New NRG Superhero- Man's Best Friend (Patreon)

Hey Guys! Here's the first of 5 new NRG superheroes we're introducing! This here is Romulus aka Man's Best Friend: the Rescue Animal, a superhero rescue/therapy dog!

Man’s Best Friend, or Romulus as is his real name, is a Siberian husky-wolf hybrid who as a pup was experimented on the Think Tank to grant superpowers to animals, but luckily was rescued and liberated from the Vaudeville location by Toonman’s debut as a superhero. After which, Romulus was taken in by the animal rescue league and then was put into therapy animal training. All Romulus wanted in life, however, was a family and despite his human intelligence he couldn’t understand why he was being put through this training. Ultimately, Romulus graduates as a therapy animal and is taken in by a young military veteran returning from tour and struggling with PTSD. For a while, Romulus is happy to have a family with the veteran, but is forced to bear witness to his owner’s struggles and quickly uses his therapy training to try and help him, learning how important his role is as man’s best friend to humans as a dog. Ultimately however, his owner takes his life in front of Romulus. Feeling guilty that he failed his owner and later inspired by Toonman’s sense of purpose as a cartoon character, Romulus vows to use his training as a therapy dog and his newly discovered powers to never fail another human again, and becomes the world’s first superhero animal and friend to all mankind everywhere.

Romulus is best described as a superhero fusion of a rescue dog fused with a Therapy dogs. Amongst powers include advanced human-level intelligence (though he still cannot communicate verbally with humans due to his animal anatomy). He also has superhuman strength, able to break through the strongest barriers and attack the strongest metahumans and pull the heaviest loads; super speed and agility that allow him to outrace the fastest vehicles, and his natural canine senses have been enhanced to superhuman levels, meaning his hearing, sight, and smell are far greater than that of any dog or wolf, allowing him to track any target with easy. He also has a number of superhuman canine abilities- namely the unleash a “bite-bark” that is a sonic bark that can be used as a concussive ballistic blast against enemies, and a hyper-sonic wolf howl that can cause disruption amongst electronic devices and sensory distortions against enemies. In addition to this, he has his therapy animal training which he uses to comfort and bring aid to humans in distress, and has undergone rescue animal training to better serve as a superhero.

Very excited to introduce this new superhero to NRG! Let us know what you think with a comment below!

Man's Best Friend: The Rescue Animal © NRG Comics

Art and Design by David Velasquez