03/06/2010

Another lil' batch that thrived in the gaps of my schedule :

• SPYBOY. More entries from Gareth ; in this batch we got :
  • Slackjaw the shark man and slaver
  • Barbie Q, an assassin for S.K.I.N.S. (and yes, their enemies are called S.H.I.R.T.S)
  • Bombshell, one of Spyboy's close allies
• Roy has written up another Serious Sam weirdo opponent - the cucurbitos - years after you thought that arc was over !
• REWRITTEN MINOR THUGS. In this batch:
  • Another Hell's Belles gets the modernisation treatment - Flambé .
  • Janus of the Derangers never actually had an entry on WORG, but since we're redoing the Derangers... here he comes.
• MORE V2s. K' has been rewritten by the author. Which would be Tom. The author, not K'.
• The big entry for this batch - early Kitty Pryde, from the very beginnings to the Kitty Pryde & Wolverine Limited Series. This is a particularly detailed entry, but it doesn't replace our generic notes since it covers such a specific era of the character.
• The Destroyer -- the version from Kirkman's Marvel MAX story, as chronicled by Bryan.
• ART. The Starjammers got a new banner shot of the ship. The Big N'Garai Demon got an extra inset too. Our friends the kambal (from the previous batch) got their illustrations.
• And finally there's a cat, because cats are cool. A super-hero cat, in fact -- Niels aka Hairball, a member of the Pet Avengers.

That right here be 4279 entries, since I'm sticking with short batches. Speaking of which, onward to the next one.

03/02/2010

Hoped I could cram that one back in late February (so there would have been 20 entry for the month, which is a good pace), but heh. Too many illustrations to prepare. Roll call:

• ART. Very small tweaks and improvements:
  • The Marine (from the foundational video game Doom) received very minor improvements
  • Our big Thanos entry now has a slightly longer illo column with a recent promotional painting
• RAPSHEET.CO.UK DETOURINGS. Another small series of those since this site's work is practically indistinguishable from the way we do our own illustrations, and we're often interested in the same characters. Shots have been borrowed for the following entries:
  • Blackout II (pre-resurrection)
  • Coachwhip
  • Cobra I (Classic)
  • Kingpin
  • Lady Vic
  • The Living Laser
  • Massacre
  • Overthrow
  • Silver Slasher
  • Another Sabretooth banner illustration
• REWRITTEN ENTRIES (V2s). This batch got three:
  • Fatal Fury/King of Fighters video games character Billy Kane has been revised by the author.
  • Ulysses Bloodstone. The text had already been entirely redone a few weeks back so we could review it, but now it's all done and a slew of new illustrations have been added.
  • Another Deranger (the minor Alpha Flight opponents) got overhauled - namely Breakdown
• Gareth wrote up Tracer, a somewhat recent Spider-Man villain who can control machines.
• The second biggest entry for the batch is the bio of Dr. Kate Waynesboro, a S.H.I.E.L.D. scientist and 1980s Incredible Hulk supporting cast who was recently brought back with interesting results.
• Continuing Gareth's Spyboy arc, this batch has an entry for Spygirl.
• There's also a profile for Jinx - not the animated version which has been online for a while, but the comic book version. She's a longtime C-list DCU villain who has some interesting potential and visuals.
• We're starting Adam's coverage of comic book Trese, a noir story taking place in Manila, with two heavies - the kambal. Oo, bossing !
• One of those obscure, kitsch, decades-old character - Mister Blaze, one of the foes featured in the... unique adventures of the Peacemaker back in 1967.
• And there's a second excerpt from our Villainy, Incorporated work in this batch - Zara, Priestess of the Crimson Flame, an old, obscure Wonder Woman foe which could actually be useful.

The site now clocks in at 4271 entries.

02/04/2010

Another little one with characters of rather mixed importance. It feels good to have it published - the problem is with assembling it. Roll call:

• The lead for the batch is probably the rewrite for our very very old entry for Puck I. At this stage, the much improved writeup covers the "classic" era of Alpha Flight (the Byrne run and what happened before).
• Likewise, a number of minor characters have been overhauled since the entries were not ageing well. Namely:
  • Shrew of the Hell's Belles
  • Freakout of the Derangers
  • Tremolo, also of the Hell's Belles
• One last Alpha Flight entry for this batch is Groundhog, a very early and somewhat obscure member.
• Much more major - Tom's take on Street Fighter's Guile
• Sirius the gamma dog is a very very minor part of Hulk lore, but he can be interesting for GM with Marvel campaigns as he's an example of a minor gamma-enhanced animal
• Master Pandemonium, though not major by any means, is well-remembered from his West Coast Avengers appearances and unique visuals. He also happens to be a very useful and rather flexible villain - so he got this going for him. Which is nice.
• "Hammer" Stryker is a contemporary of Sirius and a baseline gamma-enhanced villain, which is also useful.
• ART - just a few new bits. The first Spitfire entry has three nice new shots ; and Sex Machine has received a minor new banner illo, just because.
• And lastly, a treat for Peter David fan as we start publishing Gareth's Spyboy arc, starting with Spyboy himself.

That's 4263 entries - things did slow down, but the entries are much thorough, better-written, better proofread and heavily illustrated nowadays.

01/14/2010

This batch follows a drought since I took a break from publishing in order to unwind and play some games. Hopefully the next batch will not follow a similar delay. Roll call:

• POLISHING.
  • Very minor additions to the Gargoyle III entry to better align with the Boodstone rewrite (and add the previously forgotten HQ Advantage).
  • The rich Arnim Zola entry has been pruned of typos and unnecessary adjectives, unclear sentences, etc. now that I can re-read it with a clear head.
  • Hancock now has additional illustrations, selected by the profiler.
  • Ditto for Heroes's Claire Bennet. Also, several banner illustrations for the Amazonistas have been detoured to be more illustrative (and camp).
  • The esteemed Jean-Marc Lofficier told us we had missed an appearance of DCU villain Catalyst, which highlights unprecedented abilities. This'll get fixed as soon as I can muster the necessary courage.
  • Various small fixes of minor glitches and typos in entries I, Ethan and others came across.
  • Both the Gargoyle III and the Abomination got a new piece of B&W art from old Hulk magazines. The Killer Rabbit got an extra banner shot, because we hare a lot.
• Attack of the 50 ft. woman is a classic of C-list fantastic cinema, and the titular character now has an entry thanks to Ethan.
• Peter continues to cover Stargate : Atlantis material, this time with the hybrid, Michael Kenmore.
• A very minor excerpt from our work on early Luke Cage foes - the rogue Latverian robots. And they could actually be useful in Marvel campaigns, too.
• From the Galaxy Rangers main cast, by Mike and Pur_see_i8 -- Doc Hartford. Some people call him a space cowboy, some call him the gangster of love.
• Tom's classic beat 'em up video game entry for this batch is his take on Street Fighter's Cammy.
• Straddling the space between our Luke Cage work and our Ms. Marvel work, a strange villain from the 1970s, the Faceless One.
• Another entry by Adam from the tales of Zsa Zsa Saturnah with her foe Queen Femina, leader of the Amazonistas.
• Another chapter in our Brood writeups arc - the Brood Mutants who fought the X-Men in Denver in the 90s.
• Perhaps the main character for this batch - Selene, the Black Queen of the Hellfire Club, another longtime X-Men foe. Chris's entry covers the classic Selene.

This brings us to 4257 entries. Hurray !

12/15/2009

I'm currently getting a bunch of research and writing done rather than working on publishing entries, so here are some scattered news about polishing entries.

• Various small changes to the Cat entry - mostly diction issues, clarity, grammar, etc. plus making it flow better into the upcoming Tigra (Early) and Cat People entries. Fixed the inexplicable omission of her husband in the Background block.
• Fixed stuff in the revised Screaming Mimi entry - mostly using clarified information from a recent Marvel sourcebook, but also fixing a big typo in the Limitations and a few odds and ends. Upversioned to 2.1.
• Added the 1939 operation with Fat Cobra in Union Jack I's entry
• Adjusted Battlestone's durability down (I think I re-adjusted up his BODY whilst forgetting to concurrently lower Skin Armor whilst writing him up)
• I've started fixing stuff in the Bloodstone entry - typos, clarity, the brief Fat Cobra appearance, etc. - now it's a v3.1. It'll soon be the first entry to reach a v4 - for some reason it always end up among the first entries when there's a wave of rewrites, but that also means it's old and wobbly for a supposedly rewritten entry and that stinks.
• Improved the text for the Whiplash (Scarlotti) (Early) entry and added material from Spider-Woman : Origins.
• Various small improvements in readability for the Black Cat (superpowered appearances) entry

11/30/2009

Another quick thing since I happen to have the considerable courage needed to illustrate the Brood entry, and that won't last. Roll call:

• POLISHING. Gareth has revisited and updated stuff all throughout his Swordsman (Strucker) entry, using the, like, totally awesome entry revision procedure. Using the same, like, totally awesome means, he also fixed some bits of the Charcoal entry.
• BRIGADE/V2s. As part of our slow-burn Brigade arc and the campaign to rewrite very old writeups, Battlestone now has a big rewritten, re-researched, re-illustrated, etc. writeup.
• The big thing in this batch is the encyclopedic Brood entry, about your favourite sleazoids. Bring coffee before you start reading. Community members, please note that I've added a few things here and there since list publication. Given the huge amount of info, I've been rather generous in the number of banner illustrations to break up lengths of text. Upversioned to v1 since I thing I now have all appearances. Gaaah.
• BORIS ART. A few shots from Vallejo via Roy for Archangel, Cyclops and Wolverine.
• FOUST ART. Another five-pack:
  • White Queen
  • Medusa (Inhumans)
  • Harley Quinn
  • Black Cat (Modern)
  • Judge Anderson
• STREET FIGHTERS. Tom continues his work, and this batch as a new take on Dhalsim.
• Lonar of the New Gods now has a full writeup, as part of our slow efforts to covert stuff that appears in Blue Beetle volume VII. The takes on him have been... varied.
• HEROES. Continuing Adam's arc through the Heroes TV serials with Claire the indestructible cheerleader
• SPITFIRE. Third and last instalment about Jacqueline Falsworth, Lady Crichton and one of the key British heroes in the Marvel Universe. This of course covers her appearances in Captain Britain and MI13.
• STARGATE ATLANTIS. Continuing Peter's arc, here comes Sheppard.
• OTHER ART. A few extra shots:
  • Lunatik
  • Living Laser
  • Morbius (1990s)
• Diego "Rush'" Zhao was the star of a poorly-regarded series, but he's not a bad character, really, and he has an interesting role and unusual powers.
• Ethan's second character from the Matilda movie is the villain - the Trunchbull, who really hates children.
• And finally we have an entry by Mike and Roy about the Smallville version of Clark Kent, covering the first four seasons of the show. It took some years, but we got it done and published !

So, 4246 entries. That's a nice number.

11/26/2009

This is an atypical batch, really - more like a small amount of stuff I wanted to push online to clear my plate. Roll call:

• POLISHING. Some things of opportunity...
  • Covered the more recent appearances of Jason Strongbow in the American Eagle entry (including one new picture) and polished various things here and there (clarity, style, exact model of his Harley, some improved diction for the all-important Personality section, etc.). Upversioned to 2.1 since that was a fair bit of new material.
  • Added a detail I had missed to Union Jack I (the pockets of holy water in the neck of the UJ costume), and one last shot for the 1915 "British ninja"' costume.
  • Fixed typo in the general Quicksilver entry thanks to Ethan.
• There's already a set of notes for Luke Cage on WORG, but here comes a "real" writeup, covering the first run of his book and thus his earliest career as a Hero for Hire.
• V2s. Two characters got the Big Rewrite (and re-illustration) treatment this time around :
  • Nekra, a fairly classic Marvel Universe villain who can make a fine, if villainous, NPC
  • Poundcakes, because that way all the original Grapplers have a revised writeup
• The Spitfire writeups are also continuing ; the second entry covers the time from her rejuvenation to her return in Captain Britain and MI13
• From the time of Conan (between the time when the oceans drank Atlantis and the rise of the sons of Aryus, or so I'm told) Peter has written up the woman warrior Janissa the Widowmaker.
• FOUST ART. In this batch:
  • Phantom Girl (pre-Crisis)
  • Shadow Lass (pre-Crisis too)
  • Sif
  • Thundra (yay !)
  • Valkyrie
• ZSA ZSA STUFF. Some baddies - the Amazonistas, enemies of the satirical version of Philippines's flagship super-heroine - by Adam.
• BOB McLEOD ART. Been a while, so in this batch:
  • Cannonball (Early)
  • Punisher II
  • The Phantom
  • Black Panther
  • Jonah Hex
• STREET FIGHTER. Tom's about done for now with Fatal Fury and King of Fighters characters, so we now shift to the Street Fighter stuff, starting with Blanka.
• MISC. ART. A few more shots whilst Photoshop is open:
  • Mockingbird (who should be revised)
  • Marrow
  • Mentallo
  • Molten Man
  • Marvel Boy (Modern)
  • Iron Fist
• From the video game S.T.A.L.K.E.R., Roy has pried the telepathic monsters called the Controller loose.
• RAPSHEET.CO.UK MATERIAL. Extra illustrations from that site for:
  • Vulcan
  • Kingpin
  • Tiger Shark
  • Red Skull
• And I've thrown in a handy list of Sorcerer Supremes in the Marvel Universe, with known dates, as a new entry.

That's 4238 entries. That batch and the previous ones still have a number of entries with placeholders since some key contributors are currently super-busy.

11/20/2009

I can't do rapid-fire batches anymore, but here's the new one. Roll call:

• POLISHING:
  • Minor layout improvements and more coherent bad French accent in the quotes for Batroc
  • Added some actual Czech swearing to Radek Zelenka's entry, because authentic Czech swearing is one of the great strengths of the WORG brand DNA
  • Corrected the model and stats for the Pale Rider preacher's hold-out revolver thanks to Woodclaw on the Atomic Think Tank
  • Made a few sentences clearer and used more rigourous vocabulary in the DCH probabilities article
  • The word "Stargirl" has been added to the entry for the second Star-Spangled Kid's "year one" entry, since many people only know her under that name.
  • Various tweaks and additional illos for our Invincible entries as Brian and Roy work on further characters and integrate recent events. There are also additional illos for Allen the Alien, Omni-Man, Rex-Splode, Dupli-Kate, Bulletproof, Atom Eve. The latter now has an illo bar that is too long, I guess we should add text...
  • Added a possible DCU history for Samurai Jack, courtesy of Supergeek
  • Fixed the missing banner for Catwoman (DCU) with a neat Jim Lee doodle.
  • Refreshed the Leon Genetic Sequence article and added new content, including some DCU musings.
  • Davros has two new banners courtesy of Siskoid.
  • Gamora (writeup 1) has a new lead illustration.
• DCH RULES STUFF. Added an article about expanding the Altering the Environment rules.
• MITCH FOUST ART. Another small pack of pencil work on female characters, from his gallery at http://www.comicartfans.com/gallerydetail.asp?gcat=2903 . In this batch:
  • Black Widow (1970s)
  • Gamora (Early)
  • Huntress (pre-Crisis)
  • Invisible Woman (80s)
  • Mary Marvel
• FATAL FURY/KoF. In this batch, Tom's fighting game character is Andy Bogard.
• HILL STREET BLUES. Another entry from Peter's arc about this genre-defining series, with Captain Furillo.
• DOCTOR WHO. Hominid71 presents a big entry about Daleks - our third one, because Daleks are IMPORTANT BUSINESS.
• VILLAINY INC. Continuing this arc, we now have Doctor Poison II, an intriguing Wonder Woman villain.
• Adam has written up Hancok, from the eponymous Will Smith movie.
• STAR TREK. Mike has finished our profile of Captain James T. Kirk, one of the major characters of XXth century geek fiction.
• OBSCURE 1980s DCU VILLAINS. An obscure, weird, useful villain from old Outsiders tales - Dr. Ovarni aka Madame Ovary, reconstructrix to the dead.
• OBSCURE 1980s DCU VILLAINS. Yep, another one - Overthrow, an anarchist terrorist with some unique technology. And he's perfect for the WORG colour scheme anyway.
• ASTRO CITY. Continuing to mine Peter's work about this series - Supersonic himself.
• As a close relative to our Spitfire arc, currently underway, is our entry for her father the Lord Falsworth, aka the first Union Jack.

www.writeups.org now peaks at 4231 entries. Excelsior !

11/10/2009

Bonus article up - "A short article on probabilities" to understand dice rolls in DC Heroes/Blood of Heroes. We're back at 4220 entries.

11/08/2009

I'm still waiting for some illos for new entries (including some where I'm the one supposed to do the work, actually...) so in the meanwhile here's a bunch of minor changes.

• POLISHING.
  • Added real name and some subsections to Bengal's entry. I also considered updating him, opened an issue of Initiative to do so, saw several minor characters (with WORG entries to boot) pointlessly massacred, and closed the book.
  • Massaged the first Black Widow II entry a bit as a new series about her origin is starting. Cried after realising the new series was using the out-of-the-blue, puzzling Wolverine Origins retcons.
  • We've made some changes to Spider-Man's OV and added some discussion about that in "The proportional agility of a spider" boxed section of the writeup (we're talking Earth-616 Peter Parker, not Ultimate).
  • Minor tweak to Supergirl (1980s)'s gravity vulnerability, fixed minor layout issues
  • Added background info and subsections to the Wonder Woman (mod karate era) entry
  • Refreshed Ace's entry
  • Redid the indenting and linespacing on the boxed section in the Booster Gold entry
  • Small fixes to the Sidewinder entry
  • One artefact entry with no content has been detected and killed
• ART. A bunch (but definitely not all) of the stuff below comes from the comic sketchs collection at swanshadow.com
  • A new pair of cool leading pictures for Storm, plus a neat widescreen sketch and stuff
  • Reworked illustration bar for Atomicus
  • Yet more stuff for Black Velvet
  • The illos for Mock Turtle have been entirely redone
  • Tripled the illos for Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah
  • Replaced the last missing banner for Supergirl (1980s) with a very nice David Williams sketch ; descreened the main illustration bar and added a Lopresti sketch
  • More sketches of the Valkyrie
  • The new leading illo for Green Arrow (Grell version) is a Grell/Rubinstein sketch. This sketch perfectly captures the era described in the writeup, which is good since my choice of pictures did range a bit far (but then I couldn't resist the modern Chiang stuff or the Silver Age Ross painting).
  • And a new Rubinstein shot of his classic Booster Gold, too
  • Black Panther sketches (including a nice banner sketch by Buzz)
  • A Geof Isherwood banner sketch for Dr. Strange, Sorcerer Supreme
  • Added a banner to the Mary Marvel notes
  • Two new bits for Ms. Marvel I (year one), including a new lead that captures the character surprisingly well
  • McDaniel art for a modern depiction of the old-school costume of Wonder Woman I
  • Added a funny banner co-starring Tigra to the Tiger-Girl entry
  • Mantis (Marvel)
  • Added a cool selection of Isis art from swanshadow.com
• FOUST ART. Several of the illustrations mentioned above (notably the new lead illos for Ms. Marvel, Isis, Valkyrie) are from a fellow named Mitch Foust, so I checked the rest of his art (super-heroines pin-ups, really). IMO it's a good find - the illustrations are clear, he often gets the character pretty well, he's meticulous about the costumes, hairdos, etc., it's generally not gratuitously cheesy, etc. It's good stuff to convey how those characters look. It's a bit same-ey after a while (especially the faces - a common issue in comic book art, where women are made to look beautiful by drawing few, very regular features) and a tad Greg Land-ish, but that's not an issue unless you start trawling through his entire collection of art like I just did.
  Best of all, I (or Roy or Gareth or Adam) do not have to detour, prepare, repair, etc. anything ! Except for some levels work to make the pencils look darker and more visible.
  Since I'm using his material, it's only fair to mention that his art is for sale at www.comicartfans.com. Here's a first batch.
  • Viper II
  • Nikki
  • Dagger (Early)
  • Andromeda (post-reboot LSH)
  • Taki (Soulcalibur)
  • American Dream
  • Batgirl I (current retcon)
  • Supergirl
  • Nightshade (Marvel)
  • Misfit (DC)

11/02/2009

Lots of stuff in this batch, chiefly because I'm burnt out on writing new stuff. Roll call:

• POLISHING. Minor odds and ends, plus:
  • Minor adjustments to Wolverine (regeneration stuff and ice hockey stuff)
  • Additional illustrations for Black Lightning (Early, Original)
  • Additional illos for Sheldon, Raj (who is now properly titled 'Doctor'), Leonard and Penny.
  • Traci 13 now got an additional illo (another cool Cliff Chiang inked con sketch)
  • Among the Young Avengers, Teddy and Billy now have a specific High Connection (which we previously forgot)
  • The article on the Leon Genetic Sequence got an improved layout
  • Clarifications and copy editing and sub-section titles for the Left Hand, Razor-Fist II, Starfire I , Slaughterhouse Smith, Spoiler
  • Lots of copy-editing and layout improvements for the Blizzard I entry (it wasn't very good)
  • New illo selection for Madame Web (Hostess cakes)
  • New banner for Black Velvet
  • Added the two most classic Thor quotes to the Thor (Simonson) entry.
• DEADLY HANDS OF KUNG-FU. I've finally managed to defy the Mandarin (Early) entry in a kung fu duel. Some technical streamlining, layout improvements, copy-editing AND additional illustrations for the monstrous pile of Gadgets, robots and weapons described in this rather rich entry. Also, some new Gadgets and security measures I had missed the first time when fighting hard to complete this damn entry. Plus some new content. This enormous writeup has been upversioned to 1.1 and now gets billing in the random showcase picture slot on the homepage.
  At least he has a costume that goes very well with the WORG graphic charter.
• VOLDEMORT LOVES YOU. The second third of the Harry Potter spellbook entry is in, so all 'em spells are now covered from A to Q. There was some delay, I'll admit that.
• MARVEL 70th ANNIVERSARY ART. A few more bits from those special covers:
  • Marvel Boy III (Bob Grayson) (Classic)
  • Bruiser (Molly Hayes)
  • Nick Fury
  • Madrox
  • Wolverine
  • Storm
• FAQ IMPROVEMENTS. The layout has been polished, there have been some minor typo corrections and clarifications, the authors mentioned (such as Gorden and Winninger) now are linked to lists of their publications. A dozen new questions and - amazingly ! - answers have been added. Lots of linkage added. Read the FAQ. Love the FAQ. The FAQ is life. The FAQ must flow.
• FATAL FURY/KING OF FIGHTERS. Tom's entry for this batch is Billy Kane
• STEEL HARBOR. We're continuing to slowly revise our very old Dark Horse Comics's Greatest World entries. This batch has an entirely new entry explaining what is known about the gangs of Steel Harbor (the city where Barb Wire, the Machine and Motorhead operate) and revises the short entries of three Wolf Gang OGs:
  • Bomber
  • Cutter
  • Breaker
• Cheshire Cat. Yes, again, but this time around it's the old Champions character, as gauged by REZcat.
• MS. MARVEL. Slowly continuing our arc through 1970s Ms. Marvel material, we present the Doomsday Man, a very potent super-robot who also appeared in an old Silver Surfer story.
• Gareth has written up a very useful Marvel mid-level villain, Speed Demon. More villains !
• MORE STUFF FROM POPULAR TV SERIES. In this batch:
  • Mike's profile of Dr. House, who makes a dandy NPC in practically any campaign
  • Adam's entry on Howard Wolowitz from Big Bang Theory (who recently tried to pick Power Girl up, confirming that these guys belong to WORG).
• This batch also sees the start of our Spitfire arc, covering the entire career of this important but of-overlooked British heroine. The first entry covers her wartime and postbellum career, and includes notes about her family and British nobility.
• On a much, much less dignified front we also have Dave Speed, Terence Hill's character in Poliziotto Superpiù (aka Superfuzz in the US). Those things happen.

