25.2 - Why I Am Excited About The MR. T On Going

That is the Mister Terrific on going series starting next month as a part of the DC relaunch. I am anticipating this book in particular, like I have said before, because I have wanted Mr. T to get an on going since the OMAC Project mini series in the lead up to Infinite Crisis. I felt this way, at the time, because I liked his power set and I had seen him before and wondered who that was. Now I continue to feel this way because of my quest to find more good black and/or multi-cultural characters in comics, especially new ones ("new is always better" ~Barney Stinson).

As I said before Mr. T just has a cool power set, a "natural aptitude for natural aptitudes" as it is put. He is a genius and is able to pick up complex physical or metal tasks easily. This has made him a millionaire, tech company owner, and Olympic athlete, who also has at least 14 Ph. D's in a wide array of subject. He is considered the 3rd smartest person on the planet, and if I had to guess it would be behind Batman/ Bruce Wyane and Lex Luthor. With only these back round facts, this is a pretty cool character to me, and if you combine this with the tech he has, this is the perfect super hero character.

He is also one of the few relatively well known black superheroes in the DCU that has not had his own book, this is behind John Stewart Green Lantern (probably most well know), then Jefferson Pierce Black Lightning, John Henry Irons Steal, and the newer Firestorm Jason Rusch. Seeing how he has been established in book like JSA and Checkmate I feel he can support a good on going series.

Plus, he is also a very complex and pivotal character within the DCU. He has been chairman of the JSA and White King of the United Nation's Checkmate. He became a hero after contemplating suicide, because of the death of his wife and unborn child, but deciding to take up the mantel of the golden age hero Mister Terrific, a man with a similar story as himself. He seems to continue to be just as much a political figure in the DCU as a hero, and it is this kind of complexity that can drive a very serious book.

Lets leave it at I am looking forward to this book.