LI: Generations Aflame #15

This entry is part 15 of 15 in the series Lidecker Institute Volume 3: Generations Aflame

The girls are home and in one piece, but they are by no means safe!  St. John Duvall is hatching an even bigger plot and Liedecker is prepping a bigger counter. At the conclusion of Generations Aflame, it looks like things are just getting started for the Liedecker Institute!

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LI: Generations Aflame #7

This entry is part 7 of 15 in the series Lidecker Institute Volume 3: Generations Aflame

Maya and the gang meet the Akagis and introduce the newest member of their group. Meanwhile, Liedecker has a little talk with a certain fake FBI agent. Continue reading

Liedecker: Life and Times II #1

This entry is part 1 of 6 in the series L:L&T 02 - The Apprentice

Some time has passed since Vincent Liedecker’s first brush with criminal activity, and if fate were kind, it would have been his last. But a trajedy lurks on the horizon for the Favored Son that will lead him to a new path, the path of the Apprentice. Continue reading

Liedecker Institute Annual #2

This entry is part 13 of 13 in the series Liedecker Institute Volume 2: Student Life

the saga of the Dryad comes to an end and the repercussions reach the ears of Vincent Liedecker.. What will the master of the Mayfield Underground do with this knowledge? And who was it that took the genetic samples from the Dryad’s flower? Continue reading

LI: Generations Aflame #2

This entry is part 2 of 15 in the series Lidecker Institute Volume 3: Generations Aflame

Prom the pages of Liedecker Academy comes a new series with a new focus and a new enemy with a new plot. Issue 2: A reluctant Maya takes her first powers class, with surprising results. Continue reading

Casts Songs: Villains Edition

Some time ago, I wrote a blog on image songs and assigned them to the core cast of Descendants. In the interest of retreading the same old thing with a new face, I’m doing the same again with some of the series’s iconic bad guys.

Vincent Liedecker – Johnny Cash – Man in Black

Though remembered as a country singer, Johnny Cash was way more of a rock star, especially when you look at the messages in his songs. Mercy Seat is anti-death penalty for example, far more progressive than what most would think of when they think ‘country. The same can be said of Man in Black, a protest song advocating for the poor, downtrodden and victims of injustice.

In a superhero comic context, it isn’t hard to see another allegory in the song; the classic story of a hero who needs to be seen as a villain for the public’s own good. And from his point of view, this is the story of Vincent Liedecker.

As will become more evident when the Liedecker: Life and Times Part 2 starts running, but Liedecker took such through control of criminal activity in Mayfield to put down the uncontrolled violence … Continue reading

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