Four thousand, two hundred and twenty entries on WORG.

10/29/2009

Special Update

We're happy to announce that, after Geocities's disappearance on the 26th of October, writeups.org is offering an archive of Eric Padua's JLA website (search for "Eric Padua" on WORG).

This site was mostly active in the early 2000s and was chiefly about members, allies and opponents of the early "Magnificent Seven" JLA.

Enjoy it !

10/29/2009

Drugs ! Women with improbable T&A ! Electricity ! Miniskirts ! Hypnosis ! Oh my ! Roll call:

• POLISHING. More small improvements to the Battlestar, the Hebrew Hammer and... that's it, 'cuz the rest of the batch went too fast.
• Catalyst is a 1980's minor villain with interesting abilities. More villains !
• Cheshire Cat is a longtime PC of Pufnstuff, extensively illustrated by the author
• Fairchild - we have yet to overhaul our oooold writeup for the Image character ; this entry is from Azrael's AZ Universe campaign, though she resembles the Wildstorm Fairchild to some extent.
• Hecate is an old and rather mysterious Ms. Marvel character, and a part of our lengthy 1970s Ms. Marvel arc.
• VILLAINY INC. Slowly continuing the coverage - another villainess from the 1940s version, Hypnota aka Hypnotic Woman.
• BIRDS OF PREY. From Gareth's BoP material here's the aviatrix Zinda, aka the Lady Blackhawk. A writeup covering her pre-Crisis, vintage appearances is also being discussed. Hawka !!
• FATAL FURY. This time around Tom has Fatal Fury's over-the-top cheesecake character, Mai Shiranui. The pictures selection was a bit of a challenge (yes, Internet, women have tits, a crotch and an arse. WE GET IT ALREADY, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.)
• Hominid71 has written up the spaceship from Quatermass and the Pit, a 1957 Hammer Horror classic movie.
• Prolonging the Darna material - sort of - Adam wrote up Zsa Zsa Zaturnnah, a Filipino spoof of Darna and Wonder Woman.
• And finally here's an entry Peter was waited years to see published - his stuff on Zzzax, the electrical Hulk villain. That's three zs.

Well, 4,210 entries I guess.

10/27/2009

We've run out of darrrkkk venngeannnce, but we have other things left, including many villains. Since we're trying to have more villains. Roll call:

• POLISHING.
  • Layout changes to Dutch Schaefer's team (and the typo in the title has finally been fixed)
  • Inter-titles and some clearer (and shorter) sentences for the Gremlin III entry
  • Minor copy editing and details for Major Mapleleaf II and Nemesis III
  • Ultron-7 is now beillustrated, verily
  • More illos for Terry Bogard, for Dr. Leslie Winkle
  • Added a pair of revolvers to Pistolera's gear (I had weirdly forgotten)
  • The looooong Green Arrow I history now has some sub-sections ; ditto for the first Blackout II entry
• MOVIE CHARACTERS. I'm gonna start cutting the name of the movie out of the title of certain entries, since those tend to be too long and mess the layout - so for instance this batch first character is referenced as Angry Bob (Iggy Pop) rather than Angry Bob (Iggy Pop in Hardware). This will be done in a suitably long, random and haphazard way.
• So, as you surmised, this batch has Peter's entry for Angry Bob, the dysfunctional radio jock voiced by Iggy Pop in the post-apocalyptic movie Hardware.
• INVINCIBLE. Bryan's Invincible entry for this batch is Dupli-Kate - and I think it's the end for now, though we will expand the entries for Invincible and Omni-Man soon-ish.
• Endotherm is a very minor Iron Man villain, because we need more villains
• Hellhound is a minor Catwoman and Black Canary villain, because ditto
• STREET FIGHTER. Tom is currently preparing a huge Street Fighter arc, but in the meanwhile here is a NPC from the RPG - Phoenix Bright.
• FATAL FURY. Speaking of Tom, the fighting game entry for this batch is Rock Howard.
• V2. This batch has but one v2 - a full rewrite of Screaming Mimi, much better known for her subsequent career as Songbird of the Thunderbolts.
• BIG BANG THEORY. Basically Adam's last BBT entry for now - Sheldon.
• BIRDS OF PREY. Another baddie of course, from Gareth - the second Spy-Smasher.
• VILLAINY INC. The mysterious and somewhat obscure Trinity, also briefly a Fearsome Five member.
• STARGATE. Another of Peter's Stargate entries, and of course another scientist - Dr. Zelenka, CZ.

And that's it folks - we've hit the answer to all the mysteries of a hundred universes, with 4,200 entries on WORG. It would be a good point to stop, but we're sure not planning to !

10/25/2009

This batch is a bit formulaic as it continues to cover characters from many of our longer arcs - so it both builds up on our strengths and is quite varied. Without ado, feel the BURNING FURY of our STERN JUSTICE and the SUDDEN IMPACT of DAAARRRRK VENNNGGEANCCCE ! Roll call:

• WONDER ART. A few more illos added to our largest illustrations column. Those are taken from the art produced for the charity event Wonder Woman Day IV.
• MINOR STUFF. Omega (of the Inhumans) upgraded a bit and reversioned to v1.2 ; Manslaughter Marsdale has been upversioned to v1.1, though I've yet to check his recent return (it was just a quick clean-up).
• INDY STUFF. An entry for Detective Richard Fell, from the fan-favourite Fell noir, broken down crime stories by Warren Ellis.
• King Cougar is an awful Silver Age villain who is... well, awful. And has a terrible costume. Hey, we can't always write solely the super-cool stuff ! :-)
• BIG BANG THEORY. Slowly continuing Adam's arc through this popular TV series, we present half the main duo - Dr. Leonard Hofstadter.
• POST-APOC. Over the last ten-to-twelve years we have accumulated a significant number of post-apocalyptic characters, usually by or for Peter. In this batch, the good doctor presents Michael the Lost, from Oni Comics's Wasteland.
• BIRDS OF PREY. This batch's excerpt from Gareth's Birds of Prey includes fan-favourtie weirdo Misfit. Also, lots and lots of darrrrk vennngeance !!!
• STARGATE. The People's Democratic Republic of Worgistan supports our Canuckistani brothers, as Peter demonstrates by writing up snarky genius Rodney McKay, who also gets billing on the random homepage image.
• Samuroids are super-combat robots who actually are quite dangerous and competent, and come in numbers. Beyond their very silly and quite racist 1968 appearance, they have been brought back to the modern DCU by the invaluable Mark Waid.
• FATAL FURY. More of Tom's work about famous video console beat em' up characters, now with Terry Bogard.
• ULTRON. Roy continues to document the earlier incarnations of one of the Avengers's key villains. We now present Ultron-7.
• INFINITY INC. We still have some Infinity, Inc. material in our drawers, though these stories have not aged very well. In this batch the second Wildcat II, Yolanda Montez.

And lo, for beyond copious amounts of darrrk venngeance !! WORG noweth containeth 4190 entries.

10/21/2009

We got a pretty neat bundle of coolness for you guys, if I may say so. Roll call:

• POLISHING. The People's Commissar of the Popular Democratic Republic of Worgistan has improved various illustrations to make them more vivid and less grainy, and added sub-sections in a number of long entries. Also Giganta got a quick update note about her recent appearance.
• ASTONISHING POLISHING. The following entries have received a good round of copy-editing/partial rewriting since the writage was not up to the standard laid out in the current five-year plan:
  • Red Guardian II
  • Richard Dragon
  • Sandra Verdugo
  • Nemesis II
• Typhoid got a new leading picture and some layout work done.
• The Popular Democratic Republic of Worgistan is led by the base. As such, our Minister of the Odd Sciences, Peter, had democratically determined his personal choices for the showcase slot on the homepage. Thus the following entries have been added to the random image rotation on the home - professor Hugo Strange, Blue Knight, Hombre, the Rumble Brothers, the Spider (Master of Men !) and Jack Bauer.
• BLACK LIGHTNING. This landmark African-American super-hero already has an older writeup, but here are two modern entries that depict his beginnings. Confused yet ?
  • Black Lightning (Early, Original) is a profile of Jefferson Pierce as actually published from his first appearance (1977) until he joined the Outsiders (1983).
  • Black Lightning (Early, Retold) is a profile of Black Lightning's Year One as depicted in, the 2009 mini-series, which was a thoroughly modernised retelling of the above
• DOCTOR WHO ? Hominid71 has written up a very detailed entry about Davros, a fascinating character from the "whoniverse".
• BIG BANG THEORY. Continuing Adam's arc... heeeerre'ss Penny!
• DIXONVERSE DCU. From a minor writeups arc, we have three minor, non-powered female mercenaries working in the DC universe:
  • Pistolera (formerly Gunbunny)
  • Vicious (formerly Vicious)
  • Camorouge
• SAMURAI CHAMPLOO. Tom closes this arc with, of course, Fuu.
• Another entry from Gareth's work on Birds of Prey characters - the sinister Harvest.
• FATAL FURY/KING OF FIGHTERS. We continue this hard-fightin' arc of Tom's with Joe Higashi
• And to round off the headcount, a detailed profile of home-brewed character Sacrifice, created from a campaign taking place in the Marvel Universe.

That's 4,180 entries - the batch after the next one should hit a nice, round 4,200.

10/17/2009

Another short batch (since the reformatting of the not-recent stuff is a pain in the keister). Roll call:

• King of Fighters/Fatal Fury. These writeups have been slightly nerfed after some discussion back in June (most everybody gets ten fewer HPs and one less AP of Martial Artist).
• MORE ART. Marvel's 70th Anniversary Frame variant cover are pretty much ready-made writeups.org illos, so here are a few:
  • Galactus
  • Captain America (new banner)
  • Wolverine
  • Mr. Fantastic
  • War Machine
  • Gorilla Man (well, technically it was a Dark Reign cover)
  • Daredevil
• Furthermore, the placeholder stuff for Bonebreaker and Pretty Boy has been replaced with the real deal. Macon also got a new illo whilst we were at it. Oh, and K' has a few new illos (search for "dash" or check writeups starting with "K" in the alpha list).
• INVINCIBLE. A new Invincible entry from Bryan - Atom Eve.
• VILLAINY INC. A handful of entries from a lengthy arc of writeups:
  • Our introductory article about Villainy, Incorporated
  • Doctor Poison I, Wonder Woman's first villain
  • Everything you ever wanted to learn about Giganta... OK, you probably didn't particularly want to learn about Giganta, but here we go anyway with the Golden Age version, the Silver Age version and a rather big entry about the Modern Age version.
• GLOBAL FREQUENCY. Gareth's entry for Captain Richard Quinn the super-soldier was nearly lost, but here it is at last.
• SAMURAI CHAMPLOO. Two of the main characters from that anime - Jin and Mugen - now have an entry thanks to Tom. More in the next batch.

Nice, sweet, detailed, quick and varied. What's not to love ? Current entry count on writeups.org is now 4169.

10/14/2009

This batch is an art pack. It does draw attention to some of the older, more obsolete entries on WORG (which I'm usually responsible for) but well, I can't rewrite *everything* right now.

• ÄHT. Stuff from Roy:
  • Added a picture of one of the aliens to the Greatest American Hero entry
  • Howler (Champions)
  • Black Harlequin
  • Mechassassin
  • Holocaust (Champions)
  • Ogre
  • Ankylosaur
  • Foxbat
  • Defender (Champions)
  • Rainbow
  • Surge
  • Spot
  • Amber (DNAgents)
  • Aquagirl
  • Arrowette
  • Arthur Nagan
  • Atmos
  • Black Venus
  • Bat-Girl I
  • Burnout
  • Bateau
  • Masters (from the Tripods books)
• MÖH ÄHT. As usual rapsheet.co.uk and WORG keep choosing the exact same shots and detouring them in the exact same way, so I've borrowed a few to save time:
  • Superwoman (both pre- and post-Crisis)
  • Dr. Octopus
  • Fixer (and the Techno entry too)
  • Graviton
  • Kingpin
  • Kraven
  • Jack O'Lantern II
  • Lizard
  • Rhino
  • Sandman
  • Shocker
  • Elements of doom
  • Shrike III (Cadre)
  • Growing Man
  • KGBeast (both classic and modern)
  • Apocalypse
  • Lady Deathstrike
  • Mister Sinister (Marvel)
• YET MÖH ÄHT. Also starring:
  • Beefed up the Rajesh and Leslie pics for Big Bang Theory, though we're not on target yet
  • Jill Valentine
  • Lara Croft
  • Shrek
  • Terminal (Jokerz)
  • Blizzard II

Aaaaand that's it, since that's been way too many hours of Photoschpuntz.

10/11/2009

It started as a short batch, but gradually mutated into something fiercer... deadlier... more dangerouser. Roll call:

• MISC. Added sub-section titles to break up the wall of text in a handful of entries, as is my terrible and bitter fate on the wind-swept moors.
• WORG PATROL SWEEP. Here goes another burst. We're getting somewhat close to zero WORG Patrol backlog, except for a number of Marvel HP changes and lots of Blood Syndicate stuff. Roll call:
  • Vampiro's entry (the wrestler) upgraded to v0.9.5 thanks to Azraelfl adding Connections
  • Various typos fixed in Hellcat's entry thanks to Darci
  • Deathtrap was deversioned to v1.1 to align with modern versioning, then upgraded to v1.2 thanks to Capita_Senyera's comments.
  • Aeon Flux (movie/Charlize Theron version) got a discrepancy fixed thanks to Ethan
  • Fixed the Notes field for Aztek thanks to Gareth
  • Finally fixed the entries for Sharon Ventura from "Miss Marvel" to "Ms. Marvel" in the database (I wanted to rewrite the entries first, but it's not happening)
  • Diction/typos for the Remo the Destroyer entries thanks to Ethan
  • Ditto for the banana/watermelon monster
  • All Texas Rangers (Night Rider, Red Wolf, Texas Twister, Shooting Star) now have a special section upgrade about the Initiative version of the team, thanks to Capita_Senyera
  • Azraelfl has upgraded his Superboy (AZ universe) entry
  • Some typos fixed in the Daredevil entry thanks to Azraelfl
  • Fixed the Note field for Ledger's version of the Joker thanks to Ethan and Cassius
  • Mantaman is now also listed as Manta-Man since it's, like, his name
  • Shocker (the Villains and Vigilantes one) has been upgraded at v1.1 after some additions to better represent his V&V powers
  • Various typos corrected in the Danny Phantom entry by Ethan
  • Bruce Wayne added as a relative in the Batman Beyond, added a special section about Terry's parentage by Azraelfl
  • Added the proper Languages and some minor fixes to Shun Di, Liu Kang, Sub-Zero and Raiden thanks to Peter
  • Some quick fixes to the Baron Blood entry, since he was unfortunately not caught in a recent round of Marvel material set in Great Britain
  • Sachs and Violens are now also properly tagged with "Bete Noire" in the Notes field
  • Conan (comics version) now had the Night-Fighting Schticks rather than the practically similar Schtick he used to have
  • Mad Peter Quick now has the Stare of Doom Schtick
  • Hugo Strange now has the Robot Double Gambit Schtick, plus some notes about it
  • Changed the modelling for Duke Nukem's regenerates-whilst-pissing ability. No, really. It was very important that we do that. For game balance purposes. Srsly.
  • Typo fixed in the Guide to Marvel Magic, thanks to Ethan
  • Wolverine now has the Wounds Rejection (Low) Schtick. Why ? Because he's the best there is a at what he does, that's why -- though it has been argued in some quarters that what he does isn't very nice.
• BETE NOIRE. A bunch of small changes has been made to the entries of our current Bete Noire cast - Black Mariah, Shadow Boxer and especially Lee, the Fallen Angel (for whom the changes are not-so-small, really). This reflect a lengthy discussion about these wonderful books, and some additional material from IDW's series.
• v2s. Improving some minor corners of WORG, we got:
  • A fairly large rewrite for Fenris (Andrea and Andreas von Strucker, describing everything up to Andrea's death)
  • A rewrite of one of the Hell's Belles, Briquette. The rest will follow slowly, since those very minor rewrites are used to help pace the publishing rate
  • Plus rewrites for three minor but quite convenient villains, Maelstrom's Minions. As some might remember, the Minions are :
    • Gronk (all hail Gronk !)
    • Phobius
    • Helio
• The trigger for the Fenris rewrite was Gareth's writeup of the Swordsman (Andreas Strucker), which is also included in this batch so you guys can see the whole story.
• Adria is a very minor (but eviiiil !) sorceress from the Marvel Universe, since we're a bit light on that front
• HILL STREET BLUES. Continuing Peter's arc through this classic TV series, this batch includes Sergeant Michael "the Biter" Belker.
• Gareth has written up Dr. Spectrum - but the modern one, Alice Nugent.
• ELEMENTALS. Another obscure but evil mystical party from the Marvel Universe. As is increasingly the case, this is handled as a background entry on the Elementals that explains most of what you need to know, plus short writeups for each group member, namely:
  • Zephyr
  • Magnum
  • Hydron
  • Hellfire
• Zen, from the 2008 Thai martial arts movie/drama Chocolate, has been written up by Ethan. It rated a very respectable 77% on Rotten Tomatoes, and could be considered a part of WORG's efforts to have people discover older and more obscure action/adventure movies.
• ART. Extra shots for:
  • Nightcrawler
  • Venus (current)
  • Lethal
  • Rachel Summers (Phoenix II era)
  • Furthermore, the placeholder images for Ookla the Mok and Princess Ariel have been replaced by the actual illustrations (and the banners added)

Google Ads react to the Gronk entry by offering us to buy super-glue, which is amusingly on-target, and lunch dates with hot singles, which is amusingly not. Anyway, WORG has 4159 entries.

10/02/2009

Another widdle batch with things and stuff. Roll call:

• ART. Additional peekchurs for :
  • Crackerjack
  • Aquaman (DC)
  • Rhino
  • Thor (main entry)
  • Captain America
  • Data (Star Trek)
  • Black Bolt
  • Thing (modern)
  • Iron Fist
  • Beast (early)
  • Daleks (Classic)
  • Iron Man (Golden Avenger armour)
  • Judge Dredd
  • Juggernaut
  • Dr. Tachyon
• The tips have been fixed a bit (and the plural of "Pokemon" fixed at long last)
• HUMAN DEFENSE CORPS. Since I'd rather do all illustrations at once, here is everything you ever wanted to know about the HDC -- the US military corps dealing with paranormal situations in the DC Universe. There's a general entry about the Corps (with lots of gear), plus small individual profiles for Sergeant Kelly, Chaplain Charlie and Colonel Rosetti.
• THUNDARR. Last but not least - Princess Ariel, from Ethan.
• Gareth wrote up a pair of popular characters from DC's Birds of Prey - Savant and Creote.
• BIG BANG THEORY. It's Rajesh's turn, thanks to Adam.
• And finally we have DC's Magical Anti-Continuity Teenage Girl Witch Thirteen, Traci Thirteen aka Girl 13.
• And, hmmm, the banner illos are now on the same server as the rest of the data. Should you care ? No. Well, it's a bit more stable and it likely makes things a mite faster.

WORG now got 4149 entries.

09/22/2009

Just a straightforward, small set of entries. Roll call:

• Our two Global Frequency entries, from a successful Warren Ellis LS a few years back :
  • Miranda Zero
  • Aleph
• Cinder & Ashe was a fairly cool "urban decay thriller" at DC a while back, and this batch has, well, an entry for Ashe and an entry for Cinder.
• REWRITES. This batch is just in time to catch the rewritten version of the Cobra.
• THUNDARR. Ookla the Mok is in this batch.
• GREATEST AMERICAN HERO. This batch got Pam Davidson.
• HEROES. It's Nathan Petrelli's turn.
• From the old British sci-fi TV series Sapphire and Steel we have an entry for each of those two parachronic operatives.
• I've just realised that a bit was missing from the Schticks Compendium (the ones not matching the vision) ; it's now back in.

Let it be known that writeups.org now offers 4139 entries.

09/21/2009

As a somewhat random note - the search results from the site's Google engine seem reasonably good now, though not authoritative. People who were waiting for Google to populate its bases to use this function of the new version of the site can prolly dip their toes in the water now.

• ART. Adam improved some illustrations for Psi-Borg II and Knockabout.
• MICRO-UPGRADES. We don't normally do this, but I took a break reading semi-recent comics, so:
  • Added a small Advantage to reflect Susan Storm-Richards' ferocity when protecting kids.
  • Added a note about the dude in Centurius's costume that has been running around with the Hood's gang for some time now.
  • Added a note about the very brief appearance of Grotesk back in April.
  • Added a note about Maverick's return in Wolverine : Weapon X in the Agent Zero entry.
  • Added a note in the Big Ben Donovan entry about the neat Cruel and unusual story arc in Daredevil in the summer of 2008.
  • Magneto now got a boxed section recapitulating the cleaned-up and historically correct version of his childhood and adolescence.
  • Added a note to the Grizzly entry about his current job with the ATF (forgot it the last time around)
  • Fixed a stupid mistake in the first Deathbird entry (when I first read that story as a wee kid I thought the wound inflicted on Colossus came from an acid-laden javelin. More than 25 years and seven re-readings later, I've finally realised the acid bomb was actually shot by a Brood sniper. And yes, there's a near-encyclopedic entry on the Brood in your future).
• SCHTICKS COMPENDIUM. The famous document listing and commenting all the Schticks used on Writeups.org is now online as a writeups.org entry. It is fully updated as of publication date.
• BUG FIXES. I've totally forgotten to mention it during the last few batches, but I think we've fixed every known bug with the site, under all reasonably common browsers (yes, including IE6. Nevertheless, if you are using IE6, please use a web browser instead). The only thing left unfixed are those very long titles that sort of spill out of the space available at the top of entries, such as with Gamora. I'll just change the titles to something shorter when I get around to it, I guess. And in 'bugs' I include the few typos and less-than-perfect formatting issues that were still floating around (excluding those within entries).
• SHOWCASE '09. Each of this batch's entry is from a different contributor because, well, the random draw started that way and I thought it was neat. Therefore:
  • From Ethan, a Thundarr the Barbarian entry which covers, logically enough, Thundarr
  • From Chris, a large entry which covers classic Dr. Strange character the Shadowqueen
  • From Capita_Senyera, Sergeant Oddball, Donald Sutherland's character in Kelly's heroes
  • From Pufnstuff & son, the famous Naruto (covering the 20 first episodes)
  • From Peter, continuing to write the Reavers up - Pretty Boy
  • From Mike, Merlin Athrawes from the David Weber novels
  • From Adam, as the first entry from his Big Bang Theory work - Dr. Leslie Winkle. Yes, I can't believe I'm publishing something nice about Caltech either - but at least they won't know about it, since accessing WORG requires using some sort of computer
  • From Roy, the Greatest American Heroine (part 2 of 3 for that TV series)
  • From Hominid71, a cool, detailed timeline of the Dr. Who-niverse (including notes about Blake's 7)
  • Aaaand the Creeper, but this time around it's the (intriguing) Parisian 1920s version - though she still seems to be from the DCU. Prenez garde !

Well, it's all fun and games, but I'll keep the batch at ten new entries or the illustrations will take too long to get done, especially given the number of people involved. Accordingly, WORG now has 4130 entries.

09/05/2009

Another small, quick batch since we're between integration templates and I have to code a bunch of stuff manually.

