If you're a villain that has met the Grim Reaper, how do you recover? Travel back in time twenty-some years to 1999.
Villain Boer Boar, (now in death referred to as "BB" at times, since it's easier to type-out), was on his way to becoming the first trillionaire, until a vigilante crushed him280Please respect copyright.PENANAl0QnK8HjLU
underfoot.
Apparently, a few real stand-up heroes will have to return to 1999 as well. Not to smell the roses, listen to grunge music, and stop washing their hair, but to prevent BB from erasing - and then penciling in - a revised history.
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This story is about "Mother Hulker" a sometimes friendly, neighborhood, sometimes-green woman.
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Superhero Mother Hulker's secret identity name is Jennifer Sassy. She works as a law professor.
As this tale begins Jennifer skimmed her personal data from the year 2019.
Figuratively skimmed over the details of her life alone.
She had social media friends, but her personal computer was often hacked. Payback's a glitch.
Her one real life friend - a vigilante - had killed a villain named Boer Boar in public view.
Jennifer was a lawyer as part of her day job, so she defended her friend at the later criminal trial.
The villain was universally loathed, so the jury found her friend guilty on only one charge.
However, the judge gave the maximum sentence of ten years, angering Jennifer's friend/ client.
Before being taken into custody, her client used a superability to grow to fifty feet, then escaped.
Jennifer's problematic, former BFF, went on a rampage, destroying objects near the courthouse.
Then, checking herself, this vigilante shrunk down to a typical woman's size in order to blend in and evade capture by law enforcement.
People suspected that Jennifer had helped her old friend escape, and the scrutiny was intense.
Jennifer's husband, also a superhero, came under suspicion too. He couldn't stand the pressure, so he got a quick divorce and left her, while she was pregnant with their first child.
The supervillain had been defeated, but by autumn of 2019 Jenny had lost her reputation, her one true friend, and the father of her child to be.
Cliché notwithstanding, her walls seemed to be closing in - like when in Episode IV the heroes were squeezed by the Empire's trash compactor filled with water and a one-eyed creature.
With her life seemingly circulating the drain, she pondered: What more could possibly go wrong?
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MEANWHILE...
Bandits and desperadoes, disguised as Royal Canadian Mounted Police, intercepted the DNA of the deceased villain "Boer Boar" ("BB") as it was being transferred from280Please respect copyright.PENANAvIwGsavXZp
Washington D.C. to the Niagara Falls region.
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That's what could go wrong.
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Author's Notes (from @jkdonahue)280Please respect copyright.PENANAoYMmxAXgj6
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In 1989, a comic book series began where the superheroine "broke down the fourth wall" to address her author. A red costumed comic mercenary appeared280Please respect copyright.PENANAL6NbqHrXKH
for the first time two years later.