Real-life masked crusaders fight crime their own way

By his own admission, Dave Montgomery was a functioning drunk who hated himself. Not that many years ago he might guzzle 30 Rolling Rocks to mask the memory of a hit-and-run life that included two divorces and a precious daughter who died in childbirth.
After he quit boozing, his very existence bored him. Then one night in 2006 the suburban tattoo artist typed into a computer search the words he now says have made all the difference: "real-life superheroes."
Since then, he's joined a world of masked crusaders, morphing from flawed human to a fantastic creation straight out of his imagination. At least one night a month, he dons a black leather outfit that suggests pure urban menace, inserts blue contact lenses that give his eyes an eerie glow, and steps into industrial-goth boots that rise nearly to his knees.
And then comes the piece de resistance: a blood-red wraparound mask in the shape of a cross with no nose or mouth.
"It's like reapplying a very old skin you forgot you had, finding out all over again what you really look like," he says of his costume. "It just feels natural."
He calls himself Nihilist...
via John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times August 25, 2012, 9:29 p.m. SALT LAKE CITY —

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