As you may have heard, we’re going to get our first large
dose of the NHL Guardians during Sunday’s NHL All-Star Game, as the superhero
team is introduced in a between-periods special effects extravaganza. If you
have no idea what any of this means, read
our "origin story" of the project.
Ah, but these aren’t the only NHL-based comic heroes. Puck
Daddy commissioned artist David Cicirelli (a frequent winner in our Photoshop reader art contests) to
honor the forgotten forbearers of the Guardians.
Behold, The Financially
Un-Viable X-TEAMS … excelsior!
With great power comes great
responsibility … and occasional inanity.
Here is the origin story and character rundown from David
Cicirelli:
After Commissioner Bettman successfully passed the
Traditional Market Registration Act, the world was no longer a safe place for
anyone that didn’t fit into his vision.
There seemed little hope for a group of loners … until
eccentric billionaire and long time Bettman adversary Jim Balsille gave them a
purpose and gave them a hope. He gathered this group of rejected franchise and
molded them into heroes.
Sworn to protect the league that hates and fears them, they
are the strangest heroes of all…The Financially Un-Viable X-TEAM.
ROLL CALL:
Jim Balsille
Long time foe of Bettman’s power, he banded together this
group of unwanted teams into the force they are today.
Warren Whalington III
- The Whaler
Connecticut Country Clubs couldn’t provide enough excitement
for this tri-state titan!
The Nordique
This powerful warrior comes from a strange land in the
north, speaking a native tongue indecipherable to all but a select few. He
claims to be a god, from a land of gods; a place us mere mortals will never
understand. Perhaps it’s true. Then again, most Separatists say that.
The North Star
No one doubts this Scrappy fighter. Just don’t put him in
the same room as a Bostonian.
Wonder-Peg
Wonder-Peg owns an Invisible Jet. Get it?
Hot-lanta Flame
Look out for his Disco Inferno attack. This cool cat never
made it out of the 70s.
VILLIANS
Commissioner Bettman
This elected official will stop at nothing until these heroes
are vanquished to Phoenix.
He has at his command a legion of decommissioned Fox Hockey
Robots, scouring North America to put a stop to the small market menace. They
have no compassion, and will destroy you with a powerful fox track puck with no
hesitation.
VS.
Unlike Jim Balsillie, who has a vision of a unified NHL, VS
doesn’t believe in coexistence. He will always attempt to get the X-TEAM to
join Fly Fishing, Hunting, and Bull Riding in his Brotherhood of Misfit Sports.
How will our champions of justice escape from this dastardly
predicament!? All will be revealed in the continuing adventures of … The
Financially Un-Viable X-TEAM.
• • •
David Cicirelli is one of our
favorite people. Please check
out his Fakebook project for more.
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