Or – “Maybe This One Is More Of A Protagonist History?”
Many years ago, I gathered all my belongings into a Pontiac Gran Prix (borrowed from my mom, mind you) and took off for the wilds of Western Kansas for college. I learned a great many things in those ensuing 7 years: The smell of anti-freeze can be bad. Buffalo don’t like it when you taunt them with hamburgers. Vampires make terrible roommates. Always date a cougar, and a cougar from another country is a plus. But I apparently taught a few things as well, as when I rekindled the fire of comic collecting in Major Spoilers resident cartoonist Otter Disaster, then a pale youth with a ‘fro and a huge array of black band t-shirts. Of all the books I introduced him to, I credit him with introducing ME to several amazing comic stories and artists, among them Mike Allred and Mike Mignola. But probably his greatest discovery for me was the awesomeness of today’s Hero History entrant. Whereas my Legionnaires existed in a bright and shiny utopian future, today’s entrant lives in a world much more stark and dangerous, and his modus operandi is a lot harder to accept. Still, for all his failings as a man, his strengths as a person, as a husband and father, as well as his moral dilemma at his own exalted position make for fascinating stories. This, then, is your Major Spoilers Hero History of Horatio Valdemar Hellpop of Ylum… NEXUS!
