Meet the L.I.S. (4)
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October 21, 2011
In the course of his recent research into comic book mastheads, John Hilgart has discovered a motley crew of what he calls “implicit superheroes” — superheroes who were there, all along, in our comic books… if only we’d noticed them. Like a sculptor who sees a sculpture implicit in a block of stone, he is now chipping them free of their prisons. Whether or not this is a good idea remains to be seen.
In fact, Hilgart has discovered so many of these there-but-not-there heroes that he’s announced the formation of… yes, The League of Implicit Superheroes. Uma Orc is the fourth of the League’s ten members.
A series by John Hilgart, creator of the comic-book detail galleries Comic Book Cartography and 4CP. Check out his latest project: Supertype!
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