Time to Wear Tights (month 4)

Month number four is coming to a close, regarding my year-long plan to bring a comic book into the world full-grown from the head of MML (that’s a Zeus reference, sun). But lately I’ve been pouring energy into my next book The Noir Album, and getting inspired to gear up for my first screenplay this spring. So there’s a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on, but this month, I did manage to give names to all my main characters. Visiting NYC last month for a quick second, I nabbed my old copy of The X-Men Companion vol. 2 from pop’s closet for inspiration, a collection of interviews with writers and artists of The X-Men circa the 1980s (Chris Claremont, John Byrne, Terry Austin). Recap: my comic is entitled The Masters and involves twentysomething spiritual Masters raising consciousness. The artist on The Masters (cash willing) will be Mshindo Kuumba I., whose artwork is above; all rights reserved.

So. We got:

• Christian Max. The Masters centers largely around him. Christian’s a 25-ish spiritual guru who travels the world giving forums, appearing on Oprah like an Eckhart Tolle. On his world tour, he slowly encounters others who have achieved spiritual mastery (and superpowers in the process).
  
• Sun Weaver. Born to a black dad and a Korean mom, Sun fronts a rock band called Fingerpop. She’s got really big hair. According to her lyrics, it’s like she’s the next messiah, but of course (wink) it’s only rock n’ roll.
  
• Basma Khélifaoui. She’s a French-Algerian who Christian meets in Paris, leader of the French faction of Humanity’s Team, the real-life spiritual activists organization.
  
• Punch Isigny. A whiteboy more knowledgeable about hiphop you’re not likely to find, though he also dipped his toes into the pool of Eastern mysticism and fell the fuck in.