History:
(Strange Academy I#5) - Howie was one of the many
students that gathered together to discuss their missing classmate
Calvin Morse. 
HOWIE
Real Name: Howard Scott (possibly? - see comments)
Identity/Class: Human mutate (maybe? - see comments) magic user
Occupation: Student
Group Membership: Strange Academy student body (German Aguilar, Alvi / Alvi Brorson, Doyle Dormammu, Gus / Guslaug, Iric / Iric Brorson, Zoe Laveau, Shaylee Moonpeddle, Calvin Morse, Nasirah Noorani, Toth, numerous others)
Affiliations: Bror, Daimon Hellstrom, Hoggoth, Howard the Duck, Magik (Illyana Rasputin), Mindful One, Mindless Ones, Nico Minoru, Mister Misery (though Howie was unaware Mister Misery was anything more than a magical leather jacket), Mossy, the New Orleans Council (Catriona, Doctor Voodoo / Jericho Drumm, Jean Lafitte, Miss Hazel, Papa Mud, Shaman / Michael Twoyoungmen), Scarlet Witch (Wanda Maximoff), Zelma Stanton, Strange Academy student body, Volstagg the Voluminous, Wong
Enemies: Emily Bright, Dessy
(Despair), Gaslamp, Heidi, Shuma-Gorath,
xenoplasmic parasites
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: Hairystyles_56 (online video game
handle)
Base of Operations: Strange Academy, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
First Appearance: (unidentified) Strange
Academy I#5 (January, 2021);
(mentioned, identified as Howard Scott) Strange
Academy I#6 (February, 2021);
(fully seen & identified as Howie) Strange
Academy: The Death of Doctor Strange#1 (January, 2022)
Powers/Abilities: Howie resembles a humanoid
wolf, complete with very sharp teeth and claws.
He is also a capable magic user,
able to cast minor spells including the use of his inherent Third Eye
to view things beyond normal sight and both defensive and offensive
spells.
Howie also is an accomplished
player of the Battle Call
video game.
Height: Unrevealed (approximately 5'5")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 140 lbs.)
Eyes: Yellow with black sclera (see
comments)
Hair: Brown
History:
(Strange Academy I#5) - Howie was one of the many
students that gathered together to discuss their missing classmate
Calvin Morse.
(Strange Academy I#6 (fb) - BTS) - At some point,
Howard Scott joined the Strange Academy's theatre group.
(Strange Academy I#6 - BTS) - As part of the Strange
Academy theatre group, Howard Scott played the role of Ferdinand in the
Strange Academy production of The
Tempest.
(Strange Academy I#10) - Howie
accompanied other students in preparation for a field trip to Asgard.
Once there, Howie and the students were introduced to the father of
their classmates Iric and Alvi, Bror, as well as their tour guide,
Volstagg. Volstagg then led the students immediately to the Ram's Den
tavern, where he had arranged a large feast for them and Howie was
present and watching when Volstagg received word of a disturbance
outside. Howie and the other students eventually got drawn into a bar
brawl when a patron bumped Howie's classmate Toth on his way. During
the scuffle, Howie fought with a waitress who was wielding a staked
corn on the cob as a weapon.
(Strange Academy I#11 (fb) - BTS) - Howie was a big
fan of the online video game Battle Call, acquiring several
digital "Battle Bucks" that he could use to purchase in-game items.
While playing, Howie used the online game handle of Hairystyles_56.
(Strange Academy I#11) - After Strange Academy
student Toth was attacked and nearly killed, private detective Howard
the Duck was called in to investigate and he questioned each of the
students to determine their whereabouts when Toth was attacked. When
Howard questioned Howie, Howie informed Howard that he had been playing
the Battle Call video
game online that night, "laying out fools" using an in-game weapon
called the BMFG that he purchased using the game's digital "Battle
Bucks." As Howard later questioned fellow student Heidi, she informed
Howard that she had been busy getting her butt handed to her online by
someone named Hairystyles_56 during the attack on Toth.
