The Price of Airmale

Year Published: 2017
Publisher: The Not Forgotten Anthology

The mission: create a comic using a Silver Age Public Domain Superhero. My attempt: a mildly queer guy haunted by postal puns.

I desperately want to make this a real comic, I have a whole Pantheon of postal-related villains designed in the style of Bananaman.

First page of a full color comic. We are introduced to AIRMALE, a.k.a. Kenneth Stevens, our hero of the day. He's incapacitating the villain of the week, before calling the cops.

Second page. Our hero continues on with his day, getting groceries and cooking for the standing dinner date he has with his sister and her family.

Third page. Airmale's nephew discovers his bloody superhero gear in the laundry hamper and immediately confronts him!

Fourth page. Kenneth tries to shut down this whole superhero accusation thing, but they are interrupted by a crash from the kitchen.

Fifth page. The villain from the start of the comic has escaped the cops, and have taken Kenneth's sister and brother-in-law hostage!

Sixth page. Doctor Sleet pins Kenneth to the fridge with his new and improved sleet gun. Kenneth's nephew looks on in horror.

Seventh page. Kenneth's nephew - whose name is Bobby - looks at Kenneth's anti-gravity serum with determination. He injects himself and floats to the ceiling, uselessly. Doctor Sleet cackles.

Eight page. Doctor Sleet monologues in triumph and doesn't notice Bobby coming up from behind, kneeing him hard in the neck. Kenneth takes this opportunity to break free.

Ninth page. The cops arrive to take Doctor Sleet away. Bobby is tied to the table, still floating freely. Kenneth gives him an earful about how dangerous this is, and how the weight serum is calibrated for Kenneth's exact mass.

Tenth page. Kenneth reluctantly warms up to the idea of Bobby being his sidekick, and gives him the name Stampy.

Sci-fi and Fantasy

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