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I used to love drawing as kid but pretty much dropped the hobby after starting college. I picked it up again a few months ago and now do the occasional sketch. This is an ink drawing of Manhunter, a comic book character I was into back in the day.
Manhunter kicked butt. He was a world-class big-game hunter and WWII operative before he was killed by an engraged bull elephant. His body was obtained by The Council, a super-secret group of nine old dudes seeking power and immortality.
They revived him, tweaked his genetic code to give him a totally awesome healing factor that let him rapidly recover from injury, and made him head of their security service, complete with super-cool ninja training.
At least until he figured out they were a bunch of sick bastards and defected, becoming a modern-day samurai/ninja/bounty hunter. He had a WWI-era Mauser pistol, modified to do extra damage, and a "Bundi dagger" with which he could kill tigers. And check out that footwear!
Manhunter was kind of an anomoly in the comic world because his story ran its course in about eight brief episodes in the back of a Batman series, and in the last issue he ended up destroying himself as well as The Council. Life for Manhunter the comic was indeed nasty, brutish and short.
