Post by papazero on Apr 15, 2009 9:06:59 GMT -5
My attempt at nutcase fanmail.
Ethan Van Sciver...
Though it may sound fantastic - I am using time travel technology to convey this message to you from the year 2472. I have chosen you to receive this message because you will soon undertake a journey with an associate that will leave you with no doubt as to the nature of my plea for help.
I have spent much of my life's work in pursuit of an ancient Roman artifact - The Raxalus Wings! I first became aware of of their existence when I discovered repeated inconsistency in the translated inscriptions of the legend of Icarus. For eons archaeologists and historians had believed that a particular Roman account of a "super-speed" heroic figure named Raxalus was simply the mistranslated Greek story of Icarus but the accumulated evidence indicated they were in fact seperate figures! Sure enough, I began to find other references to Raxalus and the "wings" which adorned his garments as he "ran on the wind." Other references to similar stories have suggested he was called "Windrunner" or "Maximus Mercury" and considered a hero to the people across the Empire. What became of Raxalus is unknown - but his "wings" were said to be dipped in gold and put on display after his disappearance. All traces and mention of The Raxalus Wings go cold after 410 AD and the sack of Rome by the Visigoths.
After years of research and excavation I have in fact found the long lost and priceless treasure buried beneath ruins and it will soon be put on public display in Central City here in 2472 - but a rather bizarre conundrum remains. In my research I came across rumors that The Raxalus Wings were somehow destroyed nearly 500 years before I unearthed them by Green Lantern and the Flash during an encounter with Reverse Flash! If the Wings were destroyed in 1973, what have I uncovered? What sinister motive could Reverse Flash have to get in a scuffle over a piece of the costume belonging to Raxalus???
Please investigate the nature of this rumor in your era and return your message using this messaging system as a conduit. Myspace will still exist into my era though most of the robot labor is outsourced to Mars.
Flash vol.1 #225 Raxalus Wings/Prof Zoom story
Flash:TFMA #10 Zoom views sack of Rome
Ethan Van Sciver...
Though it may sound fantastic - I am using time travel technology to convey this message to you from the year 2472. I have chosen you to receive this message because you will soon undertake a journey with an associate that will leave you with no doubt as to the nature of my plea for help.
I have spent much of my life's work in pursuit of an ancient Roman artifact - The Raxalus Wings! I first became aware of of their existence when I discovered repeated inconsistency in the translated inscriptions of the legend of Icarus. For eons archaeologists and historians had believed that a particular Roman account of a "super-speed" heroic figure named Raxalus was simply the mistranslated Greek story of Icarus but the accumulated evidence indicated they were in fact seperate figures! Sure enough, I began to find other references to Raxalus and the "wings" which adorned his garments as he "ran on the wind." Other references to similar stories have suggested he was called "Windrunner" or "Maximus Mercury" and considered a hero to the people across the Empire. What became of Raxalus is unknown - but his "wings" were said to be dipped in gold and put on display after his disappearance. All traces and mention of The Raxalus Wings go cold after 410 AD and the sack of Rome by the Visigoths.
After years of research and excavation I have in fact found the long lost and priceless treasure buried beneath ruins and it will soon be put on public display in Central City here in 2472 - but a rather bizarre conundrum remains. In my research I came across rumors that The Raxalus Wings were somehow destroyed nearly 500 years before I unearthed them by Green Lantern and the Flash during an encounter with Reverse Flash! If the Wings were destroyed in 1973, what have I uncovered? What sinister motive could Reverse Flash have to get in a scuffle over a piece of the costume belonging to Raxalus???
Please investigate the nature of this rumor in your era and return your message using this messaging system as a conduit. Myspace will still exist into my era though most of the robot labor is outsourced to Mars.
Flash vol.1 #225 Raxalus Wings/Prof Zoom story
Flash:TFMA #10 Zoom views sack of Rome