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In the original comics The Face is a scary mask that radio announcer Tony Trent puts on to frighten criminals while he, Tony, investigated crimes. Neither Trent nor the mask had any special powers. Trent outlasted his alter ego, hanging up his mask and continuing to fight crime after his original schtick got stale. Early on I drew a version of The Face that was more handsome. If I ever draw any Face comics I'll probably use the handsome Face as a villain.

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Andrea Love's stop-motion felt art - I can't stop watching…

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Illustration for The Legend of La Mano Peluda (The Hairy Hand)

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Every day.

Stardust is kind of an asshole. Fortunately he's an asshole who hates crooks and commies and fascists and ... lots of other people and things. Maybe "fortunately" isn't the correct term.

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Sketching the Revolutionary.

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Even gods must first be sketched.

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Sketchy Heap

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All together now!

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The Heap first appeared in Air Fighter Comics #3 in 1942.

The Pile first appeared in The Highly Unlikely Adventures of Moe and Detritus #1 minicomic in 1988.

Despite their apparent differences they bonded over a mutual love of soul music and punk rock.

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TORTURED HEARTS #1 cover (coming Feb. 11,2026) Beware! My latest EC Comics contribution.

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Twoo Wuv!

Welcome to another edition of What The What, the podcast in which I interview some of the more unique personalities in our society. I’m Blane Walker. For the next few weeks I’m going to be speaking with superheroes, those folks with powers beyond the normal. This week we’re chatting with the Heap. We’re here in Portland chatting with her by phone in Newside, Louisiana.

Blane – Hello the Heap! Do you mind if I call you that?

The Heap – I prefer Isabeau. DJ Izzy works too.

Blane – Isabeau Bienvenu was your name before you became the Heap, yes?

The Heap – Isabeau Bienvenu is still my name. I’m still me. I’m just … transistioned into the body of some plant monster thing.

Blane – Okay. Isabeau, how did you become the Heap?

The Heap – I died. I think. It’s kind of complicated. It involved witchcraft and forgotten gods and forbidden tomes and all kinds of crap that I wish I’d paid more attention to before it happened. Also, I was drunk so some of the particulars are fuzzy. My old human body is gone and my spirit, my consciousness, drives this new body.

Blane – It’s not really a new body is it, though? The Heap has been around fighting evil since World Wart Two.

The Heap – I guess. My nieces have done more research on this thing’s history than I have. I’d never heard of it before I became it. I was more into music history than military history, superhero history, whatever.

Blane – Weren’t you in the Air Force?

The Heap – Yeah. Yeah. But the history you learn in the service doesn’t cover supernatural entities. At least the history I got didn’t. Maybe there’s a secret branch that covers this stuff. I don’t know. A German pilot was the first Heap. Baron Von Emmelman. He died in World War One. The Heap formed around his body after his plane crashed in a Polish swamp. Then there was guy named Jeremiah Carter in the Fifties and another guy, Jesus Robertson in the Seventies. Their memories are in here somewhere. I can read them if I try but it’s kind of weird and too easy to get lost so I generally avoid it.

Blane – The other Heaps were all silent. How are you able to talk to us?

The Heap – My niece and one of her friends figured out a way to hook up a speaker with my mulch so I can form words. It’s pretty cool. She’s currently working on a way to use recordings of my old voice so that I can sound like my old self. The current voice is off the shelf. We’re working our way through all the recordings I’ve got of my old radio show to create a vocabulary.

Blane – It’s not what I expected. I know you are a woman but I expected the Heap to sound like Vin Diesel.

The Heap – I know, right? Or a death metal singer. I’ve gotten a lot of double takes when people hear this voice.

Blane – What’s it like to be a superhero?

The Heap – That’s such a weird question. I get it all the time but I don’t know how to answer it. I’m not a superhero. I don’t fight crime or save the world or anything. I definitely don’t wear a costume. I don’t even wear clothes. Sometimes I wear a hat.but someone has to pin it on my head.

Blane – Oh come on. I’ve read the stories. You’ve fought vampires. There was a Nazi golem. That alligator monster.

The Heap – Life is a lot weirder now but I’ve still got regular boring responsibilities. I’ve got three kids to look after. The cat still wants to be fed at 3 am. The strange supernatural stuff is just life. I don’t go looking for it.

Blane – What’s the …

The Heap – Hold on Blane. I’ve got a call coming in from the sheriff. I have to take this.

Blane – No problem I can edit out the break if necessary.

…..

The Heap – I’m back but I have to go. Some dumbass drunk tourist knocked down a telephone pole and the sheriff wants me to move it off the road. Being superstrong means I get asked to move heavy things.

Blane – Thanks for talking with us Isabeau. Hopefully we’ll be able to continue this conversation at a later date.

The Heap – I’d like that. Bye all!

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Mama Heap loves her girls. They are dangerous and ill mannered and they haven't learned to dispose of corpses properly.

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some Monsters by Arthur Adams.

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RAR.

Once again Bob finds himself trapped in some weirdo's model sheet. He'd be glad that there are only two versions of a character except the character is The Heap.

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It's not that Octobriana hates the rich and the powerful. She ...

Okay, I'm lying. Octobriana hates the rich and the powerful. The only form of negotiation she accepts is using ones wealth and power to help those with no wealth or power.

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Welcome to another edition of What The What, the podcast in which I interview some of the more unique personalities in our society. I’m Blane Walker. The last few weeks I’ve been speaking with superheroes, those folks with powers beyond the normal. This week we’re chatting with Octobriana. As usual, I’m speaking to you from my home studio here in Portland, Oregon. Octobriana is calling in from an undisclosed location – possibly in Eastern Europe, maybe next door. Will she tell us?

Blane – Hello Octobriana! Thank you for joining us.

Octobriana – Hello Blane. Are you well?

Blane – I’m great. How about you?

Octobriana – I’m sore. I was in a firefight with agents of the Opression last night. I was very drunk and that slowed my reaction times. I got shot more than I should have.

Blane – You got shot?

Octobriana – Eh. I am the Devil Woman, yes? Being shot is tiresome but part of the life. I am still here. The Opression agents are not.

Blane – I’ve never heard of the Opression. Are they some sort of terrorist organization?

Octobriana – All mercenaries are terrorists. The Opression is just one of the many companies that profit from the murder of the lower classes.

Blane – Speaking of lower classes – are you a communist?

Octobriana -… I was. Are you suggesting that the lower classes are communists?

Blane – Well, the so-called lower classes are often duped into thinking that communism and socialism will provide them with good lives without having to work hard. History shows that communism and socialism lead to opression and totalitarianism.

Octobriana – Propaganda from the upper classes claims that fairness and justice for the lower classes will result in more unfairness and injustice for those classes. The trouble with all systems is corruption. Systems need organizers and managers and far too often it is those who want power who take charge of political and economic systems.

Blane – So you’re saying that communism would work if people were good and kind?

Octobriana – Most people are good and kind and willing to believe that those in power are also. It is that naivete that allows the corrupt to take power. It is that kindness and forgiveness that allows the corrupt to flourish.

Blane – Do you see yourself as a fighter against corruption?

Octobriana – That would be foolish. Fighting corruption is like fighting with the tide. One doesn’f tight the tide. One either builds on solid ground or lives on a houseboat. I fight for those who lack the skill and power to fight for themselves.

Blane – So you protect the weak?

Octobriana – No one is weak. To live is to be strong. I allow the kind and the generous to remain so by being their rage.

Blane – Isn’t that a little self aggrandizing?

Octobriana – I have outlived two centuries. Modesty is a virtue I abandoned decades ago.