When Alpha Danger Squad: Karno's Perfect game gets released
later this year, I am hopeful you will like "get" what I'm trying to
do. And while I'm a big believer in show-don't-tell, I think you might want to
wet your appetite on a bit more of the creative process behind each character.
Or whatever.
Let me know if you've hear this: Dianne Grayton was a bored socialite and athlete. So one day
she slipped on a halloween witch costume,
and went off to fight crime. Well, that's the story of the Spider Widow,
anyway.
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| Also, this book had some great Fourth Wall breaking. |
The idea of a woman adopting an uglyfying persona in order
to fight crime was probably as weird then as it is now, with fellow Quality
heroine Phantom Lady as an example of
how publisher's fall to the allure of the cheesecake (and modern DC teta-happy revivals of one and complete oblivion of the other as further
proof.) Not that I'm not into chessecake. But I've always been of a mind that
if you can flip a table on expectations you probably should.We're not lacking in that factor, anyway.
But her scary looks were not enough to make her an outcast, and she soon inspired fellow hero The Raven, and teamed up with him and the previously named phantom lady. No, not that one.
So, I'm more or less taking most of that into play. The key
differences are as follows:
Dianne Grayton is a basketball star and a pretty succesfull
one too. However, there's some trouble in her past. As a kid she witnessed a
crime, which she never told anyone because it was so horrible. She carried with
her the secret into adulthood. Unable to reconcile her guilt, she tried jumping
off a tall building. But then she was saved by a spider-themed hero(no, not
that one), who told her to more or less make something better out of her life
with this new, second chance.
And so she adopted the identity of the Spider Widow as a homage to her hero, and using remote
controlled spiders to scare villians. The uniqueness of the spiders as an attack is that they follow along walls and cielings.
