Next Stop... Port City

I spent some time today going through and organizing random ideas I had scattered across documents, putting them in one place so that I have my master brainstorming list together. I ended up with QUITE a list of character ideas. I mean, I have names and a quick blurb for 30 characters that I want to add to the game. The concern I have with many of them is that they don't 'fit' nicely into the world I have right now. Many of the characters are sort of odd street-level villains. I don't have a good hero to put them against; they are too low-brow for Doc. They fit scale wise in Echo City against Zealot, but he's a bit more serious in tone (more Daredevil I guess), and many of these belong in Spidey's rogue's gallery. So, I decided to create a new hero, and a new city for this hero. 

My meta backstory is going to be that this is the second generation of the PD character the Scarab, and he inherited his uncle's ring (although it gives him slightly different powers). This adds to his strength and coordination. He's also very smart and wealthy (he is an inventor who inherited his uncle's fortune), so he can have a secret lair, a cool vehicle or two, and gadgets. I picture him as a hybrid of Spidey and Blue Beetle, with a strange gallery of foes. He'll probably end up in the next Stalwart Phile or two, along with several of his villains. I can then expand them and their city over time. The meta comic hook is that his series was short-lived and published by another small publisher; Stalwart Press bought them out in the early 80s and rolled Skarab and his rogues into a background feature in Doc's book.

And, as you can tell, he uses my 'trick' of changing a letter in the name of a character to make him a little more copyright-proof... I probably do that a little too much :)