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5. Nightmaster

Sometimes you look at a character, and you could never in a million years guess what their whole thing is. Because this sword and sorcery-looking MF-er is actually a Rock God.

Jim Rook, frontman of The Electrics (the fictional DC Comics band, not the real Christian folk-rock ensemble), found himself transported into an alternate dimension known as Myrra. There, he was bequeathed the Sword of Night. The sword had a built-in danger sense, and it can make someone tell the truth. So it's like Sting meets Wonder Woman's lasso. Although to be fair, every sword compels people to tell the truth if you just threaten to stick it in "˜em.

Anyway, Jim came back from Myrra, and opened a nice little bookstore. That's nice. Years later – and presumably motivated by the death of independent bookstores – he transitioned to bar ownership.

And also joined Shadowpact, which I'll get around to reading/writing about next month.