Attacktix Scirocco

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Scirocco is a bit on the obscure side. Part of Righteous Flame, the main state-sponsored super-team of the Moslem Confederation, he's really only shown up in a few issues (#46-48 mainly). While smart enough to be publicly devout, he doesn't really believe in anything but money, and his teammates don't really like him much (especially the ones who ARE devout Moslems). Your basic subsonic speedster without many "Flash tricks", he carries a gun. The costume was designed by Joe Singleton based on a few notes from me for the cover I commissioned for ASH #50, and I tweaked it to fit the AT-ST driver base figure (and to make it a little more uniform-like and less spandexy).

I'd initially thought I'd make him from a Death Star Gunner, but ended up head-modding an AT-ST Driver instead, using one of the leftover Rebel Trooper helmets I took off for an earlier project. While it doesn't really show in the pictures, I did sculpt the shirt to put the lines in it, they're not just painted. I was originally going to paint the base black, but I ended up deciding not to. I did paste a black special power label to the bottom, though. I replaced the almost useless "Recuit (Princess Leia)" with the equally useless "Recruit (Moslem Confederation)" power...he's the only MC faction member at the moment. :) Although, if I can get a striker Wookiee, Scirocco will get a teammate.

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The first Scirocco I saw in comics was in the 80s, a villain introduced in Blue Beetle, one of Mento's Prometheum-powered baddies. The one who fought Freedom Force was the second I'm aware of. The term "scirocco" refers to a desert wind, so it's appropriate for both speedsters and wind-controllers. And, in any case, unless you read my ASH series, you wouldn't have seen this one. :)

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Steve Dayton, Mento (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mento_%28comics%29) of the Doom Patrol. No relation to the Freshmaker.