"Alexandr" (Comic Book) Characters: Scantlebury

 

Williem Scantlebury, from the "Alexandr" comic book series by Chris DeBrie..

 

 

 

Alex is a professional hitman with one client. His recent marriage to a childhood friend has him ready for retirement. But he doesn't yet realize that his final target is different than all the rest...

 

Scantlebury dates to the late 18th century, when he was a slave living in Barbados.

 After saving the life of another worker, a British landowner took note of Scantlebury's quick reactions and obvious intelligence. The Brit purchased Scantlebury, with the intent of taking him back to London as a personal assistant.

 

 

On the long boat trip across the Atlantic, the ship was boarded by a starving group of vampires. The carnage was furious and brief.

 

 

However, the lead vampire, Delphine, saw the same qualities in Scantlebury that the landowner had.

 

Everyone on the ship was consumed except Scantlebury--Delphine took him for herself, and he became a personal assistant after all...

 

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Williem Scantlebury

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Ultimate Sports Force: Basketball Stars Go 'Toon

This blog is basically a logging of all the stuff I've pack-ratted since childhood, carried around from town to town, and am now either trashing or re-using. We want to study everything from a Biblical point of view.

 In one box I pulled from storage, I found a comic book sponsored by the NBA. [-garbage bound-] This book is kind of like the ones you get for free in the cereal box.

 

The comic  turns basketball players into super-powered menaces who believe they're heroes. At least, that's what J. Jonah Jameson says.

 





The comic features stars like Dirk Nowitzki, Tracy McGrady and Elton Brand, the elite at the time of the book's 2004 publication. "Air and Space" is so generic that it's about as harmful as organic milk.

 

Any kid who likes this kind of cartoon already idolizes NBA players, so imagining Gilbert Arenas as a flying jumpsuit-wearing superhero is well-trod ground.

 

The super-ballers get their powers
from a mystical basketball. That's not a typo.

In the story, a team of twelve players take advice from a striking alien. The e.t. warns them of ugly creatures, his rivals, coming to attack Earth.

 

Turns out that the creatures are the good guys. Sure, this comic book is obviously a quick money grab. But the readers, if there were any kids who bought this, are taught that appearances can be deceiving--a biblical principle which goes down nicely.

 

John 7:24  Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.