This week, I finished the first draft of a key section of the third book in the Adventures of Powerhouse Series.

In it, Powerhouse goes to Comic Con to help promote some new comics from his company Blue Cat Comics.

The prime villain Mitch Farrow, CEO of Dorado Incorporated is trying a new tact. Having failed to destroy powerhouse physically, he's resolved to trash Powerhouse's reputation by attacking him and his new heroes.

Farrow's mad scientist in residence, Doctor Fournier is along incognito to enjoy the convention. Imagining himself to be a wanted man, Fournier dresses in a Chewbacca costume while still wearing his signature bow tie.

Doctor Fournier was a minor character in Tales of the Dim Knight but an important one. He developed the one and only weapon that was able to stop Powerhouse, a force field generator. He returns in the 2nd Adventures of Powerhouse book, Rise of the Robolawyers. (Currently waiting to be edited by my wife lovely wife Andrea Graham and tentatively slated for a November 2012 release.)

He's a fun character to write. He's a mad scientist but for the most part acts cool and levelheaded. He has no designs on world domination or the maniacal laughter we associate with the typical mad scientist character.

His flaw and his brand of evil is the one that comes when their desires have no bounds. Fournier loves science, creating things, building things, and solving problems. Nothing in this is evil or sinful.

However, what makes Fournier do evil things is that his desires have no bounds or limits at all. He'll do anything to satisfy his curiosity and solve problems for anyone, including someone whose problem is that Powerhouse is still breathing.

In this particular story line, I have a lot of fun with Fournier as his Chewbacca costume fools even Powerhouse who asks for his help.