This was a commission obtained by me from Phillip (Jolly Jack) Jackson, the artist who does the very good Sequential Art on-line comic (which I recommend).

This is a character I've run for a few years. He's a roebuck, real name Jan Sarna, codename, Hubertus. He's a spy for the Middlemen network. Specifically, in the team in which he's a member, he's that group's detective. Among other things, he does a lot of data analysis, forensic work, and such. He will, on occasion, throw a grenade or two as well.

He's rather scruffy. He used to work for a major international engineering conglomerate, and when he blew the whistle on some corruption, he got fired and more or less couldn't find another job. His marriage broke up, and he was caught in a downward spiral of booze and self-pity that ended up in an absolutely wretched hovel in Red Hook, Brooklyn. He was on his way to spend his last few dollars on one last good meal before killing himself when the Middlemen stepped in.

He's Polish; he was born in Poland, where his sire was both a university professor and a member of the executive board of Solidarity, and the family got out one jump ahead of martial law. (Hubie's parents died in a car crash just before he graduated from Georgetown.) Hubie still speaks with a very heavy Polish accent, particularly since he still thinks in Polish.