Armstrong Fatbuckle

Armstrong Fatbuckle
A.K.A.	The Worst Man in the World
Character Information
Species	Human Skeleton
Gender	Male
Residence	New York City Hell (Reality Z-25 31-H)
Occupation	Businessman Superhero
Behind the Scenes
First seen in	COMIC: Hell Is Too Good For Him
Copyright	Paul Hoppe (?)
Index	List of appearances

In Reality Z-25 31-H, New York City bon viveur Armstrong Fatbuckle was dubbed the Worst Man in the World for his rude, superior, offensive disposition. Following his death in a car accident, he proved too infuriating for even the Devil to deal with and he was banished back from Hell to the land of the living in the form of a talking, walking skeleton. The resurrected Armstrong continued to enjoy a life of wild partying and, indeed, ended up mellowing down to an extent.

Description

Physical appearances

At the time of his death, Armstrong Fatbuckle was an ordinary-looking middle-aged Anglo-Saxon, slightly portly without being truly fat. He had short, fair hair and light-coloured eyes. After his resurrection, he appeared as a clean white skeleton, whose skull's facial features were capable of contorting to form lifelike expressions. He decided to forego wearing any clothes, no longer possessing any attributes which modesty might require him to conceal. (COMIC: Hell Is Too Good For Him)

Personality

In life, Armstrong Fatbuckle was rude and superior to everyone he met, not only spending his life attending expensive and decadent parties, but also doing his level best to ruin them for everyone else, a mocking, drunken smirk on his face. It was only after being resurrected as a skeleton that Fatbuckle mellowed down somewhat, remaining a bon viveur but becooming a positive presence for those around him, such as loose women of New York City, to whom he became a kind of protector. (COMIC: Hell Is Too Good For Him)

Biography

Life and death

Armstrong Fatbuckle spent his life in 20th century New York City blowing his considerable money on expensive parties and affairs. After a particularly wild night, he crashed his car while drunk-driving. He was buried in a cemetary of the worst people in history, alongside Attila the Hun and Vlad the Impaler; his tombstone read simply “The Worst Man in the World” rather than stating his name. (COMIC: Hell Is Too Good For Him)

Resurrection

Fatbuckle's soul ended up in Hell, where he was personally greeted by the Devil himself. Despite the latter's attempt to scare him, however, Fatbuckle simply fell back on old habits, ignoring the Devil and behaving as rudely as possible; he mocked the demon with the fact that, already being dead and in hell, there was little the Devil could do to threaten him further. He went so far as to sleep with the Devil's consort, Mephista. This was the last straw for the Devil, who banned Armstrong's soul from hell and returned it to his now skeletal body on Earth as an undead. (COMIC: Hell Is Too Good For Him)

Adjusting to his new lease of life

Immediately after his resurrection, Armstrong Fatbuckle attempted to simply resume his old life of wild partying. He had one wild soirée, until he discovered the trick the vengeful Devil had played on him: finding himself alone with the woman he'd flirted with, he realised that as a skeleton, he utterly lacked the physical means to make love to her, at least in a way he would enjoy. However, his despair was short-lived, as he quickly decided that he still could party and dance away a night, and that, anyway, this fate still beat being damned by far. (COMIC: Hell Is Too Good For Him)