(Comic Horror Legend, Mortis Rigor)
Mortis Rigor's life ended (Normal life that is) before it ever began. His mother was a murder victim while he was the victim of a crude abortion attempt while in the womb. He died at seven and a half months. He was revived one day later.
Rough Childhood
Brad Royce (BR): This is such a pleasure, Mortis. I am pleased to help get your story told. You are in a good mood, right?
Mortis Rigor (MR): Sure, baby. We're talking my favorite subject today. Fire away, man.
(BR): Lets start from the beginning. You were a murder victim before you were even born. What was that like?
(MR): Oh it was like sugar cubes and lollipops, man. What do you think?!?! I was bludgeoned with a coat hanger and my heart was still beating while my mom was stabbed 27 times with the same hanger. What do you think that was like? Most people don't remember things when they were real young. I get to feel that same pain every single day. I decompose and heal everyday from those wounds.
(BR): You bring up an interesting phenomena, your constant state of flux between the living and the dead. How does that work?
(MR): I doesn't always work so good, chum. Imagine your tissue working against itself, healing, decomposing, healing, etc. Not to mention the sudden bouts of rigormortis when I'm least expecting it. I can't explain all the technical crap, how I was revived, the superhuman strength, the balance between life and death. Its all over my head, man.
(BR): You get these bouts of Rigor Mortis and that's how you got your name. It's a funny story. Tell us about that.
(MR): Oh, great. I'm so glad my tragic life story is funny to you. My old man or adopted father (Chance Wiggins), whatever, revived me and named me Thadious Wiggins. Obviously, I wasn't too thrilled by that name, but I got my nickname from my dyslexic uncle Goble. He once saw me spasming and proclaimed, "That boy's got the Mortis Rigor." It just kind of stuck from there. (Sighs) Look man, this has gotten too heavy. It's really bringing me down, man. Lets talk about some other far out stuff I'm doing.
(BR): Come on dude, that's a hilarious story. Don't be so sensitive, THADIOUS.
INTERVIEWERS NOTE: Mortis slammed my face hard to the table. The interview resumed 40 minutes later when I regained consciousness. Mortis held a pick axe over his shoulder during the rest of the interview, adding to the tension of the pro.
(BR): I've got a great idea, lets talk about some of your projects that are sure to make you a star! First, you are the host of this website, you are the main character in the Mortis Rigor comic horror series, you have your merchandise and you've designed your own clothing line for the undead. Tell us about these great projects.
(MR): Alright. The hosting gig is pretty laid back. I just lurk on the site and keep an eye on the guests, make sure they aren't bagging on my turf. Then I'll be interviewing the stars of horror. I hope you bring me a lot of groovy chicks to interview. I've taken a great liking to the ladies. I got a feeling their gonna love me. Oh and the Mortis Rigor story is about me being myself. I'm just waiting for you to get off your dead rear and finish writing it so I can star in it. And the designer clothes for the undead is part of my Abomination Gear collection. My favorite is the ÜberZombie Ünd Flësch series. Its inspired by me. Some folks call me a zombie because of my having been dead, but the truth is... I'm a Uber zombie! I'm not some slow, mindless flesh eater. I've got skills. I'm quick, strong, am a master at weapons and martial arts- self-taught.
(BR): That's very impressive. I know that my schedule is nearly impossible to keep up with all my projects. How do manage?
(MR): You gotta multi-task, man. When Chance used to send me out to work the field in the middle of the night, I'd be harvesting crops and wielding the farm implements, training myself to use them as weapons. It's all about multi-tasking.
(BR): You mention working in the field, which was the field behind your father's mortuary?
(MR): Yeah, Chance ran the Sunny Meadows Funeral Home. He didn't do so well business wise, so he subsidized by growing crops in the back field. I was sent out to work the fields under the moonlight so no one would see me. It is the only time I ever got to leave the mortuary's basement growing up. I had to stay hidden because of the way I was "born".
(BR): Now Chance, your father, took a liking to your mother's corpse and "experimented" with trying to revive her, resulting in accidentally reviving you. Was Chance some kind of Necrofiliac or pervert?
INTERVIEWERS NOTE: I have no recollection of how the interview ended. Mortis claimed that I struck myself with a clothes iron. I am fairly certain that I would not have done that and have dismissed many reasons for doing that to myself. My jaw will be wired shut for the next two weeks. Can anyone suggest some good recipes of things that can be eaten through a straw?
On The Horizon
Mortis will continue to work on his clothing line, wait for his next interviews and will make appearances on the web & elsewhere to promote the site. He is still waiting for Royce to get off his dead rear and write his story. Royce wants to heal first.
The Bio
- Named by his adoptive, mortician father, due to his state of limbo between the living and dead, he has the condition of intermittent, persistent and nagging rigormortis
- Born/ revived to a murder-victim mother. The mother was murdered by a boy friend in a jealous rage. He mistakenly believed the unborn child was a result of an affair. After unsuccessfully attempting a crude abortion with a coat hanger he brutally stabbed her 27 times with the same hanger.
- After 18 hours of intense effort, the doctor’s and the woman’s brave attempt to cling to life falters, and the woman is pronounced dead. The seven and a half month old inside her is also showing no vitals. The decision is made to keep mother and child together, fetus in tact, to be buried
- The corpses are sent to Sunny Meadows funeral home, the cheapest home in the county. This is where the poor are sent. This is a place people do advanced planning, in order to avoid it upon their demise.
- Chance Wiggins is the peculiar mortician who married a semi-retarded mute woman. Chance is part mortician, part mad scientist. He is obsessed with the notion of bringing back the dead for his own perverse playmates; and unpaid laborers.
- After an injection of his “revival” fluid, failed to revive the mother, Chance began the embalming process. The combination of trace amounts of revival fluid and embalming fluid that seeped into the body of the unborn child, the heartbeat began. Chance retired for the evening, dreaming of the woman he saw and perceived as a ravishing beauty. Overnight the child, continued to recover vital functions until fully revived.
- Chance discovers the child is alive when he is kissing and caressing the belly of the dead woman and feels the child kicking.
- Mortis is raised by Chance and his wife but sheltered in the basement of the mortuary. His up bringing and personality is shaped by films he watches that are given to him by uncle Goble, who owns a run down movie theater. The uncle brings him films that were left behind when he purchased the theater. They are 60’s beatnik and 70's Martial Arts films. Mortis’s vocabulary is shaped with turns such as “Daddy O” “Groovy” and “What’s your bag man!” He studys the martial arts movies and trains himself on the moves. He is keenly interested in the weapons.
- Mortis’ sheltered upbringing makes him extremely deficient in common social skills. He try’s to win friends through intimidation and force.
- Mortis has the following character traits : Ill-Tempered, short attention span, aggressive, sarcastic, sadistic and awkward. Despite his apparent and vast character flaws, Mortis by nature, is kind-hearted, lonely and really desperate to have a normal life with friends and the love of a woman.
- Mortis has the following Physical features: Sporadic facial scarring, pale, ashen complexion, intermittent seizure-like tendencies. He is in a constant state of flux. His cells and skin are fighting against itself between decomposition and cell and skin regeneration.
Mortis Rigor's Links of Interest:
> www.cutthroatcreations.com
> www.ctcpool.com
> www.cafepress.com/ctcpool
> www.cutthroatcuesports.com
> www.myspace.com/ctcpool
> www.myspace.com/bradroyce
> www.myspace.com/menacesociety
> www.gohuey.com
And of course you can read the rants of Mortis at our blog The Gory Details.
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