Opportunist PI

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Page 5 - Formally introducing Madame Mantis

thefightingstranger

on April 7, 2008

I came up with the idea for this comic from Chaos Comics' WWE (then WWF) comics. They were doing comics based off WWE's horror type gimmicks, like Undertaker, Mankind, Kane and Chyna. So I came up with ideas for other wrestlers, like the Rock. Yes, Dwayne Johnson was my original Opportunist PI.

The main difference between the Rock and Phil Cray is that Rock was meant to be a cocky asshole to those who deserve it, but nice to the people in need (he was a babyface at the time). Phil is pretty much a weasel. For instance, in today's page, Rock PI would have mocking Double G, while beating up his goons (who would have been played by lame midcard wrestlers).

So after I realized the Rock thing would never happen, I switched the character up so I didn't have a rip-off Rock. And I came up with this.