• CLIFF CHIANG. More Chiang art (his blog is at http://www.cliffchiang.com/, by the way). This time around:
  • Captain Marvel (DC baseline)
  • The Valkyrie
  • Thor (Simonson take)
  • Elektra
  • Black Canary II (again - reloading the page may be necessary to get the current version)
  • Green Arrow
  • Catwoman
  • Wonder Woman II (again - reloading the page may be necessary to get the current version)
  • Saturn Girl (pre-Crisis)
  • Jean Grey
  • Black Widow II (the 1970s)
  • Bigby Wolf
  • Snow White
• Cammi now gets an entry, as a companion writeup to our three big Drax entries
• Ronon Dex is the first of Peter's Stargate : Atlantis to get published
• SECRET SIX. Here are the entries Gareth prepared on this popular series :
  • Catman
  • Parademon
  • Ragdoll
  • Scandal Savage
• We now got a large entry about the 1960s version of the Atomic Knights, a classic Silver Age post-apocalyptic story with an interesting role in the DC Universe
• The illustration for Darna has been reengineered ; the revised Queen of Fables's entry is now fully illustrated.

WORG now has 4119 entries.

09/04/2009

Schedule issues have compromised WORG updates for two months now, so here's a batch of rewritten entries, since those always have priority, plus some new art that could be prepared quickly.

• ART. A new banner shot for the Confessor (Astro City).
• CLIFF CHIANG ART. I really like Chiang's art, and as it turns out his convention work published on his blog illustrates some of his great strengths - clear, simple lines reminiscent of classic Franco-Belgian comics, very expressive characters in a way reminiscent of some manga styles, realistic proportions blended with a hint of DC animated style... His work is also wonderful for illustrations purpose, such as WORG's. All the art sampled in this batch and the following art has been arranged to make sure his signature/glyph was easily visible despite the tight image cropping conventions on WORG. In this batch:
  • Batgirl I
  • Black Bolt
  • Medusa (of the Inhumans)
  • Black Canary
  • Black Cat (Early)
  • Colossus
  • Green Lantern (Alan Scott)
  • Green Arrow I (Oliver Queen)
  • Psylocke (Early)
  • Lara Croft
  • Wonder Woman II (Diana)
• V2s. The stuff that was languishing :
  • Full rewrite and re-illustration of the Bethany Cabe entry, because she's cool and a key Iron Man character
  • Full rewrite and re-illustration of the Grizzly, a useful and versatile old-school Spider-Man thug. That's right folks - lots of prepared Grizzly art ! This is sure to make WORG famous, create a huge revenue stream in adverts and pay for the time I put into them ! I'm a damn genius.
  • Full rewrite and re-illustrations of the Porcupine, a classic 1960s Marvel villain. Oh man, I can feel our market share just swelling with that one.
  • The entry for the Queen of Fables has also been completely redone, in part to integrate the Simone tales published since it was done. I've continued to tinker with it a bit since the list discussion, in an attempt to make it clearer - but I forgot to do the additional illustrations, which'll be in the next batch
• CLOSING WRITEUPS. There's on WORG a number of multi-part entries that have not reached the final writeup in the series. Well, two can now be called complete (until the characters goes through further major evolutions), since I've finally managed to get those two published :
  • Second and last part of Maverick, as Agent Zero
  • Third and last part of Gamora
• UNCANNY TRICKLING BATCH WITHIN A BATCH. The following older but still nice entries were salvaged from the older version of WORG and just got published. Since nobody has seen them in five years, I suppose they practically count as new content. Since this stuff is very very old, comments and changes are rather welcome.
  • Captain Underpants ! By Vincent ! TRA LA LAAAAA !
  • Sean's profile of the Intruder, a super-minor and super-dated GI Joe villain
  • Meteor Man by Kal El, from the 1990s movie of the same name starring Robert Townsend
  • Godzilla - the 1998 version the fans didn't like, by Bryant
  • Mechagodzilla. Nuff' said. Again by the intrepid Bryant.
  • Sam Slade the Robo-Hunter, from old 2000AD progs and by Peter.
  • Sil, from the movie Species, by Kal El
• Finally, I've randomly realised that parts of the Lady Shiva entries were confusing. Those parts have been deleted, and there is now a special boxed section in those entries explaining things more clearly and more thoroughly.

WORG currently has 4112 entries.

08/18/2009

I'm very low on free time, but here's what I managed to cram in, mostly during lunch breaks.

• ART : The following Wild Cards entries have received additional art sampled from a recent RPG supplement, wih REZcat's help:
  • Black Eagle
  • Demise
  • Golden Boy
  • Yeoman
  • The Great and Powerful Turtle
• WORG PATROL. A first sweep since corrections have been piling up for months and months and months.
  • Fixed a formatting issue for Barb Wire, though I'm not sure how
  • Fixed a stupid typo on the home page thanks to Darci
  • Fixed a typo to a Harry Potter spell thanks to Alan
  • Refreshed the Background section and the Languages for Wolverine, via Peter
  • Fixed two minor typos in the Monarch entry (Elseworld version) thanks to Azrael
  • Tweaked Marvel Girl (Rachel Summers) and Korvus
  • Tweaked Vulcan
  • Clarified Molly Hayes's SIA
  • Fixed a number of Initiative scores thanks to Ethan (Alien facehuggers, Thing (Modern), Mr. Fantastic
  • Xena's Powers are now Skilled as they should be, thanks to Alan
  • M-11's Attraction Power is now properly Mystic-Linked, thanks to Kal El
  • Some tweaks to Jaw, upversioned to 1.2
  • Gareth overhauled my crappy notes for Blizzard II, so this entry should now be much more useful. Its date of latest modification has been updated to reflect the new material.
  • Major Kusanagi is now Attractive as per Adam's musings
  • Fenris is scheduled for a full rewrite
  • Cobra is scheduled for a full rewrite (the old Marvel villain)
  • Vic Mackey now packs the proper pistols seen in the show thanks to Doug
  • Adam has kindly provided Background sections for the Invisibles
  • Corrected a Finnish literary reference for Lt. Hamalainen via William and Peter
  • Clarified a Skill reference in the She-Hulk entry at Eric L's request
  • Fixed a mistake in the quotes of El Gusano
  • Mirror Master III is now a villain as per Gareth's remark
  • Mr. Spock's Background section expanded as per Azraelfl's remarks
  • Fixed a few details for Beast (Hank McCoy) as per Ethan's and Azraelfl's remarks
  • All three Powerpuff Girls now have the proper Age Drawback thanks to Eric Eick
  • A few tweaks to the Sandman (Baker) courtesy of Peter and Chris
  • Fixed the HPs for Dr. Octopus (Chris and Peter again)
  • Amusing typo fixed in Vash's entry
  • Arclight's Background section now includes the Femizons as noted by Chris
  • Added a suggestion about Mirror Master III in Mysterio's history as per Peter and Chris's discussion.
• PHILIP TAN ART. I've selectively pilfered the DeviantArt page of Philip Tan. This Filipino artist has a style firmly in the Jim Lee vein, and though there are some annoying mannerisms to his art his material is quite cool and illustrative. As usual when much of the material is from convention sketches, I've applied some very primitive Photoshop treatments to make the sketch more legible on a computer screen. His signature, unless I've goofed, has been preserved on all the material except for some of the published stuff. Roll call:
  • Batgirl I (current retcon)
  • Black Bolt
  • Black Panther (a variant shot of this one is also the current Black Panther shot on the home's spotlight space now)
  • Captain Britain I
  • Captain Marvel (DC)
  • Daredevil
  • Wonder Woman II
  • The White Queen
  • Huntress (Bertinelli)
  • Medusa (Inhumans)
  • Namor the Submariner
  • Nightwing
  • Psylocke (the "Current" writeup)
  • Question II
  • Spider-Woman I
  • Thanos
  • Thor I ("Simonson" writeup)
  • Valkyrie

07/20/2009

The following batch has been assembled very gradually (and far more slowly than planned), so here's a sitrep :

• Hicock from the Endworld series has been revised
• The Crusaders (the hero group in old Villains & Vigilantes module Crisis at Crusaders Citadel) are back from the older version of the database. They were published as drafts during a few weeks, and have just been overhauled with new illustrations and a number of adjustments to the stats. The Crusaders are, as you all remember :
  • Blizzard
  • Dreamweaver
  • Enforcer
  • Evergreen
  • Laserfire
  • Mantaman
• ART: Added stuff there:
  • Green Lantern I (and Doiby Dickles)
  • Doctor Octopus
  • Parademons
  • Invisible Woman
  • Lobo
  • Donovan Flint
  • Roustabout
  • Black Panther
  • Night Zero
  • G-Girl
  • Tony Stark
  • The Disco Boys
  • Wonder Woman (Hippolyta)
  • Many V&V entries, namely:
    • 2166
    • Concrete Savages
    • Dr. Apocalypse
    • Garbageman
    • GI Jim
    • Mocker
    • Proditor Capella
    • Shocker
    • Siren
    • Stallion
    • Stormlord
    • Warwagon
    • Zairobs

Next batch will be more old stuff from the old database, plus some new art for older entries (chiefly Wild Cards material)

06/28/2009

This is a bit of a special batch. I'm currently reviewing very old material for a WORG project, and have discovered a number of writeups that were on WORG version 2 and have never migrated to v3 and v4. Most of it is no longer standards-compliant, but there's stuff that's sort of OK.

I've hesitated a while - I don't have time to provide good illustrations for them, and the text is no longer the way we'd do those with ten years of extra collective experience. On the other hand, it's good work on its own merits, and let's face it -- if it's not published now, the odds that we're going to cover this material again on WORG are minuscule. So those entries are going to look a bit grungy (especially the illos, though a volunteer may improve them -- please), but I'll reluctantly say it's an OK trade-off. All version numbers have been lowered to reflect the age of the entries.

All entries in this batch are early Image material (most of it from what would become the Wildstorm universe, I guess) written up by Nicolas about ten years ago - mostly Wetworks and Black Ops material. Please note that we've also refreshed and expanded our Brigade material, and that I'm currently working on revising and expanding our Deathblow volume 1 material. More reposts from WORG v2 are also likely, since it's faster to prepare than modern entries and there's a lot more of it than I thought.

Roll call:

• Big Dozer
• Bloodmoon
• Claymore
• Dane
• Dozer
• Geek
• HERB
• Jester
• Mother One
• Pilgrim
• Redbird
• Shire
• Grail

Furthermore...

• Three Hostess nonsense entries have received a better illo (Legal Eagle, Photoman, June Jitsui)
• Extra illustrations for Typhoid (who obviously wasn't illustrated enough !) and Deathbird (ditto), both from rapsheet.co.uk.
• REWRITES. The entries for Sachs and Violens have been expanded, edited and re-illustrated to reflect their appearances in Bete Noire in Fallen Angel volume 2. Go PAD !

These blasts from the past bring us to 4089 entries.

06/27/2009

Oi,

The results produced by the Google-powered "Parse" function of writeups.org are now largely garbage-free. The "Character sheet" and "Untitled document" references are almost gone.

There's still a long distance to go before the whole site is indexed (frex, searching for "goonbane" in order to clean the revised Schticks up provide no result), but using this function is not actively annoying any longer.

I'm still considering adding another search technology - search engines have been for years the primary way to access content-rich sites, and IMO WORG is off-target as long as it doesn't have a powerful and up-to-date full-text search function.

Abraços,

S.A.

06/25/2009

Special WORG Update

The archive for the Knight of Shadow DCH website has now been officially added to writeups.org as a downloadable pdf. It is accessed from a standard entry - look for "Knight of Shadow".

For many of us this site was a godsend in the mid-90s, and has been in continuous use ever since since it was very complementary with WORG. Since Geocities is scheduled to disappear this year, preserving it was important.

I'm currently considering an alternative search tech to serve as a primary full-text search engine, since Google has produced insufficient results so far. If this works out I'll make sure to have the .pdf crawler along with our content so a search can cover both sites.

06/24/2009

The bulk of the backlog destruction is done, I think - which of course is a very different proposition from "the backlog is empty". Thus, this batch looks about as random as the run-of-the mill ones. Roll call:

• ART. New and/or better stuff for the guys below. Note that Marvel makes it a fair bit easier than DC to find WORG-grade illos, so folks wanting to restablish a balance are welcome to send DC illos. :-) This batch features a handful of illustrations by Moebius, BTW.
  • Omega of the Inhumans (from the previous batch)
  • Master Man
  • Lamplighter
  • Tony Stark
  • Angel (early)
  • Punisher II
  • Green Lantern I
  • Elektra
  • El Matador
  • Hand Genin
  • Black Hand
  • Wolverine
  • Lobo
  • Captain Marvel I (DCU)
  • The Thing (Classic)
  • Spider-Man (obviously)
  • Jean Grey
  • Steel (obviously)
  • Bane
  • Mister Hyde
  • Bullseye
  • Batgirl I
  • Huntress (Bertinelli)
  • Batman Beyond
  • And the winner of today's "finally found some time to get this guy done" award -- Sunburst (pre-Crisis DCH)
• GREATEST AMERICAN HERO. Roy's arc through this TV series starts with old school FBI agent Bill Maxwell.
• REAVERS. Peter has written 'em up, and we start with Bonebreaker, the tracked cyborg.
• STRIKEBACK. Somehow I had forgotten a minor villain from Gareth's arc about this obscure book - Doberman.
• DRAX THE DESTROYER. Part 3 of the writeups trilogy of the big, mean, green guy - the current era after his resurrection and his return as one of the toughest warriors in the local galactic group.
• Foe-Dog is a minor Chinese hero which Gareth introduced to us from his X-Men appearance.
• LARGO WINCH. I dunno if there will actually be other Largo Winch entries, but here is a profile of a favourite character from the series, Freddy Kaplan.
• FATAL FURY. After the King of Fighters arc, Tom continues with video games martial arts mayhem as his Fatal Fury writeups get published. In this batch the baddie, Geese Howard.
• CROSSGEN / NEGATION. The last two entries from this voluminous arc by Gareth, starring :
  • General Murquade of the Negation
  • Obregon Kaine
• WILD CARDS. After a number of discussions to fine-tune his entry, Dr. Tachyon makes it to WORG.
• Ethan's brother asked if Tim the Enchanter from Monty Python's Holy Grail was on writeups.org... so Ethan wrote Tim up, to join the killer rabbit (who's already been there for a while).
• And finally we have the latest writeups.org's monster, evil writeup that is full of things and complicated stuff -- Typhoid. Covering her early appearances, which is already fairly complex.
• I've also adjusted the Sonny Sumo entry to reflect the explanations in the second half of the Final Crisis story, released after the writeup was done.

That's now 4076 entries.

06/20/2009

The backlog accumulated during and since the work on WORG v4 is starting to look okay - one more batch and it should be reduced to acceptable proportions, I think. Of course, many of the usual contributors have had a heavy not-WORG schedule these last few months, diminishing the density and diversity of posts, which unfortunately helped.

We are currently working to kill all the bugs of v4. one problem will remain, though - the views of the entries were not counted correctly, possibly since v4 went live. This explains the long trail of recent entries at zero views in the "Popular" section.

Many of the usual categories are still there, but it's starting to look more random :

• ART. New or improved stuff for :
  • Grizzly III (who's scheduled for rewriting, but the low-res Master OHOTMU shot just had to go)
  • Robocop
  • Spider-Man (of course)
  • Gladiator II
  • Thor (main take)
  • Punisher II
  • Elektra
  • Daredevil
  • Captain Marvel (mainline DCU)
  • Echo
  • Nick Fury (still thinking about the best way to handle a rewrite)
  • Ms. Marvel I (Year One) (Darci found an inked version of the Matthew Clark sketch)
  • Black Bolt
  • Medusa (Inhumans)
  • Wonder Woman II
  • Dr. Strange
  • Vulture I (Toomes)
• DEATHBIRD. Part two of this big two-parter - her 1990s and 2000s appearances, up to the Spring of 2009. By the time I was finished with the main illustration I wanted to kill Jim Lee - the man is a badass craftsman. Spending so much time with one's nose buried into scannings to prepare art does teach further respect for the work of artists, inkers and colourists - and to hate cheap printing and paper.
• DRAX THE DESTROYER. The other big current multi-parter. In this batch, the era during which Drax was mostly stupid and extremely strong, chiefly with Infinity Watch appearances. However, there is no truth to the rumours that we are chiefly writing up people who match the WORG colour scheme.
• The Spider, Master of Men, is one of the classic pulp heroes, so it's high time he got published on Writeups.org. Stats and all sort of stuff by Peter, current History section by Wikipedia.
• The Destructor was an early, obscure Ms. Marvel villain. Since the latest Ms. Marvel I writeup refers to his entry he had to be in ASAP.
• CROSSGEN/NEGATION. More from this copious arc by Gareth. in this batch:
  • Shrakti, another agent of Charon
  • Westin, a Sigil bearer
  • Shassa, another Sigil bearer
• Peter wrote up a Golden Age goodie - Lyle, of the Galactic Knights. It's vintage !
• Indigo aka Brainiac 8, a somewhat recent DCU character involved with the Outsiders and Titans. By Gareth.
• COMMITTEE KILLERS. Somehow, I had missed one of those in the backlogs. Razor will now join his friends (low-powered hitmen with a cliché schtick one and all) already on WORG.
• Roy wrote up good ol' Omega, the giant menace that threatened the Inhumans over Alpha Primitives issues. Very "late Silver Age" character.
• ASTRO CITY. This time it's the turn of Roustabout, hero of the Midwest, again thanks to Peter.

So... 4063 entries.

06/18/2009

This batch started as a formulaic backlog-killing batch, but halfway through I remembered I had to cram in the Helix writeups at some point. If only to clear the pictures from my illustrations folders, where they've been for nearly a year. Thus we end up with:

• ART. New or improved stuff for:
  • Grotesk
  • Nick Fury
  • Batroc
  • Nightshade (Marvel)
  • Huntress (Bertinelli)
  • Man-Thing
  • Diamondback (enhanced)
  • Green Arrow II
  • Steel (J. H. Irons)
  • Fang (Imperial Guard)
  • Trapster
  • Darna (yay !)
  • Atomic mutates
  • Brother Nature
  • The first Carol Danvers writeup
  • Smasher III
  • Bat-Wing (Rancor's lieutenants)
• Ms. MARVEL I. The third big writeup for Carol - so we're finally starting to replace the old quasi-placeholder entries with the new, big, detailed, illustrated, rich entries. Note that we're talking a break from Carol and this series of big writeups will only resume in a while.
• NEGATION. More from Gareth's travels in the Negation parts of the Crossgen Universe. Like the last time it's Negation baddies:
  • Lawbringer Qztr
  • Tibian
• DEATHBIRD. This popular Marvel villain (almost an anti-heroine of sorts) receives a two-parts entry -- Classic and Modern. This batch has, of course, the Classic entry, hatchlings.
• KING OF FIGHTERS. Tom's KOF guy for this batch is K' (or K-dash).
• HELIX. The full roster, so it's over and done with :
  • Arak the Wind-Walker
  • Baby Boom aka Babe
  • Kritter
  • Mr. Bones (Classic). Note that we have no plan ATM to cover his DEO career due to a lack of full appearances listings for this era.
  • Penny Dreadful
  • Tao Jones
• DRAX THE DESTROYER. Now that the Psylocke arc is done, time to start another huge three-parters with our friend the Destroyer. The first third of his profile is the Classic one, covering the 70s and 80s. With lots of adjusted colours, since the dark violet ink used back then did not age well and soon ended looking hot pink...
• DOCTOR BANNERS. Fixed or replaced the following:
  • Savage Mutates from the Post-Atomic Future!
  • Shellshock
  • Marvel Boy I

And now we got, what, 4051 entries ? That's dedication fer ya.

06/16/2009

This batch is just like the previous ones, really.

• ART. Additional material for:
  • Fallen Angel
  • Marvel Boy VII
  • Man-Thing
  • Jaws
  • Sachs
  • Violens
• Grotesk, an old school Marvel subterranean villain who wants to destroy the world (who doesn't ?)
• MINUTEMEN. Civafan's new entry for the Watchmen's predecessors is Hooded Justice
• NEGATION (CROSSGEN). The pair of entries from this arc of Gareth are :
  • Javi Gobian, a fallen hero
  • Komptin, a Negation castellan
• Kaleb, an Elseworld Superman by Roy and Azrael
• KING OF FIGHTERS. Arguably the main character - Kyo Kusanagi, by Tom
• REWRITES. We've got two, because making our old stuff better gives us warm fuzzies:
  • Angelocurtis rewrote the Magician from Mars, a very early super-powered heroine
  • Minor DCU villain Baron Bedlam has also been written
• PSYLOCKE. Last entry in Gareth's trilogy about Betsy.
• BRIGADE. Another entry in our sloooowwwww arc about this terrible 1990s book - Stasis.
• Hominid gave us a very neat writeup about the Triffids, classic early sci-fi creatures of some repute.

So, that's 4040 entries all told. So far.

06/10/2009

Another paint-by-numbers batch to control the backlog.

• SUBSECTIONS. Subsection titles have been added in the long History sections of the following entries:
  • Diamondback II (Classic)
  • Georges Batroc
  • Diamondback II (post-transfusion)
  • Nightwing
  • Wonder Woman II. Diana also has some new quotes, since so few people seem to get the character.
  • Mandarin (Early)
  • Maverick I
• Argorous Astrap, the best-known character from the GURPS International Super Teams campaign world
• 1980s DC VILLAIN. Bloodsport II, the walking arsenal/white supremacist villain. Technically not 1980s, but was written after writing Bloodsport I up.
• UPGRADE. I've finally managed to publish the additional material for the Antibody entry (from DP7)
• PRE-CRISIS LSH WEIRDNESS. Sden, a vaguely Cthulhoid con man... from the future ! By Chris.
• CROSSGEN / NEGATION. As it turns out, two of Gareth's writeups on the subject:
  • Iress, one of the First
  • Mercer Drake, the flying pirate who can always get what he wants
• INITIATIVE. Capita_Senyera has started an arc about Initiatives trainees. In this batch, Komodo.
• Jaws, the most famous shark in the world from the landmark... well, seamark, I guess, eponymous movie. By Ethan.
• PARSE FUNCTION. The first few Google results with the entry's title being correctly displayed are beginning to appear in results when you do some searches on the "Parse" page. At first we just had a number of entries who all started with an "A" but it's progressing. We'll see how quickly Google repopulates its bases, though I'm also considering an alternative search technology.
• EPISODE II IN MULTI-PARTERS. This batch continues to cover two major characters, with the second instalment - since those are much easier to read (and write !) than an encyclopaedia-sized full writeup would be. In this batch :
  • Carol Danvers. Part two covers Carol before she becomes Ms. Marvel, and while she is at her lowest ebb as NASA security chief, writer and Captain Mar-Vell groupie.
  • Psylocke. Gareth's second entry covers the 1990s (more or less), her "psychic ninja" phase.
• MINUTEMEN. Another of Civafan's profiles for the team that preceded the Watchmen - this time it's Captain Metropolis.
• ASTRO CITY. Here comes the Mock Turtle, thanks to Peter. You remember the Mock Turtle, right ? Everybody reads Astro City, right ? Good.
• ART. More prettification of the site, more drops in the ocean... Improved and/or new material for:
  • Drom the Backward Man
  • Human Torch II
  • The Super-Skrull
  • Chance Falconer
  • Varnae
  • Chrome (Acolytes of Magneto)
  • Falcon
  • Smiling Tiger
  • Blastaar
  • Medusa (... but the one from the Hostess fruit pies ads)
  • Fallen Angel
  • Lizard
  • Cheetah
  • Spider-Man (as with every batch, I guess)
  • Loki
  • Steel (John H. Irons)
  • Bishop (X-Men)
  • Grizzly
  • Green Goblin I
  • Rhino
  • Batroc.... ze leepair !!
  • Trapster
  • Vulture I (Marvel)
  • Carnage
  • Wonder Girl (Cassie)
  • Maverick
  • Chameleon (Marvel)
  • Wonder Woman II (Diana)
  • Fixed the Bete Noire illustration in the Fallen Angel entry and related entries
• ADVERT ODDITY. Google thinks that people reading Normal Osborn's entry want to buy combat helmets and bulletproof vests. Which, I'll admit, sort of makes sense.
• KING OF FIGHTERS. Now it's Iori Yagami's turn, thanks to Tom. Why does he have that belt between the knees ? Nobody knows.
• DOCTOR BANNERS. A few here and there:
  • Nightfall (Cadre)
  • Starshrike (Cadre)
  • White Tiger (Del Toro)
  • Yukon Jack
  • Cheetah
  • Jonah Hex
  • Saboteur
  • Mangler II
  • Psycho Mantis

So, that's 4030 entries. Getting to 5K will take a while... especially since writeups are constantly getting more detailed and more illustrated, and there's stuff to be rewritten.

