http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Middle_Man
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The Middle Man (or The Middleman) is a comic book series written by Javier Grillo-Marxuach with art by Les McClaine and published by the notable Viper Comics, and a television series picked up for the 2008 season by ABC Family.[1]
The series was initially intended to be a television pilot. Grillo-Marxuach decided he wanted to write a series that represented all of the things he grew up loving (what he calls the "Javi-centric World View"). With a little coaching from Paul Dini, he realized his dream in the medium of comic books-- for several reasons, not the least of which was how much it would cost to produce a "tentacled ass monster" for television.
The series was initially intended to be a television pilot. Grillo-Marxuach decided he wanted to write a series that represented all of the things he grew up loving (what he calls the "Javi-centric World View"). With a little coaching from Paul Dini, he realized his dream in the medium of comic books-- for several reasons, not the least of which was how much it would cost to produce a "tentacled ass monster" for television.
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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. 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.[3] There are no written records of the Middlemen throughout history, only Ida holds the answers to the present day Middleman's predecessors.
Each Middleman receives information via Ida from O2STK. They carry out their orders in typical hero fashion and always save the day.
The current 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. She is assumably training to become the next Middleman.
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.
All of the historic Middlemen (with the exception of Victorian Middleman) have female sidekicks who bear a peculiar resemblance to Wendy.
The correct spelling of the hero's name is "The Middleman," and not "The Middle Man."
Each Middleman receives information via Ida from O2STK. They carry out their orders in typical hero fashion and always save the day.
The current 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. She is assumably training to become the next Middleman.
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.
All of the historic Middlemen (with the exception of Victorian Middleman) have female sidekicks who bear a peculiar resemblance to Wendy.
The correct spelling of the hero's name is "The Middleman," and not "The Middle Man."
http://abcfamily.go.com/abcfamily/path/sec...man/page_Detail
Premieres June 16, 2008 on ABC Family.
