Spring-Heeled Jack

[saavedra77]

Today's featured Wikipedia article is on Spring-Heeled Jack, a Victorian urban legend bearing a suspicious resemblance to several 20th-century comic book characters (black cape, metal claws, pointy ears, glowing eyes, leaping from rooftop to rooftop, a big letter on his chest, etc.). Jack sounds for all the world like a circus acrobat gone bad, doesn't he?

The story would have the makings of an excellent Tim Burton picture ... that is, if Burton hadn't already visited so many similar images and notions in films like Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow ...

Comments

[delerium69.livejournal.com]

Which just demonstrates that you and Tim Burton have similar minds...

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Huh, I don't remember from the legends anything about a letter on his chest. I've always been fascinated by that, though, and pretty frightened of it when I first read about him in my youth.

[saavedra77.livejournal.com]

A "W", which goes with the name of a certain Marquess, as well as another fictional character with long metal claws ...