05/24/2009

It seems that the recent batch, though mostly random, keep having some types of entries, so I just took one guy from each recurrent category to save time:

• The Astro City guy from Peter. This time around it's Black Velvet, corrupted street vigilante with darkness powers.
• The guy that gets a copy-edited, clearer entry. This time there are two of those :
  • The entry for Blastaar has been edited for style and clarity, sub-sections were added in the History, and some additional material was added about the Annihilation events and his recent Guardians of the Galaxy appearance.
  • The entry for Gamora (Early) has also received light copy-editing and sub-sections, as the third (and last) Gamora writeup is being finalised. I've also clarified a paragraph about her healing factor in her Infinity Watch writeup, since Drax research made me realise I had missed an incident.
• The 1980s DC villainous guy. In this batch, Chiller, professional assassin with Chameleon and Acid and stuff.
• The Crossgen/Negation guy from Gareth. It's Corrin, telekinetic Atlantean sleeper agent (literally).
• The entirely rewritten guy who gets priority for publication. There are two in this batch:
  • Ten-Eyed Man. Not a huge rewrite and not a huge character, but now he's fully documented.
  • Mister Hyde. Big big writeup, and it only covers his early career. Lots of stuff in it, convenient villain.
• Old-skool Legion of Super-Heroes stuff by Chris. You'll learn about the Starburst Bandits, quite obscure but somewhat cool and surprisingly powerful raiders. With alien burning horses.
• The multi-part, detailed entry about a somewhat major character. Well, there are two with Hyde - but the main one is Gareth's work on Psylocke. In this batch, her early career gets covered. I'm happy about this - Psylocke used to be a major character and has appeal, so it's nice to have a detailed entry about her beginnings.
• The Minuteman (the predecessors of the Watchmen) entry by Civafan. This time around it's Silhouette.
• The painfully obscure guy nobody knows. The volunteer is a minor Steel villain, Amalgam.
• The oddball writeup-based-on-a-song guy, though it's been a long time since the last Rockworld entry - the famous boy named Sue.
• The guy from no category - sexually-obsessed hitwoman Jayne Ferre from the movie Lady Jayne.
• ART. The following:
  • Blue Mary Ryan is now illustrated (almost forgot)
  • New Bob McLeod pencils for Saturn Girl
  • New banners for all the Minutmen so far
  • Longshot got some new banner art from a well-known artist
  • Steel (again - and I've corrected a silly mistake in the labelling of the illos)
  • Carol Danvers (earliest writeup)
  • Flash IV (Iris West)
• DOCTOR BANNERS. Another Cold War Suicide Squad widescreen repaired.

That's 4018 entries. If you were to read one WORG entry every day without ever missing a day, you'd be reading for precisely eleven years.

05/18/2009

I'm continuing to randomly thrash the backlog of articles and art, grabbing stuff as it comes, though of course revised versions still have top priority for publication. If your stuff ain't in yet, it might be in the next one... Roll call:

• DOCTOR BANNERS. Fixed the following missing widescreens:
  • Acrata
  • Ah Keung (both banners)
  • Al Bundy
  • Carcharo (both banners)
  • Dark Messiah (both banners)
  • Gort
  • Johnny Too bad
  • Whiplash (later career)
  • Roulette I
  • Steel Kommando
  • Stencil
  • Sons of Anubis (both banners)
  • Assault & Battery
  • Psi-Borg II
  • Knockabout
  • Violence (all three banners)
  • Nemesis (Soseh Mykros) (both banners)
  • El Diablo (Freedom Force video game)
  • Mentor (Freedom Force video game)
  • First banner for the Cold War Suicide Squad
  • Steeplejack II
• The Duke of Oil was a minor 1980s DC villain, and you may have noted we are expanding our collection of those. An easy-to-use cyborg and cyberpath.
• REWRITES. More turning of old WORG notes and writeups into cutting-edge entries, illustrated to the max, through the power of alchemy (mostly meaning coffee) :
  • Arnim Zola now has a monster writeup with lots of biological Gadgets, as appropriate for this Marvel mastermind villain of notable influence
  • Widowmaker, a world-class martial artist, has been rewritten. Furthermore, his employer, the fortress of Dovecote, now has an entry of its own so you'll know everything. Dovecote was an interesting, simple concept which may see use in many campaigns.
  • The Dark Horse Heroes rewrite slowly continue. In this batch, a big big rewrite of the Machine, a tragic and interesting character with some depth and lotsa powers.
• Nathan Kane, weapons inspector for the UN, was the Bond-like hero of Warren Ellis's Ocean sci-fi adventure, and he's come to inspect WORG.
• ASTRO CITY. Peter's Astro City entry for this batch is the powerful Atomicus.
• We've long wanted to tell you about WORG-favourite character Phase. She's badass, and Chris's writeup is badass too since it manages to simply clearly explain her three or four retcons. This entry focuses on Phase's L.E.G.I.O.N. and R.E.B.E.L.S. career.
• MINUTEMEN. Civafan's Minuteman for this batch is the ill-fated Dollar Bill.
• An extra-obscure character, because we like those - Gold Key's heroine Tiger Girl, a dated one-shot wonder from the late 1960s.
• KING OF FIGHTERS. Dipping into Tom's King of Fighters work, here comes Heidern. Tudo bom !
• Gareth continues to cover all the cool Flash villains in detail. In this batch, the Weather Wizard.
• ROAD REPAIR CREW. All the entries now have the proper spacing to make the stats and background blocks more pleasant to read.
• ART. Are they bad enough dudes to save the President ? Probably. Furthermore, they got new art :
  • Iman
  • Knockabout
  • Violence (who's not a dude, but is definitely bad enough)
  • Banshee
  • Cyclops (early)
  • Fabian Cortez
  • Kingpin
  • Mach I
  • Wolverine
  • Steel (John Henry Irons)
  • Mantis
  • Spider-Man (as usual)
  • Graviton
  • Molten Man
  • Captain America's gear
  • Maverick
  • Living Laser
  • Jolt
  • The main illustration for the pre-Crisis Batwoman has been remastered and fixed
  • Ditto for the pre-Crisis Huntress (Helena Wayne), who also got a piece of extra art
• The entry about the Star Trek phasers has received its "Weapons Locker" tags

Entry count is 4008.

05/14/2009

I wonder how many hours of work go into each entry, on average... when you add everything up. Anyway, the hard-working WORG crew presents:

• ART. The following boys, girls and others have had new art added:
  • Higher-res picture of the cover for Harry Keogh, and higher-res shot of the Starcraft Marine
  • Demogoblin
  • Green Goblin (movie version)
  • J.J. Jameson (again)
  • Mandrill
  • Isaac Mendez (Heroes) (previously unillustrated)
  • Spider-Man (Ultimate) (thwip thwip !)
  • Stegron
  • Super-Skrull
  • Texas Twister
  • Deadshot
  • Human Torch II
  • Hydroman (Marvel)
  • Post-reboot Leviathan (previously unillustrated)
  • Jackal I
  • Mr. Fantastic (Earth-616)
  • Rocket Racer
  • Spider-Man (Earth-616)
  • Balrog
  • Mr. Bison
  • Valentina, Ebony and China
  • Sagat
  • Vega
  • Man-Bull
  • Darna
  • Black Cat (early)
  • Howler (previously unillustrated, but it was my fault)
  • Storm
  • A neat shot of the Black Knight (Dane Withman)
  • Joker (Tangent version)
• Jackhammer I - as a bonus to the semi-recent Demolition Team rewrites, here is the DC Universe's first Jackhammer. He actually beat Superman once, you know.
• Ms. MARVEL. Writeups.org has been sporting a series of entries for Carol Danvers for years. Well, we're rewriting them, only with a much much higher quality - though it'll take a while. We now start with the first chronological writeup about the flashbacks of her youth. If you're part of the majority who think she's not an interesting character, you definitely want to start reading.
• THE HYBRID REWRITTEN ! The plurality of the new stuff in this batch is a complete rewrite (and reillustration) of the Hybrid, an interesting (if minor) group of superhumans in the DCU. All members now have definitive (and prettier, and more accurate, and more interesting) entries. Namely :
  • Behemoth
  • Gorgon
  • Harpi
  • Prometheus
  • Pteradon
  • Scirocco
  • Touch 'n' Go
• The Joker - Heath Ledger's version, as fittingly written up by our Ledger look-alike, Tom. For many, this version of the Joker might be the definitive one ! He's on every player's mind, and GMs whop like to roleplay their NPCs have a treat here.
• ASTRO CITY. Another entry from Peter's research into this fascinating comic book. Today it's the Blue Knight, possibly an undead vigilante killer cop with lotsa guns.
• CROSSGEN / NEGATION. More entries from this interesting book from Gareth:
  • Lizard Lady, big Saurian soldier with a gun and an appetite
  • Matua, a sorcerer from the Djinn Guild
• MINUTEMEN. Civafan has started compiling information about the predecessors of the famous Watchmen, the Minutemen. In this batch, the Mothman.
• DOCTOR BANNERS.
  • The banner illustrations for Man-Ape have been repaired. In our mad gambit to convince the world that Man-Ape is a cool character, we even added quite a few new banners. And subsection titles.
  • Hiro (from the TV show Heroes
  • Valentina (from Darna)
  • Shaolin terror priests
  • Black Widow I and Rockman (2007 takes on the Golden Age characters)
  • Joker (Tangent version)

And, well that's 3,999 entries now. Will me manage to break 4K ? The suspense is unbearable !

05/10/2009

A few more things (no new entries though):

• ROAD REPAIR CREW. The more generous spacing for stats and background blocks has been implemented for about 85+% of the entries so far. It apparently works on all common browsers.
• NEW SITE. Due to a cranio-rectal insertion-generated error, the titles were not displaying correctly. Now they do (your browser's window will be called "Doc Savage" when you open the Doc Savage entry). This also means that Google will finally get a chance to crawl the site in good conditions, and display intelligible search results in the Parse section of writeups.org - though of course it'll take some time for them to re-re-index the site.
• ART. So:
  • Scythe II and Shu Hu both have much improved art, from a recoloured Iron Fist reprint
  • Johnny Punk and Impercepto (Hostess cupcakes)
  • Mandarin
  • Misty Knight
  • Arisia
  • Bishop (X-Men)
  • Jean Grey (yes, again)
  • Phoenix II (Rachel)
  • Nebula Man
  • Klaw
  • Mentallo
  • Kingpin
  • Man-Killer
  • "Jolly" Jonah Jameson
  • The Lizard
  • Jackal I
• BANNERS REPAIR CREW.
  • Doctor Lansing
  • Colonel Ling (wasn't easy)
  • Reprise
  • Blackwing II
  • Sheeda Buffalo Spider
  • Atom Smasher II
  • Doctor Faustus
• EDITIN'. The Doctor Faustus entry also has been copy-edited for style, clarity, most typos, adding subsections, etc. Man-Killer is now referenced as both Man-Killer and Mankiller.
• TAGGING. The articles about Unreal weapons and Half-Life weapons now have "Weapon locker" in the title and Notes, as does the article about missiles. Finding the arms-centric article should thus be easier.

04/29/2009

More cleaning up of stuff in my work folders, which chiefly means art at this point.

• ROAD REPAIR CREW. Due to non-standard CSS interpretation by some browsers I could name... I've started recoding all entries to have extra whitespace between sections in stats blocks and background blocks, no matter what the browser - since it makes reading entries so much more pleasant. It has barely started at this point, but will slowly flow down, starting with high-ID# entries.
  Note that it also solves another issue - the Rituals were looking weird since there was too much whitespace between the lines describing the Ritual. It's no longer the case.
  Also, numerous small corrections are being done as I sweep through the site for the umpteenth time.
• ART. New stuff for :
  • Black Lightning
  • Carnage
  • Spider-Man
  • Vermin
  • Bullseye
  • Nick Fury
  • Wolverine
  • Bishop (X-Men)
  • Invisible Girl
  • Thing (modern)
  • Droog
• The entry for Monstro V has received various adjustments for diction, style, clarity, etc.
• SEARCH ENGINE. Hmmm, lemme try... no, the new site ain't been Google-parsed yet as of this writing.
• MATTHEW CLARK ART. As it turns out Matthew Clark has a blog (http://www.myspace.com/long_eyelashes). As it further turns out I like his stuff and find it illustrative (though he should realise that bra cup sizes below D are not that rare). So the relevant sketches from his blog now grace WORG in an unauthorised kind of way, namely:
  • Battle Angel Alita
  • Captain Marvel Jr. (CM3)
  • Batgirl I (Gordon)
  • Captain America
  • Crossbones
  • Huntress (Helena Wayne)
  • Quicksilver
  • Green Arrow
  • Nightwing
  • Rocketeer
  • Thor
  • Wonder Woman II
• As part of the democratic people's republic of Worgistan leadership by the base, Gareth's choice of illustrations has been added to the homepage in the rotating 'spotlight' space in the right-hand column.

04/28/2009

This is a relatively small batch, chiefly intended to free up my work folders so I can start assessing the backlog.

• IE6 IS A JERK. As usual, IE6 was not displaying standard HTML backgrounds correctly. This is now fixed. But this is no reason to use IE6. At all.
• NEW ENTRIES. Only ten, since we are between formatting scripts and that means prepping entries takes more work than it should. Roll call:
  • OMAC - the original, legendary, pre-Crisis badass Kirby version. OMAC lives... so that man may live !
  • Gareth has written the "six-million-year-man" (perhaps best-known as Hatch-22), also a Kirby creation from the future.
  • Cedric - the hero of Vertigo's Fight for tomorrow Limited Series, a tragic muay thai pit fighter.
  • The whimsical, powerful time-space travel devices from the Marvel Universe, King Solomon's frogs, have been written up by Gareth
  • Steel Raven, a somewhat obscure super-agent type in the Marvel Universe, with notes about the mysterious Fortress
  • Wonder Woman - this time it's the version from the 2009 animated movie
  • Another entry from Gareth's Negation arc (from the Crossgen comic) - Trocantor
  • Rosa Torez is the little girl who starred in the Wild Girl Limited Series at Wildstorm. She's a prophet.
  • Another entry from Peter's Astro City work - Street Angel, a fallen hero
  • A semi-major hero of the DC Universe gets a writeup at least ! Our first Steel (John Henry Irons) entry covers his early days - but he already was a big damn hero back then
• NEW ART. For Mechagorgon, King Tiger and the older OMAC writeup.
• IT'S OVER ONE THOUSAND ! As a completely random note, we've sailed past one thousand banner images - aka insets (since they're set amidst the text column) or widescreen illustrations (since they're broader than the basic illustrative column). That's a fair bit.
• Gamora (Infinity Watch). This writeup has been revised for diction, style, clarity, History subsections, etc.
• BANNERS REPAIR CREW. More work to continue recovering from that stupid HD crash some months back. In this batch :
  • Armadillo
  • Fantomex
  • Mechagorgon

This means that we've reached 3991 entries in our great march toward nowhere in particular.

04/26/2009

More grunt work to make stuff closer to an illustrated encyclopaedia than to a bunch of text some guys on the Internet came up with. Appearances govern credibility, after all.

• NEW ENTRY. As part of MySQL interfaces tests, I've added the first new entry in a troll's age - the group background for the Starjammers. It was awkward to have the Starjammers rewrites point toward a not-yet-published article... Basically it's a large History section, though there's a lot of peekchurs too.
• NEW VERSION STUFF.
  • We're now on what should be the final, target server after some time spent on a free.fr subdomain (which was the dev server). The writeups.org domain is now again the 'native' domain for the site, and not a funky http redirection.
  • This hopefully means that the built-in Google search engine ("Parse" button) will work as intended - at least it makes it possible. We'll have to wait a bit for Google to crawl the site and see what happens.
  • Speaking of Google I kinda broke the ads. Will be back ASAP. It's hard for me to renounce a revenue stream that brought in, hmmm, nearly two bucks so far. Still the ads are getting useful - when fixing a banner image on Thor, the ads were about discovering Viking mythology, and super-heroes game figures. That's not bad.
  • The "Alpha" button was borked. It is now back as it should, and I can only encourage folks to use it since it's an interesting way to view the site.
  • A few minor irregularities with how the search results were displayed have been smoothed over.
  • After some head-scratching we've come to the conclusion that a layout trick we use only works on Firefox (and really shouldn't). It created more padding between the lines of text in some sections - stats and background, mostly. Manu has found a simple way to make it happen on every browsers, but it will necessitate a fair bit of recoding on my part, which will take time.
• REWRITES. Two big ones and two smaller ones:
  • Barb Wire. The first Dark Horse Heroes rewrite. More accurate stats, much more info, mo' better illustrations, incorporates various appearances that were not in the previous version, etc. - a very complete profile of what is likely the Dark Horse Heroes characters with the greatest name recognition. For some reason I'm happy about how that one came out.
  • Hellrazor. A handy minor thug from the Marvel Universe, now with an improved entry and cleaner illustrations.
  • King Tiger. Another interesting Dark Horse Heroes character, now back with a much more developed and richer writeup. Kung fu ! Guns ! Demons ! Magic items ! Acrobatics ! Drama ! Violence ! Sex ! Treason ! Noodles !
  • White Dragon II. An obscure Marvel villain who was a favourite when I was a wee kid. Now thoroughly revised, with improved illos..
• ART. New stuff for the following boys and girls and others:
  • Fang (Shi'ar Imperial Guard)
  • Apocalypse
  • Beast (X-Men, main w/up)
  • Beast, but the Fables one
  • She-Hulk
  • Bishop (X-Men)
  • Razorback (Marvel)
  • Thanos (yet again)
  • Foreigner
  • Jean Grey
  • Rampage (DC)
  • Impossible Man
  • Gideon Mace (again)
  • Hammerhead (again - and yes I plan on rewriting him)
  • Killer Shrike
  • Black Cat (modern)
  • Angel (Early)
  • Super-Skrull
  • Frankenstein (Seven Soldiers)
  • Chameleon (Marvel)
  • Kraven the Hunter
  • Longshot
  • Fitzroy
  • Rick Jones
  • Crux (Cerebro's X-Men)
  • Validus (pre-Crisis) (and his missing banner is back up)
  • Storm
  • Spider-Man (Ultimate version) (again)
• REPAIRED/REPLACED BANNERS. There's a renewed effort going on to replace a bunch of those. For now, we got:
  • Boy Blue
  • Rapture
  • Salamandra
  • Tellus
  • Crux (Cerebro's X-Men)
  • Half of Quicksilver (Ultimate)
  • Frankenstein (Seven Soldiers)
  • Bouncing Boy
  • Validus (pre-Crisis) (who also has new art)
  • Starhawk
  • Beast (Fables)
  • Quicksilver (Ultimate version)
  • Stature
  • Devos the Devastator
  • Unicorn I
  • Dr. Doom (Ultimate version)
  • Snow White
  • Glob (Ultramarines)
  • Mirror Master
  • Black Knight (Dane W.)
  • The Brain Globes (stop laughing)
  • Midnight Sun
  • Yondu
  • Thor (Ultimate version)
  • Meteorite III
  • All the missing Runaways material (Arsenic, Sister Grimm, Talkback and Victor Mancha)
   

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  04/22/2009

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  More work to bring everything to the minimum acceptable level...

  • REWRITES. It's been months without new content, so here are a few bits:
    • Ch'od and Raza of the Starjammers - full rewrite with many illustrations. Like the Hepzibah rewrite those point toward a Starjammers history which is not on the site yet - if you need to read it now it's at http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/dc-heroes/message/51623.
    • The Demolition Team (Rosie, Steamroller, Scoopshovel, Jackhammer II, Hardhat) has also been rewritten and re-illustrated (though the illos were already OK). A classic band of minor, obscure thugs - and they are classic because they're just so campy.
    • Our serviceable, but not exactly exciting, notes for Abra Kadabra have been replaced by a full writeup with additional illustrations, courtesy of Gareth.
    • A number of old Serpent Society entries have been redone, since we have a fondness for those. Much more information, more accurate stats, more and better illustrations, etc. for the following entries:
      • Bushmaster
      • Copperhead III
      • Rattler
      • Rock Python
      • Fer de Lance
      • Black Racer
      • Puff Adder
    • Old, obscure villain the Hijacker has been completely redone.
    • The rewritten text for the recently re-illustrated Ivan (the kyphotic giant) is now in
  • ART. New stuff, with a few pieces taken from rapsheet.co.uk, for:
    • Agent Graves
    • Afro
    • Rom
    • Adam Warlock
    • Icemaster
    • 4-D
    • Access
    • Absorbing Man
    • Silver Sable
    • Artemus Gordon (movie version)
    • James West (movie version)
    • Plantman
    • Green Goblin III (Hamilton)
    • Cyclone I
    • Lizard
    • Akuma
    • Yukio
    • Mister Fantastic
    • Morbius (modern)
    • Ajax
    • Sidewinder I
    • Foolkiller II
    • Nicholas Scratch
    • Jonas Harrow
    • Galactus
    • Ch'od
    • Raza
    • Abomination
    • Aeon Flux (cartoon version)
    • Jessica Jones
    • Goldigger (Hostess)
    • X-Treme
    • Professor X
    • Ace (Marvel)
    • Black Cat (modern)
    • Spider-Man
    • Captain Marvel / Photon (Genis)
    • Adam Warlock
    • Time traveller (2002 movie)
    • Magneto
    • Reactron
    • Gideon Mace
    • Dr. Strange
    • Runner
    • Venom
    • Fabian Cortez
    • Aeon Flux (movie)
    • Trapster
    • Agron
    • Crossbones
    • Catwoman
    • Femmes Fatales (all four entries)
    • Will-the-Wisp
    • Fantastic Four (all four core members) (modern entries for Ben and Sue)
    • Captain Alexandra Goncharova
    • Generic thugs
    • Hammerhead
    • Johnny Quick (post-Crisis CSA version)
    • Lady Deathstrike
    • Morbius (one in each)
    • Nightcrawler
    • Orqwith
    • Sandman (Baker)
    • Thanos
    • Ultimate Spider-Man
    • And Vulture (Toomes) - broken banner replaced.
   