(Strange Academy: The Death of
Doctor Strange#1 / 7) - During a period in which the Strange Academy
was temporarily shut down due to the death of Doctor Strange, Howie
spent a lot of his time playing video games online with fellow student
Heidi. While playing one day, Howie was attacking Heidi in-game and
informed her that if she dropped her weapons, he would let her
character go free. Heidi responded by offering to go out with Howie if
his character dropped his weapons instead. Howie claimed he had not
asked Heidi out but she remarked that she knew he wanted to and
reiterated her offer to go on a date with him if he had his character
drop his weapons. Howie did just that, remarking that he was going to
trust Heidi, who then shot his character, killing him. Howie
immediately protested, reminding Heidi of what she had said, to which
Heidi replied by asking Howie what time he would be picking her up.
(Strange Academy I#15 - BTS) - When Strange Academy student Iric made up a bracket titled Iric's Magic Battle Class Madness, in which he partnered up various students and kept up with the outcomes of the magic battle class duels, Howie was placed against Doyle Dormammu.
(Strange Academy I#16) - As the
Strange Academy students worked to set things up for the upcoming
Winter Formal dance, Howie noticed German Aguilar using his magic and
warned that school head Doctor Voodoo had sent out a letter asking for
the rationing of magic due to Doctor Strange's death. When German asked
why they would only be allowed to use magic in class, Howie responded
that he had no idea but figured it was something not good. Heidi then
chimed in, belittling Howie and claiming she now understood everything
about the mystic arts from Howie's response alone. An annoyed Howie
warned that if Heidi kept it up, she would find herself without a date
for the Winter Formal, but Heidi expressed thoughts that Howie would be
at her door to pick her up no matter what. Howie then told Heidi she
was the worst and she replied by agreeing and reminding Howie that he
loved it, at which point Howie agreed. He then helped Heidi carry a
large object across the stage as other students worked to set up the
dance. That night, Howie accompanied Heidi to the Winter Formal dance
and danced with her as the other students and staff enjoyed themselves.
(Midnight Suns I#1) - As Zoe
Laveau (with Dessy in tow) ran down the Strange Academy hallways
excited to attend a guest lecture by vampire hunter Blade, she rushed
past Howie, who turned and gave her a funny look.
(Strange Academy I#17) - Howie was present in the Strange Academy
cafeteria when a fight broke out among several of the other students
and he appeared shocked when Doyle Dormammu attacked Iric.
(Strange Academy I#18 (fb) - BTS)
- Howie was convinced to leave Strange Academy alongside most all of
the other students when Emily Bright opted to force the Academy staff
to respect them.
(Strange Academy I#18) - After the students became hungry and
impersonated Doctor Strange to order pizzas, Howie helped bring in the
numerous pizzas, admitting that he was still a little freaked out that
the renegade students were staying in Doctor Strange's Sanctum
Sanctorum. During the subsequent pizza party, Howie enjoyed pizza and
talked with fellow student Alvi.
(Strange Academy: Finals#1 (fb) - BTS) - Howie ultimately returned to the Strange Academy.
(Strange Academy: Finals#1) - Howie attended a second period Perception Reality class taught by the Scarlet Witch, where he was amazed when the Scarlet Witch used her powers to make Frost Giant student Gus appear the same size as the other students. When Doyle Dormammu attempted to cast a spell to change reality to his perceptions, the spell went wild and Howie and the other students found their own reality being transformed to match Doyle's thoughts of the still-renegade Emily Bright attacking with Dormammu.
