SATYRN ASCENDYNT Try-Outs

This story--which was my first Nova Comics character--is being restored as my always-intended-never-executed Ode to a Hyperviolent Fictitious Canuck if BWS had continued and expanded his take on Weapon X. Silencer was always intended to be a love letter to Chris Claremont's Logan, the Wolverine. The first piece of fanfic I ever 'wrote' was Rom, Space Knight*, c. 1978, but the second was for an English Creative Writing assignment in Grade 6, c. 1983: a film noir detective story featuring Wolverine and supporting mutants. The title? "Tag, Y'er Dead". I was thinking I needed to start creating my own characters, because even at age 13, I intuited that Marvel was never going to illustrate and publish my amateurish, hackneyed, trope-laden, verging-on-plageuristic fanwankling of a short story. But the first NOVA Comics roster included a 95% reconstructed cybernetic weapons expert assassin called Silencer, later of the Firing Squad, but predating them by four or five years.