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  04/01/2009

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  More work to get the site out of its beta state:

  • ROAD REPAIR CREW. Two sweeps throughout the entries have been done by now -- all layouts should be good and all the shaded boxes should be up. If a writeup looks discombobulated now, it's an actual mistake and no longer work in progress. More work will follow to revitalise images with faded colours, add sub-sections in text bits which are too long, etc. but... not right now.
  • BETA WORK. The bug preventing people from seeing page 2 and 3 of the results for Category = Homemade and Subcategory = Bil's Campaign has *finally* been killed off.
  • ART. A few bits:
    • Ragged Robin (the Invisibles)
    • Lord Fanny (the Invisibles)
    • Hardhat (Demolition Team)
    • Scoopshovel (Demolition Team)
    • Jackhammer II (Demolition Team)
    • Rosie (Demolition Team)
    • Steamroller (Demolition Team)
    • Ivan (the kyphotic giant)
    • Kid Quantum I (previously unillustrated)
    • Impact (from Cyberforce, previously unillustrated)
    • Tele-villain (previously unillustrated)
    • Pikara (previously unillustrated)
   

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  04/04/2009

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  The following improvements have been done on the beta version of WORG v4 whilst the work to launch the new version of the site was underway, since one can only fix HTML for so long without going insane. Roll call:

  • ROAD REPAIR CREW. Entries with an ID# (the number at the end of the URL) above 118 have been reviewed for layout normalisation and thus look non-awful. Below that, anything goes. Special sections (the shaded, boxed sets) have been implemented and checked in entries with an ID above 3949.
  • WIDESCREEN ILLUSTRATIONS REPAIR CREW. The following entries have been fixed or replaced with similar material :
    • Voidoid
    • Warbeast
    • The Harpies
    • Sheeda forces (partial fix)
    • Ant-Man
    • Vulture I (Toomes)
    • Mazinger Z (I love that picture)
    • Loki
    • Chainsaw Warrior
    • Storm
    • Daredevil
    • Big Wheel
    • Lizard
    • Starman (Jack Knight)
    • Cutthroat
    • Batroc
    • Arabian Knight
    • Angel (Early)
    • Titanium Man
    • Starcraft Marines
    • Doc Savage
    • Jack Burton
    • John Carter of Mars
    • Moonstar (Psyche / Year One)
    • STRIPE
    • Red Wolf
    • Ankylosaur
    • Captain Nemo
  • PREVIOUSLY ABSENT ART. REZcat's Rainbow Archer and Ogre Champions conversions are now illustrated, as is the Weapons Locker (Bows) article. Also, err, some stuff I mistakenly put in the "ART" paragraph below and now I forget which ones because this is a fairly big batch. Plus the Look-a-Like
  • ART. Further added a few pictures (including a lot from the previously-praised rapsheet.co.uk) to the following entries in order to celebrate the new site:
    • Diamondback II (post-transfusion)
    • Sabretooth
    • Black Knight (Garrett)
    • Mystique (comics version)
    • Starbolt (Imperial Guard)
    • Claw the Unconquered
    • General Zod (pre-Crisis original)
    • Nightwing
    • Absorbing Man
    • Talia
    • Juggernaut
    • Galactus
    • The Hood
    • The Golem (original movies)
    • Backlash
    • Spoiler
    • Superman (Earth's End timeline)
    • Warhawk
    • Beast (X-Men, main writeup)
    • Antibody (New Universe)
    • Flash III
    • Fury I (Kosmatos)
    • Aquaman
    • Blade (movie version)
    • Psilence (Bloodpool)
    • Fusion (Bloodpool)
    • Rubble (Bloodpool)
    • Seoul (Bloodpool)
    • Task (Bloopool)
    • Wylder (Bloodpool)
    • Foolkiller II
    • Starman (Jack Knight)
    • Hitman (Monaghan)
    • Professor Strange
    • Colossus (X-Men)
    • Storm
    • Invisible Un-Thing
    • Fire-haired Karla
    • Mandarin (early)
    • Slaughter Boy (fixed the stupid hightlights ratio)
    • Salem's Seven
    • Renee Montoya (the 1990s)
    • James Bond (litterary)
    • Galactus' Cat
    • Tam (Genosha's Magistrates)
    • Ragman (post-Crisis)
    • Lamplighter
    • Cavalier (post-Crisis)
    • Bane
    • Multi-Woman
    • Black Racer (Serpent Society)
    • Green Goblin I (Osborn)
    • Fitzroy
    • Digger II
    • Invisible Woman (Current, Earth-616)
    • Captain Midnight
    • Futurecop (Tac X1 Alpha vehicle)
    • Shadowcat (cleaned up another low-res illo)
    • Uatu the Watcher (ditto)
    • Mysterio
    • Nightcrawler
    • General Ross
    • Mordru (post-reboot)
    • Black Mask
    • Mano (post-reboot)
    • Sandman (Baker)
    • The Question
    • Validus (post-reboot)
    • Riptide (Marauders)
    • Lady Shiva
    • Beetle (who really needs to be rewritten)
    • Weapons Locker article (illustrating a type of power armour)
    • Bengal
    • Dr. Octopus I
    • Punisher (Castle) (and yes, that includes even more Bradstreet art)
    • Thanos
    • The Connelly characters (Harry Bosch, Cassie Black, Jack Karch)
    • Black Spider II
    • The undying don
    • Martian Manhunter
    • Shatterstar
    • Kurt Hectic
    • Megaman X
    • Quincy Harker
    • Baby Face Johnny (Hostess)
    • Zoom II
    • Black Tom Cassidy
    • Radioactive Man
    • The Unreal Tournament Classic weapons are now illustrated
    • Death-Stalker
    • Impossible Man
    • She-Hulk
    • Medusa ; Black Bolt
    • Manhattan Guardian ; Big Ed
    • Cat III
    • Leona Osaki
    • Puma sisters
    • Cyclops (both the classic and the early entries, too)
    • Bloodstrike
    • Dracula (Marvel)
    • Ultimate Spider-Man
    • Leader
    • Sledge Hammer
    • Emma Frost
    • Magneto
    • Sasquatch
    • Domino
    • Black Lotus
    • Harry Leland
    • Bulldozer (of the Wrecking Crew)
    • Jean Grey
    • Red Skull
    • Living Eraser
    • Unicorn I (Masaryk)
    • Rogue (Xtreme X-Men era)
    • Bullseye
    • Xena
    • Captain Cold
    • Balloon Man
    • Captain America
    • Question II (Renee Montoya)
    • Thunderbird I (John Proudstar)
    • Firestorm I
    • Trapster
    • Boy (the Invisibles)
    • Jack Frost (the Invisibles)
    • King Mob (the Invisibles)
    • Heatwave
    • Catwoman
    • Owlman (CSA, post-Crisis version)
    • Owlman (the pre-Crisis one)
    • Crossbones
    • Sunspot (post-Reignfire)
    • Awesome Android
    • Growing Man
    • Deadshot
    • "Jolly" Jonah Jameson
    • Taskmaster
    • Silver Scarab aka Sandman IV
    • Human Torch (Johnny Storm)
    • Sinister
    • Spider-Man
    • Captain Mar-Vell
    • And finally, what I think was the worst image on WORG (the Golden Age Catman) has been scrapped and the illustration bar redone - though getting crisp images from faded 68-year-old comic book paper is impossible.
  • BOB McLEOD ART. There already was a wave of Bob McLeod illustrations from his site - as I probably mentioned back then, his work and artistry match very well with what I'm looking for to illustrate characters on Worg.New stuff and fixing of material damaged/destroyed in the HD crash include:
    • The Punisher pencilled banner
    • The cool John Carter of Mars widescreen illustration, and a Moonstar/Psyche pencil, as previously mentioned
    • A Black Bolt pencilled piece
    • A Magik (Illyana Rasputin) pencilled widescreen piece
  • WORG PATROL.
    • The entry for Neh-Buh-Loh (aka Qwewq, aka the Nebula Man) has been made somewhat less incomprehensible, though it's not there yet.
    • Added some bits to the very old Jack Burton writeup, tweaked and copy-edited some bits in the Batroc entry
    • Added Roy's notes about the Nautilus to the Captain Nemo entry
    • Made a round of editing on the second Renee Montoya entry (the largest and clumsiest text on WORG) and started experimenting with sub-sections
    • Further experiments with sub-sections in the Gladiator (Potter) writeup, the Doom Marine writeup, the Titanium Man entry and some organisation templates and... some other stuff since I just add sub-sections when I stumble on exceedingly long stuff of mine.
    • Cleaned up the French diacritics in the Nikita (movie) entry
    • Added some material to the Vigilante I (Sanders) entry to cover the bits in Morrison's Seven Soldiers
    • A handful of entries who somehow still had no whitespace between paragraphs have been disciplined and punished
    • I am also continuing to deversion some of my very old writeups so that the version numbers better indicate the actual maturity of the writeup (the definition of a v1, a v2, etc. has changed over the years). Barring cases where I've screwed up, I'm not touching writeups where I'm not author or coauthor. Let me know if you want to deversion stuff you did ten years ago.
    • I've also versioned those writeups which weren't
    • Writeups with little original content, cobbled from several other sources, are now usually noted as being "Compiled by" the author. We did that a fair bit 10+ years ago.
    • As previously mentioned a large number of formatting issues, typos, small mistakes, etc. have been fixed en passant throughout the content since there is an endless fount of them.
    • Credited the Power Team USA and Four Horsemen entries to Andrew Lee (the "author' line had somehow been destroyed)
    • I'm also finishing to compile a list of lost widescreen illustrations so more people can help with those

04/04/2009

Writeups.org is now gamma-powered !

The beta of the fourth version of the site can now be seen at http://writeupsorg.free.fr ; the writeups.org domain will soon point toward the beta site (give it time to renew and propagate).

Now sporting a fetching green hue and massive superhuman strength and durability, writeups.org is green green green and has the following super-powers:

• *Much* more pleasant, smooth and professional-looking layout. Also, more green.
• All inset images now have stable links and are easily backuped. They won't be destroyed or fail to display ever again. Hopefully.
• Full production server (and not a test server as with the previous version), so no more service overload error pages. Normally.
• The new entries can now be more easily explored - through a simpler access both to the update archives ("New" button) and to the result pages with the latest changes ("Updates" button). The later was previously broken, and many readers clamoured for its return !
• Faster queries from both the buttons and the search engine, more powerful navigation across search result pages
• Will be fully Googlable (see the caveats) - WORG now has a working Google search engine, and the pages are going to come up in mainstream Google and other search engine result pages, which should result in considerably enhanced traffic. As always, do feel free to link to favourite entries from your own web pages (blogs, myspace pages, posts in forums, etc.) - but see caveats.
• Full, detailed, copy-edited FAQ with *tons* of content ; new page with useful links
• New display mode ("Alpha" button) offering long, unbroken lists of entries starting with a given letter. Those are also great to gain a sense of the amount of data on the site. And the best way to find the entry for people like X or V.
• More tips
• New feature showcasing selected, clickable illustrations on the homepage
• Entries are now more pleasant and easy to read - and billions (well, it *feels* like billions) of minuscule edits have been done, and are being done, to make everything more polished
• As part of our continuing efforts to make it easier to read long text sections, this version of the site includes the possibility to have sub-sections, which will be used to break some history sections into chapters.
• Extremely long entries (such as Hominid's campaign timeline) are no longer cut short. The 'debris' files the search engines kept indexing have been search-and-destroyed. The bug that prevented the Bil's Campaign entries to be searched beyond the first page will be fixed soon-ish.
• No data regression as far as I can tell
• Lots of illustrations have been added - see the next update message.
• Google ads, which might even offer useful things when enough people are using the site

IMPORTANT CAVEATS:

Three things ain't over:

• the reformatting of the entries is not finished ; see the next update message
• the site has not been fully tested yet (I just spotted a glitch in the search engine)
• this is a *temporary* server - tests during the months revealed it's not a viable for long-term use. While we are preparing to migrate to a better machine, take note of the following:
  • the domain is really writeups.free.fr -- whereas the previous server had been tinkered with so that the domain seemed to be writeups.org on every single page. We will fully go back to the writeups.org domain on the next server.
  • the Google search engine is going to be rather confused by all this domains tomfoolery. I'm not sure how it is going to react, really - we'll see

CLOSING NOTE:

The site should now offer appropriately slick presentation for the content written up by the ever-lovin' DCH Mailing List contributors, and a much enhanced experience both for habitual readers. Hopefully, it will attract further readers and contributors - especially if the entries do show up more easily in search engines. It might also encourage contributions and comments - getting published on a professional-looking site feels much more like an achievement.

Of course, all comments and requests for change are welcome - whilst the coding phase is largely over, some aspects of layout and readability can still be changed in the CSSes.

01/17/2009

Another art batch since I'm too sick to do layout work today... Roll call:

• Beyonder
• Cyclops (Classic)
• Fantomex
• Green Goblin I
• Human Torch II
• Jean Grey
• Kraven
• Living Eraser
• Mysterio (two pieces, too - classic Ditko shots)
• Nick Fury
• Punisher (everything should be repaired now, I think)
• Sean Cassidy (Banshee) and Emma Frost now share a widescreen illo
• Spot
• Thing (Modern)
• Thundra (a higher quality version of the official illo - and yes, she's on the long lost of people we just have to rewrite)
• Titan (of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard)
• Venom (yep, again)
• Vindicator (Heather Hudson) (same as Thundra)
• Wolverine (a good shot of the costume he had in his very first appearance)
• The widescreen illos for Cassandra Craft have been rebuilt and she even got an extra one, because I looooove my Seven Soldiers writeups.

Though of course, with about 4,000 entries, those batches are drops in the ocean I'm still happy to pretify things up with crisp, vivid high-quality pictures.

01/12/2009

Another Marvel art pack, as I start mass-mutating the layouts of the entries themselves on the next site. How long will the latter take largely depends on how many typos, unclear bits, small formatting issues, etc. I decide to fix as I churn through the entries.

As usual with image packs all peekchurs are high-quality, though they vary in use - from banners to break up text with breather spaces, to illustrations of an important aspect of the character, to definitive main shots of the character. Roll call:

• Angel (classic) (same first illo with a better colouring)
• Belladonna (same first illo with a better colouring; and colour rebalanced body shot)
• Angel (Archangel)
• Bishop (X-Men)
• Cannonball (early)
• Professor X and Jean Grey now share a new widescreen illo. Charles also has a new vertical illo in pencil.
• Icemaster (the Hostess strips refugee)
• Cyclops (early)
• White Dragon II
• Kangaroo I
• Quicksilver
• Silver Surfer (yes, again. He does look fascinating.)
• Spider-Man (from a very old poster book)
• Silvermane
• Spider-Man 2099
• Smasher III (the Shi'ar Imperial Guard one)
• Ultimate Spider-Man (it's a very Spider-man pack)
• Vermin
• Vulture I

01/06/2009

Another art pack just like the previous ones:

• Angel (early)
• Banshee (Sean Cassidy)
• Black Panther
• Captain Marvel I (one of my favourite shots)
• Carnage (again)
• Dormammu
• Green Goblin I
• Ikaris
• Jean Grey
• Leader
• Ms. Marvel II (early)
• Rocket Racer
• Sabretooth (two pieces)
• Spider-Man
• Spider-Woman I (two pieces)
• Tarantula II
• Thing (classic) (again)
• Tinkerer
• Vulture II
• Morbius (early)
• Hussar
• Captain America
• Frank Drake
• Medusa

01/04/2009

A new batch of art content - same sources, same high quality and about the same size as the last one. New and/or recreated art for:

• Apocalypse
• Beast (Early)
• Black Cat (Early)
• Black Panther
• Black Tom Cassidy
• Carnage
• Dr. Strange
• The Falcon (mainstream Marvel Universe)
• Galactus
• Gibbon
• Gremlin III
• The Kingpin
• Rhino
• Shadowcat - the first shot was an average Internet picture and has been replaced by the same picture, but with the normal WORG quality
• Silver Surfer
• Sinister
• Valkyrie
• Vulture I
• Wolverine (again)

01/02/2009

Both the new site and the main script to redo the layout of the entries have hit the '90% done' mark by Christmas - though of course that is always the most dangerous point for a project to be at. The release hoped to take place for the New Year is now likely to take place in January, but of course further delays are a definite possibility.

• ART - This batch almost solely consists of new high-quality art, chiefly for Marvel characters. It is taken from various hardback encyclopaedias from Marvel and DK, and when all is said and done I hope to have a bit more than 400 illustrations from those sources. Note that several illustrations in this batch are replacement for material lost in a previous crash -- and that some of the entries gaining more and better art really oughta be redone. Roll call:
  • Captain Marvel III (Genis Vell)
  • Doctor Octopus
  • Thing (modern), Invisible Woman (current), Mister Fantastic and the Human Torch entries now have a shared group shot
  • Hammerhead
  • The Kingpin
  • Lion God (this one from a comic, not a hardback)
  • Loki
  • Maggie Sawyer
  • Molecule Man
  • Namor the Sub-Mariner
  • The Punisher (one more repaired widescreen shot and two more column illos. Yes, I think Bradstreet does the definitive portrayals of Frank)
  • Rachel Summers (her entry as Phoenix II)
  • Rogue (current) (including some shots provided by Gareth)
  • Sabretooth
  • Kitty Pryde / Shadowcat
  • The Silver Surfer (also one of the coolest pictures of that character, ever)
  • Storm of Wakanda
  • Thanos of Titan
  • The Thing (classic)
  • Thor
  • Tombstone
  • The Two-Gun Kid
  • Wolverine
  • Will o' the Wisp
• WORG PATROL. Some lite copy-editing in the Rogue writeup. Clarifications and copy editing for the Blue Blaze, Double Dragon, Scott James, Blistik, the Lion God. Somehow the typos are easier to catch when viewing texts in the new layout, which is both a good and a bad thing.

12/18/2008

This grab has chiefly produced recent (though rather varied) entries, so I guess the backlog is low enough for me to start scouring my archives chronologically - though that also implies taking somewhat final decision as to what material makes the cut and what will likely forever languish in mail archives. In the meantime, roll call:

• ART - I've slammed together another package of additional art :
  • Amphibion
  • Nightwing
  • Annihilus
  • Banshee (Cassidy)
  • Brute (Richards)
  • Ghost Rider I
  • Invisible Girl
  • Ironclad (ands the other U-foes, though not as much)
  • Judge Anderson
  • Magik (Rasputin)
  • Mister Fantastic
  • More art for the recent Werewolf By Night entry
  • Morph
  • Nightcrawler
  • Rick Jones
  • She-Hulk
  • Rom the space knight
  • Wolverine
  • An inset shared by Wonder Man and the Beast has been recreated
  • Droog's inset illustration has been redone
  • The Gremlin III's widescreen illos have been redone (including the nice shot of the Bitterfrost base)
  • The terrible, horrible illustrations for Prism (of the Marauders) has been scrapped and replaced with much better material
  • And one of the Don Vincenzo banners has been recreated
• KING OF FIGHTERS/FATAL FURY. We start that voluminous arc from Tom with "Blue" Mary Ryan.
• Muse is another of the mid-1980s DCU villains being covered ; he was an opponent of Blue Beetle and the Question.
• CHAMPIONS CONVERSION. REZcat's conversion for this batch is Howler, a classic villain for that RPG.
• Superman One Million, the Superman of the far future, is the second of Peter's One Million writeups. And probably the most powerful character on writeups.org.
• STRIKEBACK. My favourite team member - Pandora, the mind-controlling house cat - as written up by Gareth.
• COMMITTEE. Another minor 1980s gimmick hitman - Ice, the sniper.
• Pavane is a professional trainer of panthers, and a whip specialist wearing a leather bikini. Hey, that was the kung fu 1970s. Things were different back then.
• HEROES. Isaac Mendez, the man who can paint the future, by Adam.
• CROSSGEN. This batch start publishing entries from Gareth's work throughout a bit of the Crossgen universe - namely characters from the Negation book. In this batch:
  • Brevus
  • Evinlea
  • The Karaki race
• Chief Parker is an old pre-Crisis character from Superboy's Smallville supporting cast, written up by Robert.
• REWRITES / STARJAMMERS. We start rewriting the Starjammers, with the arguably best-known one - Hepzibah.

Current number of entries is 3980.

12/10/2008

The new version of the site will likely be ready before Xmas - however the actual release will depend on how well the work to reskin all entries - nearly 4,000 - goes, and whether I experience a nervous breakdown midway through from the sheer repetition. :-) In the meanwhile, roll call:

• ART. Somehow, time was found to provide new art for:
  • Snowbird (still a lame joke writeup, but at least there's a now another pretty picture)
  • Devos the Devastator
  • Invisible Woman (current)
  • Jean Dewolff (and an issue with the strange redward shift of the original illustration was fixed, though I think the only two persons who cared in the world were me and the Marvel colourist who reworked that picture for the new OHOTMU edition)
  • Mister Sinister
  • The Acrobat
  • Dormammu
  • Manhunter VII (Kirk Depaul)
  • Ambrose Chase (placeholders replaces thanks to Gareth)
  • Buffalo (a Champions conversion I had forgotten to illustrate)
  • Guardian and Superboy from the AZ Universe in recent batch
  • Deathlok III (Collins), some Fantastic Four entries, Mirage (of the Titans), the Sphinx, Jean Grey, Cyclops (Classic), the Leader, and Hammerhead all have new bits of banner art
  • The inset images for the Android Man, the Rhino, Hawkeye and Steel Wind have been recreated, as well as one Punisher shot
  • Matilda (from a recent batch) is now illustrated
  • Dracula (Marvel version)
  • Absorbing Man
  • Echo / Ronin
  • The Abomination
• The biggest name for this batch is likely Professor Hugo Strange, one of the classic Batman enemies (and a rather dangerous one to boot), now written up by Peter.
• ELSEWORLD SCOOBY GANG. The last entry is here, and it's of course Daphne.
• Andrew's entry for a semi-classic Marvel villain, Mentallo, is in.
• BLAK LAGOON. *Possibly* the last entry (who can tell) - Eda, from the Church of Violence.
• Mister Peabody is a very smart dog -- so smart that Robert wrote it up.
• REWRITES. The rewrite for this batch, on the heels of the Priestess, is a complete rewrite for Mark Hazzard with much better pictures, stats, profile, etc.
• Sinestesia is a PC from Kal El's "Patrulla Barna" campaign
• UNIVERSE AZ. Another entry, with Azrael's campaign's version of Red Raven.
• Another version of Superman - this one from Mike's Wink World campaign.
• COMMITTEE. We indulge in yet another weird 1970s street-level villain - Sarnak, the Master of the Army of Fear. He's got a certain style, if you go for those things.
• The second biggest name of this batch (hey, it's relative !) is the beginning of Roy's series of writeups about the Werewolf (aka Werewolf by Night). Logically enough the first entry is the one describing the early years of the character.
• STRIKEBACK. The team members (and occasional enemies) keep trickling through - now it's Short Fuse's turn.
• WORG PATROL - here goes:
  • Following a comment Gareth made 3+ years ago, Ace's Initiative was raised by one :-)
  • And Captain Picard finally has Artist (Singing), too.
  • The entry for Forsa now has a better modelisation of his powers (and new helpers).
  • Fixed part of Ambrose Chase's powers to better fit the material
  • Small fix for the recent Priestess rewrite to make it clearer she's from the New Universe
  • Additional section in the entry for the Sandman III (Sanford) explaining that Jed Paulsen, Jed Walker, Kamandi and Tommy Tomorrow are the same person (because that entry was not complicated enough).

Current number of entries is 3968.

