Icons: Issue #2 - The Midnight Men... His name is Genocide!

Pencil and ink by Chris.

This is the story of Genocide:

The Midnight Men were looking for the missing children from issue #1 when a space ship was seen in the sky above Stark City. Genocide then appeared near a park and started wrecking buildings prompting the Midnight Men to soon arrive. Genocide is supposed to be a Darkseid type figure: really tough and powerful. Our Gamemaster created him to teach us a lesson and put us in our rightful place, making sure we knew others were above us on the food chain. Or, at the very least, to pose a challenge for us to beat.

Things however, did not go according to plan. Unfortunately for our GM, being new to the game he miscalculated on how tough to make him. 

Big G stood before us and gave the usually speech:

I am the Revelation. The trigger-force at the core of all things. When you cry out in your dreams, it is I that you see! Your world is now mine. Bow to me and worship your new lord and master..Genocide!!! 

Initiative was rolled and Genocide gave Black Bolt and Masked Justice each a pretty hard slap but it didn't put them down. It was then that Genocide bought a ticket to the pain train and hopped on. The onlookers who witnessed what happened next are still traumatized to this day by the sheer brutality of the beating delivered to Genocide. Within two rounds he was stunned and after that the only fighting that took place was between the Midnight Men - fighting over who was going to hit him next. 

We passed him back and forth, like Kurt Russell at the end of Deathproof. Despite his pleas to stop, more slams and stuns followed as he was sent through cement walls, had cars bashed over him then his head was dribbled across the basketball court and spiked through the hoop a few times. When it was all over, Genocide was left a broken heap on the ground lying in a chalk outline.

Afterwards, a beam came from his space ship and lifted his prone form back aboard and within a half second it warped out of our solar system. 

That day, Genocide's plans for planetary domination came to a screeching halt. On his ship he probably has a map of planets to subjugate but the Earth now has a big red X over it. And we figure his crew is always reminding him about that day - "Hey Genocide, remember when you tried to take over Earth and got your ass kicked?"

Maybe we'll meet him again. Who knows? Villains have a way of reappearing. After years of physio he may want to take another crack at the Earth. But if he does he'll have to face its protectors once more; That group of heroes that are called upon when it's past the 11th hour, the world is dark and all hope seems lost..The Midnight Men!