AVATAR~ CIRCA 1984~!

Every few years or so I go through a creative

explosion triggered by inexternal influences.

Round about the early 1980's, the comic

book industry was having a Renaissance

of sorts & consequently ideas were

flowing like hot melted butter

over the corny cob of my brain.

One such idea, entitled 'Manican',

was not entirely original at the

time (unbeknown to me), but

has resurfaced with James'

Cameron's mega-hit 'Avatar'.

In my version, an 8-year-old Kid

is a quadriplegic. His Scientist

Father gets booted out of the

Military Industrial Complex

for failing to complete new

super-soldier Robots that

work; only to have an

epiphany & succeed

in private. His Son,

of course, becomes

a New kind of Crime-

Fighter, living vicariously

through the animated 'Manican'...