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SIlveray: The Hero of Ohio
The Hero of Ohio is a major independent comic book license (something like Hellboy) to which Jonas has somehow managed to acquire the film rights.
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The basic storyline follows David Zu Masters, Millionaire Boy Scout, who made good by marrying Bethany Jones, who is very well known as the superhero vigilante, Tiggrr. Now, Bethany is not a secret alter ego - she is quite recognizable for her full bodysuit of tiger-stripe tattoos, which she takes no pains to hide. And she is not strictly a vigilante, as she is a deputized member of the Arlington PD, the FBI, and the Coast Guard (tigers do like to swim!). She is heavily marketed, sponsored, and advertised. Tiggrr dolls are found both at Toys 'R' Us and more adult-oriented stores.
But Tiggrr has some new competition on the super-hero front from a masked, unnamed "Hero", who has powers reserved for comic book characters alone. And Tiggrr does not handle competition gracefully. Of course, this "Hero" is none other than David, who could not expose his secret to anyone, least of all his wife, for fear of losing the woman he loves most.
David's powers are the boon of an artificially intelligent symbiote he accidentally ingested (the symbiote was developed by his company as a supplement for Tiggrr's Combat Gearrr, but was ultimately rejected when it was shown to be dangerously unstable. The symbiote is essentially a telekinete and telepath, and projects the image of David's "Hero" suit into the minds of the people around him, but that is the least of its abilities - it can render him invisible, allow him to "fly" (more accurately, levitate or bounce), become superstrong, etc. The suit cannot communicate with him directly, beyond putting images in David's head, and it can manipulate his body like a puppet if he does not keep it beaten into submission. It has a mischeivious and sometimes dangerous sense of humor. David discovers deep into his story that it is actually the by-product of research into an alien crash in the 1940's - the artificial intelligence is an alien mind that was saved by the pilot before the crash as a survival mechanism!
Many people are worried about what Silveray will do to the Hero license, given the company's prediliction for porn, but Jonas has every intention of producing a family-friendly summer blockbuster.
Click here for some deviantartwork.
The basic storyline follows David Zu Masters, Millionaire Boy Scout, who made good by marrying Bethany Jones, who is very well known as the superhero vigilante, Tiggrr. Now, Bethany is not a secret alter ego - she is quite recognizable for her full bodysuit of tiger-stripe tattoos, which she takes no pains to hide. And she is not strictly a vigilante, as she is a deputized member of the Arlington PD, the FBI, and the Coast Guard (tigers do like to swim!). She is heavily marketed, sponsored, and advertised. Tiggrr dolls are found both at Toys 'R' Us and more adult-oriented stores.
But Tiggrr has some new competition on the super-hero front from a masked, unnamed "Hero", who has powers reserved for comic book characters alone. And Tiggrr does not handle competition gracefully. Of course, this "Hero" is none other than David, who could not expose his secret to anyone, least of all his wife, for fear of losing the woman he loves most.
David's powers are the boon of an artificially intelligent symbiote he accidentally ingested (the symbiote was developed by his company as a supplement for Tiggrr's Combat Gearrr, but was ultimately rejected when it was shown to be dangerously unstable. The symbiote is essentially a telekinete and telepath, and projects the image of David's "Hero" suit into the minds of the people around him, but that is the least of its abilities - it can render him invisible, allow him to "fly" (more accurately, levitate or bounce), become superstrong, etc. The suit cannot communicate with him directly, beyond putting images in David's head, and it can manipulate his body like a puppet if he does not keep it beaten into submission. It has a mischeivious and sometimes dangerous sense of humor. David discovers deep into his story that it is actually the by-product of research into an alien crash in the 1940's - the artificial intelligence is an alien mind that was saved by the pilot before the crash as a survival mechanism!
Many people are worried about what Silveray will do to the Hero license, given the company's prediliction for porn, but Jonas has every intention of producing a family-friendly summer blockbuster.
// posted by Wray Davis @ 10:24 PM 
