The Pacific Northwest metropolis is a visionary city of the future booming with technology yet haunted by the past with legends and secrets.
The Emerald City shines as inspiration for films, books and television series with a diverse culture. With superhuman athletes, creative artists and big brains as some of its most famous residents, of course you can imagine superheroes and villains calling Seattle home.
The gray, rainy days and nights help color a spooky vibe perfect for comic book stories.
Here’s a lesson one kid won’t forget. If a superhero comes to your school don’t ask if you can punch him as hard as you can! Superheroes wear heavy costumes that can take a beating for a good reason!
Seattle is the home of costumed crime fighter Phoenix Jones. A local school invited Jones to discuss bullying with the kids. The costumed guest speaker also showed off his uniform – his rubberized, armored, bulletproof uniform.
Denise Weinstein told KOMO NewsRadio. “My child gets up in front of him and (Phoenix) says to him, ‘OK, give me all you got…give me your best punch, but wait, but don’t do it too hard, you might get hurt.’ ”
Noah now has a broken finger, is in a soft cast but with a lesson learned.
“I shouldn’t punch a superhero as hard as I can,” he said.
Peter David delivers a thrilling and witty conclusion to his story about real life heroes in Seattle. The X-Ceptionals are a team of non-powered, wannabe mutants patrolling the Emerald City. X-Factor Investigations is called on the case after some members are sliced and shredded.
Madrox and Shatterstar go undercover in an ironic case of heroes imitator heroes. The killer is revealed. The motive is exposed. Shatterstar proves why he was a formidable warrior in Mojoworld and in this world. David gives us an exciting showdown and a commentary on our society’s obsession with “reality.”
Artist Leonard Kirk packs the foreground and pushes the story forward. Shatterstar has edge, attitude and pulls off an impressive move with his blades that would make Wolverine take notice. The new villain Scattershot looks likes he stepped right out of the 90’s. I really loved the cover featuring the old school team head shots of the team in the corner – makes me nostalgic.
Now as a Seattle resident this storyline is especially ironic because you see we have real people who patrol the streets dressed as super heroes. Citizen Heroes is an upcoming documentary about the movement. Director Matt Harrison and crew went on patrol with the 15 ‘real life’ heroes of the Pacific Nortwest.
This week Phoenix Jones – the most famous member of the movement – asked his followers for suggestions on a new costume.
courtesy Rex Velvet?
The Rain City Super Hero Movement recently inspired a self-proclaimed super villain: Rex Velvet. The “People’s Villain” has released two YouTube videos and is up to something with an alliance of other villains. You can see all my Rex Velvet updates here.
Today was a showdown in Seattle! Rex’s challenge was answered with a challenge by Jones. The two rivals “met” this morning on a Seattle radio show. Thanks to Jackie & Bender on KISS FM for uniting Jones and Velvet.
While the mutants in Seattle arc wraps up the real life storyline of Phoenix and Rex is just getting started. Maybe this ‘real life’ rivalry might inspire a sequel and X-Factor may return to Seattle for a new storyline. What do you think?
Someone is killing Seattle’s super heroes and X-Factor Investigations is on the case.
In Marvel’s May solicits for X-Factor #235 a new villain called Scattershot debuts and Shatterstar goes berserk! This new bad guy sure looks like a hybrid of two mutants – maybe a Super Skrull is at work?
Here’s the link about the new Seattle heroes debuting in X-Factor #234, the story about real self-proclaimed super heroes and more reasons why the hometown of Comics Blend is so comic book cool!
