Not much has happened since Marvel bought the rights to the Malibu creations a few years back. Nothing much except for Men In Black, some minor Prime/Spider-Man crossover and Nightman.
I read about some superhero series back when Marvel Vision saw the light of day. Nightman. It premiered last night, two years after I read about it. Kinda reminiscent of M.A.N.T.I.S. wherein a paraplegic genius builds a suit to do battle in the night along with a band of sidekicks. At least to my knowledge anyway.
The first scene of Nightman had some guy being thrown off the side of a bridge. Corrupt federal agents who want to auction off supercop gear to the highest bidder. The main dude—Nightman's alterego, Johnny Domino (at times I thought John Dongo and Charlie Speck) — is a cool saxophone player at the House of Soul. Strange is this series and the setup insofar.
The origin point of Nightman is within a tram where Johnny is saxing it up to some elite personnel. A redhead surreptitiously alights from the tram leaving behind a purse. A bolt of lightning strikes the entire carriage but only Johnny falls victim to the pulse. As a result he can sense the fact that the purse is indeed a bomb. As Johnny lays next to the Senator in the hospital he learns of his new found ability to read thoughts and minds in a fishbowl vision. Witness later to the Senator's death by crooked feds in the hospital stairwell he runs for his life.
Spin-kicking his way out of a hit and run he meets up with a scared geek. This geek is the last of a team of people who developed the supercop gear. In a defunct warehouse storing the crate which holds the outfit they have the feds closely on their ass. The crate holds an anti-gravity belt, helmet with a huge eye for lasering things with, a body suit impervious to bullets and of course, the cape. The cape and belt are used in this episode to help the new pair escape the cops outside. The cape provides a stealth mode for the wearer as long as the batteries hold out. Among the police and federal agents hanging and searching about is Domino's dad, an ex-cop who listens to the police scanner just for the hell of it.
The last scene had Johnny and the geek standing on a bluescreen platform as they dropped into the water. Fitting though as most, if not all, of the backgrounds in this episode were Dick Tracy like.
To be continued.
Thursday, 21 June 2001
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