Stank-ass timeline

Here's where I have the story going in my head. Suggestions, recommendations, complaints or kudos are welcome.

We've learned at the beginning of No. 2 that Stink has been hired to find a rich man's daughter, apparently kidnapped and trapped in a sex/porn/prostitution/hostage/creepy-ass situation.

Stinkyman tracks her to Bones's club. After conversing with Bones, our hero brings an all-out assault into the Diplomat Lounge and accidentally sets the place on fire. With the place in flames, Stinkyman rushes in to save the girl. He discovers there are many young girls trapped in locked cages in a basement labyrinth (sp?). He finds Sarah, the girl he's looking for, but he doesn't have time to save the other girls because the fire is raging and the building is collapsing and he has no way of unlocking all the cages. A job is a job, so he decides to take Sarah and escape. Just as they get out, the burning building collapses into the basement.

This incident will have lasting impression on Stinkyman. His carelessness causes the fire, and he is unable to save the girls. Their cries will haunt him for the rest of his life.

It gets worse. He delivers Sarah to her father only to discover that it's not Sarah at all. The girl Stinkyman saved was another girl who pretended to be Sarah to get rescued. The rich man turns out to be a Mafia Boss and he blames Stinkyman for the death of his daughter and his incompetence to save her. Stinkyman barely escapes the Mafioso's wrath, rescuing the young imposter in the process.

This next part resembles "The Professional" a bit. Don't let that bother you. Stinkyman is on the run from the mob and is shackled to this kid. Oh, and he's a drunk (or maybe a drug addict), a condition not helped by his recent string of bad luck. "You stink," says the girl one night as our hero is nearly passed out on a flop-house mattress. "Yeah, that's right kid. I do stink. I'm a stinky man." Hence, the name is born. (Corny? Hell yeah, it's corny. Fuck off!)

The girl of course is the young woman who saves him in the flashforward. Saves him from the mob boss who finally catches up to him years later. Oh, what a tangled web!

So back to the 80s, Stinkyman pawns the girl off on someone. Not sure what yet - relatives, boarding school (too much like Professional), orphanage, not sure. He then leaves the country. This gives us the opportunity to tell years of stories during his adventures in other places. Samurai/ninja Stinkyman? You betcha. Zulu Warrior Stinkyman? 007 Stinkyman? It's all possible. For the initial story we can show this period of time quickly in snapshots but revisit any of the locales and more for future issues.

The idea is for each issue to show what's happening now in relation to a flashback story.

Stink stays in touch with the little girl through letters and sends her money and Christmas gifts. When he returns, they are reunited. She is a young woman at this point and I plan to have some sort of uncomfortable, damn-near creepy romance there. Not sure how this will play out until I get to those scenes. We'll see. I figure he's 15-20 years older than her.

During the flashforward scenes, the girl (I haven't a name for her yet) finds out that Stinkyman has been shot and that he's dying. She gets him to the hospital where he eventually dies. Or does he? I'm picturing a last page showing her crying next to his bed, her head buried in his chest while the heart monitor is flatline. The final image would be the heart monitor registering a single "blip" and her shocked expression looking up as tears roll down her cheeks. To be continued. . .