12/01/2008

This batch has a number of bit players -- minor characters that are interesting, useful, or both and can be easily plugged into low-powered campaigns. Roll call:

• ART. A few miscellaneous bits:
  • The missing inset illos for the Huntsman of Zeus have been fixed (which incidentally brings us above the 600 inset images threshold)
  • Improved illustrations for Steven Seagal
  • Added illustration for the Quicksilver (Early) entry from a recent batch.
  • Gareth prepared illustrations that were added to the Ambrose Chase profile (though art to replace the low-res shots in the column is still welcome, of course)
• BLACK LAGOON. Yukio Washimine the reluctant yakuza boss, who should be the last Black Lagoon entry.
• Agent Crock, an experimental super-soldier and psychotic killer from the same project as Agent Hazzard
• CLUB SUPER 3. In this batch, Fluski.
• The Heckler, a zany, obscure Giffen super-hero in the DCU, written up by Gareth
• COMMITTEE. Another 80s-Hitman-with-a-schtick -- Boom-Boom, the explosives killers.
• Cardiaxe, as you can probably guess, with the Murderous Villain Patterned After the Obscure Hero matching Cardiac - it was a popular theme in the 90s. Handy minor villain with an axe.
• HECKLER FOES. Now Gareth introduces us to C'est Hay, the scarecrow gang leader.
• Infidel, written up by Peter, is probably the most interesting ennemy of Astro City's Samaritan
• STRIKEBACK. In this batch we have Jade Cobra, the hardened swordswoman
• Ken the Hitman is a very very minor Marvel thug, but he's unusually tough and aggressive
• REWRITES. The rewrite for this batch is an old and obscure entry - the Priestess. A character with potential (a kid who would have become a stereotypical stripper but becomes a young martial arts master instead) but who was never really used.
• Matilda is the very young heroine of the movie Matilda, and a genius.
• WORG PATROL - some comments I nearly forgot were taken into account, resulting in small changes for the TESS-One entry. Ditto for a very minor change in the Overrider entry. Some more material and a game bit that came up in discussions have been added to the recent Quicksilver (Early) profile.

Current number of entries is 3957.

11/29/2008

Nearly all entries in this batch prolong arcs of writeups about specific themes or series. So basically - more of what you liked in previous batches. Roll call:

• ART. Another bit for Bloodsport I ; the inexplicably missing inset images for the Harry Potter spellbook have been fixed.
• BETE NOIRE. Another entry by Gareth on Fallen Angel characters - Asia Minor, the drug kingpin.
• REWRITES. The rewrite for this batch is a complete, corrected entry for Dr. Midnight I (that's Beth Chapel, formerly from Infinity, Inc.)
• BLACK LAGOON. Tom now covers Dutch, the captain of the ship that gives the series its name.
• HECKLER FOES. Another weird baddie from Gareth - Heckler foe the Generic Man, with a unique concept (and visuals)
• STORMWATCH PHD. Had Gorgeous been in the last batch, that would have been three femmes fatales. Gorgeous is a former top-flight professional moll, with a very acute intelligence and unique cognitive gifts.
• CHAMPIONS CONVERSION. In this batch REZCat covers Holocaust, one of the big classic energy controllers in that game's universe.
• NOT PART OF AN ARC. Hotspur is an interesting villain from the Zenith series in 2000 AD (the main character, also written up by Peter, is already on WORG)
• WORG WEIRDNESS. Civafan has given us an unlikely entry for Mr. Coffee Nerves, from odd 1950s commercials for a coffee substitute.
• STRIKEBACK. The main entry for the Strikeback stuff is here - Nikita (and her dragon)
• HARRY POTTER. A new bunch of spells has been added to the previous entry.
• MANDRAKE. It is high time that Mandrake's really strong adventuring buddy, Prince Lothar, was on WORG ! Writeup by Peter.
• UNIVERSE AZ. In this batch, the version of Superboy that exists in Azrael's campaign.
• HANDY READY-TO-USE MINOR VILLAINOUS THUGS. Triple Threat, three guys who think they are super-villains and once got their arses kicked by an annoyed Catwoman.
• WORG PATROL - minor changes in the Herculoids entry.

Current number of entries is 3946.

11/25/2008

Though it may look like we'll reach the 4,000 mark by the end of the year, I actually doubt it - the workload to switch the entries to the new graphic design will be huge, and will likely push batches back quite a bit. Roll call:

• ART. Mostly from recent Marvel hardcover sourcebooks (buy them !):
  • Blink
  • Jackal I
  • Huntsman of Zeus
  • Ripide (from a recent batch)
  • Brock Lesnar
  • Hellcat
  • Shadow Supreme (from a recent batch)
  • Ibac
  • M-11 the Human Robot
  • Iron Fist (plus a repaired K'un-Lun illustration)
  • Iron Lad
  • Jack O'Lantern II
  • Hypno-Hustler (DISCO !!!)
  • Ulton-6 (from the previous batch)
  • Earth-616 Tony Stark and all the Iron Man suits on WORG
  • War Machine
  • Mark Hazzard
  • Jack Frost (Marvel)
  • Flash III (placeholder illustrations from the last batch replaced by the permanent ones)
  • Another inset for Aztek writeup (read it !) is in
  • Misty Kilgore aka the Princess Rhiannon of Summer's End
  • Hawkeye II (Kate Bishop)
• We have *another* Batman for you guys - this time it is the Batman from One Million alternate future, the warden of a prison planet, written up by Peter
• Another strange Heckler foe from Gareth's keyboard - el Gusano, a giant-worm-like crime boss
• From our arc about mid-1980s DC villains, we have in this batch Firefist, who follows the rather classic obscure-bad-guy-in-armour-with-flamethrowers formula. Everybody uses one of those at some points.
• STRIKEBACK. Continuing with Gareth's work on this series we have Sherman, the man-tank cyborg.
• This batch also has a Black Lagoon entry I actually had missed - the psychokiller gender-bending twin children Hansel and Gretel.
• Another psycho - from Peter's LEXX material, WORG presents the Isambard Prince, serial-reincarnating evil ruler of Planet Fire.
• This batch turns out to be the home of two femmes fatales. Indries Moomji is to seduction what Chow Yun Fat is to gunfight scenes, and she is in fact the agent who thoroughly broke Tony Stark.
• CLUB SUPER 3 - for the legions who no doubt went to know more about Catalan children TV shows - because a change of pace is always good - this batch will let you learn about Lila, a very young artist with a pet spider.
• Civafan brought us a writeup about a vintage manga character - Michi from the 1949 Japanese comic Metropolis, a powerful artificial child.
• Roy, on his end, follows up on his detailed 1960s Scarlet Witch writeup with, of course, an extensive 1960s Quicksilver writeup. Like with Wanda, the entry for Pietro stops at the weird on-the-fly retcon in Avengers vol. 1 #45.
• AGENTS OF ATLAS. Another double-barelled writeup, as with the other Agents with an extensive backstory (well, except Golden Age Namora, but I'll get to her eventually). This time it's Venus, with of course an entry written by Gareth about her modern appearances, supplemented by an entry covering as many Golden Age appearances by Venus as I could stomach (and find)
• The second femme fatale, Sapphire Styx, is far less skilled than Ms. Moomji, but she had the advantage of being a superpowered mutant with a vicious energy vampirism kiss.
• WORG PATROL - a few fixes in the Scarlet Witch (early) writeup ; the missing section for Truhan were added ; more material and explanations in the "Superman of 1942" aka "Superman (early)" writeup.

Current number of entries is 3935.

11/22/2008

This batch is a little less weird than some of the previous backlog-killers, with a more standard mix of the known and the obscure, of the weird and the straightforward. Roll call:

• ART. New pieces of art for Gladiator (the Shi'ar one), Magneto, Storm , Wolverine, Bruiser III (who is now also referenced as Molly Hayes, but still not also referenced as Princess Powerful), Havok and Jonas Harrow. One of the inset images for the Aztek writeup (read it !) has been repaired (read it !). The community also works hard to catch up illos-wise - the entries from recent batches getting illustrations are Pau and Truhan.
• Still no update for our Planetary stuff, but Bryan has written up the missing member - Ambrose Chase.
• The existing entry for the Daleks has been renamed Daleks (Classic) ; obviously this is because Kal El has written a new entry (Daleks (Modern)) that is chiefly based on more recent Doctor Who material.
• From Azrael's AZ Universe campaign we have Guardian, part of his continuity's Captain America legacy.
• New winner for the "most delayed entry" award -- Kevin's profile of Howard the Duck, written in 2000. Though brief it remains entirely publishable by modern standards. Get Down, America !
• As part of our collection of big tough henchmen we have Kam, a talented martial artist with slightly superhuman durability and strength, from the DC Universe.
• One of the main Hulk villains, the psychotic Leader, now joins the gang with a writeup by Peter.
• REZCat's Champions conversion for this batch is Nighthawk, this game's Batman analogue.
• Overrider is a minor Marvel costumed villain with cybertelepathy, a power GMs often find useful in villains.
• A new Invincible Universe entry - Bryan's profile of Rex-Splode.
• Another of Peter's old Marauders writeup - Riptide.
• Shadow Supreme is, as the name hints at, the evil duplicate of Supreme and thus an extremely powerful baddie.
• Roy just refreshed the Tao writeup upon learning it would be in this batch, so here we go with an up-to-date entry for one of Wildstorm's most dastardly villains.
• As part of our collection of combat robot, here comes a powerful mechanical mauler - TESS-One, the killer of super-soldiers.
• WORG PATROL - the article on lightsabres has received a Weapons Locker tag. Some Schtick fixes - Cannon has Butterfly Hands with his weapons, Fantomex's Speed-Shooting has been fixed, Sheriff O'Neil has Zero G Combat as intended.

Current number of entries is 3922.

11/21/2008

For some unfathomable reason, this batch if packed full of complicated writeups with a fair bit of meat -- as usual randomness creates pattern. Roll call:

• ART. Lt. Howard Hunter from a previous batch is now illustrated. Also, more art for Gargoyle (Topolov), Gamecock, 'Cockroach' Hamilton and Justin Hammer, from the OHOTMU hardbacks (again, if you like this site, you'll love those books).
• Adding to our collection of timelines we will have a long piece by Hominid, detailing much of the XXth century from his campaign, which mixes DC and Marvel elements. I say 'will' because I've just discovered a bug of the current site, which cannot display the first two-third of the document. This considerable annoyance should go away with the next version in a few weeks.
• Jason's old writeup for old fantasy character, the Death Dealer, is now online. The character is probably best known from the Frazetta paintings.
• REWRITES. This batch's rewrite is our buddy Molotov, the next-to-last People's Heroes member to be rewritten.
• Digger is the reanimated, gamma-powered remains of thirteen Mafia capos fused into one super-strong humanoid ; it fought Spider-Man.
• FAUST is another unlikely Marvel villain - an intelligent high-tech automated factory. Made of Adamantium. With lasers.
• AGENTS OF ATLAS. We now have the entry for Namora as she currently is - at some point there should be an entry for Namora as she was in the Golden Age.
• A while back we worked on a refresh of the stats for the Flash (Wally West) - here it is. You'd think the Flash would have gotten in faster...
• FINAL FANTASY. Another of Tom's profiles about FFX characters - this time it's Kimahri Ronso, who *again* is not played by Dr. Henry McCoy.
• One of the classic swords-and-sorcery DC characters of the 70s was Stalker, the cursed master swordsman without a soul and with burning eyes - and he has since reappeared in interesting manners in the DCU.
• CLUB SUPER 3. Another member of the cast - Pau.
• Another Spanish character, though in a very different Genre, is Truhan, from the novel Juglar. He's a magic-wielding ally of the legendary el Cid !
• A further Ultron writeup comes to WORG ; this one covers Ultron-6 and Ultimate Ultron, as we reach the point where the nefarious robot gains his famous Adamantium body. Lots of Adamantium in this batch.
• Zero is the hero of the post-apocalyptic Dark Horse comic Zero Killer. He does not have any Adamantium.

Current number of entries is 3909.

11/19/2008

I'm fairly happy with the pace of the batches (things are so much easier when you have ample free time...), and finding publishable material in the backlog is getting quite long a process, which is a good sign. So here is another rather heteroclite and unlikely line-up. Roll call:

• ART. Actually we are now running a negative tally :-p . Current pace of publishing is steadily outstripping the ability of contributors to provide illustrations, though we're going to land on our feet eventually.
• We have our first two entries from Club Super 3 (it's a Catalan TV kiddies show - really), with Roc and Alex.
• REWRITES. The rewrite for this batch is one of a number of Black Knights - the villainous Nathan Garrett, who inspired the best-known Black Knight (Dane Whitman of the Avengers) and was his uncle. A classic second-string 1960s Marvel villain.
• Continuing our roster of mid-80s DC villains, here comes Superman foe Bloodsport I (you'll get the second one later), with his arsenal of experimental guns and explosives.
• An unusual writeup from David is the Bloody Mary of Miami urban myths ; the writeup is accompanied by a lengthy newspaper article about this sinister piece of modern folklore.
• Mirage's updated Captain Cold writeup is now online, giving better definition to the available profiles of this classic Rogue's Gallery member.
• Gareth has written up a number of opponents of the zany DCU hero the Heckler, who are also rather unusual themselves. The first such entry is the Cosmic Clown.
• Another product of Kal El's random generator - the strange Doctor Blue
• Two minor Timely/Marvel supervillains from the early 1950s were written up during the work on the Golden Age entry for Marvel Boy, and are in this batch - the Serpent (an exotic shapechanger) and the original Great Video (the name alone is worth a peek).
• We occasionally have Hanna-Barbera cartoon entries - for instance I've just exhumed Sean's entry for the Herculoids, which has just about everyone in one writeup
• A few more homemade characters - here ride in the Four Horsemen reimagined by Mike
• And lastly we have what I assume is the biggest name in this batch - SWAT Lt. Howard Hunter from seminal TV series Hill Street Blues.

Current number of entries is 3897.

11/17/2008

This is another "anything that is publishable goes in" random grab, with plenty of low-profile characters. Work on the new version of the site vigourously continues in the meanhile. Roll call:

• NEW ART. Fixed the Confessor's picture (the Astro City one), continued to build up the huge Wonder Woman (Diana) picture, fixed some missing insets (Apparition, Aquaman, Samaritan).
• BRIGADE. I've done a first batch of entries for the (hopefully forgotten) early Brigade characters - one of the earliest, and grossly oversold Image series, back when I rewrote the Lethal entry. This guys are fairly bland and archetypal, which I think makes them useful to have on tap. Here's what I have for now (I may do more at some point):
  • Atlas, the Growth guy on the team, who died
  • Boone, the macho gunfighter type
  • Kayo, the Japanese martial artist guy type - and oh wait, this also counts as a rewrite.
• Peter wrote an article on the nature and physics of the Phantom Zone in the DCU - now it's on WORG.
• STRIKEBACK. Another villain both minor and somewhat ridiculous who fought that team -- Der Flogmeister !!!1!
• Renegade was an early Rockworld character from Chad, and is sort of a stereotypical PC
• RENEE MONTOYA IS... THE QUESTION ! The last writeup you've been waiting for, covering that very popular character's (still nascent) career as the new Question.
• Stretch Perverto was part of an "evil animated-style version of super-heroes" campaign, written up by Andrew. He joins his colleagues Major Terror, Bloody Mary and Martian Manslayer.
• REWRITES.
  • Minor DC villain Shockwave gets a complete overhaul, which is good since he's a very convenient and easy to use villain.
  • Plus Kayo, as noted above.
  • A fair number of adjustments (though certainly not a full rewrite) have also been done to the Cyclops (Classic) writeup ; a fair bit of material has been added to the Invincible writeup and the Omni-Man writeup.
• Woody is the kid sidekick of Hawk-Owl in Marvel's Ultimate Universe, and he *finally* gets to join his friend on WORG months after Peter wrote him up
• UNDEAD. Two new entries from that group that brings terror to Bil's Campaign - Wight and Vampyre.
• And finally, Kal El gives us Ideal, from our ancient "Wild Hunt II" character creation sort-of-contest.

Current number of entries is 3885.

11/15/2008

The theme of this batch is "heh ? Who with a what ?". You see, normally I sometimes skip super-obscure and homemade characters who come up during random search in the backlog, in order not to have too many of them in a given batch. However, the backlog is getting low enough that I have to use more of those - the safety is off ! And it might be a good occasion to convince people that character they don't know about can be interesting. Roll call:

• NEW ART. Some new bits for Grond (again from the Champions MMO), the Sheeda forces, the column that had been missing for a while for the Leviathan (the one made of children and seen in Morrison's fantastic Seven Soldiers) - and the main illustration for Helter Skelter. Plus of course various insets getting replaced (Human ants from the Sixth Continent, Frankenstein, Ebenezzer Badde, the Golden Eagle and Backlash of the Cadre, some Sheeda critters, the Shining Knight (Ystina), etc.)
• Blackguard. He fought, hmmm... Booster Gold. If you know him it's probably thanks to his Who's Who in the DC Universe entry. Very handy, simple villain to have.
• Bloodfire, a PC from an old campaign Pufnstuff was in -- a very very 90s PC.
• COMMITEE - Another random hitman with a schtick - this one is Bull, the strongman. He's a bit of an archetype.
• Barnett Pasternak was a thief until he accidentally became the Midnight Man, LA's urban legend and vigilante from a 1990s cinematic Howard Chaykin miniseries. An interesting and unusual "super-hero".
• Bulldozer - *this* Bulldozer is the one from the Champions universe, as adapted to MEGS by REZcat. A good, generic brick.
• REWRITES. True to form, the rewritten entry for this batch is... a minor Golden Age Marvel character, the mysterious Jack Frost. He's an early wartime Stan Lee creation.
• Carapax. He was part of one of the post-Crisis's Blue Beetle earliest subplots. Obscure and largely forgotten (though he got a Who's Who entry), but he's actually quite powerful and the armour design is genuinely good.
• Daredevil 2099 (no, not *that* 2099 continuity, the other one), a one-shot but interesting heir to both the Kingpin and Daredevil legacies... a sort of mediocre anti-hero in a grey world.
• Ghost II, one of the PCs from Kal El's "New Global Guardians" campaign.
• Ghoul, a villain from the group The Undead in Bil's campaign - like some of the entries from Bil, this one has original 3D modelisation of the character.
• Kihei Soge, Pufnstuff's son's PC in a Naruto-style campaign. Like Bloodfire in this batch and the recent Helter Skelter and Black Claw, this entry has original art by Pufnstuff.
• STRIKEBACK - team member Midnight Devil by Gareth, with the classic ability of having a detachable tail.
• Torrente is an anti-hero (with a strong emphasis on the "anti") of a series of Spanish movies about his pathetic, petty exploits to defend king and country.

So who was the biggest name among this batch ? You decide ! Current number of entries is 3874.

11/14/2008

The last missing graphical bits for the nextgen WORG are now finished, as is the core SQL query module. Let's keep our fingers crossed, and in the meanwhile here come a double handful of fairly cool stuff -- roll call:

• NEW ART. Just a few more replacement of inset art (Monstro III, Puck II, Tejja the silek killer, etc.), plus two entries from recent batches (Bennet and Ebony) that are now illustrated.
• Mister Spaceman is one of the few test character for Kal El's random generator I have left.
• INSET ART. Given the (particularly annoying) current instability of the server hosting the inset images, everything has been rewritten so inset images are now served by the server hosting the future version of WORG. So all available inset images (those embedded within the text column, as opposed to the right-hand illustration column) should now reliably show up. Of course, the images that have yet to be replaced following the crash some time back will not show. There are now close to 500 insets, though they are disproportionally concentrated in newer writeups.
• The biggest name in this batch is likely Vic Mackey, the star of the fan-favourite The Shield TV Series, as written up by Tom.
• LARSENVERSE. It's been a long time since the previous Larsenverse entry, so here comes Wildstar, time-traveler from the future.
• Mister Clean is a brutal, heavily armed, enhanced assassin and 'cleaner' on the Church of Humanity's payrolls. A dangerous killer of mutants, originally seen in the UK.
• STRIKEBACK. The oddly named and odd-looking Rock Lobster is a minor villain who fought Strikeback.
• Tar and S-Tar are two combat enhancements drugs seen in the DC Universe, allowing the user to briefly 'Hulk out' and gain superhuman strength and durability.
• COMMITTEE. Another improbable 1970s Committee enforcer - this time Kay-Twelve aka Behemoth, a golem-like robot.
• The Metabarons saga is one of the major sci-fi comic book series, though as usual for European comics it was largely ignored in the US. In this batch, Peter covers one of the Metabarons from long ago, Othon the Thrice Removed Progenitor.
• REWRITES. A pair of cool but under-appreciated characters had their entry overhauled:
  • Lovingly crafted, wholly re-researched and rewritten is the new double-barelled entry for the Most Dangerous Woman In The Universe - the old, indifferent entry for Gamora has been replaced by two medium-sized writeups. The 'early' entry covers her origin, childhood and career as Thanos's lovely assistant and special-purpose assassin ; the 'Infinity Watch era' entry covers her resurrection and various adventures with and without Adam Warlock until the couple leaves the Heart of Darkness.
  • The entry for Henri Ducard has also been upgraded to v1.1, with more information and detail and stuff to better describe this worgmeister's favourite. There is also additional art depicting the man who taught to Bruce Wayne the fine art of manhunting.
• Nautilus and Razorwire are two very minor Spider-Man villains with a fairly low power level, who have been selected since they are quite generic and can be used pretty much anywhere with no preparation.
• ALMOST HURRAY FOR, ERRR, ALTERNATIVE DISTRIBUTION METHODS. I hoped to recover some of the lost insets when a community member told me that a less-than-legal torrents site was distributing a big pdf with many writeups.org entries... Unfortunately this archive was done after the crash. Writeups.org's well-documented Unluck Drawback strikes again !

Current number of entries is 3862.

11/09/2008

I'm starting to get the feeling the backlog is receding a bit - which also means that, beyond Marvel Boy and Ms. Montoya, we're getting some seriously weird and obscure stuff. :-) Roll call:

• NEW ART. Ali Ka-Zoom and Gimmix both got new stuff.
• Agent Hazzard is an interesting if obscure Marvel Universe super-soldier who underwent a tragic and poignant descent into insanity.
• COMMITTEE. Another minor hitman with a gimmick - Dragon, the karate hitman.
• Filling out our collection of combat robots, here comes another minor one, the Attackoid.
• Ebony, on the other hand, fills out our collection of opponents for Philippines's main super-heroine, Darna. This entry was written by Adam.
• It has been a very long while since we haven't had a conversion of an Aberrant character, so this batch has Epoch.
• AGENTS OF ATLAS. This is the turn of Marvel Boy, who likes Jimmy Woo gets a double-barelled writeup - a 'Classic' entry about his adventures as published in the early 1950s, and a 'Modern' writeup by Gareth based on his much more recent incarnation.
• 'Memphis' Raines is Nicolas Cage's character in Gone in 60 seconds, a gifted high-end car thief who runs into trouble (writeup by Mike).
• Our first entry on Morgan Le Fay is by David and covers the medieval version of the character from Le Morte d'Arthur.
• RENEE MONTOYA. Here comes the second writeup, covering Renee from the quake to her becoming the Question. This huuuuuge (but heavily illustrated for the readers's sake) writeup is also voluminous since it is ended to be a good brief about what happened in Gotham between the quake and 2006, as seen by the GCPD - an useful resource for those with a campaign set in Gotham.
• Smokescream is a minor but potentially frustrating Marvel villain.
• The legendary Sonny Sumo, recently back in the pages of Final Crisis, gets a writeup covering his original - and impressive - appearance in, Forever People.
• And finally we get another entry by Pur_see_i8 on Grindhouse - this time the villain of Death-Proof, the one and only Stuntman Mike.

Current number of entries is 3849.

