It's everybody's favorite pill-popping superhero, Rex Tyler, the original Hourman. I think the first time I read Hourman was in the big treasury reprint of All-Star Comics #3, since reprinted elsewhere, too. So many different versions of so many characters I knew, like Flash, Green Lantern and Hawkman, as well as new characters like Atom, Sandman, Doctor Fate… and Hourman.
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Even as a kid I questioned that cape. A yellow cape with a couple of red stripes on it looked more like a bath towel than anything else. Still, I love characters who come with their own countdown clock. And his appearance in DC's Whatever Happened To… backup in DC Comics Presents was awesome, too.
It was interesting figuring out just how that black area on his hood worked, too. Some people have turned it into a mask within a hood, but I wanted to do the classic version of the character.
These morning warm-ups have been fun, and I think I'm getting some pop and energy into the pieces, too. This one, technically wasn't a morning warm-up though. Yesterday I hit a point where I was mostly waiting on emails and had time to kill. But I think I'll refer to all these as "Morning Warm Ups" as that's where they started and what they're for.