First Appearance: Triple Comics #1
Alter ego: Alzheimer Fresco
Affiliation(s): The Alternates
Location: Rose City
Aliases: The Android
Abilities: Peak Human Physical Conditioning
Totally Naked Man is the comical parody hero featured in Naked Man Comics and Totally Naked Man the Webcomic. Naked Man Comics was published under its title name, NMC Comics, and now Mythos Imprint. The character was created by Illya King in 1996.
Totally Naked Man (as alter-ego Alzheimer Fresco) is a multi-millionaire from Rose City who lives with his butler. Al Fresco’s Day job is the main person for the Rose City Museum of Art, although he often is tardy due to his extra-curricular hero activities.
Like his name states, Totally Naked Man is totally naked. His friends and allies are disturbed by his lack of clothing. His nudity is ridiculed by villains and citizens of the Rose City.
Creation and concept #
Illya King enrolled in a comics class taught by Michael Obre (Big Bang Comics)[1], a Connecticut-based illustrator. As part of his education, King volunteered his time aiding with Obre’s Park and Rec comics class for Newtown Elementary. One of the students had trouble creating a character for the class, so King came up with a non-character: a superhero without an outfit. King then dabbled with the character off and on in a couple of self-printed Ashcan comics featuring Totally Naked Man. In 2012, King decided to publish the character under the title “Naked Man Comics.”
Influences #
Totally Naked Man’s facial features are a parody of Golden Age superheroes, specifically Captain Marvel. His hair was inspired by the Jim Carrey character, Ace Ventura. Totally Naked Man’s singing is in homage to Mighty Mouse. Lastly, The Tick is the inspiration for Totally Naked Man’s over-the-top personality.
Publication History #
Totally Naked Man first appeared in a self-published Ashcan comic titled “Triple Comics.” A year later, he starred in another ashcan comic, “Cheap Tales of Muscle Bound Heroes.”
In 2012, Totally Naked Man starred in the indie comic series, Naked Man Comics (under the indie comic label, Naked Man Comics, and then NMC Comics).
Totally Naked Man is featured in his own webcomics series at https://totallynakedman.com under the Mythos Imprint banner.
In 2015, Naked Man Comics 1-8 was collected in a trade paperback titled “Naked and The City.”[2]
Comics and Comic books #
In Naked Man Comics #1, Totally Naked Man follows the sounds of alarms to see Shawn the Pizza Bandit and Catherine the Waif rob Old Town Pizza of their stock of pizza. Totally Naked Man tries to stop them but is foiled by a hail of hot pizza. The Pizza Bandit duo use the internet to lure Totally Naked Man to Tom McCall Waterfront Park. There, Totally Naked Man meets all The Bridge City Pizza Bandits – Pie-Man, Sweat Dude, The Victim, and Dan the Sleaze. The group of villains attempt to subdue Totally Naked Man, but the hero slips out due to the excessive sweat. The Pizza Bandits leave because they are tired, leaving only Shawn and Catherine. Totally Naked Man makes short work of the rest of the Pizza Bandits.
In the second half of Issue #01, Totally Naked Man walks by an electronics store to hear about dinosaurs appearing in the southwestern part of the United States. Totally Naked Man, as his civilian identity Alzheimer Fresco, to request some vacation. Once approved, Al Fresco calls Extremely Conservative Woman to help. Extremely Conservative Woman is annoyed with Totally Naked Man because he attached an empty horse trailer to their travel car. Totally Naked Man explains that the trailer is not empty but is holding The Horseless Horse. Extremely Conservative Woman is unimpressed. The team enters an old west saloon. They are interrupted by a loud meow from a dinosaur. The old west patrons leave the saloon to capture the giant beast. A man with no name arrives on horseback to team with Totally Naked Man and his friends. Meanwhile, the Greek God Cronus reveals that he’s responsible for the time distortions. The team of Totally Naked Man ride on horseback to confront the Greek God. Cronus is impervious to their attacks until a mysterious force trips the god and forces him back through is time portal. With Cronus dispatched, the mysterious cowboy disappears along with everything else.
In Naked Man Comics #2, a mysterious ship searches space for worlds to consume. Totally Naked Man received an invitation from Pepper Gold to join his team. Tryouts for the Superhero Squad of Superheroes Movement will be held in Downtown Rose City. While waiting for an interview, Totally Naked Man meets heroes like Zetaman, Superhero, Dark Guardian, Antiman. Pie-Man is also there. When Totally Naked Man finally sees Pepper Gold, Gold demands that he bows to him. The interchange is interrupted because a giant alien has arrived. Universium has decided to eat the Earth. Totally Naked Man recalls his favorite childhood hero, Rightguy, facing a similar situation. Totally Naked Man buys all the beer in Rose City and gets Universium drunk. When Universium awakes, Totally Naked Man threatens him with pictures of the giant’s escapades if he consumes the Earth. Afraid of the contents, Universium leaves. Pepper Gold receives the credit for Universium leaving. The Real Life Superhero Project finally arrives but are too late to participate.
