How Do You Make A Comic Book Hero?
Comic book heroes are more than a bunch of neat super-powers held together by a human body. The best ones are fully-fleshed characters with goals and motivations, often moved by a bad guy’s actions but always with internal conflicts and real-world problems as well. By creating your comic book hero properly, you can ensure your comic, story or game involving the character gets off to a great start. Excelsior! Define your comic genre: spoof, comedic, traditional heroic, X-man style angst, horror or some other genre you have created yourself. You don’t have to stick with this genre forever, but remember it is awkward to transition a character from one to another, as when Batman went from angst-driven super hero to Adam West camp. Determine your character’s theme. Superman, for instance, was literally more-than-man. Batman was a normal man whose obsession with destroying evil led him to remake himself physically and mentally into crime’s nemesis. Spider-man was bitten by a spider and thus
