{"id":3813,"date":"2020-06-14T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-14T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=3813"},"modified":"2020-06-15T06:50:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T10:50:37","slug":"forgotten-heroes-2020-badger-badger-badger-badger-badger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/?p=3813","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten Heroes 2020: Badger Badger Badger Badger Badger…."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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How I miss First Comics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First Comics had a pretty respectable roster of publications. Most were pretty good (Jon Sable; Freelance, Whisper<\/em>, Tim Truman’s Scout<\/em>, and my personal favorite: Grimjack<\/em>), some not so great (I couldn’t get into American Flagg<\/em> no matter how hard I tried). First secured the rights to publish Lone Wolf and Cub<\/em> (which they did out of sequence and only for about 60 issues, if memory serves), complete with new covers from greats like Frank Miller and Bill Sienkewicz; they published Jim Starlin’s Dreadstar <\/em>for a while, and they even got Jon Sable made into an extremely short-lived TV series, Sable, <\/em>which I have tried in vain to find anywhere in these days of digital streaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

First Comics went out of business in the late 80’s. Most of their properties were picked up by Dark Horse, at least for a while. I remember being pretty bummed out about their demise. One of their longest-running comics was Badger, created by Mike Baron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Badger is Norbert Sykes, a Vietnam veteran who suffers from multiple personalities (those of us in the biz refer to that as Dissociative Identity Disorder nowadays). One of his personalities is Badger, an expert hand-to-hand combatant and crimefighter. Badger lives in a castle in southern Wisconsin with a 5th century Druid who he met in a mental hospital. Hilarity and action ensued. I guess.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Badger was too batshit-crazy a book even for me. Despite my love of all things martial arts, I just didn’t dig Badger all that much. Not sure why, but that hasn’t stopped me from making Badger for Forgotten Heroes this year. Here’s how I did it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It wasn’t hard. I used these two Heroclix: Nighhtwing and a one-armed Fury (don’t know where she lost her harm), both from DC Hypertime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One quick head swap later, and he’s already starting to look like Badger. I filed off some of Nightwing’s costume for easier repainting. I debated losing the escrima sticks and just going with clenched fists, but Badger is an expert with all martial arts weapons, so why bother?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I repainted him as Badger, and voila! First Forgotten Heroes submission done for 2020! I have another one in the can already, and I’m hoping to get a third submission completed by the end of the month. Check back here in a few days for my second submission!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

How I miss First Comics. First Comics had a pretty respectable roster of publications. Most were pretty good (Jon Sable; Freelance, Whisper, Tim Truman’s Scout, and my personal favorite: Grimjack), some not so great (I couldn’t get into American Flagg no matter how hard I tried). First secured the rights to publish Lone Wolf and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,3,52,31,25],"tags":[71,28],"class_list":["post-3813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conversions","category-miniatures","category-painting-challenges","category-repaints","category-super-heroes","tag-forgotten-heroes","tag-heroclix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3813"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3818,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3813\/revisions\/3818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/angrypiper.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}