In Naked Man Comics #3, Totally Naked Man is called into his manager’s office to discuss his work situation at the Rose City Museum of Art. Totally Naked Man is often late due to his extra-curricular activities. Holly Wood attempts to woo Totally Naked Man but he is unimpressed. Vega Bond attempts to harass Totally Naked Man. When the harassment does not work. Bond kidnaps Holly Wood. Bond threatens Totally Naked Man again. Totally Naked Man assumes Vega Bond is discussing Hollywood, California and not Holly Wood. Under Bond’s care, Holly Wood is accidently teleported to another world. With out a victim, Bond forgoes all threats. Holly Wood arrives on a space station in the S’p’r Empire. She becomes a hero in space.
In Naked Man Comics #4, Totally Naked Man and friends, along with The Extreme Factor Five, are teleported to the planet Fabulon. The heroes meet Prince Dan and Bazooka. Prince Dan is really Man-Man the Barbarian. The villains meet Turtletor, scourge of villainy. Turtletor has captures an all-powerful Share Bear. The next part of Turtletor’s plan is to capture Skycloud Castle. He enlists the help of The Extreme Factor Five to do so. Man-Man and the heroes make the epic climb to Skycloud Castle. The villainous cabal also arrives. The heroes and villains fight. Turtletor is revealed to be The Yellow Skull. The Yellow Skull created a portal to Fabulon and quickly rose to power. Because the heroes are on Fabulon, Turtletor flees back to Earth. Man-Man brings the heroes to Hawk Witch, who provides a way back to Earth. Upon the heroes return, the Share Bear turns into a stuff bear (which Zetaman gives to a homeless kid).
Zetaman discusses with Totally Naked Man his theory on why there are villains in Rose City in Naked Man Comics #5. Years ago, Zetaman had a team called The Alternates. After disbanding and reforming then disbanding again, villains and heroes turned villains invaded Rose City. Totally Naked Man assures Zetaman that people make their own choices.
All the villains in Rose City meet Vega Bond at one of his businesses, in Naked Man Comics #6. Bond has a plan to organize the villains against the heroes of Rose City. The Asalter assaults a little girl’s ice cream. Shawn and Catherine rob Old Town Pizza. The Roach slashes Zetaman’s tires. Villains have taken over the city. Totally Naked Man faces The Extreme Factor Five in Old Town Chinatown. The evil team throws Totally Naked Man off a roof and breaks his foot. Extremely Conservative Woman fights the evil team and saves Totally Naked Man. While Totally Naked Man is recuperating, he receives a call from Vega Bond. Bond challenges the heroes to a wrestling match. The heroes, sans Totally Naked Man, meet at Waterfront Park. New heroes like iHero and The Android, Chris Justice, and Civitron join the heroes of Rose City. The wrestling champion of the seven seas, Aqua Gato, also joins. The wrestling match is at the Rose Quarter. The heroes wrestle the villains. Most of the villains are taken out and retire. The Asalter is the only villain left. The villain makes short work of the heroes, including depowering the robot The Android. Aqua Gato fights The Asalter and loses. The Android turns back on and stops The Asalter. After winning the match, The Android is revealed to be Totally Naked Man.
Superhero and The Siamese Cat travel to Rose City to stop The Opossum in Naked Man Comics #8. The dynamic duo from Clearwater, Florida teams with Totally Naked Man and Extremely Conservative Woman. The team puts an end to the Opossum’s plans, which are backed secretly by Vega Bond.
Totally Naked Man faces The Yellow Skull in Naked Man Comics #9. The Yellow Skull robbed Petersen’s convenience store. Totally Naked Man attempts to stop him, but The Yellow Skull throws a pot of honey that stops the hero. Totally Naked Man moves on with the day as his civilian identity, Alzheimer Fresco. Later, at night, Totally Naked Man is successful in capturing The Yellow Skull but must make amends with the owner of Petersen’s.
In part two of issue #9, Totally Naked Man and Extremely Conservative Woman must travel to Cherry City to meet a new group of heroes, the Cherry City Costumed Crusaders. Extremely Conservative does not want to go because of her past. The C4 team, made of Hazmat and The Reverend, are on the hunt for the leader of the clown-themed street gang, who is also the brother of Extremely Conservative Woman. The team of heroes face off against the Squeaky Greasers while Extremely Conservative Woman has a hard talk with her brother, Cletus. Extremely Conservative Woman is unable to convince her brother to change, so she arrests him.
