The Adventures of Easily-Discovered Man

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The Adventures of Easily-Discovered Man is an ongoing Classic LNH series by Rob Rogers. Published continually (if sporadically) since November 1993, it is the longest-running title on rec.arts.comics.creative.

Series Description

The series follows Theodore Wong, a physics professor at Dave Thomas Deluxe University in Net.ropolis. Convinced by years of reading comic books that becoming a super-hero is the best way to serve humankind, Wong exposes himself to microwave radiation, gaining the ability to glow and be detected at great distances by anyone with a Geiger counter. Calling himself Easily-Discovered Man, Wong begins a quest to prove himself as a super-hero. His eagerness to do battle with the forces of evil often lands him in situations where only dumb luck and his sidekick, Easily-Discovered Man Lite, are able to rescue him from certain doom.

It has earned many plaudits over the years, winning RACCies Favorite Series in the year 2000. ...and 2002. ...and 2004, 2006, and 2007. It's won RACCies Favorite Parody/Comedy six times, and four different issues have won RACCies Favorite Single Issue. It's really good!

Issues through #47 are here, while more recent issues are below:

Cast

Heroes

  • Easily-Discovered Man: The glowing green hero will always do whatever he believes Superman or Captain America would do in any situation, even though he lacks the super-powers to back up his brave intentions. Although most people consider him insane, he is actually quite knowledgeable and thoughtful in matters that do not concern comic books or super-heroes. Drives the Easily-Discovered Van, a vehicle possibly more garish than he is.
  • Easily-Discovered Man Lite: High school student Hector Lopez agreed to become Easily-Discovered Man's sidekick as an afterschool job, doing his best to keep Wong alive while making as much money as possible from endorsement deals and get-rich-quick schemes. Since then, Lite has matured, and has come to respect Easily-Discovered Man's heroic ideals – though he still prefers making wisecracks to fighting crime.
  • Substitute Lad: Unsure of himself or his powers, fellow super-hero Jack Truman latched on to Easily-Discovered Man during one of his early adventures. He has since become a close friend of Easily-Discovered Man Lite.
  • Superconductor: A government agent-turned-hero with energy powers who became the subject of a rivalry between Substitute Lad and Easily-Discovered Man Lite.
  • The InterKnights: An idealistic hero team from Eng.LAN.d.
  • Cynical Lass: An acid-tongued British super-hero and member of the InterKnights who becomes Easily-Discovered Man's intern.
  • Apocalypso: A ska-dancing former cosmic herald.
  • Screen Saver: A teenage net.hero hounded by Waffle Queen's "counsulting agency".

Villains

  • Plummet: The World's Fallingest Man. EDM's former student, who now seeks to reduce him to a crater.
  • Londonbroil: The flaming Brit. Sometimes dastardly, occasionally helpful.
  • Waffle Queen: Guidance counselor by day, sticky temptress by night!
    • Team Waffle: The Waffle Queen's gang of nogoodniks, Captain Belgium, Mrs. Butterworth, and Downyflake. GLURGE: The Gelatinous Living Ultra-Reassuring Genetic Entity. A sticky-sweet storyteller who controls men's minds with sappiness.
  • Can't Get A Break at the Lights, Man: This commuter's gonna take out his road rage... on you!
  • Barrage: A telekinetic kitty with a mad-on for humans.
  • Deathstocker: The Icon of Inventory, the Baron of the Back Room, the Sultan of Supplies. A native of the Pocket Bureaucracy with a secret connection to...
  • Alt.imate Ninja: AKA Malcolm the Pizza Guy. What happens when you ask a computer to create an unbeatable opponent?
  • White Dwarf: A mind-controlling albino who takes control of the InterKnights, Londonbroil... and Lite!
  • My-Dall, Man of 1,000,000 Mood Swings: AKA Michael Dahl, a psychologist who attempted to rid himself of sleep and, in the process, rid himself of emotional stability.
  • Apocryphal Man: An immortal evil, trapped in another universe!
  • Quartermaster: The cruel controller of Comic Book Time! Dramatic and flamboyant.
    • Two-Bits: Quartermaster's assistant. Isn't overly concerned with the niceties of net.villainy.
  • Death Thoreaus: A team of transcendentalist terrors, with a magic ring that can simplify anything to its very base.

Others

  • Mr. Lopez: Lite's dad. A retired assassin, who approves of his son's career.
  • Mrs. Lopez: Lite's mom. Less enthusiastic about sidekickery.
  • Juan Lopez: Lite's brother. A somewhat-oblivious Michael Jackson fan.
  • Trevor Blount: A servant of Anubis, hunting down an unearthly spirit escaped to the world of the living.
  • Mrs. Wong: EDM's wife, who has separated with him more than once over his ridiculous heroery.
  • Summer Meadows: A Christina Aguilera lookalike and Lite's sometime girlfriend.

Stories

Story Arcs

  • Lite's First Day (issues #1-8): Mildly-mild-mannered Hector Lopez is instructed by his guidance counselor to seek employment as a sidekick. But instead of a normal net.hero, he's apprenticed to Easily-Discovered Man!
  • Alt.imate Fighting Championship (issues #10-14): Cyborg ninja pizza boys? All in a day's work for EDM and Lite!
  • Breakfast in America (issues #15-16): The Waffle Queen's back, and she's serving up a hearty helping of mind control!
  • Death of a Hero (issues #17-18): Continues on from the Substitute Lad mini. Tragedy has struck, but life continues - and so do the schemes of net.villains!
  • Finding Easily-Discovered Man (issues #20-24): Professor Wong is Easily-Discovered Man no longer! Lite and Londonbroil take a plane to Eu.rec to get him back in the swing of things, but there's more than one supervillainous scheme in their way! Featuring the InterKnights!
  • Wraith For Your Life (issues #28-30): An underworld miscreant has escaped to the mortal world, and unless EDM and Lite return her to her rest, it'll mean Pointless Death – for everyone!
  • Same As It Ever Was (issues #31-34): Secrets! Revelations! Characterization! And ska!
  • Quarter Time (issues #35-36): Tsar Chasm isn't Tsar Chasm! Time isn't flowing at its normal rate! And whatever happened to Copyright Kid and Trademark Lass?
  • The Saga of Screen Saver (issues #38-39): The Waffle Queen is back, but this time, she's got more than mind-control and world domination in store! Can Lite save a fellow teen from X-Men-style persecution?
  • Walden Wars (issues #41-44): EDM, Lite, and Cynical Lass go to the mall. But the Death Thoreaus say: Simplify, simplify, destroy!
  • Apocrypha Now (issues #45-): Stopping one of the Waffle Queen's schemes is all in a day for Lite. But where is he going in life? Why, to the Apocryphal Universe!

Crossovers

Stand-Alone Issues

  • Issue #19: "'Twas the Week Before Christmas"
  • Issue #25: "When Titans Tango"
  • Issue #40: "Tights Situation"

Awards

Easily-Discovered Man has won many plaudits from the readers of RACC. The series won RACCies:Favorite Series in 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, and 2007, Accies Favorite Series in 1993, 1998 and 2000, as well as RACCies:Favorite Parody/Comedy in deep breath 1994, 1998, 2000, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2012, 2014, and 2015. Issues #25, 41, 43, and 45 all won RACCies:Favorite Single Issue.

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