Ebon
Ebon by Neil Connors
27 years ago - Ivan Evans is born in Dakota City.
24 years ago - 3-year-old Ivan Evans brother Adam Evans is born.
15 years ago - 12-year-old Ivan is arrested for the first time.
12 years ago - 15-year-old Ivan is caught selling handguns on school property and is sent to juvie.
9 years ago - 18-year-old Ivan is released from juvie, and begins dealing. He's again arrested, this time tried as an adult.
4 years ago - 23-year-old Ivan is paroled and starts taking over gang territory across Dakota City, leading to a street war. Their gathering is targeted for a secret experiment by Edwin Alva, detonating Alva Technologies Gene-Bomb & exposing everyone present to their experimental mutagenic compound. Ivan gains his shadow powers and takes the name Ebon. He starts gathering the most deformed 'bang babies' into his own street gang, the Meta-Breed, regularly clashing with new hero Static.
3 years ago - 24-year-old Ivan tries to convince his brother Adam Evans to join the Meta-Breed. When he refuses, he frames him for robbery. Static helps Adam prove his innocence.
1 year ago - 26-year-old Ivan and the Meta-Breed steal a tanker of unfinished Alva Technologies mutagenic compound scheduled to be destroyed with the intention of setting off another big bang. Static, Gear & The Rubberband Man all work together to stop them, finally defeating Ebon so he can be imprisoned.
Ebon's Comic HistoryWhile the world of Static Shock is loaded with a variety of 'Bang Babies'; characters all effected by the same event causing an outbreak of superpowers in Static's Dakota City. The show did a great job of using all those characters to tell a variey of stories, giving almost all the baddies understandable motives. The big exception, however, was Ebon. He was a remorselessly violent, scary, malevolent thug, smart and calculating, and just seemed to be motivated by nothing more than ego and rage. We do eventually learn more about him and WHY he is that way, but it didn't make him any less scary.
When the comics started to more closely adapt to the animated series, Ebon was one of the major villains to quickly feature in Static's new story, even playing the featured villain in the miniseries Static: Shadows of Dakota. |
Our Ebon StoryWe're not going to go on and translate every single bang baby character from the entire Static Series; it was an ongoing episodic animated adventure and had a pretty sprawling cast. We are, however, going to include the idea of a violent street gang of bang babies in the Meta-Breed, and to do that we are absolutely required to include their leader Ebon, who is a really strong candidate for Static's primary nemesis.
We wanted to make sure we included his history in juvenile detention, and then in actual prison once he turned 18. Even the gang battles that lead to the big bang event are largely thanks to him. We also wanted to make sure we included his influence on his younger brother Adam, as these are some of the most humanizing stories for both characters. We also introduced one more story for Ebon and the Meta-Breed. Ivan was often depicted as trying to recreate the big bang event, and after the fall of Alva Technologies, we imagine that the remaining mutagenic compound would be stealable, creating a fantastic battle between all of Static's allies to stop them. |