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Saw some of these a while ago for other issues and thought they were a kind of cool. Thought it might be fun to see if we could put some together for the upcoming #10 Invasion:

COH: Invasion Issue #10 Comic Cover

I'm also going with Zurra's Royal Flush awesome work

I found some of the old Marvel Universe character bio's that did some front, back and side views I used one of those as a template. I can wing a scan over to you if you want?

I like this, really good attempt for your first story. I love your character Ban would like to see more of her story

I like... I like it a lot. Would love to see some more, even a costumed clad hero would be nice to see

yeah this is great. Very Jim Lee Superman / Batman pose like.

I love it

WOW!!!

Loving it even more in color... WOW!

I've always loved the DC / Marvel character GIF's used on various sites over the years and had a moment of inspiration, so I created some of my own based on the Patriot Brigade Family

Patriot Brigade Family

This is fantastic. One of my favourites so far.

Would love to see more

I'm not all that good at putting pencil to paper but I always loved seeing character designs from front, side and back view so I thought I'd have a go at sketching Captain Patriot. I used a body template to get the body right

I think I went to far with trying to color him in and destroyed it

Captain Patriot Sketch

This is fantastic. I love how you've done the shading and the pose as well.

Awesome stuff

These are awesome. Inspired as well, might have a go at some Brigade Uniforms?

Would love to see some more

I've added your comic and origin to the site Dragon. Thanks for letting me keep the Patriot Brigade backstory going.

Oh yeah... that's truly amazing work, I love it.

Fantastic mate, truly fantastic. Hope to see some more...

Thanks everyone. Glad you enjoyed it.

Also thanks for pointing out some of the mistakes I've made, I'll go in and amended these. I couldn't think of better editors I'd rather have.

Dragon, would love to catch up and go over some idea's if you want. Just read your comic on Dragonbane as well, it was fantastic (thanks for the mini Cap Patriot ref in there), it's given me an idea on a possible crossover story.

Hoping to get a least one issue out a month

At last after 6 months I finally got around to finishing Issue #1.

Captain Patriot is sent on a covert mission by statesman into Rogue Isles to sabotage a new weapon of Arachnos.

Captain Patriot #1 - Operation: Fort Darwin

I would love to know what you think? All feedback welcome good or bad

Issue #0 is now available on my site along with Vixen Girl. A long time friend of Captain Patriot.

This is great. Just been checking out some of your other pieces on devART.

Truly awesome

PART 2 –

FBI Meta Human Dept, Steel Canyon, Copper District – 11:42 hours, GMT

Sandra Bowman sat in her office looking at a pile of documents on the floor. Normally she was a very organised individual. Everything in her office was in alphabetical order, stacked neatly and accessible. If anyone walked into her office now they would think she’s either had a fight with someone or was in the middle of a nervous breakdown.

No matter how many times she read over her notes, reports and gathered documents she couldn’t believe such a man was ever allowed to exist. At first she thought she was chasing ghosts from WWII and thought it was a simple profile of another escaped Villain.
She has put together countless profiles of Meta Villains for over 5 years for the FBI and has helped track down some of the most notorious villains in Paragon but right now she wished she was doing some simple paper pushing office work.

‘God I wish I’d never gone to Europe”… she said out loud to herself. She was doing this more and more since her return.

Suddenly there was a knock at the door!

‘Sandra, you there?’ It was special agent Terry Kirk. Terry walked into Sandra’s office and was shocked to see the mess it was in. ‘Sandra you ok? What’s going on everyone’s been worried about you’.

‘It’s ok Terry, I’ve just been a little busy for the last few day’s. This profile is…’ Sandra stopped and looked down and the photo’s on the floor. Terry noticed what she was looking at and pick up some of the files.

‘What the hell have they got you looking into Sandra?’ Terry went white as he looked through the photos. ‘I thought you were doing a profile on an escaped Villain not a murder enquiry’.

‘I am… this is his handy work while escaping!’ replied Sandra. ‘Wolfgang Kaiser, AKA, General Bismarck, an old world war two general who has been hidden from the public in “Tanais Asylum” located in Volgograd, Germany for over 68 years. Seven day’s ago he escaped and killed all 37 staff and 16 inmates’.

‘My God, why the hell would we get involved in a case like this?’