(Strange Academy: Finals#2) -
Howie was present at a Strange Academy Saturday assembly in which
Doctor Voodoo welcomed back more of the students that had left with
Emily Bright. Doctor Voodoo then announced that the students were to
spend the day cleaning up the school grounds and Howie accompanied some
of the students to the Habitatory to help clean up the area and the
animals there. He later helped clean the school bathrooms and used his
magical Third Eye to see the xenoplasmic parasites infesting the
bathrooms. While battling the xenoplasmic parasites, Howie was sucked
into the maw of one of them and yelled for help. The other students
successfully drove off the parasite and rescued Howie, cramming the
rest of the parasites into trash receptacles. Following the successful
cleaning day, Howie joined the other Strange Academy students in a
celebratory feast during which one of the students mentioned that
expelled student Calvin Morse had returned to New Orleans to work for
the magic wish dealer Gaslamp. When Howie and his friends learned from
the student that Calvin might be in trouble, they gained information
from troubled students the Burnout Boys and all decided to venture into
New Orleans proper to 
rescue Calvin. During the rescue
mission, Howie was tasked with distracting some of Gaslamp's dealers
long enough for Shaylee Moonpeddle to down them. Howie then accompanied
the students down into Gaslamp's headquarters, where they discovered
the Drain, a large machine that siphoned off hopes and dreams to create
the wishes Gaslamp dealt in. The students then split up to successfully
find the captured Calvin but Gaslamp caught up to them. Howie and his
friends managed to free Calvin from the Drain but as they were
escaping, his classmate German Aguilar cast a spell to destroy the
Drain that caused a large explosion of magical energy.
(Strange Academy: Finals#3) - A
few weeks after their battle with Gaslamp, Howie and the other Strange
Academy opted to host a fund raising carnival to raise money for the
New Orleans French Quarter that had been damaged in the battle against
Gaslamp. During the carnival, Howie and German Aguilar were tasked with
cooking some of the food and Howie found what he thought was a recipe
for fried calamari in a cookbook, only to quickly yell for help when
the deep fryer began shaking. Zelma Stanton and Doctor Voodoo rushed
over to help and when Howie explained the recipe he found in the
cookbook, Zelma informed him that the book he was reading from was a
book of secret spells meant to keep Multiversal monsters from devouring
the planet, rather than a cookbook. Howie managed to weakly remind
everyone that he had told German he wasn't a good cook before the demon
Shuma-Gorath erupted from the fryer.
(Strange Academy: Finals#4) -
Howie attended a class taught by Magik and as part of the class, he
donned armor and accompanied Magik and a small group of students to
Limbo/Otherplace as the students' final test in the course. Given one
hour to survive Limbo, Howie and the other students fought against
Limbo demons. He later accompanied several Strange Academy staff and
students to assist during a major storm in the New Orleans area.
(Strange Academy: Finals#5 (fb) - BTS) - At some point, Howard Scott
joined the Strange Academy school choir. When the Academy prepared for
its annual commencement ceremony, Howard Scott was listed on the
program as a soloist in a school choir performance.
(Strange Academy: Finals#5) -
Howie attended the Strange Academy commencement ceremony, where he
witnessed Doyle Dormammu visit with his human mother. When Emily Bright
attacked the ceremony with Dormammu's assistance, Howie helped defend
the school from Bright and her allies, which included former student
and Howie's love interest Heidi. During the fight, Howie used magic to
battle Heidi, whom he regarded as cute but always a game-player.
(Strange Academy: Finals#6) -
Howie continued to aid the Strange Academy students against Emily
Bright and her creatures summoned from the Dark Dimension. When Doyle
Dormammu got into a duel with Bright, Howie and the other students
backed off to give Doyle space to battle Bright. Doyle ultimately
absorbed the dark magic of Bright into herself and Howie and the other
students watched as the Vishanti Hoggoth absorbed the magic Doyle
himself had absorbed, restoring Doyle to normal. Howie then stood by
his classmates as they revealed to Doctor Voodoo that Iric had been
killed in the battle against Emily Bright. A short time later, Howie
attended a memorial service for Iric in which a large statue was
unveiled in his honor.
Comments: Created by Skottie Young and
Humberto Ramos.
It was not confirmed in-story that the wolf-boy Howie was the same character as Howard Scott, a Strange Academy student that is never seen, only mentioned as being part of Strange Academy's theatre and choir scene, it seems like a real possibility that they could be one and the same, as "Howie" is often short for "Howard." While there has been some discussion on the Marvel Database website and even amongst the Masters of the Obscure here at the Appendix about whether they are one and the same, the website Key Collector Comics straight up treats the two as if they are the same. With no other info to support or discredit the theory that they are one and the same, and for the purposes of this profile, I am treating this profile as if Howie and Howard Scott are the same character. If something comes along to definitively state they are two separate characters, I'll update this profile to reflect that.
