When I was twelve...
I drew a comic called "Game Quak".
Based on an imaginary "hacker" handle I had created for myself, "Game Quak" was a Donald Duck-looking guy who had wings instead of arms. But he was clever enough to create special super-sleeves for himself that could form his feathers into hands. When he needed to escape, he'd press a button and his gloves would fly off, his sleeves would roll up and he'd take off into the air.
I spent Junior High School drawing three- and four-page stories for this character on notebook paper. He was some kind of fever dream amalgam of all my interests at the time. I was reading superhero comics and playing video games on our Apple IIe. I'd get pirated copies of games that had been "cracked" by mysterious figures known as "computer hackers". These guys had crazy names for themselves, they lived and operated in a shadowy underground and they were noble figures, bringing prohibitively expensive games to the common people. The "Game Quak" of the comics was the story of a young boy and his pet duck "Quakkie" (again, I was 12 years old). One day they were playing in the field when a nuclear bomb went off and they were bathed in radiation.
Rather than burning them both alive and turning their world into a living hell, the boy and his duck fused together and became the anthropomorphic hacker superhero. He lived on Mount (wait for it) Kump Yooterg Ayme, with his friends RAM Master and ROM Mistress. I believe he had some arch-enemies but I regret to say I've forgotten anything about them.
UPDATE: Found this draft in my blog archives, but I don't think I ever posted it.
Based on an imaginary "hacker" handle I had created for myself, "Game Quak" was a Donald Duck-looking guy who had wings instead of arms. But he was clever enough to create special super-sleeves for himself that could form his feathers into hands. When he needed to escape, he'd press a button and his gloves would fly off, his sleeves would roll up and he'd take off into the air.
I spent Junior High School drawing three- and four-page stories for this character on notebook paper. He was some kind of fever dream amalgam of all my interests at the time. I was reading superhero comics and playing video games on our Apple IIe. I'd get pirated copies of games that had been "cracked" by mysterious figures known as "computer hackers". These guys had crazy names for themselves, they lived and operated in a shadowy underground and they were noble figures, bringing prohibitively expensive games to the common people. The "Game Quak" of the comics was the story of a young boy and his pet duck "Quakkie" (again, I was 12 years old). One day they were playing in the field when a nuclear bomb went off and they were bathed in radiation.
Rather than burning them both alive and turning their world into a living hell, the boy and his duck fused together and became the anthropomorphic hacker superhero. He lived on Mount (wait for it) Kump Yooterg Ayme, with his friends RAM Master and ROM Mistress. I believe he had some arch-enemies but I regret to say I've forgotten anything about them.
UPDATE: Found this draft in my blog archives, but I don't think I ever posted it.
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