Re: Create a Hero Theme Team!
By day, law professor Howard Dess taught copyright and tort law at Gotham University. It was a good job, one he'd worked very hard to get, but he'd gotten bored with it and fallen into a rut. So at night, he turned his energies to his other great passion--heavy metal. As frontman for his metal band, the Droids, Howard would stride around the stage in a postapocalyptic costume he'd built with the help of the university engineering department. Heavy steel boots, spiked kneepads, skull-adorned belt, bracers, armored vest to make himself look bigger, even a red flowing cape--with an outlandish spiked helmet to send it over the top. It was even somewhat functional, since Howard designed it to protect him from onstage pyrotechnics, flying beer bottles, angry moshers, and the pulsing sonic waves coming from the amps. Sometimes Howard felt, onstage, that this was his true identity.
Then, one day, he happened to catch a breaking news story of costumed superfreaks fighting in a downtown intersection--and the villain was wearing an outfit just like his Droid costume! Enraged, Howard immediately sprang into action to find out who was this upstart was who'd stolen his look and was using it to commit crimes. He quickly realized that he wasn't going to be able to nail this particular criminal with copyright law--he'd have to take matters into his own hands. After working with the university to beef up his and his bandmates' costumes, he soon took to the streets as crimefighting Dr. Dess, Lawyer, backed up by the Dess Droids.