John Reinhardt
From doktorsleepless
What do we know about him?
The man who calls himself Doktor Sleepless claims to be John Reinhardt.
He grew up in the big house on Scartop Mountain, overlooking the city of Heavenside. The address is 1 Scartop Mountain, Heavenside. (#001, p14)
After his parents death, he was raised by Dr. Albert Cannon, although Cannon uses the word guiding, and claims to have failed.
According to Preston Stoker (#008, p22) John Reinhardt "never slept again" after his parents death.
He has some interest in the book The Darkening Sky.
He has been away from Heavenside "a long time", according to his first radio broadcast(#001, p22), he's been away "a while" according to the Bartender of Shank Valentine (#001, p18).
Wrote several books including Spymeworld before leaving Heavenside (#001, p12).
He had a relationship with Sing Watson, who freaks out when she realizes he might be back.
There appears to have been a mysterious Cthulhu-like event at Scartop Mountain. (#001, p18)
Watson has implied that Reinhardt's parents disappeared under mysterious circumstances, which Reinhardt associates with the book The Darkening Sky (#001, p13). According to the backmatter of #001, this book is largely concerned with the Elder Gods of HP Lovecraft.
He claims to have been an orphan. (#001, p01)
The Doktor further claims to have been rich, a child genius, a philosopher, a traveller, and grown up grinder kid. {#001 p01}
The Heavenside Police Department believe they have John Reinhardt in Cell 23 of the St. Thomas Institute. Previews of Issue 2
John Reinhardt supposedly met with one Don Bastardos, aka Fidel Castro, in the Amazon in order to study how to "permanently change his mind because the one (he's) got isn't big enough." (#002 p06)
However, as Doktor Sleepless, our Mr. Reinhardt has a breakdown of some sort and claims that Mr. Reinhardt died two years before in a hotel room in Hamburg..."the one who never actually went to the Amazon." (#002 p20)
Claims to have built Clatter (#002 p16) and to have left the stuff for Shriekyware lying about for the grinders to find and use "for whatever they felt like." (#002 p15)
The John Reinhardt who is currently held in the St. Thomas Institute claims that either himself or Doktor Sleepless is a Tulpa, though he seems to be purposely cagey on which is the true Reinhardt and which is the Tulpa. (#003 p06)
He wrote on the Imminent.sea group blog under the alias Professor Zero.
What else?
Reinhardt may refer to the character Rinehart from Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. Rinehart was seemingly several people all in one person: a lover, a hipster, a gambler, a briber, and a reverend. The multiple personalities of Ellison's Rinehart seem to parallel Ellis' multiple Reinhardts. Rinehart’s manipulation of his own identity and his ubiquitous but completely intangible existence shows the fluidity of identity. In Invisible Man, the nameless main character, is even mistaken as Rinehart simply by donning dark, mysterious glasses. Rinehart, in a way, shows the nameless main character that he is not bound to a single identity and is not forced to accept any social limitations nor is he bound to the "magic of Western naming" (as Don Bastardos points out). Reinhardt, taken from this perspective, emulates this "invisibleness" in a physical way with his proposed "tulpa" construct of self.
