
Aquatic Telepathy
Super-Breath
VCR Programming
Dimensional Travel
Levitation
Cosmic Awareness
Converting sound into light
Made of orange rocks
Indigo Fur
Stretchable body
Precognition
Postcognition
Duringcognition
Prehensile Tail
Prehensile Thumb
Prehensile part of your choice(!)
Claws | B Super-Ventriloquism
Shrinking
Super-Leaping
Enhanced senses
Time Travel
See in the Dark
Wall-Crawling
Spinning around really fast
(type of animal)-sense
Sonic Canary Cry! Tres cool!
Invisible force field. Handy!
Astral Projection
Four arms
Four legs
Four eyes
Hi-Tech suit of body armor
Hi-Tech suit of Armani
Always pay bills on time |
OR...
Step 2a: Godlike Powers
Choose a Godlike Power from Column A, a weakness from Column B..
A Can Punch a Hole in Time
Super-Strength
Super-Intelligence
Flight!
Can live in the Sun
Nigh-Invulnerable
Super-Speed
You can write 5 titles at once
Teleportation
Gravity Control
Really good Magnetic Control
Pheromones! Hot Damn!
Web-Shooters! Hot Damn!
Telepathy
Telekinesis
Mind Control
Got a Cosmic Rod
Got Mjolnir
Got Milk
Memory-Erasing Kiss
Invisibility
Walk Through Walls | B Mysterious glowing green rocks
The color yellow
Need water once every hour
Afraid of fire
Looks and acts like a surfer dude
You dropped your shield in the ocean
You're stuck with puny Banner
All 5 of your titles are mediocre
Distracted by shiny objects
You're insane
You also SMELL like a wolverine
You have poor taste in men
You're surrounded by idiots
You are poorly drawn
Your book sells poorly
the Zeta-Beams wear off too soon
Your writer sends you into space
Trapped in a world ya never made
Breasts larger than your head
Let's face it, your partner's a dork
Partner plays guitar really loud
You look like your writer! Noooo! |
Step 3: Give your Super-Hero an ORIGIN!
Choose one from column A, one from Column B.
A Was bitten by...
Abducted and probed by...
Raised by...
Experimented on by...
Parents were killed by...
Given strange artifact by...
Present during the explosion of...
Initiated into conspiracy by...
Hung around with (for too long)...
Gone gone o form of you, rise...
Parents kidnapped by...
Fathered by...
Formed out of clay by...
Resurrected by...
Former mascot of...
83,000th century descendant of...
Embittered by...
30th century descendant of...
Deputized by...
Rehabilitated by...
Based on a best-selling title by...
Rebooted by...
Christened by...
Exposed to Hypertime by...
Vertigoized by... | B A radioactive (type of animal)
the Invisibles
Wolves
Monks
The Ancient One
Ma and Pa from Kansas
An Amish community
Barry
John Constantine
Howard the Duck
a cowardly and superstitious lot
Superman?!?!?
Shazam
a Gamma Bomb
Galactus
Amazons
a guy with a hook for a hand
Spinal-cord-sucking aliens
the Demon Etrigan
the government
little blue guys with big heads
Skrulls
Alan Moore
the Gene Bomb
a cosmic storm |
Now, go write comics (and make sure you send us plenty of review copies!
