![]() Then I would go do some reporting and talk to other people, and they would correct a lot of the things he said. I would interview Phoenix, and come away being like, ‘Oh my God, this guy’s the real deal’. I was like, ‘Oh, you’re right and everyone else is wrong.’ I made three trips up there. “I was nervous about how I was going to confront him. “I had formed pretty strong opinions about him, and they weren’t good”, Weinberg recalls of the moments before their first meeting. These encounters help build a picture of a man who is at best complicated and at worst outright horrible.įighting the good fight … real-life Seattle superheroes El Caballero, Midnight Sun and Phoenix Jones pictured in 2012. When they do eventually meet in person, Jones refuses to be interviewed until he’s paid. Weinberg talks to other Seattle superheroes, instead, who all voice their hatred for Jones. If the first few episodes are any indication, at least, Weinberg and Jones spend much of their time at arm’s length, unsure of how much they can trust each another.Įarly on, for example, we hear Weinberg travel to Seattle to meet Jones, only for Jones to ghost him upon arrival. Weinberg notes that many of the people who have previously covered the Phoenix Jones beat have dressed up in costumes and fought crimes alongside him – “I think there’s something about certain journalists who are drawn to this, maybe,” he smiles, wryly – whereas there’s something of an uncertain tone about his particular investigation. It is this distance between host and subject that makes The Superhero Complex so compelling. I wanted to explore this world because it was new to me, and I didn’t have any preconceived ideas about it”. I didn’t know anything about real-life superheroes and that excited me. “They were like: ‘You wanna host this podcast about Phoenix Jones?’ And I was like, ‘Who’s Phoenix Jones?’ I never knew anything about him. “I got an email from (podcast producers) Novel,” he says. It all just feels very formulaic.”īut, despite Weinberg’s ambivalence towards superheroes in general, even he could see that Jones’s story had the potential to be fascinating. It’s like, ‘I know who’s gonna win this fight’. Growing up I didn’t really care for the Marvel movies. “I’ve been dreading having to say this in public”, says its creator David Weinberg over Zoom from his loft in Los Angeles. He said he developed his costume, along with his alter ego's name, when his crime-fighting ways made him too recognizable.‘He’s so charismatic that he won me over’ … Phoenix Jones speaks to reporters in 2011. Jones said that he calls police ahead of time to tell them where he'll be patrolling. Seattle police said that it is not illegal to dress up as a superhero, but they worry about excess calls to 911 when residents confuse Jones and the other real-life superheroes with the criminals they're trying to capture. "Our concern is if it goes badly, then we end up getting called anyway, and we may have additional victims," Detective Mark Jamieson told ABC News last week. The incident over the weekend is exactly what worries police about everyday citizens who take justice into their own hands. "He starts swinging on me and starts an altercation with me," Jones told KOMO. The caped crusader claimed that he called 911 and had one of the men in a headlock when another man pulled out a gun. Jones stepped in to try and stop the men. "They were all swearing at each other and like about to fight," Jones told ABC affiliate KOMO. On Saturday, things turned violent when a man held Jones at gunpoint and another broke his nose. ![]() He's the leader of a real-life superhero movement called the Rain City Superheroes. ![]() 11, 2010 — - Phoenix Jones, the real-life superhero who has gotten fame for patrolling the streets of Seattle, found his kryptonite in the guise of two attackers who left him with a broken nose over the weekend.Īrmed with a skintight black-and-gold, belted costume, a cape and a fedora, Phoenix Jones suits up at night to fight crime on the streets of Seattle.
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