‘Because of the organisation he works for… The Bismarck A.X.I.S.’ A secret organisation believed to be a myth. I’m not privy to all the facts. I was just asked to start putting a profile together for Agent Bennett, I was told he’d escaped from this Asylum in Germany and told to get on a flight as soon as possible to get as much information as possible on the guy’.

‘Yeah, that reminds me did you get my mail about this “Midnight Cowboy” Bennett’s got in custody. I overheard him mention something about Bismarck and remembered you telling about this trip to Europe for this Bismarck character and put two and two together’

‘I wished I never went Terry. The Asylum was something from an old horror movie. The walls were socked in blood still. The smell was… on my god I can still smell it’. Sandra was about to start crying but managed to pull herself together.

‘Did you manage to find anything out?’ Terry asked.

‘Nothing from any of the government officials, he’s been hidden from everyone for so long they've all forgotten about him. Some of the psychiatric doctors and staff spent most of their working careers, even life assessing him. His psychiatric file was massive. 68 years worth. This is what’s on my floor now. Those photo’s you’ve got there are what the Germany military took when they got on the scene of the massacre.’

‘They just gave you his file? I thought they would have wanted to keep this under wraps’.

‘It took some persuasion but I managed to get some human rights act’s thrown at their government for keeping him locked up for so long and keeping it a secret. The conditions he was kept in were so inhumane’.

‘He deserved it from the sounds of it.’ Terry looked puzzled at Sandra’s caring remark for a cold blooded killer.

‘No one deserves this treatment. Its possible these conditions would have caused a further breakdown in his fragile mental state. If he’d been made public and help like any mentally ill person it might have been different for him.’

‘I think you should hand everything over to Bennett and drop the profile Sandra. I’ve never seen you in this state before. It obviously too much for you’.

Sandra knew Terry was only trying to look out for her, they had known each other since the academy, but she knew there was more to this investigation than Bennett was letting onto.

‘I understand what your trying to say Terry, but I know this A.X.I.S. has been up to something in Paragon and with Bismarck’s escape I want to make sure I’ve got all the facts right before handing anything over’.

‘Ok I understand. Your not one for letting things go, but you need to do your bit and cut yourself off before… well I hate to say it but you look like your heading for a breakdown’.

‘I know, I know. I just need to follow up on one lead I managed to find. It might help with the whole profile puzzle. I managed to find an old Dawn Patrol report. It mentions something about a secret mission lead by Captain Patriot and the Patriot Brigade. It seems this Captain Patriot was the one responsible for Bismarck’s capture back in 1941’.

‘Captain Patriot, yeah I know the guy. He came to Paragon after a spell of inactivity as a cape about a year ago. Set-up a new Patriot Brigade, he recently disappeared again but has been spotted back on the scene. The Brigade’s headquarters Patriot Towers in located in Independence Port’.

‘Brilliant, I’ll see if I can get in contact with him… Terry, I know it’s a lot to ask for but can you see if you can get anymore information on Bennett’s current investigation on the A.X.I.S. and this “Midnight Cowboy’.

‘I’ll try but Bennett’s a tough one to get close to’. Terry looked worried as he spoke ‘If he finds out I snooping around, he’ll go ape’.

‘Thanks Terry, I really appreciate it, you’ve always been there for me’. Sandra hugged Terry

‘And I always will’. He let get of Sandra’s hand and he left her office.

Sandra continued to look at the files on the floor.

Snap out of it girl, maybe this Captain Patriot can shed some light on General Bismarck. Sandra thought to herself.

Hi Dragon / Vix,

Good to have you back Dragon. I've been away myself for a couple of months. The Brigade's still there, just not as an active Supergroup online but for comic / creative purposes I want to keep it going.

Still up for some RP when anyones around. Would be good to catch up again.

More to come on the site I hope, just finishing off some stories for the site.

After few months away from the game, I decided to get back into the swing of things by updating my website. I've collapsed my supergroup as maintaining such a large site and running the group became too time consuming. Was fun while it lasted.

It’s more of a blog page now where I can publish the ongoing adventures of Captain Patriot.

Let me know what you all think. It’s been fun putting it together.

Global Name: @captain_patriot

Server: Defiant. City of Heroes.

RP Characters: Captain Patriot.

