8FOLD: Mighty Medley # 6, June 2014, by Messrs. Brenton, Perron & Russell

[Andrew Perron]

On 6/9/2014 6:23 PM, Saxon Brenton wrote:
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 > While it's not a given, I would have put a higher chance on someone like
 > him saying, 'Stuff this, I'm taking my bat and ball and going home', using
 > his powers to make people somehow not make the connection to him for black
 > cape crimes, then retiring to the Bahamas.  Maybe he got to this point in a
 > perfectly natural progression the way other people would.  (And FWIW the
 > Speak! series was very good for getting into the heads of people drifting
 > into doing bad things for not-necessarily-villainously-motivated reasons.)
 > But I still get the nagging feeling that somewhere along the line a misuse
 > of his powers, or a backlash against a use of his powers, caused him some
 > damage.
 >   We'll just have to wait and see.

I'm sure we'll explore how we got from "scared of responsibility and kind of a 
jerk" to "ranting megalomaniacal villain who wants to prove how badass he is 
to the world". I'm looking forward to it.

Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, thinking about mind control again.