10 Aug This Child Has Invented A Terrifying ‘Superhero’ Named Janet, And Twitter Is Obsessed

Art camp for kids is usually not a place for professional comic book writers to get ideas, but a young girl named Luca has changed that forever. She sketched a design for a brand new superhero that went viral on Twitter, inspiring the imaginations of the masses. So what was so special about this young girl’s creation?

“She is only a hero to herself.”

So reads the poetic description that Luca wrote, describing the superhero she created at art camp. Luca should probably get into comic books, because her creation, bizarrely named Janet, is an incredibly compelling hero/anti-hero. For morally ambiguous times, morally ambiguous heroes arise, and Janet, armed with a bloody pair of scissors and a giant twig, is an outrageously unique hero.

She would look totally at home amongst a cast of highly-accomplished comic book villains.

It’s easy to draw generic super-muscular male superheroes, or the thousandth knock-off of Wonder Woman. There’s a hilarious video of Stan Lee watching Marvel artists draw a new hero, and he mocks the tropes of the genre. Giant arms, extremely cheesy overdone costumes, and grim, uncreative personalities are hallmarks of stagnation in the genre.

Janet, on the other hand, is a wildly creative villain design given to a hero. It’s quite simply great, and it defies our expectations of what heroes and villains should look like entirely.

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