Clay-Man: Harvard Drawing

A Story by Abishai100

A comics-fable about mutation, redemption, writing, and distance(s)!

A comics-fable featuring Clayface (DC Comics).

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A thespian-wannabe named Amlan Satan traveled to Harvard-Square every Sunday to play chess in the area with the various travelers/philosophers who regularly trafficked there to indulge in free-mind chess-games in the iconic New England intelligentsia/tourism area. Satan dreamt of making it 'big' in the media-industry and enjoyed chess-competition in the Square to spend some free-space time(s).

AMLAN SATAN: I love comics books, and an antihero fascinating is Clayface, a failed actor-turned-mutant who shifts like clay!

While Satan pushed for scripts with various movie studios including Sony, DreamWorks, and Fox, telling them that they'd be in for a real 'treat' if they created a motion-picture (comics-adapted!) featuring the DC-antihero Clayface, a man (failed actor!) whose body biochemistry is entirely clay-molecules because of a freak science-military demo accident showcased to tourists at MGM. However, no movie studio felt convinced the idea or the wannabe-actor (Satan) who posited the creative concept had any market-value, leaving Amlan dejected and continuing his regular life, seeking smalltime parts in stage-plays and supporting-roles, including a Tom Hanks film about a briefcase at a train-station filled with gold, and spending recreation-time on Facebook/FaceTime (mom/girlfriend)!

Ironically Satan earned an Oscar best-supporting actor nomination for his portrayal of an Algerian-American recruit into the 'Foreign Irish Republican Army' in Northern Ireland (UK), destabilizing blood-diamond smugglers-vehicles threatening overground poverty/unemployment reform-talks favoring the Irish-Catholic underclass who'd been drawn into this new dominion of piracy-activity! Satan played the Algerian-American F-IRA recruit 'Storm-Shadow' and earned recognition for his 'uncanny' ability to portray a 'conflicted' masked guerrilla-man who constantly 'brooded' about sectarian money!

Ironically more, Satan then attended an MGM tourist military-science demo featuring a body-molecule 'sand-infusing' chemistry-machine/booth which he volunteered to walk into wearing a protective aluminum suit (just like in the Clayface comics DC storyline!) which had an unspotted 'tear' and allowed the chemical serum to enter his skin pores --- transforming into a man entirely composed of sand and clay --- Clay-Man!

PSYCHIATRIST: Why'd you kidnap me, Amlan, for this 'private' counseling-session in Boston?
AMLAN SATAN: I'm not Amlan...call me Clay-Man.

PSYCHIATRIST: You're insane and need help; you need to see a gov't-doctor, Amlan.

AMLAN SATAN: I suggested you call me...Clay-Man.

PSYCHIATRIST: I don't know what to tell you, Clay-Man...your tragedy is Biblical!

AMLAN SATAN: What I do now?
PSYCHIATRIST: Maybe you can use your 'power(s)' to help people (like a 'super-soldier' or vigilante)!

AMLAN SATAN: Thanks.

CLAY-MAN: I offer my vigilante-services to the Boston Police Department to protect unnamed actress stalked by serial-killer!

Clay-Man escorted the media-figure/doll, a rising Hollywood starlet living in New England to Logan (Airport!) where her stalker/psycho ('Night-Slasher') trailed her there and where the unfortunately-mutated but now-vigilante 'antihero' Clay-Man used his shape-shifting ability to make himself look like a pillar inside the Terminal, and when the Night-Slasher leaned on the pillar, the hero shifted his body-clay musculature to wrap him up and handed him to the authorities for interrogation. Logan became a sudden landmark for this modern 'dark' faerie-tale.

CLAY-MAN: I shall use my power(s) to arrest a deadly bank-robber crew in Boston killing policemen; I'll wrap their guns (clay).

After procuring the 'acid-gun' wielded by the 'captain' of the deadly Boston bank-robbing crew known as the Ex-Presidents, Clay-Man announced to the media/police/writers, "I shall retire from my vigilante life and work on my novel about the omens of vanity in this modern time of great socialized traffic complications!"

Clay-Man (Amlan Satan) won the Pulitzer for his novel about self-conscious political realism and humility, titled Becoming Clay, and he'd forego his lost-ever dream of becoming a movie-star and instead decorated his new New England safe house with plastic plants/flowers. He'd consider his new life a meditation on 'alien' consciousness...and redemption.

EXCERPT FROM Becoming Clay: "Envisioning a new 'Aphrodite' as the 'Clay-Man' requires a focus on the spirit(s) of delay."

Clay-Man also volunteered at local public-schools in the Boston area, showing kids how to re-envision the use and imagination behind the use of clay in the erection of society totems/monuments/toys. He'd learned that mutation wouldn't mean a depression of the heart.