Life is funny. When I was a kid, I drew lots of comics. These were terribly crude affairs, and as incredibly trite as you would expect most 6-10 year-olds to write. But, I never forgot the characters I made up. The Clump appeared in several of his own stories, and he was the result of lightning animating undersea pollution. Almost four decades later in our world, when it came time to populate the Squadron Premiere of their 1950’s I had to include the Clump. So far, he has only appeared as a statue in the trophy hall of Squadron Premiere Plaza. The Clump is also noteworthy in that I, with a friend of mine, made a miniature Clump out of clay, and using a super-8 camera we tried to animate him. This footage was never developed and long gone.
