Why there are no superheroes in rural Scotland...

[Trout]

I had a week chuckle at this short story.

You need to know two things:

1) Moniaive is a tiny place

2) Glenluiart is a house occupied by a certain comics writer...

- Trout

Link: http://www.moniaive.com/alanstory2.html" target="_blank">The Batman of Moniaive

[GordonR]

How the mighty fall.  Reduced to writing Tiny Scottish Village fan-fic...  ;->

[Trout]

Meow! :-)

Behave yourself. Moniaive is a community with lots of writers and Alan should be congratulated for helping the local newsletter!

Just don't read Shopping For Murder. It's pants.

- Trout

[GordonR]

Maybe I could follow suit and do a Leith superhero?

Methadone Man, or The Radge Avenger?

[Wils]

There should be an all out ban on Scots superheroes, purely as penance for...

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Sadly not forgotten, definitely not forgiven. The scars run deep.

[GordonR]

Grant Morrison wrote and drew a Glasgow superhero strip called 'Captain Clyde' years and years ago, for a Glasgow free press paper.  

Never seen it, but I'm guessing it's as crap as it sounds.  Possibly Grant's millions have been spent buying up every remaining issue of the thing so he could burn them.

[Satanist]

There was a hero in Morrisons The Filth that was Scottish. She used the word fanny a lot.

[Trout]

She wasn't a superhero, Satanist, any more than Ness in Caballistics!

I'm now quite terrified of Gordon's thought processes. I really hope he's kidding about the Leithman thing.

Oh dear.

Well, Northern Lightz would snap it up!

- Trout

[paulvonscott]

I enjoyed all that.  

Shame Wagner wasn't dressed up as Robin though ;)

[Satanist]

"She wasn't a superhero, Satanist, any more than Ness in Caballistics! "

But...but...she had a dumper truck that could travel through dimensions and a costume and everyfink.









No superpowers though and I guess thats quite important for superheroes

[GordonR]

Difficult to see how a real Leith superhero strip wouldn't end up just being a Scottish version of the old Brown Bottle strip in Viz.

[Dudley]

Well... Methadone Man might turn out to be slightly different...

[GordonR]

"Help, Methadone Man!  Some radge is robbin' the post office, an' it's giro day, ken!"

Methadone Man:  "Whit?  Aye...geez a wee minute, like..."

(long beat, then)

"So, like, is the chemists no open yet?"

(falls back into a methadone-induced stupor)

[Trout]

Please, please, please stop thinking about this so much, Gordon...

[Satanist]

His sidekick could be Buckfast Boy!

Costume by Burberry