So, this week there's been a lot of talk about various characters from fables (+ a couple of books from the late 1800s to early 1900s that sort of get lumped in even though they probably shouldn't count - but hey, it's not like Lewis Carrol is going to do anything) being public domain - specifically interpretations of these characters from a certain comic book series (cough FABLES cough)... now the validity of this is a bit questionable, but hey, it gives me an excuse to go outside my usual wheelhouse, so I'll take it.

Jack was just your average farmboy - well, maybe not average. He wasn't the best at economics. He did sell a cow for some beans, which is a bad deal in most circumstances, but, in his defence, the shady man selling them did say they were *magic. And Magic they were, for these beans grew into a mighty beanstalk which rose up into the clouds where the giants lived and- okay, I assume you know the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, so I'll stop now.

But Jack didn't only appear in this story - or at least, that's how the theory goes. You may have noticed that there are quite a few characters called Jack - Jack Frost, (of the "being nimble" variety), Jack Horner, Jack (of "& Jill" fame), Jack O'lantern, Jack the Giant Killer (not to be confused with Beanstalk Jack, who killed a giant) - why, there are Jacks in all trades, it seems. Well, what if they were all the same person? I mean, surely there aren't two different Giant-killing Jacks... same goes for two Jacks vaguely associated with fire. Jack Frost? Well, one interpretation of Jack and Jill is that they were monarchs who died, hence leading to an undead corpse - and leading from the King thing, Jack the Giant Killer was a knight of the Round Table! He marries the daughter of a Duke! And this Jack could be very lucky - after all, he did jump over a lit candle without extinguishing it - so maybe kinghood is in his fortunes!

And we don't have to stop there - why, thanks to a quirk in American copyright law, there are a bunch of recent-ish Jacks to be used! For instance, Jack of Spades, the magic Superman-esque hero appeared from a pack of playing cards when someone was murdered at a poker table. Maybe this gave Jack life - maybe "Jack" is more than just a playing card pun. Going back a few years earlier, there's also "Black Jack", a similarly-themed superhero with a similar costume to boot, except this hero is of a more natural origin, being a Police Detective named Jack Jones... or at least that's what he wants us to think. These jacks could be the same. And Diamond Jack! Oh, I bet he thought he was safe since we were all talking about spades, but no! He's a Jack, he could be counted. Where did he get that magic ring? An "old magician"? Well, you'd know quite a bit about trading with magicians wouldn't you, Mr. "Three beans seems reasonable enough for one cow"!

If this all sounds barely coherent, that's because it is.

So, I’ve been thinking about the Sun a lot for some reason.

Mr. Solarman was just your average Saturnite until, one day, his scientists friend noticed that Earth had quite a bit of crime on it. Their solution was to beam Solarman to the planet and sort it out with with his powers (strength and stuff) which are seemingly unrelated to the sun.

While most heroes covered here have pitiful runs, Solarman has the rare honour of only having one comic ever made before disappearing forever… there must not have been much crime going on after all.

It might be difficult to tell, but often I've had a go at being a funny person... nobody's laughed, but I also haven't had any tomatoes pelted at me yet, so I assume I'm not doing anything too bad yet... I assume Funnyman felt the same way when his 6 issue run ended,

Larry Davis (no relation to Larry David) was a comedian who wanted to do this cool publicity stunt where he dressed up like a clown and stopped an actor playing a criminal with all his funny props - basically making himself a superhero version of Carrot Top... except, when the day came, he ended up actually stopping a real criminal! This worked out well enough that Larry decided to keep up the crime-fighting, much to the dismay of Sgt. Harrigan as well as two other clown-themed heroes, Comicman and Laffman.

As I mentioned earlier, this character had a 6 issue run as well as a comic strip before fading into obscurity, along with its creators... Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster? The Supermen guys?

Yep, the Supermen guys. Funnyman (along with the publisher "Magazine Enterprises"... really creative, guys) came about when Siegel and Shuster left DC Comics (at the time National Comics) due to not being paid well. They also tried to sue them so they could get back the rights to Superman but, that didn't go over too well. They needed a new hero, one to grip the nation like Superman did. Their solution? Funnyman.

Yeah, don't make clown-themed superheroes, it doesn't go well usually.

In a slightly ironic twist of fate, Larry Davis eventually made his way back to DC as a cameo in Super Friends #5.

Heroes can come from many places, whether they be comics, books, movies, television, or maybe even radio... but what about leaked documents from a secret organisation dedicated to containing anomalous objects/entities?

Cameron's story starts off like most heroes. They were just a normal boy living in a turbulent household until, one day, they developed powers - in his case, telekinesis and the ability to alter objects (in one example he turns a rock into a toy he lost) - and he decided to use those powers to stop evil! Unfortunately, he lived in the same world as the SCP Foundation. When they caught wind of him, they did what they usually do - grab them, lock up, keep them away from the outside.

From then on it just gets really sad. The SCP Foundation isn't exactly the best place in terms of ethics, and of course, they want to learn more about this boy and his powers, so they put him through lots and lots of tests. Fake hostage situations, bombings, and accidents, all ramping up in severity to see how the pressure makes Cameron react. Of course, there are people within the Foundation who don't want these experiments to go on, but they push through to the point where this kid now has a chip in his head to monitor their brain. It may also cause neurological damage, and it can be used to "neutralise" them. Fun.

Like all SCPs, SCP-2241 is released under Creative Commons 3.0, which means you are free to share and adapt this creation to your heart's content, but you need to provide attribution and you have to release your work under that same license... I guess I might have to release this under creative commons then? Not sure why you'd want to use this, but you can if you want!

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