Everyone needs a (stupid) hobby, I suppose...By day he is a mild-mannered financial adviser from Devon. But at night he dons an outfit that makes him look like a cross between a riot cop and a gladiator to become "the Dark Spartan", roaming the mean streets of Torquay on Friday and Saturday nights trying to keep the good people of the English Riviera safe.
The Dark Spartan – aka 27-year-old Will – is the star of a Channel 4 programme, First Cut: Superheroes of Suburbia. According to the programme, there is a growing band of upstanding citizens such as Will to be found trying to clean up the streets of Britain. As well as the Dark Spartan, there is a former soldier called Ken who operates as "the Shadow" and uses "ninjutsu" techniques and smoke bombs to tackle boy racers in Yeovil, Somerset. In Yorkshire, Keiran, a 17-year-old comic-book obsessive, takes on the persona of "Noir" to target muggers.
Thursday, August 04, 2011
Playing at superhero
TV's Superheroes of Suburbia shows secret lives of citizens who patrol streets | UK news | The Guardian
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It's like those stories they had some 15 years ago about kids who hurt themselves while dressed as Power Rangers, or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Only the kids were... well, kids. These people don't have so much excuse.
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