![]() ![]() He is the all American hero and a callback to heroes of more innocent times. The Middleman is what Grillo-Marxuach calls a "Dirk Squarejaw" character. The 13th episode also revealed the Middleman who recruited him. In the third trade paperback series, and the scripted 13th episode of the TV show (turned into a standalone comic book), he is revealed to be named Clarence (full name Clarence Colton in the 13th episode). But even though much of his life is a mystery, his character is unmistakable. The Middleman 's real name and past is unknown to anyone, save Ida, although in the first comic book series (and first episode of the TV series) he recounts having been a Navy SEAL and being recruited shortly after having been cashiered for insubordination. In November, 2011, it was announced that The Middleman would cross over with Doctor Who, although the Doctor may not be mentioned by name.Ĭharacters The Middleman (present day) All of the historic Middlemen (with the exception of Victorian Middleman) have female sidekicks who bear a peculiar resemblance to Wendy. Thus far, the adventures of four Middlemen have been chronicled in the book and its supplements – Present Day Middleman, World War Two Middleman (and his doomed sidekick "The Middleboy"), Victorian Middleman and Barbarian Middleman, who operates in a quasi- Hyborean era. She is presumably training to become the next Middleman. The series follows hero-by-day, artist-by-night Wendy Watson as she tries to balance her normal life of boyfriends, mothers, and roommates with her more surreal adventures with the Middleman. They carry out their orders in typical hero fashion and always save the day. Each Middleman receives information via Ida from the "Organization Too Secret To Know" (O2STK). There are no written records of the Middlemen throughout history only Ida holds the answers to the present day Middleman's predecessors. The Middleman is not just the incarnation in the current mini series it is a job, a title, a persona that is handed down from Middleman to Middleman. The Middleman's slogan is "fighting evil so you don't have to" and the character has been doing it for an unknown length of time. Unlike the previous comics, this volume was based on an unpublished script for the ABC Family TV series and serves as the show's finale. ![]() In 2009, a fourth volume, The Middleman: The Doomsday Armageddon Apocalypse, was published. The third "mini-series" was released straight to trade in 2007 as The Third Volume Inescapability.Īll three volumes were collected in 2008 into a single volume, The Middleman: The Collected Series Indispensability. The second trade volume, entitled The Second Volume Inevitability, was released in July 2006 and includes the supplement Legends of the Middlemen, three short stories chronicling the adventures of past Middlemen. The mini-series was collected as a single trade paperback volume, entitled The Trade Paperback Imperative. The first issue was released in July 2005. The series was initially intended to be a television pilot that went on to be published as a comic, before being picked up as a TV series for the 2008 season by ABC Family. The Middleman is a comic book series written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach with art by Les McClaine and published by Viper Comics. For the basketball player, see Ben Stanley (basketball).
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