The SideKick
A City of Heroes™ Fan Art Page

City of Heroes is a Massive Multi-player Online Game with strong role-playing potential in the classic comic book superhero genre. It is set in the unique, visually intricate, 3-D locale of Paragon City and has very nice art, great opportunities to feel vicariously heroic. and a wonderful character-design module. One might think of it as role-play, paperdolls, and comic books all rolled up into one very addictive entertainment.

This was my first MMORPG as a player and I loved it! I started in August 2004 and was inspired to produce 16 cartoons and one character portrait (appearing here under "Sidekicks") before the middle of the following month. One of my problems with the game <grin> is that I often spent time playing it, time that would otherwise have been spent producing cartoons and illustrations. <grin>

I became very active in two Super Groups on the Justice server, the Galactic Patrol and the Champions (with its sister organization, Dark Champions). Then, in late 2005, various events resulted in fewer players in those groups and an opportunity to experiment with City of Villains. "Restart" is characters playing on the Champions server.

My early alter-egos

• Medika - a Defender (Empathy, Psionics, Teleport, Leadership) who first side-kicked with The Grey Lensman and took as a first side-kick A Monster. In short order, she was made a captain in Grey's Galactic Patrol. She's shy and in awe of other heroes for whom she considers her acts a 'support service'.
• Xochiquetzal - a Controller (Mind Control, Kinetics, Flight); she tends to get invited into random teams, perhaps because she looks less conservative than Medika. < grin > She finds the interactions of humans -- um, interesting. In her early career she was sidekicked to a mysterious and fascinating dark warrior, Nokty, and his jocular friend, Burger Ninja of the Dark Redemption super group.
• Monstresse - a Controller (Gravity Control, Force Fields, Flight); she was "reverse engineered from A Monster" with a French twist -- a robot with a sense of style. Her first experience as a sidekick was with the martial artist, Storm Raven, a fellow member of the Galactic Patrol.

• Greensleeves - a Defender (Force Field, Radiation debuffs, Hover); she's like a kid with a new toy, putting bubbles around any active hero she meets and eager to work with all the new friends she's made arresting evil doers. She has a case of hero worship over a magical leader known as Ro Sting.

The "SideKick" Cartoons

Character Portraits

Screen Shots: Other Characters

Ro Sting	Nokty	Nokty 2	Burger	Flod	Quetzal	Icebird

Screen Shots: Game Art

Cityhall	Atlas View	Autumn view	Sorrow	Camouflage	Ledge walker	Talos stop	Sunset
Fly swat	Last Salute	Shock spectacular	Whispers	Fist	First Step	Trampled	Striga
Terror	Kraken

Here is a link to the CoH website.

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