Werewolves howl. This werewolf
character's name is "Howie." He howls. Get it? Ok sure. It's a
stretch...
Howie's origin was never revealed. While reading the issues, I assumed he was a werewolf, given their connection to Marvel's magical/horror comics (as well as the variant cover to Strange Academy I#18 showing Howie howling at the moon - see above), but not even once during his appearances do we see him transform back into human form nor is he only seen in wolf form during a full moon. He's pretty much in wolf form all the time. That could still have some sort of connection to lycanthropy but that could also mean any number of things. He could be a magically talented Inhuman or NuHuman, or even a mutant. Given his Earthly vernacular, I tend to think he's not some sort of extraterrestrial or extradimensional being but that could also be the case too. He could've theoretically been one of those types of beings who was raised on Earth or something. Point is, we have no way of knowing, given the information we currently have.
Despite Midnight Suns I#1 not being published until November, 2022, the story must take place prior to Strange Academy I#17, as all of the regular students are present in the issue. It must take place prior to Emily Bright convincing most of the students to leave the Academy. Howie's next appearances are in the Strange Academy: Finals mini-series, which wraps up the storyline involving the students leaving the school. That mini-series was published a month after Midnight Suns I#1.
Howie's eye color seemed to change depending on the art. Most often, his eyes appeared to yellow with black sclera but other times, they appear to be brown with white sclera, much like a normal sclera. Maybe his sclera turn black and his eyes yellow with more of the wolf side of personality is dominant?
Profile by Proto-Man.
CLARIFICATIONS:
Howie should be distinguished from:
| --Strange Academy I#11 -
BTS (Strange Academy Presents: The Death of Doctor Strange#1 - BTS, |
Appearances:
Strange Academy I#5 (January, 2021) - Skottie Young (writer), Humberto
Ramos (art), Nick Lowe (editor)
Strange Academy I#6 (February, 2021) - Skottie Young (writer), Humberto
Ramos (art), Nick Lowe (editor)
Strange Academy I#10 (July, 2021) - Skottie Young (writer), Humberto
Ramos (art), Nick Lowe (editor)
Strange Academy I#11 (August, 2021) - Skottie Young (writer), Humberto
Ramos (art), Nick Lowe (editor)
Strange Academy Presents: The Death of Doctor Strange#1 (January, 2022)
- "Howie & Heidi" story - Skottie Young (writer), C.F. Villa (art),
Nick Lowe (editor)
Strange Academy I#15 (March, 2022) - Skottie Young (writer), Humberto
Ramos (art), Nick Lowe (editor)
Strange Academy I#16 (April, 2022) - Skottie Young (writer), Humberto
Ramos (art), Nick Lowe (editor)
Strange Academy I#17 (May, 2022) - Skottie Young (writer), Humberto
Ramos (art), Nick Lowe (editor)
Strange Academy I#18 (June, 2022) - Skottie Young (writer), Humberto
Ramos (art), Nick Lowe (editor)
Midnight Suns I#1 (November, 2022) - Ethan Sacks (writer), Luigi
Zagaria (art), Tom Groneman (editor)
Strange Academy: Finals#1 (December, 2022) - Skottie Young (writer),
Humberto Ramos (art), Nick Lowe (editor)
Strange Academy: Finals#2 (January, 2023) - Skottie Young (writer),
Humberto Ramos (art), Nick Lowe (editor)
Strange Academy: Finals#3 (February, 2023) - Skottie Young (writer),
Humberto Ramos (art), Nick Lowe (editor)
Strange Academy: Finals#4 (April, 2023) - Skottie Young (writer),
Humberto Ramos (art), Nick Lowe (editor)
Strange Academy: Finals#5 (May, 2023) - Skottie Young (writer),
Humberto Ramos (art), Nick Lowe (editor)
Strange Academy: Finals#6 (June, 2023) - Skottie Young (writer),
Humberto Ramos (art), Nick Lowe (editor)
First posted: 10/29/2024
Last updated: 10/29/2024
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