Support Your Local Wizard

Rereading So You Want to be a Wizard? makes me sad. Because I know whats coming. All four of the books in the series I have do. Well more the first three. The Ireland one isn't as bad. At least I don't recall the self-sacrifice theme being as important in that one...

Still. Poor Fred...

Tuesday Tangents: Wildstorm's The Authority

Hah! This one will actually go up when its still Tuesday. Even if going with a DC imprint line title is kind of cheating. Still the idea I had for a version of The Authority who AREN'T A GIANT PACK OF ASSHOLES was to good in my mind to pass up. So away from from Marvel for the week. Even if I did have an interesting concept for The Prowler & Rocket Racer based on a comment by Willow about No More Black Heroes From the Ghetto as an origin...

But how to make the world's most proactive jerks into non-jerks. One. Change the era. I decided to make them a team of pulp action heros. Two. Gender-swap! Yes, thats right, boys become girls! Girls become boys! Someone becomes a robot!

The League of Secret Authority was originally founded in the 1870s by genius Nikola Tesla and Emperor Joshua Norton dedicated to protecting humanity and exploring the edges of understanding. Over the years various figures have been rumored to be attached the group. The former lawman John Reid and his Indian partner. Don Diego de la Vega. The master markswoman Annie Oakley. Even Thomas Edison confidant and master magician Harry Houdini...

But in the 1920s Tesla had retreated to his researches, turning the group over to one of his many students, the African-American engineer and inventor Adam Spicer. Spicer, a native of New Orleans, was also known by the name of his best invention, the one-man "tank" called the Great Engine. Spicer would also build and maintain the League's strange and advanced weaponry and vehicles...

Other members of the League during the 20s include:
- Lady Jane Hawkmore. British noblewoman and social chameleon. A master of disguise and capable of blending in with any gathering of people.

- The female pirate Captain Midnight and her lover the blind seer known only as the Delphine.

- Ex-military scout and tracker, the Cherokee war leader Shane Swift.

- Tesla's masterwork. The artificial man; Jack Sparks.

- The mysterious Chinese healer, sorceress and martial artist known as Doctor Qi.

( Crude pencil sketch )