PowerTrip

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pt042

Roar Comics

on Aug. 21, 2009

Wendigo High is a great place for the average teenager with superhuman abilities.
One of only 7 schools in North America to cater to metahuman students, it's government funded, and attempts to teach metahuman youngsters not only to use their abilities responsibly, but also the science of their individual powers and also plain old reading, writing and 'rithmetic.
As metas would be considered walking WMDs if the government were allowed to recruit them, no meta is allowed to join the military. (It would spark a new arms race and hasten the destruction of the planet, don'tchaknow.)

Of course, Wendigo High being in the public sector, it's run by the local Board of Ed, and has plenty of normal students. (They actually outnumber the metas about 5 to 1, but the 'special' students tend to get all the focus.)

Mavis is a norm, but she still digs the spectacle of it all.
She's the only norm child of her parents' 3.
The tiny guy in panel 2, is her size-morphing younger brother, Mike.
She has a much younger brother named Matt who has superspeed.

She, Ulysses and Phoenix have been friends since 4th grade, and she was one of the first friends Eddie made in school when he and his family moved to Seaport City from the East Coast.

When I drew this, I just put a lot of throwaway characters in, but I actually grew attached to a lot of them.
This is why you will see Mae's friend, Dawn and her brother Mike again. Also, the big furry punk kid in panel three will be seen again.
I named him William Sanders. Everyone calls him "Bigfoot Billy".

I don't have a name for the bald, teleporting kid in the background, but I patterned him after Numbuh One, as, if i remember correctly, I was watching Codename: Kids next Door at the time I scribbled this.