The son of a senator and the nephew of a cardinal, Ethan Roark is considered untouchable, despite his proclivities being fairly common knowledge in Basin City. What are those proclivities? Well, Roark may appear to be the handsome scion of a high profile political family, but beneath the Kennedyesque exterior lies the curdled, ruined mind of a sadistic paedophile and killer of young girls. What makes Ethan Roark more than just your usual child murdering psychotic is what happens to him fairly early on in the Sin City narrative he appears in, when maverick cop Hartigan decides that he doesnt care about politics anymore and puts Roark the younger down but not out. Hartigan puts large, impossibly loud bullets into Roarks hand, ear and groin, and yet the creature lives, gradually put back together by the best medicine a very rich family can afford. Hed never be the same again though. By the time Hartigan meets Roark Junior again eight years, hes devolved into That Yellow B*stard: squat, bald and deformed, with bright yellow skin and blood, TYB stinks to high heaven, the stench of something rotting from the inside out. Hartigan didnt kill Roark he only made him appear on the outside the way he was on the inside. And eight years of pain and humiliation have sent Roark so far over the edge that hes in freefall forever a spitting, screaming, raving radioactive gnome, murdering child after child after child in a mad orgy of violence. When Hartigan takes him down the second time, he makes sure its for good. He uses his bare hands. You're bound to have your own personal favourite cinematic monster... and no, Godzilla doesn't count. Tell everyone about it in the comments! Can't be as bad as Prince bloody Hans of the bloody Summer Isles, though.
Professional writer, punk werewolf and nesting place for starfish. Obsessed with squid, spirals and story. I publish short weird fiction online at desincarne.com, and tweet nonsense under the name Jack The Bodiless. You can follow me all you like, just don't touch my stuff.