Robert Maidstone was chief medical advisor to the Dawn Patrol during the Second World War. In an attempt to make normal soldiers and other vulnerable heroes stronger during battle. Robert Maidstone took the blood of England’s super invulnerable and indestructible hero’s to create a super healing drug to be used on the battle field and save lives during battle.

During an air raid on London, the Dawn Patrol research complex was nearly destroyed and Robert was nearly killed in the blast. In order to try and save his life the scientist who were trapped with him used the experimental drug to heal his near fatal wounds. Instantly Robert’s body healed before their very eyes. He also inherited super strength and rescued his fellow scientist from the collapsing building.

After this heroic act Robert decided to use his new powers and fight along side other heroes in the war effort and protect queen and country from the new threat of super powered Nazis called the Storm Korps. From this day onward he took on the name of Captain Patriot.

Type of RP: Casual, In missions, Supergroup and character based.

Can be contacted: In game mail, Forum PM's and Website.

Times on: I casually play from 9PM to 12AM, But I sometimes get on earlier just for a little PVE.

Timezone: British Standard Time.

This was a post I started months ago in a roleplay thread but never got the chance to finish. I liked the direction it was going so have changed the concept behind how the story started and a few characthers.

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PROLOGUE –

[FBI INTERNAL EMAIL] – FBI Report #2142540
From: FBI META WATCH DEPT.
To: Jessica Bowman, Sent: 01.05.07

Hi Jess,

Hope your trip to Europe went well. Just thought I’d let you know that Billy “the Kid” Midnight’s been captured. They’re detaining him at The Zig. I overheard something the officer in charge was talking about after an interview something about the BISMARCK A.X.I.S.

I thought you should know, not sure if it’s linked to what you were looking into?

Catch up soon.

Terry

PART 1 -

[THE COMPUTER SCREEN SCANS THROUGH HUNDREDS OF NEW REPORTS]
[SMALL ALERT SOUNDS AND SCREEN STOPS WITH FBI Report #2142540]

Patriot Guardsman lifts the blast shield from his face and switches off the blow torch, looking at screen. On the worktable is a half finished robot.
Guardsman walks to the computer console and scans the report. His eye’s spot BISMARCK A.X.I.S. and immediately grabs his communicator from the table.

[THE AIREWAVES OPEN WITH A HISS]

‘Patriot Guardsman to Captain Patriot… do you copy’ commands Guardsman.

[…]

Suddenly the channel bursts open with a wall of sound, fighting can be heard in the background.

‘I’m a little busy Guardsman, can it wait for 10 minutes!’ shouts Captain Patriot.

‘Confirmed, but I thought you might want to know that the computer scan has picked up a non-encrypted communication within the local FBI authorities. It mentions BISMARCK A.X.I.S.’

‘Thanks Guardsman, hopefully this is the lead we’ve been looking for. I’ll finish this up now, tired of playing with these Sky Raiders. I’ll be back at Patriot Towers as soon as I can’

‘Roger, over and out Captain’

[15 minutes later]

Captain Patriot walks into Patriot Guardsman’s workshop. Guardsman is still sat at the computer console.

‘What have you found’ asks Cpt Patriot.

‘This is the internal report from the FBI, non-encrypted. I’ve been gathering information about this Billy Midnight A.K.A Midnight Cowboy and Jessica Bowman’

Captain Patriot scans over the report and profile information of the Midnight Cowboy.

‘There’s no definite link with the BISMARCK A.X.I.S. but it’s a start. I’ll start with this Midnight Cowboy; see if I can get any more information from him.’ Replies Cpt Patriot. ‘Can you get in contact with The Zig’s Chief and get me clearance. I also need to know who the investigating officer is who captured him and who this Jessica Bowman is, if she’s also investigating the A.X.I.S. she might be putting herself at unnecessary risk, but might have something useful we can use as a lead’

Captain Patriot flies out of the window exit of Patriot Towers and heads towards the Zig.

Yeah, he's the sort of Villain I would love to put Captain Patriot Up agains't in one of my online comics. Murk as well.

The Adventures on Captain Patriot

These are fantastic especially The Jester and Mr Murk.

I could see these appearing as major villians in a Comic book, would work really well. I wish my design skills for characthers was this good.