11/07/2008

Work on the next version of the site has now reached one of those "flurry of work" phases that exist between the "months go by and nothing happens" phases. It's not done yet, but things are looking fairly good. In the meantime... MORE CONTENT ! Roll call:

• NEW ART. Despite the current One Big Rush, there's some - including some material sent to me months ago I never had time to work on:
  • Kal El's homebrewed character Hacker got illustrated within a few hours of publication, but since half-a-dozen people had already checked it up I need to mention it.
  • Mighty Man II
  • Demonfire (Champions conversion)
  • Black Mace (pre-Crisis entry)
  • Nemesis Kid
  • Reuben Flagg (from the previous batch)
  • Tharok (his post-reboot entry, which went unillustrated for years)
  • Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell)
  • Onslaught (from a recent batch)
  • Green Dragon (Champions conversion) got a first illustration
  • Quanto
  • Starlord (Peter Quill)
  • Dormammu
  • Plus some new inset images that got fixed
• New winner for the "longest time to get found and published by the Worgmeister" award - one of Richard's first characters, Twilight. Richard posted this writeup to the list nine years ago.
• WORG PATROL. The text for the Hacker (Kal El's homemade) has been improved, as was the generally terrible Martin Soap entry. Czonk aka the Baffler has received his inexplicably missing Uncertainty Drawback. Plus, as usual, a few typos and formatting issues gettin' fixed here and there, plus various clarifications in confusing and/or clumsy text.
• An entry by Mike about Danny Archer, Leonardo Dicaprio's character in the movie Blood Diamonds - a White African mercenary and troubleshooter who finds redemption.
• AGENTS OF ATLAS. In this batch we extensively cover the boss - Jimmy Woo. Gareth's 'current' entry is for the take on the character seen in the Agents of Atlas series and other recent books ; the other, 'classic' writeup covers Agent Woo as published during the 1950s and 60s. All things Woo - whom I think was a very early example of a positive Asian-American hero in popular media - are your to peruse !
• From John Ringo's Posleen War novels, Mike has assembled a profile for Posleen warriors
• REWRITES. In this batch:
  • Mace's writeup for Edge (from the DCU annual crossover Blood Lines) has received a number of tweaks and additional material
  • Doug's ageing entry for Marvel's Nocturne II has been thoroughly overhauled and rewritten - and reillustrated, since I had mistakenly put a Nocturne I shot in there
• Snake and Powerhouse are two very obscure villains in the DC Universe, but they have a classic period charm that screams 'generic 70s villain' so they're definitely in.
• STORMWATCH PHD. We now reach the Monstrosity - Professor Shaw is the team's sort of, kind of Hulk due to his problematic Daemonite ancestry. As with everybody on the team he's pretty interesting.
• Thelma Bates the ghost is the quirky heroine from 1990s British TV series Hex - this first season profile was written up by Nick
• RENEE MONTOYA. Since this very popular DC character has extensive backstory (in large part due to her involvement with most activities of the GCPD), her huge profile has been broken down into three parts, which will be published in three batches. This entry covers her early life and first appearances, up to the earthquake in Gotham.
• Velma's entry is part of Mark's small arc about his Elseworld reinvention of the Scooby Doo gang, and thus joins Fred and Shaggy on WORG.
• CHAMPIONS. The newest profile from REZcat is a conversion of a traditional blaster villain from that game, Pulsar.

Current number of entries is 3836.

11/04/2008

At this rate you'd thing the backlog would diminish, but given the sheer amount of content the community produces... Anyway, roll call:

• NEW ART. Skyrocket got her illos, and a few more wide-format pictures have been patiently redone. Black Claw is now also illustrated -- with some cool original artwork from Pufnstuff.
• The Banshee is a very minor Ditko villain - encountered during the pre-Crisis writeup for the Question. He's a gliding thief with a strange, cool costume.
• The Boar is a stupid, hairy, obscure Marvel thug with a rather modern style. He's great if you just need some random muscle that will fit in anywhere.
• REWRITES. Continuous improvement goes on ; in this batch:
  • Another of the old People's Heroes has been entirely redone - this time it's Bolschoi, the kung fu dancer
  • The entry for Earl and Val (the sort-of heroes from the movie Tremors) has received new material and a few typos have been fixed
  • The entry for Batgirl III (Cassandra Cain) has received a series of small tweaks and nudges, mostly in terms of game stats ; further revisions will be done at some point, since she's one of the WORGmeister's fav characters (and a very popular entry among the readership - nearly 6,000 views so far)
• Codename: Assassin is a very 1970s obscure hero with an odd, period charm and somewhat chaotic powers. And I like the classic costume.
• Through an amusing coincidence, Hacker follows right on the heels of his buddy Slasher - so we now have both halves of Hack 'n' Slash, homebrewed characters of Kal El's, on WORG
• HEROES. Here comes Noah Bennet (and his horn-rimmed glasses), courtesy of Adam. We're still discussing the stats of his taser but that should be fixed soon.
• One of the big guys in this batch is one of the major non-mainstream-comic protagonists - Howard Chaykin's inimitable Reuben Flagg, from the successful series American Flagg, has been written up by Peter.
• CHAMPIONS. REZcat's Champions adaptation for this batch is one of the older characters for that game - Crusader.
• Brother Lars aka Barricade is yet another of those obscure, but handy and interesting, villains WORG contributors love researching. He's an archer-monk from the same monastery as Green Arrow, who became a super-strong armoured undead !
• Madame La Morte / La Signora Morta is an odd villain from the early 1950s who fought Marvel Boy. She's got period charm, actually, and you can prolly write interesting things with her.
• AGENTS OF ATLAS. Gareth presents an entry about M11, the Human Robot, as we continue our tour through this fan-favourite story. Brace yourselves when you finish reading about this killer robot from the Golden Age, 'cause the next entries will be Even More Serious Business.
• Tsunami is a Japanese sculptor, martial arts teacher and former intelligence operative who taught Green Arrow and John Butcher, among others.

Current number of entries is 3825. Please note that it is difficult for most contributors to prepare illustrations in time to keep pace with the current publication rate, so some writeups in the last few batches may get illustrated after a few days of delay. Those are usually mentioned in the ART section of one of the next batches, like Skyrocket and Black Claw today, so you won't miss a thing.

11/02/2008

As long as I have some free time I might continue chain-preparing quick batches. Roll call:

• NEW ART. As with any batch, a handful of insets have been replaced a one or two new ones added (Silver Scarab, Nightshade, etc.). Also Crazy Eight's peekchur has been improved a bit.
• We haven't had much of a presence in the New Universe so far, so here comes Pufnstuff's entry for Antibody and his energy forms.
• WORG likes to demonstrate how minor characters that are often treated as being stupid or bland are actually quite interesting if one actually pays attention. As a further example of this, here is Peter's entry for Brother Voodoo, who's cool.
• DEATH-THROWS. A fair bit of space in this batch is taken by those guys - a semi-classic Marvel team of thugs with a gimmick and some talent. Beside, having your players attacked by criminal killer jugglers can't be bad. Roll call:
  • Bombshell
  • Knick-Knack
  • Oddball (possibly I and II)
  • Ringleader
  • Tenpin
• A Marvel kind of fairly competent and dangerous demons - the Dykorrs, the Most Grotesque Demons In All The Cosmos !
• The missing LEXX entry from Peter - the villainous man-machine-insect Mantrid, destroyer of the universe
• A new Champions entry from REZcat - the classic Mechassassin, who's always handy to have
• An entry for minor Pittsburgh (and DCU) archer and dilettante vigilante Moonbow - I've always thought of her as a perfect beginner PC, but she's a good NPC too.
• Our profile for Marvel mega-villain Onslaught, which is probably going to see some traffic. Unsurprisingly, he's really really powerful.
• And finally we have another homebrewed character from Kal El - Slasher, usually working for Interpol members.

Current number of entries is 3813.

11/01/2008

The rough riders of the WORG Patrol and their large and thick-furred riding wolves have come back to the underground fortress ! Here are their spoils... for now :

• Typo fixed in the Vantage writeup, Thunderbolts added in her notes field as requested by Gareth
• Watchdogs entry received further copy-editing work (this time by Roy)
• "Reasons" section deleted as requested by Gareth for White Tiger (Kasper Kole) since I clarified the Roman numerals for the various White Tigers
• Marrina's stronger and tougher now based on Capita_Senyera's recollections (though all Alpha Flight writeups should really be v2ed - I have thus not upversioned her despite the changes)
• Roy has copy-edited a number of our cool Milestone entries such as the Blood Syndicate guys
• The corrected quotes for Zenith are now in
• Cauldron's the Scalding Man's MIA has been fixed to a MPR thanks to Ethan
• Corrected a confusing bit about Invisibility in the Mister Terrific II writeup based on Roy's remarks
• Death-Stalker's Spirit Travel is now Spirit Linked thanks to Chris's remark
• The Super-Skrull's aliases and relatives have been updated after Darci and Peter's conversation
• The Yeoman has been slightly updated by Roy to reflect a recent Wild Cards story
• Adam Fuqua added as a Helper for Bezoar as per Bil's request
• Generation X's Penance is now listed as Penance I to avoid any confusion as per Roy's remark
• A glitch in some Cannibal Catch and Wanderers illos has been fixed
• Indentation issue in Photon's entry (Guardians of the Galaxy I universe) fixed as requested by Gareth
• Strength of Valentina's constrictor snake adjusted as per Adam's request
• Vision II,Captain Amazing,Cyclops (early),Stick Man Fighter,X-Ray have had their typos ruthlessly blasted away by Roy
• I've parsed the two volumes of the Marvel Atlas in order to add the real name of the following characters - Bevatron, the Armless Tiger Man, the Watchlord, the Guvnor, Cane, Sunder, Skullcrusher, Sibercat (since there are two versions), the Rhino, Scalphunter, Slayback, the Answer, Black Talon, Voortrekker, Rock Python. The real name of Raoul Bushman has also been determined among the three versions seen in the comics.
• USAgent now has a specific Weaponry Subskill with shields as per Chris's estimate
• Fixed a HTML-hates-foreign-languages issue in Black Harlequin's entry
• Scorpion III's wife status updated following Bil's campaign events
• American Eagle's 'Enhanced Hearing' changed to Extended Hearing as per Chris's comment
• Also based on the Marvel Atlas - Flambe now speaks French and has Connoisseur, Slayback is noted as being from Melbourne, Arachne speaks Spanish and is noted as being from Peru ; Voortrekker's country of origin and circumstances of arrival in Azania have been precised ; there are notes about Khumbala Bey's country of Halwann ; Andromeda's entry has a new ancestor and a quick note about Sharka/Skarka.
• Rocket Racer now has Vehicles (Land) as per Gareth's comments
• Following Peter's notes, the tag for the Skrull Kill Krew have been standardised
• Lucy in the Sky is now referenced as "Karolina Dean aka Lucy in the Sky"
• Cat Claw is now entered as such and no longer as "Cat's Claw"
• Strong Guy's HPs have been lowered as discussed with Chris
• Super-Skrull is no longer categorised as a Villain
• BSG's Number Six is now "Number Six Aka Caprica Six" as noted by Adam ; small correction about Baltar's potential chip.
• Indiana Jones's Height and Weight adjusted.
• A number of tweaks have been done to Nightshade's chemicals based on a discussion with Gareth
• Terra-Man now has his "Pre-Crisis timeline" tag as requested by Peter
• Screaming Mimi now has a Masters of Evil tag as per Chris's remark
• Akira Hojo's illustration fixed as requested by Peter
• The embarrassing mistake on Willy Wonka noticed by Ethan (wrong version of the movie !) has been fixed (though for a few minutes Sir Integra Hellsing looked like Willy Wonka due to a typo in the image number, which was funny).
• Stallion's (V&V adaptation) chainmail has been standardised as per Roy's suggestion
• Abra Kadabra, Cicada, Doubledown, The Folded Man, Girder, Murmur and Tar Pit have been tagged as Rogues as per Gareth's request.
• As per Peter's request, most of the LEXX writeups have had various tweaks done

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10/31/2008

A very eclectic batch from a wide variety of contributors, mostly with unusual characters. Roll call:

• NEW ART. Replacement (and occasionally) inset art is continuing to trickle in. And the following entries have new art:
  • Bezoar (a homebrew now illustrated via some nice original 3D art by Bil)
  • Blackout aka Copycat got some HeroMachine work by her creator
  • Super-minor character Folio is now illustrated
  • Weatherman I (Henry Bendix)
  • Doc Savage
  • Matt Parkman
  • Equinox
  • Death's Head I
  • Devos
  • Karolina Dean (Lucy in the Sky)
  • Deathlok the Demolisher
  • Darkhawk
• Capitan Furia, written by Capita_Senyera from Laberinto comics, was a Fascist 'hero' of the 1960s in Spain, with a dark secret.
• The two main characters from the Planet Terror movie in the Grindhouse Tarantino extravaganza have now found some sort of refuge on WORG thanks to Pur_see_i8's guidance ! Introducing Cherry Darling the go-go dancer (with the infamous machinegun leg) and El Wray the tough guy.
• One of the stars of this batch is Gareth's extensive and detailed profile of fan-favourite Peter David character the Fallen Angel. This profile includes a sub-article on the mystical town of Bete Noire and some hypotheses on how to bring the Angel back to the DCU.
• Man of Miracles is one of the original Rockworld characters by Chad - that is, based on Styx songs. Which also means Man of Miracles gets to be known as 'the guy who took seven years to get his entry published on WORG' - talk about bad luck.
• STORMWATCH PHD. In this batch we have Liam Mendoza, callsign Paris, the legendary badass Special Forces operative with an instinctive gift to find the best way to hurt and kill whatever needs killing.
• The other star of the batch is the acclaimed movie version of Tony Stark aka Iron Man as written up by Mike and Roy, with a nicely-illustrated writeup that has cool shots of the armours.
• Oculon is a classic and annoying Champion villain, brought to MEGS players by REZcat.
• It has been a long time since we had a 1963 writeup - so from the FF analogues of Mystery Incorporated... there's a Planet comin ' !
• STRIKEBACK. Now is the turn of Purity, the nice girl of the group.
• During the research on the three Razor-Fist mad killers, a collateral benefit was a writeup for a couple of spacey dilettantes - Razorfist and Spiral II ! (the Razormonkees were also done at that point)
• POWER COMPANY. Slowly continuing our entries on that group from Capita_Senyera (so I guess at least two of us found the series cool), here flies in Skyrocket, trying to be a big hero despite the vagaries of real life.
• Civafan2 contributed a detailed writeup of the larger-than life omni-expert and SAS man Taichi Hiraga-Keaton from the anime Master Keaton

Current number of entries is a neat, round 3800.

10/28/2008

A quick and art-heavy batch. I'm not entirely sure about the status of the inset images (that is, where in the world and on which browser they show), but there is a good chance we might just leapfrog to the next version of the site and solve the issue.

Roll call:

• NEW ART. The high quality of the printing and paper of the hardback Marvel sourcebook allows to do excellent illustrations very quickly, so here is a wave of those. Buy the hardback A-Z Marvel Handbooks ! They're really cool. New art (inset or column) for :
  • Abomination
  • Americop
  • Amphibion
  • Annihilus
  • Arabian Knight I
  • The three main BAD Girls
  • Baron Zemo II
  • Beyonder
  • Big Wheel
  • Black Knight (Dane Withman)
  • Bullseye
  • Bushwacker
  • Captain Axis
  • Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell)
  • Carnage
  • Carrion
  • Cerise
  • Cobra II
  • Crossbones
  • Cutthroat
  • Cyber
  • Diamondback I (Willis Stryker )
  • Dracula (Marvel Universe)
  • Diamond Lil
  • Lester Girls is not a Marvel character, but his writeup (from the previous batch) is now illustrated (and may get a few more pictures later)
  • Several Marvel characters have had the hardback OHOTMU illustration replacing the previous one - usually meaning it's the same illustration but with more definition and more intense colour.
• Cauldron is a very minor Marvel villain with cool visuals. Handy for GMs.
• To complement our old Remo the Destroyer writeup, here comes fellow secret agent Conrad McLeary, by Peter.
• REWRITES. This batch's rewrite is a complete overhaul of Amazing Grace, the subtle manipulator of Darkseid's Elite.
• Another set of quite low-powered mercenaries who look like extras from GI Joe - those can be very handy in street-level scenarios and for beginning characters. This batch has the member of Cannibal Catch - Fastback, Folio, Hardhat and Transom.
• Helter Skelter is a villain based on Charles Manson, from an old campaign ran by Pufnstuff.
• Hammer and Sickle - the previous, NON-CONTINUITY version of those entries (chiefly based on my campaign notes) have been by popular demand (that is, one person) reintegrated as an annex to the current writeup.
• STRIKEBACK. This Malibu series is not very well-known, so most people will discover it through Gareth's writeups. In this batch Rascal - and his scarf.
• We got more scarabs ! For instance, while they are not the best known Marvel characters, Chris wrote up two of the major Egyptian superhumans - the first and the second Scarlet Scarabs. They respectively fought the Invaders and Thor and more than held their own, you know.
• INFINITY INC. Another Scarab with Egyptian ties is Hector Hall - the Silver Scarab. This large rewrite of the official entry covers his whole career until his destruction by Dream of the Endless.
• And finally we have yet another Summers brother - Gabriel aka Vulcan, the powerful and insane mutant who came to rule over the Shi'Ar empire, written up by Gareth.

Current number of entries is 3787.

10/23/2008

Here we go again, with a batch largely devoted to revision of published stuff since we can't let people read deprecated old stuff when better stuff has been written. And stuff. Also, the DNS of the ancillary domain should have properly propagated by now and people should be able to see the inset images. Hopefully.

Roll call (and note that there are many more major and semi-major characters this time around):

• NEW ART. A handful of new inset images of course, mostly replacements of lost content ; the pre-Crisis Huntress (Helena Wayne) got a new mugshot ; and the Conan (comic books) entry is now fully illustrated.
• The Gargoyles from the 13th Floor are the strange antagonists of a weird 1951 story (republished once in 1972) with Venus. It was... odd.
• Pufnstuff's entry for fan-favourite character Rogue (at the time of Xtreme X-Men) is finally in. Nuff said !
• AGENTS OF ATLAS. We have a number of elaborate entries for the Agents, which are now getting ready for publication. Gareth opens up with his entry for Ken Hale, the Gorilla-Man - the sardonic, immortal man in an ape's body. With guns.
• Lester Girls, the lead character of The Trouble With Girls, now has an entry thanks to Peter. He's what James Bond dreams of becoming !
• Since people kept asking for the old (ancient, in fact) Shadowcat entry, we have summarily cleaned up Kitty's entry and published it. It is *not* considered as a "real" writeup - it's more of a placeholder, really, but since people want it...
• REWRITES. That's one of the big things for this batch - and of course we will keep on rewritin' 'em. As usual everything is entirely rewritten, reassessed, reillustrated, etc. Roll call:
  • Andromeda. A somewhat big writeup covering her career as a Defender, a Dragon Circle heroine and the Peacelord of Atlantis. Imperius Rex !!
  • Ma Gunn, the undercover Fagin and schoolmarm of Gotham, has had her entry overhauled.
  • Two of the People's Heroes (the Soviet super-group of the DCU in the 1980s) have been entirely redone - which is appropriate since the *characters* themselves have seen been rebuilt. Both Hammer and Sickle are in this batch. Marvel at how one-dimensional Reagan-era villains have become pretty scary, creepy modern cyberpsychos - and waaay more dangerous !
  • The deadliest martial artist on DC's Earth is back - the writeup for Lady Shiva in the 1980s (in O'Neil's the Question and the Death in the Family Batman story) has been entirely redone and extensively covers what many consider to be the definitive version of that fan-favourite character.
• Our community includes several huge fans of the Question, and thus we have a new entry - a detailed look at the pre-Crisis, original version of the character, and chiefly his adventures written and drawn by comic books genius Steve Ditko. As bonuses, this big entry includes a special continuity/chronology section covering the Question's publication history, and a list of versions of the character.
• HEROES. As we continue discussing the series, here's Adam's entry for Matt Parkman, the cop who can hear thoughts.
• With a resolve as strong as Adamantium, Roy has dared to start tackling the terrifying Ultron ! Wish him luck ! In this batch, Ultron-5.

Pretty good lineup, eh ? And we even got in the same batch the villain in the first Jason Todd story and a character in the last Jason Todd story before Hush.

Current number of entries is 3774.

10/20/2008

Another quick, short, sweet batch - the luck of the draw (and the use of 'black' as a keyword) giving it a oddly dark and strange theme.

The DNS issues are fixed, WORG silent partner Paul has scripted a few tools to make short batches easier to do (so they will remain the norm), and the work on the next version of the layout continues to advance at it usual glacial pace.

Roll call:

• NEW ART. The art for our old entry for the Shadow has been upgraded, because we know what evil lurks in the heart of men.
• We've got two more kung fu enforcers for the Golden Daggers sect in the "Fu Manchu-verse" - an entry for dagger fighters Bolo and Kimba.
• STORMWATCH PHD. This time it's Black Betty who gets to shine on WORG - the PHD's supernatural warfare specialist. Those are cool characters, really.
• A batch with Black Betty in it just have to also include Black Mariah - not the Harlem criminal already on WORG, but the witch and information broker of Bete Noire in Peter David's Fallen Angel.
• I would have loved to follow with Black Alice, but we haven't written her up yet. However, since WORG will neither give you up nor will it let you down, here is another Bete Noire citizen - Shadow Boxer, the Magistrate's enforcer.
• CHAMPIONS. More black, as this batch's Champions character adaptation is the Black Harlequin - the Championsverse rough equivalent of the Joker.
• And to finish with the black, Black Claw - a ninja foe in Pufnstuff's home campaign.
• The big guy in this batch is Conan ! This time Peter covers everybody's favourite barbarian in his comic books version, our previous writeup having been the novels version.
• Another product of Kal El's experiments years ago with his random character generator - Copycat.
• This batch also has two 1960s characters who clashed with Peter Cannon - Thunderbolt ! The Mummy is a mad archaeologist with his mind in a super-strong mummy conqueror, and Eric Gore is a mad scientist with a gorilla hand. Good times.
• More obscure stuff with the Razormonkees who are, well, costumed chimp soldiers with Wolverine-like claws. Really. Y'know, Nextwave stuff.
• Shadowoman aka Sepulcre is a minor Marvel heroine with a complex background, who had a cool comeback in the aftermath of Civil War.
• Last but not least, more material from the 1970s swords and sorcery DC books - the siren of swords and science, the first Starfire ! She's got a cutlass, she's got a laser pistol, and she's even got a companion writeup for Thump, her giant assistant. Everybody needs a giant assistant.

Current number of entries is 3766.

10/16/2008

Let's keep reducing the backlog. As it turns out, despite being fairly short, this small batch has quite a few character that are somewhat major, at least by our standards.

Please note that the DNS for an ancillary server, which has been behaving erratically, is being changed. Which means that the painfully-restored inset images have not been available for a while, including those in the new entries.

Anyway... Roll call:

• NEW ART. Mayflower's entry from last batch is now illustrated.
• This batch has a small team of obscure, low-powered mercenaries who feel a bit like GI Joe rejects - the Wanderers. For those GMs running 450 HPs campaigns. The team is composed of Billy, Chisel, Flintlock and Outback ; each has a separate entry.
• After Kylun, another popular early Excalibur character by Gareth - Cerise.
• STORMWATCH PHD. In this batch we have the field leader of the StormWatch PHD unit, Officer Doran.
• The Falcon is finally perched on WORG - and amazingly enough Gareth managed to fit his entire career into just one writeup.
• Another fairly high-profile entry is Mike and Roy's article on the big screen version of Ghost Rider - as played by Nicolas Cage.
• REWRITES. Two entries that had originally been done around 1997 have been re-researched, rewritten, restated, reillustrated, etc. - Jack Marshall aka Hacker (one of the premier CS guys in the DC Universe) and Lethal (of the early versions of Brigade in the Image proto-universe). Furthermore, Kal El has rewritten our Jareth the Goblin King (David Bowie in cult hit Labyrinth) entry. Further furthermore, Aristotle "Tot" Rodor's entry has been through a quick update to reflect the events of 52 - and this foreshadows a set of big entries about a popular character.
• Speaking of sets of big entries for popular characters... Rachel Summers is now in the house. As usual for heavyweight characters, Gareth has broken down the entry into three big writeups -- in chronological order, early Rachel (with the 1980s X-Men), Rachel as the Phoenix (chiefly with Excalibur) and Rachel as the time-displaced Marvel Girl.
• An obscure favourite from Pufnstuff - Powerpax, from an alternate Marvel continuity. She has the combined Power Pack... well, powers.
• Our old "generic Steven Seagal movie character from the XXth century" has been refreshed by Peter, and is now up (I think the very first version one on the very first iteration of our online database).

