Today’s Batman homage is one I really don’t know much about:
Midnighter. Midnighter aka Lucas Trent (if that’s his real name) first appeared
in Stormwatch back in 1998 for Wildstorm. He has the dark suit motif and can
kick buttloads of butt. That’s where the similarities more or less stop though.
He does have superpowers like enhanced strength, speed, and durability. He also
has the ability to know what a person is going to do before he does it. He also
normally kills his villains which is something Batman doesn’t tend to do. Lastly,
he’s known for being of the more prominent gay superheroes. For a time, he was
actually married to Apollo, a Superman homage that I looked at in September.
I did have one issue of his (Midnighter #10) that I was
going to look at but I honestly couldn’t tell what the heck was going on in it.
Seriously, I didn’t get what was going on. Instead, I found another issue that
I picked up in the cheap bins months ago. Midnighter: Armageddon #1 tied into
an event that Wildstorm was going through back in 2007. Essentially, Void from
the WildC.A.T.S. was going around to different heroes and showing them a
horrible future that they had to prevent. Christos Gage is the writer. Pencils
and inks were done by Simon Colbey.
Midnighter: Armageddon #1
Writer: Christos Gage
Artist: Simon Colbey
Colors: Wildstorm FX
Letters: Travis Lanham
Editors: Kristy Quinn and Ben Abernathy