CREATED BY: SNAKEBITE CORTEZ & JOSHUA ORTEGA
MASTER MASK BY: DIGGER T. MESCH
MASK BY: SAMEERAH
STORY BY: JOSHUA ORTEGA
PICS BY: RJ LAMENDOLA
Maori Spider-Man
The child was born Tapu Katipo, a predestined name to say the least.
Missionaries
roughly translated the name as "Sacred (or taboo) Spider," though
whether they translated the name properly is still hotly contested to
this day.
Regardless,
there once existed a child, a normal child by all accounts, a
well-liked child who was said to play well with others, both those of
his tribe as well as the missionaries that increasingly were found
throught the island nation.
Tapu
was a good student, "quite pious" (according to missionary records),
and was known to take a stand against things he viewed were not just,
and was not afraid to take a stand.
Even if that meant a flogging at the hands of the missionaries.
One missionary, whose name has been lost to time, flogged him quite brutally on his 13th
birthday, "triggering" something within young Tapu that certainly
seemed predestined given his name. It was reported that he saw a spider
crawl onto his arm, and when the final blow was given to him, the spider
was crushed, biting Tapu in the process.
The
next day, Tapu was sighted climbing the side of a makeshift church. The
next, he was swinging from a web-like substance above the branches of a
Tatoki tree. The following week, the foresaid flogger was found
floating in a nearby bay…
Covered in what could only be described as spider webs.
The
missionaries soon left the area, the floggings ceased, and this
"Spider-Man," as he came to be known, is still revered to this day for
perserving something that could have been lost to the ephemeral web of
time…
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