In the Extreme Factor Five webcomic, Totally Naked Man notices that he has no hot water. Attributing the lost of heat to mutants, Totally Naked Man goes to Rose City investigate. When he arrives, Zetaman is there with news about the comic character, Rightguy. Zetaman gives Totally Naked Man a flashlight. They are interrupted by The Roach who slashes Zetaman’s tires. Totally Naked Man decides to investigate the Shanghai Tunnels instead of helping. There, Totally Naked Man stumbles upon the mutant team, the Extreme Factor Five. The team wants to destroy the U.S. Postal service as a statement of mutant supremacy. The group is confronted by another mutant, Oatmeal. The Extreme Factor Five and Oatmeal were mutated by a brewery accident. Oatmeal came to the sewers to quietly live his life. Totally Naked Man and Oatmeal fight while the Extreme Factor Five leave. The fight spills over to outside. Zetaman stops the fight. Totally Naked Man is left wondering why his water heater does not work.
In the second part of the Extreme Factor Five webcomic, Totally Naked Man buys a vehicle prop from the Satanman movies, a Satanmobile. Totally Naked Man paints the vehicle flesh colored. He orders his butler to take the prop to be washed. The tumbler is very slow, which stops the Rose City traffic on the Fremont Bridge. The Butler finally arrives at the Washman Car Wash. The Butler, looking for an escape button, accidently turns on the vehicle’s gun turrets. The car wash is destroyed, and the police arrive. The Butler finally ejects out of the car, escaping the police. The vehicle blows up. The Butler returns home, and Totally Naked Man asks him about his experience. The Butler lies and tells Totally Naked Man that mutants destroyed his car.
In Totally Naked Man the Coloring Book, The Yellow Skull robs Margulis Jewelers. Totally Naked Man tracks the villain down to the Rose City State University. The Yellow Skull is about to become the fourth member of The Agents of S.H.A.Q.. Totally Naked Man and Extremely Conservative Woman stops the villain.
In Naked Man Comics #10, Icarus teams up with Pie-Man and The Reverend to form The Bridge City Beta Males. The Victim was a member until he was killed in an unfortunate adult activity accident. Icarus destroys the coffee café, The Spritely Bean. The heroes of Rose City turn to Antiman to stop Icarus. Zetaman and Antiman reveal that Antiman has difficulty with his sidekicks. Antiman used the sidekick app, Chummies, to find new helpers. All Antiman’s sidekicks become villains, including Icarus. Antiman hunts down Icarus in the Hawthorne District of Rose City. There, Antiman fight Pie-Man and The Reverend. Both heroes turn villain accidently falls into a vat of hot cooking fat. Antiman finally apprehends Icarus. Deciding that everyone needs friends, Totally Naked Man reforms The Alternates, along with a Headquarters in Downtown Rose City.
In the Drama of The Gods webcomic, the custody of Cronus is debated between Olympus and Tartarus. Through the confusion, The Norse Gods frees Cronus. Odin is unhappy on how the Greek Pantheon is represented in the media. Meanwhile, Zetaman and Extremely Conservative Woman talk to Totally Naked Man about his gimmick. They are interrupted by delegates from Olympus, Momus, Aura, and Delphin. They need help locating The Horseless Horse, the only power to stop Cronus. Totally Naked Man reveals his secret to contact, in the Blue Mountains The Horseless Horse. Once Totally Naked Man verifies that the cosmic being is with the heroes, they find Cronus. Cronus plans to turn Olympus into a tourist trap, thereby diluting the majesty and prestige of the location. The Norse Gods hear the plan and are frustrated with Cronus for wasting their time. A battle ensues. Cronus’ Rose City headquarters in enveloped in a ball of energy. Totally Naked Man attributes this to The Horseless Horse, which Extremely Conservative Woman disagrees with. The Norse Gods and Cronus are sent to Tartarus. Hades, frustrated with the situation, locks them all up.
A gravity powered villain named Heavy Thumb wants to destroy Rose City. Totally Naked Man receives help from a group of mutated worms called The Beneficial Nematodes. The Nematodes do not offer any offensive, but each worm has a skill set that helps humanity. When Heavy Thumb returns to destroy Union Station, Totally Naked Man stalls the villain while the Nematodes learn a new skill, driving. The Nematodes hit Heavy Thumb with a car, there by stopping him. Totally Naked Man rehouses the Beneficial Nematodes underground with Oatmeal the Troll. The Nematodes skills makes Oatmeal’s life better.
