The Miracle Machine! Part One!

Our URl is a Final Crisis/Grant Morrison reference, and the new feature I'm doing for the blog is reference to the greatest super-team of all time, The Legion Of Super-Heroes. The miracle machine is a device created by the controllers, that gives you your wildest thoughts, it hears your thoughts. My mind is the Miracle Machine, to test the validity of this statement i will be asking people on Facebook to give me random characters from comics, and as long as they are within reason I will create a brilliant Pitch for a story with that character within 24 hours. So I asked Facebook and my friend Paul Price said I should create a pitch for "Metamorpho, The Elemental Man". Now I have read Wednesday Comics beautiful rendition of Rex Mason By Gaiman and Allred. And my approach was to think of the character from a completely different angle.

The Pitch: Rex Mason: The Elemental Man

Overview: Rex Mason was and will always be an adventurer, a man who was subjected to the powers of "The Orb Of Ra" which Ra the Egyptian Sun God used to make soldiers to fight an undying Serpent God, Apep. Rex is among many Metamorphae through out history. And A thousand years from the time which turned Rex Mason into The Elemental Man, a young boy named Jan Arrah is born on the planet Tromm, unknowing that he will become the last Survivor of his planet. Nativesof the planet Tromm have very similar abilities to that of the Metamorphae. Rex Mason is about to find out why. He is a man bound by his humanity and his abilities reflect it. He will soon find e has the ability to become more than just human.


Th story: Our story begins with Rex waking up from a nightmare, and finding himself in Human form, he is excited and slowly starts to revert back to his elemental state, these pages are silent, we see him at the edge of the bed, crying, with his head in his hands, the teras flow down his arms and then absorb back into him. We see him doing regular Metamorpho things the next morning, fighting crime, and it is then we see him decide to go sit on the cliff at dusk. As the sun sets he hears a voice. It is the voice of Ra. It tells him to let go, he jumps from the cliff and we now see him in a completely white room talking to floating mercurial blobs which tell him they are ra. They explain that Ra is an idea that was tapped into by many cultures Ra is not our sun it is the silent and collective other-dimensional structure of every star in the universe. It tells Rex of the fact that although Rex is one of many that have felt the powers of Ra's transmutation, he is the first that has come close to realizing it's potential. This seen ends with Rex being pulled apart atom by atom revealing a small universe inside of him. It is the power of every star in this pocket universe that allows for his powers and once he can break his mental blocks he can use the power for transmutation.

This is our opening scene it allows for a self discovery and reinvention of what Rex Mason is to the reader. We return to a place within three dimensional space, Rex finds himself restructuring on the beach of New Zealand. People begin to run away, he runs into an alley and looks up as he is touched on the shoulder by a young blond man, Jan Arrah, the Legions's Element Lad. And suddenly we see Rex he is in human form again. Completely human form, And element lad says to him "Is this how you wish people would see you Rex?". This is the end of Issue one.

The story moves on to have Jan and Rex work together along with the consciousness of Ra to let Rex master his new near limitless power. Ra begins to push the Elementals towards secrets of how they are connected. Ra transports them to a planet where an alien scientist is creating Sun-Eaters to attack Ra personally. Ra makes them stop this man so Ra can continue to exist unharmed. In the process Rex sacrifices the suns in his pocket universe so that Ra and Jan could survive. As the Sun Eaters attack his universe, Rex's atoms crackle from his body and Jan infuses them into every atom in planet they are on. The stars explode and destroy the Sun Eaters. And Jan finds one small dense sun where Rex's body was, Jan touches the sun and with the help of Ra they re-transmute every atom in Rex's body back into his form. He is reborn in this part and Him an d Jan part ways. Jan takes a time bubble from the planet back to his own time. Rex decides to make Ra transport him "wherever it is most exciting in this big universe of ours". He appears right on an alien ship and a man comes up to him and says "I'm Tommy Tomorrow who the hell are you?"There are two small epilogues one involves that planet which was infused with his atoms, it eventually makes the inhabitant animals evolve into more and more human like creatures, and it becomes evident that he birthed Tromm, in that final fight with the Sun Eaters. The second epilogue involves a splash in which Rex is in the colors of his original look but more human looking than usual and shooting a bullet at a crazy new god. He changed the bullet to Radion. Rex Mason's life just got a lot more exciting.