Amalgam Comics - Sketch - Librium

Name: Max Calhoun [Birth Name: Erik Heidrich]
Alter Ego:  Librium

Abilities:  gravitational and magnetic manipulation
Amalgam:
          Marvel:  Magneto (Erik Lehnsherr)
          DC:  Prometheus
This was an idea that was born from a brainstorming session between myself and Miles Yagami.  Initially when I designed this Amalgam, I was thinking of merging Magneto with Two Face, but in my discussions with Miles it was suggested that I needed a different villain.  Someone who was villainous but acted with self-righteousness.  With that in mind, he suggested Prometheus from the Batman comics.  I liked it immediately and started drawing him and during a small riff session with Miles I basically came up with a rough backstory.
Back-story I thought of is a mixture of his and Erik’s. The son of Polish immigrants. He and his family got hassled, bullied and threatened a lot not only for being German but for being Jewish. Especially by a Westboro-Baptist-like group. Got worse when at a rally by these hate wackos, his powers manifested and thus the group lived up to their threats. After the death of his parents at the hands of this group, he came to the conclusion that evil like theirs must be eliminated so that which is good may flourish.  “If justice is balance,” he reasoned, “then I must act as the counterweight.”
Max eventually enters into college where he meets with Alfred Xavier, a genetics student who is working towards his PH.d.  During their time together they grow fond of each other and eventually develop a romantic/sexual relationship and learn of each other’s abilities.  But then things fall apart at an anti-meta rally. 
The rally sparks memories within Max about a similar group who killed his parents.  He is about to use his abilities on the crowd but Alfred steps in.
Alfred: Max. Don’t give in to the hate like they have.

Max: No. As long as they exist, we can never be free.
And Alfred had to get in the middle of it. Max is about to rain down metal spikes on the crowd. He manages to enter Max’s mind to deflect most of them, but one is left over coming down on one protester. Alfred leaps in and is impaled through his lower back right into his spine.
After the accident, Max leaves college and creates his own group called “The Meta Fellowship“ while Alfred continues his work towards his PH.d, and creates the Xavier Academy and eventually forms “The X-ers”.