Catman

Seth is a wannabe comic artist. The man can draw. Seriously, his artwork is incredible. Muscles? Perfect. Action scenes? Amazing. Backgrounds? Gorgeous. Storytelling? That’s where the train quietly leaves the tracks and bursts into flames. Meet Catman—also known as David—a superhero who exists despite what several lawyers would probably describe as “concerning similarities” to someone else’s intellectual property. According to Seth, Catman possesses unmatched feline reflexes, razor-sharp instincts, night vision… and, for reasons no sane person can explain, uses a litter box. He absolutely does not. David has corrected Seth hundreds of times. Seth keeps drawing it anyway. Fed up with being the punchline of his creator’s jokes, Catman has attempted to escape the comic on multiple occasions. He’s climbed out of panels, tried erasing himself, and once packed a suitcase before discovering comic book borders are surprisingly difficult to cross. He’s even tried defecting to the villains. “I don’t even want to fight you,” he once told the city’s evil mastermind. “Can I just work here instead?” The villain stared at him for a full minute before replying, “No. We have standards.” Rejected by the heroes, rejected by the villains, and trapped inside Seth’s increasingly questionable imagination, David spends most of his time wondering whether copyright lawsuits are a legitimate superpower. His greatest enemy isn’t crime. It’s his own author.