WHAT DOES D.A.N.G.E.R!!! MEAN…
When I was growing up and just getting into comics, I was completely blown by how MUCH of everything there was. Super heroes, magic, street level vigilantes and SPIES! When I was reading the Avengers and thought this evil super science group called A.I.M, I had NO IDEA what does dots in between the letters were. I was 9 an admittedly dumb as a rock. I though it was because they must’ve only made laser guns and missiles. Turns out A.I.M stand for Advanced Idea Mechanics! And their leader was this giant head cyborg monster called M.O.D.O.K, and that stands for Mechanized Organism Designed Only for Killing! And their main enemy was this super spy agency called S.H.E.I.L.D, which since the first Iron Man movie retitled itself to Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division. And then after finding the real world had the C.I.A, F.B.I, N.A.S.A, and that was it! I was all in on acronyms. So as I started working on this book, I hit this wall trying to figure out what to call the book and this group of kids.
I originally wanted to call The ADVENTURE CLUB. Which would have great if I wasn’t the 39 billionth person to thing that was fun title.
So then I went don the rabbit whole of ideas trying to figure an equal to or cooler option. Eventually I stumbled onto the word- DANGER.
Danger is a great, it’s both a warning and it sets the tone. You can point to it, run from it, acknowledge it and over come it. It’s just a great word. The problem there is that there’s a lot of people that thought the same thing. Not as much as ADVENTURE, but there was a lot. And at that moment I had to make choice, move on to another word or figure out a way to make this word work. And DAYS of not being able to think a single actual option, this silly idea popped in my head- How about an acronym?
So I looked at the word- DANGER.
Then I looked at word like this- D.A.N.G.E.R
And then I looked at the word like this:
D
A
N
G
E
R
And then I though about all the stories I made up or planned to tell and slowly D.A.N.G.E.R became:
Dark
Anomalies
Nightmarish
Ghouls
Exciting
Rescues
And I added way too many exclamation marks to let people know how exciting this book was going to be, and that’s how we ended up with…
D.A.N.G.E.R!!! SQUAD
#DangerSquadUp