Mom sneakin' up on me!
Aarrgh! Grounded again!
There was a jerk named “Jumping Jack” bouncin’ around causin’ trouble near school. So what else was I supposed to do? I switched into Giant and caught him for the police.
Of course Mom found out.
So here I am, grounded again for another couple of weeks.
Wish she wouldn’t sneak up on me like that.
–Will
I’m really looking forward to 2010.
And it occurs to me that I haven’t said much of anything about my best bud Joey. I’ll have to get to that asap.
–Will
I had a great Christmas! How did you guys do?
Mom got me a new Droid. And I got some CDs. And she whipped up a great dinner.
I also think I got this Chrissie Claus thing figured out. See, cousin Andrea’s a compulsive truth-teller. And when she and Uncle Clinton came over to visit, and I pulled her aside and asked her about it, she got a little twitchy. Wouldn’t fess up, but wouldn’t deny it, either.
So here’s what I’m thinkin’ happened. Andrea and Icicle are really good friends, and they thought it’d be funny to spring this whole Chrissie Claus thing on me. Not bein’ a magician myself, I got no idea how they did it, but they did it. And somehow or another, it probably actually was Icicle I was smoochin’ with for a while last night. Gotta admit, if it was her, she’s a great kisser.
Maybe they did somethin’ usin’ Uncle Clinton’s amulet of change. Next time I see him, I gotta ask him about that.
And come to think of it, I seem to remember hearin’ Icestar slip up and call Icicle Chrissie a couple of times. So I’m bettin’ that’s her real name.
So anyways, if I’m right, that’s the answer to the Chrissie Claus mystery. It did have me goin’ for a while, but you just gotta think about these things, and eventually you get to the truth.
–Will
Okay, this is so cool!
It's her!
You have got to be kiddin’ me!
I heard a noise. And that’s not Mom! No way that’s Mom! Mom’s in bed! I checked before I came downstairs.
But take a look! Icicle was right! There’s actually a freakin’ hot girl with great legs and pointy ears wearin’ a Santa suit stickin’ presents under the tree!
Uh-oh. I think she noticed me…
–Will
She's Santa's li'l elfin granddaughter!
Merry Christmas everyone!
As I write this, it’s Christmas Eve out here in San Francisco, and I’m really looking forward to this year, because according to what Icestar’s kid sister Icicle’s been tellin’ me, these days if you’re just a little bit naughty, you might get a visit from Santa’s li’l elfin granddaughter, Chrissie Claus!
Evidently, there are so many kids in the world, even Santa just doesn’t have enough time any more to visit every single house. So his granddaughter Chrissie’s started helpin’ him out by makin’ sure presents actually do get delivered to kids he wasn’t quite sure deserved ‘em.
Which is good news for me!
So I’m thinkin’ I’ll try to stay awake, and sneak downstairs after Mom goes to bed, and maybe catch a glimpse of Chrissie. Or I guess even Santa, if he’s the one who shows up.
–Will
Me vs the Ogre
This is another of my sparring partners, the abominable Ogre. He’s almost as big and maybe a little bit stronger than I am when I’m not using the harness. But he’s not all that smart. Still, I do get a sense he’s not as stupid as he pretends to be.
A few months back, he showed up at my school, spoilin’ for a fight. I didn’t think much of it at the time, but in retrospect I’m pretty sure that can’t have been a coincidence. I don’t think Ogre knows I’m Giant, but somebody must have told him to go there lookin’ for me.
I fought him to a standstill, but he got away through the sewers, and went through a couple of my teachers to do it. Miss Popkin’s pretty lucky she wasn’t hurt.
Next time, I’m not gonna let Ogre get away.
You can actually find this story in print, in Tales of the Champions #2.
–Will
Terri and I Teamed Up Against the Mountain Master
I haven’t fought a lot of bad guys yet, mostly because my mom still has me grounded, but a while ago Terri and I did team up to take on the Mountain Master. It was on a League of Champions case, where the League split into teams of two and traveled to a magical realm on a mission to keep half a dozen Chaos Lords from breakin’ through into our dimension.
The Mountain Master was dangerous, but not really evil. He seemed to be mostly interested in figuring out human boy-girl stuff, which I guess is why he used his magic to make Terri my age, and change me back from being Giant into just plain Will. It was kind of weird, because Terri started acting goofy, like she really was a teenager, even to the point of tryin’ to suck face with me (which I always worry will give me girl cooties). But what she was really doing was being smart like always, and getting the Mountain Master to focus his attention on her, while I snuck off to the side and recovered the magic harness. As soon as I was able to get back to being Giant, that broke the spell. Basically, Terri set him up, and I took him down. We make a great team!
Trouble is, this story hasn’t been published yet. Terri told me it’s supposed to appear in League of Champions #14, but I don’t even see that issue on the Heroic website previews page. Yeah, you can buy issue #13, which has the setup for this adventure, but I got no idea when issue #14 will get into print.
–Will
Terri in her official Flare costume
Here’s my real girlfriend. Her name’s Teresa Katrina Feran. But everyone just calls her Terri. She’s super-sexy hot. For some reason, she and mom don’t get along all that well. But back when I was six, I was head over heels for her, and asked her to marry me, which she thought was really cute. What she told me was, after I turned eighteen, if I still wanted to marry her, and she wasn’t married to anyone else by then, she’d be happy to do it.
So I’m gonna hold her to that. My eighteenth birthday’s only a little over a couple of years away. After that, assuming she doesn’t get married to someone else in the meantime, she’s gonna be Terri Jensen, and I’m gonna be married to the smartest, most beautiful girl in the entire world.
I gotta figure, even though Terri’s had a few boyfriends in the meantime, the reason she hasn’t gotten married is ’cause she is waitin’ for me.
The honeymoon’s gonna be great.
Anyways, Terri’s not only a superhero in her identity as FLARE, she’s also a famous international supermodel. You maybe seen her a few years back, doin’ commercials for Sergio Klein jeans. She doesn’t do very much of that any more. She has plenty of money now, and doesn’t need to do the supermodel thing. But she does still do the superhero stuff, using her photokinetic powers to stop bad guys.
I figure, after we’re married, she’ll wanna settle down and concentrate on raising a family. But we’ll see. Whatever Terri wants is okay by me.
Incidentally, my little brother Jimmy has a huge crush on Terri’s little sister Olga. So maybe there’ll be somethin’ there, too.
–Will
Here's the comic book that told my grampa's story
Here’s the comic book that first told my grampa’s story. It was published back in 1988. I think you can still order copies of it from the Heroic Publishing website. There’ve also been other stories about my grampa published, in various issues of Flare, League of Champions, Liberty Comics, and Heroic Spotlight. Most recently, there’ve been stories about him Flare #37, Liberty Comics #3, and Heroic Spotlight #1.
My own stories have appeared in Tales of the Champions #1-4, Flare #36, and League of Champions #13.
And if you want to find about my dad, you have to go way back to the original six-issue Champions mini-series.
–Will
