Looks like I have a penchant for
slightly egocentric, snarky and sassy character’s because this is what I got in
the first of Nicholas Bella’s Gay Vigilante series, Origins, and I’m hooked.
Apparently all ‘super heroes’
have to have a beginning story – the how or the why of it. Not too much back-story in this episode but
this is only the starting of Cobra’s (aka Eric’s) story. Eric and his faithful side-kick, Jordan. What a couple.
Of all the characters in all the
series Nicholas has created to date, these guys are by far the most ‘normal’,
even if one is a nerdy computer genius and the other is sporting the ability to
transform his appearance, it would seem to anything he wants. We get to meet him in the opening scenes as a
woman! Of all things.
Loved his self-assured demeanour,
his sass, his spunk and his super strength.
Super quick healing and impenetrable skin too. Makes for one successful vigilante hero.
Eric and Jordan’s loveable banter
really caught my fancy, their rude camaraderie even when calling each other out
on their diverse sense of fashion. There
was enough vanity and insecurity on Eric’s part to tone down his arrogance, making
him wholly likeable. And the glasses –
for all that he had come into some amazing powers – we as yet know not how –
Eric is not perfect. Defective eyesight
helps him retain his humanity if not his humility. Anyway he mostly brags to Jordan, so what’s
the harm. Jordan for all that they are
not a proper couple – Really? Come on guys, you have joint bank accounts. Who’s in denial? – while worshipping the
ground Eric walks on, can still hold his own.
Sexual exclusivity comes secondary to emotional attachment and
conscientiousness over sexual safety in this relationship. And a loving relationship it ‘really’ appears
to be.
Carless, jobless, borderline
itinerant, they need money. One of the
relatable draws in this ‘Origins’ story.
In steps their ‘employer’, a big corporation who has undoubtedly had
information stolen from them. They hire
Eric to take get it back from the evil Mr Henley while stipulating minimum
torture and no murder. Hmmm, I’m
suspicious. A corporation that is
do-gooding? Am waiting with bated-breath
for them to make a further appearance in future episodes. Maybe?
For my part, I construed their parting shot to Eric, a little menacing.
Definitely this book reflected
that superhero comic book feel. Fast
paced, vengeance wreaking, heroic, intriguing, humorous, and super-sexy. Well maybe that last is not quite so comic
book, but this is a Nicholas Bella episodic and promises to be epic. Waiting impatiently for further revelations; Cobra
meting out well deserved punishments to dastardly, villainous people… And the introduction of a quintessential and
necessary ‘master of evil’? We shall
see.
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Sydney Whyte
Rating Chart
«……………….A no goer
««……………Alright, but not a re-read
«««………..Liked it
««««…….Loved it
«««««…Amaze-balls – ticks all the boxes!!!
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