Incandescent Proposal

Okay, Incandescent is the comic of the new millennium. It explores every aspect of super hero culture as two teens, Scott Levit and Jason Lau get super powers through a freak occurrence. Scott gets the power to control light (at first, later he gains the ability to control all forms of energy) and Jason gets advanced strength, speed, agility, stamina, etc. Scott takes the name of Incandescent and Jason becomes Kinetic.

At first, they try to just be typical super heroes by fighting crime in costumes-- made out of light manipulated by Scott; he ain’t wearing no spandex!-- in London, but soon realize that this isn’t practical. The world doesn’t need those types of heroes, it needs huge changes. Plus, it is really hard to fight crime at night, go to school, have a girlfriend, have a job and watch TV. They encounter different things that make them consider changing their style of crime fighting; such as, when they save an old lady and injure her assailants, she yells at them for being too brutal. Today’s society is too up tight and supports criminals’ civil rights way too much, which makes it near impossible for Scott and Jason to get the job done.

At the end of the first year, a villain reveals their identities. It isn’t until their identities are revealed that they begin to change. With the whole world knowing who they are, they become instant celebrities and go ‘Hollywood’. They do all the talk shows and such, star in some movies (they provide their own special effects), and even get a TV show. Both Jason and Scott get swelled heads and eventually split up as a duo. Jason continues in his career as a star and Scott goes off to explore his powers and various exotic places.

Scott begins to test the limits that his powers have. He travels through time, space and alternate realities in three story arcs. In the time travel one he goes back to around issue twelve-and-a-half and then forward a couple of years. But Scott is just a ghost in these time periods because his temporal signature does not match any time frame other than his own. He goes into space and travels for a few months as light and just explores. he meets an alien race or two, none more advanced than us, but pretty impressive non-the-less. The alternate reality story is probably the biggest story that will ever appear in the pages of Incandescent. Scott travels to an alternate reality through a mirror and switches bodies with his alternate. While he’s in that reality in the other Scott’s body, that Scott is in his and chaos ensues.

When Scott returns to his own reality, he finds that the other Scott had used his body for less than noble purposes. He had practically taken over Canada and had destroyed France and Quebec. Scott has the fight to convince everyone of what had happened and the whole story culminates in Scott being put on trial.

After being acquitted Scott and Jason reunite and begin on making the world a better place ala The Authority, but manage to avoid the pitfalls of popularity like the aforementioned group. They begin to build a group of metahumans and start with Scott issuing a threat to the criminal population: “If you commit a crime you will pay for it. I can travel at the speed of light and it will only take me a short amount of time to scour the globe. Also, I don’t believe in criminals’ civil rights. Fuck you. Once you take away another’s civil rights, you lose yours. So behave or deal with the consequences.” Crime goes down by 75% within a week worldwide and then the group begins to look at social justice issues, like racism and poverty. They end the dispute in Northern Ireland and help feed Africa and South-East Asia. This does piss off some of the big-wigs of the world, but when they find out that Scott is impossible to kill because he is pure energy by this time, they fuck off.

The final story arc of Scott’s part of the series features one of those huge cosmic stories. I really don’t know what exactly happens, but Scott does die somehow and passes the mantle of Incandescent to his now- wife, Lorie-- she was his girlfriend at the beginning of the series. Jason is also killed along with the rest of Scott’s team. After that story there is a one issue, “The Story of Scott Levit” story that is like Behind The Music and then we go right into Lorie as Incandescent.

Lorie is a college student and goes the route of trying to balance school and super heroics. I would probably not want to write this stuff and would insist that a new creative team be introduced. My last issue would be the tribute issue. A guy like Terry Moore would be much better at writing Lorie as Incandescent.

But that stuff isn’t that important now, is it?

Incandescent is the story of super heroes. Each year explores the different aspects surrounding super heroics and how they affect people’s lives.