Winding up on a comics-inspired show seems fitting for Webster. After an appearance by the cast of Mutant X at a comics convention in Toronto, he was the guy most intent on browsing through the rows of merchandise.

Yeah, he's read some comic books.

"I loved the Green Lantern," Webster says. "There's a lot of characters in the Justice League of America that I really liked. I loved Batman because he was human. He's human, he's just trained himself to be that way. Spider-Man, I loved.

"And Blade was a great movie. I really have a lot of respect for Wesley Snipes and his ability and his martial arts techniques."

Webster, who played Nicholas Alamain on the NBC soap Days of Our Lives, calls Brennan the "rock 'n' roll bad boy" of Mutant X.

"Brennan is a smart-ass," Webster says. "He's very well bred and intelligent in a street sense. He's not a scholar, like an intellectual, university scholar, but he's extremely smart in the ways of the world. He's been a criminal and lived on his street smarts since he was out of high school."

And although Mutant X has a lot of action, Webster says there's a lot more going on.

"The cool thing about the writing and the scripts that we're doing is that from the beginning they had a chance to feel us out and put our characters on paper before we were even cast," he says. "And the very interesting thing was that when they cast us, how similar our personalities to our characters are. Now that they've seen us in action and seen us speak the words that they've written, we've really kind of melded and kind of gelled together with the characters, and we're really making them our own.

"That's what makes it so much fun. You get a sense of comedy. You get some one-liners, some smart-ass cracks here and there. You get some very intelligent dialogue. It's a mixture. You're not going to sit there and watch all technical jargon. And while there's a lot of action, you're going to get a little comedy thrown in and you're going to get some character-driven drama as well as you're going to get some relationships between characters. It brings a lot to the entire show."

Webster appears in the upcoming Steve Martin/Queen Latifah movie Bringing Down the House, and it's clear he has his eyes set on films. Mutant X has been picked up for a third season. Howard says that work on the new season hasn't begun yet, but he doesn't anticipate any cast changes.

Unless, of course, Webster winds up with a big "S" on his chest.

Rob Allstetter, Deputy Sports Editor for The Detroit News, has been a comics journalist for the past decade, having written for numerous publications. He currently publishes The Comics Continuum. He can be reached at RobAlls@aol.com.

The Trailer Park Archive

July 2 2003 - Hellboy June 25, 2003 - Ang Lee June 18, 2003 - Eric Bana June 11, 2003 - Spider-Man Animation June 4 , 2003 - Lou Ferrigno May 27 , 2003 - Teen Titans May 20 , 2003 - Bryan Singer May 14 , 2003 - Al Gough May 8 , 2003 - Kelly Hu April 22, 2003 - Aaron Stanford April 18, 2003 - James Marsden April 15, 2003 - Jaime King April 8, 2003 - Halle Berry April 2, 2003 - Anna Paquin March 26 , 2003 - Scott McNeil March 21 , 2003 - Alan Cumming March 18 , 2003 - Michael Rosenbaum March 14 , 2003 - Ted Raimi: The "Other" Raimi Is Coming Back March 11 , 2003 - Maria Canals likes the call of the wild March 7 , 2003 - John Shea - Welcome to Mutant X March 4 , 2003 - Anthony Cistaro - Witchblade February 27 , 2003 - David Kaye - Professor X February 18 , 2003 - Victor Webster February 14 , 2003 - Ben Affleck February 11 , 2003 - Colin Farrell February 7 , 2003 - Comic Controversy? January 31 , 2003 - Static Shock January 24 , 2003 - Jennifer Garner