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This is the part in the story when the hero starts turning things around. The pivotal moment when things start to shift over from the crappy situation that he was in to a new direction. Lightning in a bottle... AND this is all true. I was in sixth grade and I had this brilliant teacher, Mr. Edwards. He saw that I can draw and had interests in comics, especially superhero comics: Spider-man, Batman, Captain America, Superman , all the classics. So he allowed my classmates and I to draw a bi-weekly comic strip of our own characters. I got a kick out of seeing the reaction of my classmates reading my comics. It was cool to see them excited and eagerly anticipating the next installment. From that day on, I knew that I wanted to be a comic book artist and I wanted to create my own characters.

My first comic character I created was the Charger, a homage to my beloved football team. I remember liking Spiderman and looking at alot of Marvel books back then. Especially "How to draw the Marvel Way". I thought John Buscema's artwork was fantastic, and I remember a drawing of the Shocker that he did that I loved, so I based the Charger after the Shocker. Not a big stretch, I know, but gimme a break, I was in SIXTH GRADE! We even did a swipe of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe and I remember writing that the Charger was 5 feet 5 inches tall. Back in sixth grade, I thought that was tall... Oh and the Chargers' origin is that he was an Electrician working at this huge Electrical Power Plant and there was this crazy lightning storm coming. Of course he was standing too close to one of the generators when a bolt of lightning struck the generator and in turn shot out some mysterious, powerful bolts of electricity that showered down on the electrician transforming him into the superhero known as the CHARGER!... Sixth grade.... okay... remember that. Still, I think that origin is way more creative than some of the stuff created now.

Thank you Mr. Edwards for inspiring me to become a comic book creator. Without him there would be no ALCATRAZ HIGH, no 4 GUN CONCLUSION or ROBO BRIGADE. [link]
So if you hate my comics and want to destroy them, Terminator style, just go back in time and seek out Mr. Edwards. He's the cool teacher with the guitar, who is heavily into the Beatles. And that's another story I will tell soon.

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This is the part in the story when the hero starts turning things around. The pivotal moment when things start to shift over from the crappy situation that he was in to a new direction. Lightning in a bottle... AND this is all true. I was in sixth grade and I had this brilliant teacher, Mr. Edwards. He saw that I can draw and had interests in comics, especially superhero comics: Spider-man, Batman, Captain America, Superman , all the classics. So he allowed my classmates and I to draw a bi-weekly comic strip of our own characters. I got a kick out of seeing the reaction of my classmates reading my comics. It was cool to see them excited and eagerly anticipating the next installment. From that day on, I knew that I wanted to be a comic book artist and I wanted to create my own characters.

My first comic character I created was the Charger, a homage to my beloved football team. I remember liking Spiderman and looking at alot of Marvel books back then. Especially "How to draw the Marvel Way". I thought John Buscema's artwork was fantastic, and I remember a drawing of the Shocker that he did that I loved, so I based the Charger after the Shocker. Not a big stretch, I know, but gimme a break, I was in SIXTH GRADE! We even did a swipe of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe and I remember writing that the Charger was 5 feet 5 inches tall. Back in sixth grade, I thought that was tall... Oh and the Chargers' origin is that he was an Electrician working at this huge Electrical Power Plant and there was this crazy lightning storm coming. Of course he was standing too close to one of the generators when a bolt of lightning struck the generator and in turn shot out some mysterious, powerful bolts of electricity that showered down on the electrician transforming him into the superhero known as the CHARGER!... Sixth grade.... okay... remember that. Still, I think that origin is way more creative than some of the stuff created now.

Thank you Mr. Edwards for inspiring me to become a comic book creator. Without him there would be no ALCATRAZ HIGH, no 4 GUN CONCLUSION or ROBO BRIGADE. [link]
So if you hate my comics and want to destroy them, Terminator style, just go back in time and seek out Mr. Edwards. He's the cool teacher with the guitar, who is heavily into the Beatles. And that's another story I will tell soon.