KING PEDESTRIAN: An Essay by RICH VERNADEAU

Who is King Pedestrian? We know he started out as a Count and that he's of noble lineage, descended from royalty. He has a vast castle estate somewhere outside Paris, France and it contains priceless art treasures from all over Europe that his father, apparently a Nazi collaborator, allowed the Nazis to place there. He was at some point involved with Blatson the artist in an extended sexual affair yet he ends up taking as his lover a female Nazi interrogator who had been cryogenically frozen for seventy years and she gives birth to his son, Prince Pedestrian. We know that he managed to get a union of European nations to declare him King. He likes fine wine, elaborate dinners, and esteems himself superior to everyone else. He led a war against the paperdolls here in the Prime Universe and he attacked the vampires in the Parallel Universe. He held Lt. Skitters prisoner for a time in his dungeon and then later, when Lt. Skitters was badly injured from a fall from a highrise building, he provided a hospital setting for Lt. Skitters to recuperate, and then implanted electrodes in his brain to make Lt. Skitters do his bidding as head of his security force.