In Totally Kodachrome, The Yellow Skull has stolen pies from some Rose City Bakeries. Totally Naked Man chases the villain until The Yellow Skull reaches Maywood Park. Maywood Park is a small town within Rose City. Because The Yellow Skull cross city limits, Totally Naked Man is compelled not to continue his pursuit. Instead, Totally Naked Man decides to find a new hero for the enclave. After a hero signup in Rose City Park, Ms Max, the Mighty Marvel, is chosen to stop The Yellow Skull. Ms. Max pursues the villain. However, The Yellow Skull has romantic intentions for Ms. Max. She quickly arrests the villain. Afterwards, Ms. Max decides not to join The New Alternates because she feels Totally Naked Man is too fat.
In the Ballad of Parachute Girl, Parachute Man needs help from The Alternates. Parachute Girl does not want to wear the emergency chute Parachute Man gave her. Totally Naked Man and Zetaman go to Doctor Atomick to build a new parachute for Parachute Girl. Totally Naked Man tests it out and it works. Parachute Man and Girl live happily ever after.
In Android Cop, iHero is going broke. iHero needs to raise capital to keep his app, Chummies, active. So, he sells The Android armor used in Naked Man Comics #6. Artificial Intelligence is installed in the armor, and it became part of the police force. Dubbed Android Cop, The Android patrols the streets of Rose City to stop crime. The mechanical patrol person stumbles upon Totally Naked Man fighting The Roach. Android Cop attempts to arrest the hero but Totally Naked Man shuts the robot down. He takes the armor to iHero for answers on why the suit is fighting crime. Vega Bond installed the AI into Android Cop as a test run for his Android army. Android Cop returns to the Rose City Building to confront Vega Bond only for Bond to escape and activate his android army. Android Cop uses his WiFi abilities to order the army to capture Vega Bond. Bond escapes the Rose City building. Once loose, the android army decides it is time to force order in Rose City. Totally Naked Man and iHero meet up with Android Cop to find a way to stop the army. Android Cop shares is program loops to install free will to the android army. Once gaining free will, the android army decides Earth is too polluted to save so they fly to the mood. Android Cop stays behind to be an ambassador and to join the Agents of S.H.A.Q.
In The Crab Chronicles, the future plagued by Dr. Clawson Crabbington’s sinister plot to transform humans into crabs. Two heroes—Filbert and Pax-El—arrive from the future to elicit the help of Totally Naked Man. Their mission: prevent Crabbington’s malevolent plan. In the future, they fail to stop Crabbington. Armed with crucial information, the heroes journey back to the present, determined to rewrite history and alter the fate of Rose City.
Character Overview #
Orphaned at an early age, Alzheimer Fresco grew in intellect and physical stature until one day he heard the call to justice. Fresco, knowing that justice is blind, chose the most fearsome visage that scares all criminals… that of a Naked Man. With an inheritance of billions, Alzheimer Fresco wages war against the criminals of Rose City as Totally Naked Man. His home is Fresco Manor, a home south of Rose City.
To keep his eyes on Rose City, Fresco chose a mild manner job as a mail person for the Rose City Museum of Art. As an investor in local infrastructure, Fresco has access to the Light Rail system’s fare booths, which double as internet portals for the hero. In the Drama of the Gods story, Totally Naked Man spent time with forest mystics in the Blue Mountains. There he learned how to summon The Horseless Horse.
Personality #
Totally Naked Man is completely oblivious to the fact that his nudity is an issue. Totally Naked Man is a brave and kind-hearted hero with a powerful sense of justice and morality. He gives criminals a chance to stop their actions before forcibly stopping them. Totally Naked Man gives his allies and friends lectures on right and wrong. He also sings while on patrol.
In Extreme Factor Five, it is revealed that Totally Naked Man is prejudiced against mutants. It is his belief that mutants are the cause of Rose City’s water and sewer issues.
Powers, abilities, and weaknesses #
Totally Naked Man is at the peak of his physical condition. He is a brawler and not skilled in any form of martial arts. Extremely Conservative Woman, who is proficient in the martial arts Krav Maga, can easily defeat Totally Naked Man.
Totally Naked Man has several cars, including a prop car from the movie “Satanman Begins”, which is his fleet of “Naked Mobiles.” Most of Totally Naked Man’s vehicles are electric-powered cars or hybrids to reduce their carbon imprint. Totally Naked Man is a passive environmentalist.
Supporting characters #
Totally Naked Man has a wide range of allies and friends in Rose City. Extremely Conservative Woman has been his friend the longest since they both started their crime-fighting careers around the same time.
Aliases and Alternative versions #
In Naked Man Comics #6, Totally Naked Man assumed the identity of The Android to take part in the Heroes vs. Villains wrestling match. The Android armor became home to Artificial Intelligence created by Vega Bond.
There are no other Totally Naked Men in The Multiverse.
External Links #
- Gifagram image gallery- https://gifagram.rose-city.net/toteshero/
