I don't know about you guys, but I hated Hi-Tech when he came out back in the new-scupt era. It wasnt his specialty that bugged me. If anything, I was stoked to have a hardcore R&D guy on the team. But the figure was just another shaggy blonde with headgear. I think the preponderance of blonde white guys on the Joe team just started to get to me about that time, so I parted out the figure and never gave the character another thought...until now.
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This Hi-Tech is Lieutenant Suddaker Bhattacharya and the head of R&D for the Joes. If Grand Slam and Flash are like the Mythbusters of my 'verse, testing theories and tech in the field, then this guy's the equivalent of James Bond's Q. He runs the lab that cooks up al the near-futuristic gadgets that help Joe compete with Cobra's generaly superior tech.
I gave him a variation on Mainframe's uniform because I liked the idea of some uniformity in the science corps. And I picked the head and hands because it seemed like a solid opportunity to diversify the team a bit. My Hi-Tech's parents were Indian and moved to the U.S. to send their son to the best schools.
What do you guys think of him?
