Posted on 09/26/2010 10:16:32 AM PDT by nickcarraway
An early sketch shows a boy in a wheelchair who later becomes the Silver Scorpion
Comic book fans will soon be getting their first glimpse at an unlikely new superhero — a Muslim boy in a wheelchair with superpowers.
The new superhero is the brainchild of a group of disabled young Americans and Syrians who were brought together last month in Damascus by the Open Hands Intiative, a non-profit organization founded by U.S. philanthropist and businessman Jay T. Snyder.
The superhero's appearance hasn't been finalized, but an early sketch shows a Muslim boy who lost his legs in a landmine accident and later becomes the Silver Scorpion after discovering he has the power to control metal with his mind.
Sharad Devarajan, co-founder and CEO of Liquid Comics whose company is now turning the young people's ideas into pictures and a story line, said the goal is to release the first comic book — launching the disabled Muslim superhero — in early November in both Arabic and English.
Snyder says he was inspired by President Barack Obama's effort to reach out to the Muslim world in his January 2009 inaugural address. Last month, Snyder flew 12 disabled Americans to Damascus to meet their Syrian peers, and one of their main goals was to come up with ideas and story lines for the new superhero.
"The only limit was the imagination these kids had — the opportunity for a great story," said Snyder, a comic book collector who heads HBJ Investments LLC. "They helped create something by their combined talents, and that becomes a gift to the world."
Devarajan found the young people's imagination to be quite amazing.
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Able to behead infidels in a single bound.
What hogwash! No doubt the landmine was planted by evil Americans or the Jooz.
Please tell me he’s not going to blow himself up in the first issue.
It’s OK the infidels have his “Kyptonite”... A HAM Sandwich...LOL
What will his first assignment be - running down an eloping couple? Patrolling the mall for women wearing pants?
Reach out to or push on the public as a new way of life?
Boy oh boy, I can hardly wait to read about just how he lost his legs via a landmine?
Golly Gee Wizz, was in a suicide bomber of the same religion, but different sect, blowing up a mosque during Friday prayers?
Or I’ll bet it was those evil “Juice” who laid the mine?
And what a nifty wheelchair! With all the new infrastructure in his home country, I’ll bet he just gets around real swell like?
Is there a Christian superhero?
And what use is there in a superhero that blows up in a restaurant in Tel Aviv?
LOL! Funny stuff.
Up in the sky!
It’s a bird!
It’s a plane!
It’s a 9 year old Muslim bride!
Please tell me he’s not going to blow himself up in the first issue.
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Lol, please tell me he WILL!
What will his first assignment be - running down an eloping couple? Patrolling the mall for women wearing pants?
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Pushing a Jewish retiree in a wheelchair off of a cruise ship.
Like democrats, there is no depth too deep for these
vermin to plumb, using disabled children as propaganda
tools, dupes to further a hideous agenda. Shame on them.
LOL!
Watch out for the fatwas: he has no Islamic dress, no beard...
If it’s a hit will a theme song follow when he’s wheeled into a room? And if so, will whoever plays the song be beheaded since it’s against their religion?
Hmmmmmm. Seems to fly in the face of the premise that he's able to control metals.
His arch enemy is Sbarro’s.
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