Current number of entries is 3752.

09/30/2008

I'm continuing with smaller batches to ensure a greater frequency. Roll call:

• CRAWLIN' FROM THE WRECKAGE. Inset images continue being slowly added as we explore our individual archives or redo images - a bit more than 240 pics are now online, including some new stuff.
• NEW ART. Extra art for Crazy Quilt, Stature, the Elements of Doom and Manhunter (Kirk DePaul)
• A new member of DC's Force of July is up - Mayflower. Small tweaks have also been done to her colleagues Silent Majority and Major Victory.
• Chankar is a giant martial artist henchman from old Master of Kung Fu stories. Obviously, he had to be on WORG.
• STORMWATCH PHD. After the update for Fahrenheit a while ago, we will now start covering most team members. The first turns out to be Dino Manolis, formerly known as the Machinist.
• Gareth brought us an obscure yet popular early Excalibur character - Kylun.
• COMMITTEE. We have a number of very minor thugs, heavies and hitmen from this obscure criminal operation in the Marvel Universe. The first is Ma Mayhem, a weird operative who kills supernatural monsters for a living.
• INFINITY, INC. We have started thoroughly revisiting the official writeups for some Infinity, inc. members, resulting in a series of large writeups. in this batch.
  • Two big entries for Nuklon - one for the 1980s and one for the 1990s. Note that no Atom-Smasher writeup can be scheduled anytime soon.
  • Two big and somewhat complicated entries for Hippolyta Hall aka the Fury, covering the entirety of her career.
• Our first foray into the (long since deceased) Defiant universe is done with a key character - Charlemagne.
• Following up on the Darna writeup, another Filipina comic book character - China the serpent queen.
• REWRITES. Roy has revisited the stats blocks of his Batman (Burton take) writeup to tweak and better explain all sorts of things. All illustrations have also been rebuilt.

Current number of entries is 3739.

09/21/2008

It ain't easy after the crash and it took some time, but the show must go on. Roll call:

• CRAWLIN' FROM THE WRECKAGE. More than a hundred and fifty inset images have been uploaded (some new). Of course it's but a small portion of what used to be there, but it takes a while to work on.
• NEW ART. Not the priority right now, of course - but the Ned Slade entry nevertheless is now fully illustrated. Starhawk and Mirror Master III also got an extra picture.
• Impala's profile has now been uploaded as a follow-up to the Asp and Black Mamba revision - she's the least known of the BAD Girls
• A classic pre-Crisis Superman villain is now in the (big) house - the Master Jailer, as written up by Peter
• The Masters are the alien invaders featured in the Tripods Quadrology by John Christopher. The amount of information in this entry from Roy seems to confirm we like aliens in tripods.
• REWRITES. This is the big thing, since this type of content has priority compared to the rest of the backlog. Almost all of this stuff has been entirely rewritten, re-researched, enriched, re-illustrated, etc. - if you are interested in the characters and read the old writeup, you definitely want the check the new versions out.
  • Batroc the Leaper - younger readers may only have known him as a minor loser, but he's actually a fairly rich and interesting character. This entry is very detailed and covers 40+ years of high-kickin', long-jumpin' action.
  • John Butcher - this is a rewrite of a Mayfair entry rather than a rewrite of a WORG entry. Butcher is an ex-military intelligence commando, a martial artist, a traditional Lakota warrior and was a minor badass in the 1990s DC Universe, with ties to Green Arrow.
  • Cardiac - another 1990s character, a morally dubious urban vigilante with a focus on white collar crime and nearly operating at Spider-Man's level. He's quite interesting for urban heroes campaigns.
  • Cheetah - a minor villain from Mexico in the 1970s at Marvel. He's actually quite dangerous, and is good in the role of the random costume to throw at your players.
  • Crazy Quilt has a long but very minor and irregular career as a street-level DC villain. This entry details his full career, which starts right after WWII.
  • Diamondback II (Rachel Leighton) now has two quite large and detailed entries - in fact those were the reason for the rewrite of the BAD Girls in the last batch. Thief, crimefighter, murderer, street urchin, Avenger support personnel, mercenary, girlfriend of a living legend... Rachel was a fan favourite of Captain America readers fifteen years ago.
  • The Needle, the weird psycho with a giant needle and an evil eye who fought Spider-Woman and was a Night Shift member.
  • My pretty poor entry for Razor-Fist II is gone, and has been replaced by three entries for Razor-Fist I, Razor-Fist II (the 'main' one) and Razor-Fist III. All three are now classic 'weird kung-fu villains' and Razor-Fist II, who has appeared quite a lot and received some unique character development, now gets a pretty thorough entry.
  • As a collateral benefit from the work on the BAD Girls their ally Sidewinder - the former director of the Serpent Society - has been fully revised. Like with Diamondback II, the v1 of his writeup was so terrible it wasn't published on the current version of WORG.
  • The last rewrite in this batch is Ultimus aka the Demon Druid - a minor mysterious powerhouse who was, decades after his first appearance as a Thor opponent, revealed to be a Kree Eternal and came to lead Starforce.
• To accompany Batroc's rewritten entry we also have a short entry for Diable, an extradimensional monster who briefly was a follower of Batroc.
• A considerably more modern character - Korvus the Shi'Ar fighter and X-Men ally, by Gareth.
• More 1990s characters with the Masters of Silence - three super-Yakuza bringers of vengeance with special armour and weapons and some divine inspiration. They're interesting.

Current number of entries is 3727.

08/10/2008

Another half-sized batch, though hopefully I'm about to get some more free time. Further volunteers willing to detour small batches of images (say, 3 or 4) are still welcome, of course. Roll call:

• REWRITES. This is the big thing, since this type of content has priority compared to the rest of the backlog. Almost all of this stuff has been entirely rewritten, re-researched, enriched, re-illustrated, etc. - if you are interested in the characters and read the old writeup, you definitely want the check the new versions out.
  • Anaconda, of the Serpent Society
  • Asp II, of the Serpent Society
  • Black Mamba, of the Serpent Society (are we sensing a theme here yet ?)
  • Android Man, and early (Mad) Thinker creation
  • The Chainsaw Warrior, from a now-forgotten 1980s Games Workshop boardgame
  • Tom Devoe, George Clooney's character in The Peacemaker.
  • Dr. Julia Kelly, Nicole Kidman's character in The Peacemaker
• Two writeups of the Exiles (the Ultraverse, 1993 ones) had been forgotten in the backlog about... seven years ago, I think. Those short entries are now in - Dr. Deming (no, not that one) and Trax.
• We also got further easy-to-use villains from Stormwatch PHD, last year's StormWatch LS. Those are:
  • Pagliacci, a superhumanly agile sadistic swordsman
  • Slaughterhouse Smith, a vintage superhuman mobster boss with potential
• And finally Manhunter VIII - the one who was with the Power Company. More peekchurs needed for that one - thanks.

That's not much, but the Serpent Society ladies are popular villain types with huge entries, so that should keep you guys occupied. Current number of entries is 3715, since the point was not to boost it. :-)

There are, however, fairly bad news too - a catastrophic HD crash and back-up system failure have irremediably destroyed the large amount of in-text illustrations included in many of the most recent entries (not the usual right-hand column illustration bar, but the banner illos and splash pages amidst the text). This is a Rather Bad Thing, and we are currently pondering how to start rebuilding this stuff - especially in loooong writeups, to provide nice-looking and illustrative breathers for the readers. This sort of incident can be bad for the morale of the volunteer contributors, and I hope it does not has poor consequences beyond the losses. Remember people - back everything up *twice*, not once.

06/30/2008

Mostly lil' details from our "are you guys some sorts of maniacs ?" folders - not new entries.

• NEW ART: For the following characters:
  • Alchemiss
  • Beast (early X-Men)
  • Colossus (Piotr Rasputin)
  • Defender (Champions conversion)
  • El Diablo (Freedom Force)
  • Foxbat (Champions conversion)
  • Iron Man armour (Golden Avenger version)
  • Grond (Champions conversion)
  • Iron Man armour (Mk1 version)
  • Man-Bot (Freedom Force)
  • Firebat (Starcraft unit)
  • Mentor (Freedom Force)
  • Iron Man armour (Silver Centurion version)
  • Marine (Starcraft unit)
  • Aquaman (DC)
  • Minuteman (Freedom Force)
  • A handful of illos have been very slightly improved
• LIL' FIXES:
  • The Elements of Doom fixes are now online
  • Recent Marvel books have had a few more real names revealed. The Background section for a few entries has thus been enriched - Gremlin III, Silencer II, Knockabout, Psi-Borg II, Ivory.

And that does help cleaning up my work folder, too.

06/21/2008

My writeups.org time has gone from feast to famine, so here is a size S batch that includes everything me and Adam have finished - because the Spice must flow ! Note that further volunteers willing to detour small batches of images (say, 3 or 4) are, like, totally welcome. Half-sized roll call:

• ART. REZcat provided new art for two Champions characters:
  • Ankylosaur
  • Foxbat
• The three main characters of Project A-ko are now online, thanks to Pufnstuff - B-Ko (Biko Daitokuji) and A-Ko. And yes, that's three since C-ko (Shiiko Kotobuki) gets her own section in A-Ko's entry.
• We also have a few minor villains from the StormWatch - PHD miniseries ; those guys got an a nice, generic feel and can be used as-is in a majority of campaigns. In this batch:
  • Amadeus, a Sonic Beam villain
  • Cooler, a Ice Production villain
• After a lot of conversation we now have a writeup for Beck - Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson's character in the movie The Rundown. We had two choices, you see - Option A and Option B.
• Marvel's second Cobra, who appeared in the most recent White Tiger miniseries.
• More Champions characters as adapted by REZcat. In this batch:
  • Black Paladin, the very evil knight
  • Defender, the heroic version of Iron Man
  • Red Rapier, the evil swashbuckler
  • Ripper, a brick
• A long-awaited writeup that went through strange peregrinations - Captain Marvel I (Mar-Vell), by Pufnstuff
• UPDATES AND REWRITES. Tons of those are incoming, but I could only cram one in for this batch. But it's a big one, and a classic Marvel villain too - we have a huge and thoroughly rewritten entry for Doctor Faustus !
• Roy is continuing to write the Force of July, which involves reading some really dismal material so you guys don't have to. In this batch, we have Silent Majority.
• Furthermore, various fixes have been done which had been inexplicably missed before - for Marvel Boy (Noh-Varr), Photon (the one in Force) and Rocket Racer. Fixes for Deadly Nightshade and the Elements of Doom will also be done soon-ish if all goes well.

Current number of entries is 3710. Yay !

06/07/2008

Fixed a number of issues signaled by the doughty members of the WORG Patrol:

• The real names of all Supremacists have been added (those were revealed in the second volume of the Marvel Atlas)
• Typo corrected in Eagle quote, Frank added as helper
• Ultimus has not been fixed despite Chris's excellent remark, because... I'm not sure what I intended to do. He will be v2ed shortly (Ultimus, not Chris).
• Commander B. Crusher's erroneous Subskill fixed, KalEl added as helper
• Cyborg's location is now Jump City and not 'the city'
• Firestorm I (Raymond/Stein version) - typo fixed, energy blasts clarified, KalEl ands Eric added as helpers
• Clarified a bit in the Corruptor's history, Chris added as a helper
• Typo fixed in the description of Harry Leland's powers, Ethan added as helper
• Storm is now small-m married, has the Connections discussed in late 2007, Eric and Michael added as helpers, and I've fixed her list of Known Relatives.
• I haven't acted yet on Capita_Senyera's good points about Marrina and heather Hudson - since the entirety of AF has to be rewritten (I think AF were the very first writeups I published on the list around 1995). Can't put them on my dance card right now, though.
• Chroma's shapeshifting has been clarified ; KalEl added as helper
• Mad Peter Quick's van fixed. Good thing KalEl is fast !
• Capita_Senyera added to the Helpers list for Mirage (Valkyrie period)
• Count Nefaria's MPI corrected, Azrael added as a helper
• First fixes added to Darkstar, Pufnstuff and Capita_Senyera as helpers

Thanks to the community for bringing up those points.

05/27/2008

An interesting batch, as it turns out - I'd be surprised if there are many people who cannot find therein at least two or three characters of use for their campaign. Roll call:

• ART. The new art for this batch is art for recent entries that went without illustrations for a few days due to the pace of the batches:
  • Cartessian
  • Claw the Unconquered
  • Johnny Redbeard I and II
• A new Pre-Crisis Legion of Super-Heroes entry by Chris ! Of course, Animal Lad doesn't exactly have earth-shuddering star power, but he's far from alone in that respect on WORG, and it's a neat entry.
• 1963. From this great retro series of comic, this time we have the key characters from the Fury faux 1960s comic book:
  • The Fury himself, of course, a sort of Spider-Man/Daredevil guy
  • Voidoid, one of the main guys on his imaginary villains gallery
  • Warbeast, the intelligent telepathic mutant killer tyrannosaur who killed the dinosaurs
• A new instalment in the cold war that is writing up the second Black Widow (Natalia Alianovna Romanova). You thought it would never actually come, right ? In this batch you'll find her entry from the 1980s, starting when the previous writeup ended and ending when she joins the Avengers full time.
• LARSENVERSE. Even more minor and somewhat weird villains from Peter's research ! Hurray ! Roll call:
  • Bodycount, a literal gunman
  • Chaos and Control, an odd pair of villainous freaks
• Technically, the huge entry for the Gremlin III (son of the Gargoyle, fought Hulk, worked with Rom the Spaceknight and the Soviet Super Soldiers) is a rewrite since there used to be a version on the first generation of our online archives, but since few people alive read the v1... Anyway, he's a very interesting outcast genius boy, so geeks love him.
• Along with the Gremlin comes his pet, the aptly-named Droog. What could be better than a giant orange mutant triceratops who talks in rhymes and is about as strong as the Hulk ? 'Nothing", would say the Gremlin, and that's why he created Droog to be his pet.
• UPDATES AND REWRITES. In this batch:
  • I've added further material to the Black Widow - the KGB years writeup since I realised that I had forgotten to include the semi- recent flashback about the weeks she shared with the Winter Soldier ('Bucky' Barnes) during her time with the Red Room. Then I made further clarifications to the History section of the writeup as I realised the previous changes made the chronology confusing. Then I had to add some material to Ivan Petrovitch's writeup, since the retcons make his role in raising Natalia... complicated. Sigh. :-)
  • Small changes have been made to the Fer-de-Lance writeup, our famous Animals File, and the entry for Bonk (of the Jokerz)
  • Blastaar has been entirely rewritten and now gets a mammoth writeup... FOR POWER IS BLASTAAR !! A quite powerful and entertaining villain, he was worth re-researching. Now all we need is to publicise our initiative for the "Talk Like Blastaar Day"... FOR THE UNMATCHED POWER OF BLASTAAR CAN LEVEL MOUNTAINS WITH BUT A GESTURE !
  • Steeplejack I has been entirely rewritten
  • Steeplejack II has been entirely rewritten, for our mission is to rewrite steeplejacks. Entirely.
• From a classic Belgian adventure comics of the 1970s (people seem to like this stuff) - the Human Ants from the Sixth Continent. *I* think it's cool.
• BLACK LAGOON. This batch has two entries instead of the usual one:
  • Roberta the maid
  • Rotton the Wizard
• Kirigi, the supernatural giant killer ninja from the classic Daredevil era by Miller, simply had to be on WORG - it is now done. Shi kin hara mitsu dai ko myo, as I always say.
• HEROES. Two more entries for key characters have been deemed finished for now:
  • Hiro Nakamura
  • Peter Petrelli
• Djinn, a PC from Kal El's Global Guardians campaign
• Her come the rest of the Jokerz street gang, as written up by Tom and found in the Batman Beyond animation series. Now you've got the full set, with:
  • Chucko
  • The Dee Dee twins (twinz ?)
  • Woof
• Starblaze, a PC from Kal El's Patrulla Barna campaign

Current number of entries is 3698. Maybe I should have done two more !

05/12/2008

More random stuff. As it turns out, there is a high proportion of characters that strike me as being useful in many many campaigns for GMs. In other terms, a bunch of obscure villains you can use pretty much anywhere, and of characters who come with a built-in adventure scenario.

Also, there is a ton of new art. Wasn't easy.

Roll call:

• ART. New art (both banner art and/or column art) for the following guys ; also see the updates and rewrites, since those always come with new art.
  • Inque (from Batman Beyond)
  • Garbo
  • Hawkeye (again)
  • Loki
  • Mace (Larsenverse - the former Young Tough)
  • Mack the Knife
  • Punisher II (Frank Castle)
  • Rick Jones
  • Scarlet Witch
  • Silver Surfer
  • Stupor
  • War Machine
  • Daredevil
  • Doctor Octopus
  • Green Goblin I (Normal Osborne)
  • Human Torch II (Johnny Storm)
  • Lizard
  • Marvel Boy VI
  • Mysterio I
  • Rhino
  • Spider-Man
  • The Thing (Ben's Classic and Modern writeups)
  • Venom I
  • Vulture I
  • Blade (movie version)
  • Bullseye
  • Captain Marvel (DC's mightiest mortal)
  • Catwoman
  • Captain Marvel Jr. (CM3)
  • Cosmic Boy (pre-Crisis entry)
  • Deathlok III
  • Doctor Strange
  • Frog-Man II (sorry)
  • Ghost Rider I (current)
  • Ant-Man I / Giant-Man I (early)
  • Green Arrow (Oliver Queen)
  • Grifter
  • Hawkman (Kingdom Come version)
  • Hyperion
  • Iron Man (grey/golden armour)
  • Johnny Thunder I
  • Joker (Tangent continuity)
  • Martian Manhunter
  • Motorhead
  • Shang-Chi
  • Starman VII
  • Supergirl (1980s)
  • Superwoman (Wells)
  • John Law (formerly the Tarantula II)
  • Thunderbolt (Peter Cannon)
  • Ultra-Boy (post-reboot entry)
  • USAgent
  • The Vortex
• Here come all the Marvel characters named Atom-Smasher - Atom-Smasher I is an obscure 1970s opponent of the Black Goliath, Atom-Smasher II is his brother and had henchmen with Robotron mechas (yay !), and Atom-Smasher III is an unrelated but powerful anti-nuclear activist and terrorist from the 1990s.
• It's been a long time since the last one - so here comes Cartessian, another character generated to test Kal El el Vigilante's random character generator
• One Black Lagoon writeup by Tom per batch is apparently the standard ; this time it's deadly yakuza swordsman Ginji Matsuzaki.
• Some batches also have one weird 1940s character - this one is Terdu, perhaps best known (well, relatively speaking) for being the boss of the very first Masters of Evil in what will become the Marvel Universe
• LARSENVERSE. Continuing Peter's arc, this time we got :
  • Arachnid - a minor villain
  • Johnny Redbeard I and II - empowerers of minor villains !
  • Rudehead who is (you'll never guess !) a minor villain
• As you may have noticed we like old, oddball characters so here comes Peter's article on one of those half-forgotten comic book barbarian warriors from an improbable heroic-fantasy world - Claw the Unconquered.
• Doctor Stein is part of our Rockworld series of home-made characters based on song titles and lyrics.
• John Coffey is part of Pufnstuff's work on the Stephen King Universe ; he's of course from The Green Mile.
• UPDATES AND REWRITES. We're still making the old and poor-quality stuff on WORG better - we've been at it for more than 12 years and some of the earliest material cannot match our current standards.
  • The recent White Tiger (Del Toro) entry, which the author felt was confusing in places, has been clarified by Roy.
  • Bushwacker has received a very thorough and extensive rewriting. This complex villain is a former priest, a former CIA agent, a hitman, a seducer, an homicidal maniac... and he's also a living gun. But he can also be used as just another street-level thug, though it's a waste, IMO.
  • Cottonmouth II, of the Serpent Society, is a much simpler villain but he has nevertheless been entirely redone since the old entry was unremarkable at best.
  • All of the members of the second S.H.I.E.L.D. Super-Agents (the ones from the 1990s) have been rewritten in a more accurate and engaging fashion ; this means:
    • Psi-Borg II
    • Violence
    • Knockabout
    • The last member, Ivory, is also there (though it's a brand-new entry and not a rewrite), completing the team
• Completing our existing Battlestar Galactica (the newer series) material by Mike, here comes the entry for generic Cylon centurions
• It has been a very long time since we've written something from the nigh-forgotten Milestone Universe (we like it, but who else even remembers about it ?) - so here comes very minor but tactically interesting villain Reprise. He's everywhere !
• Saboteur, a very minor but fairly useful Marvel Universe industrial... well, saboteur.
• Vulcan III, a semi-weird 1970s Marvel villain, also from the Black Goliath series, who can be easily expanded upon if you are looking for a baddie to personalise for your campaign
• PLANET DC. The end of the arc for now (the remaining character will likely be done later, especially Bushido), with:
  • Cachiru, an obscure bird-themed Argentine super-hero
  • Salamanca, an obscure Argentine sorceress and super-heroine (she and Cachiru are the only members of the Argentine group Super-Malon we know more than a few shreds of info about)
  • Istar is the best-developed planet DC character - with a JLA minseries revolving around her adventures. She's fairly interesting, and she's from Tunisia.
• Another character character from Kal Els current campaign set in Barcelona - Sagrado (the Sacred One)

Current number of entries is 3677.

05/03/2008

More stuff, and this time around there are even some names people will recognise. Roll call:

• ART. New hi-res art for the following entries:
  • Black Widow I and Rockman (see "updates and rewrites" below)
  • Ivan Petrovitch Bezukov (see "updates and rewrites" below)
  • Moonstar (the writeup covering her Psyche era)
  • Ms. Marvel II (Sharon Ventura) (the early/first writeup)
  • Princess Python
  • Sunspot (classic era)
• Anna Wei, a Stark employee who is also a formidable hacker, engineer and Beautiful Kung Fu Chick(tm)
• Atlas, an obscure heroic fantasy character created by Jack Kirby
• The Confessor, a highly competent Russian assassin in the Marvel Universe
• A classic 1960s character by PAM - Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt !
• CHAMPIONS CHARACTERS. We now start our arc of Champions characters, adapted from the various editions of that landmark super-heroes RPG by REZcat. In this batch:
  • Buffalo
  • Demonfire
  • Green Dragon
  • Ogre
  • Rainbow Archer
• The Eagle, a patriotic crimebuster and war hero from the McCarthy era of the WildStorm Universe
• An adaptation of real-life Spanish double agent 'Garbo', by Kal El
• One of the big guns of the Marvel Universe -- the High Evolutionary, by Peter
• *Another* of the Marvel big guns by Peter -- Loki, God of Evil !
• UPDATES AND REWRITES. It has been a few batches without those, so:
  • The Danny Phantom writeup has been through a lot of additional work from the original author ; the results are now online
  • Black Widow II - the three writeups for Natasha on WORG have now been updated based on information in the two 2004-2005 Black Widow limited series. This chiefly means data about the whole Black Widow program, her childhood and teenage years, and the source of her Slowed Ageing and other enhancements she never knew she had before then. There also have been minor changes as the fourth writeup in that series is being written
  • The writeup for Ivan Petrovitch has been slightly updated.
  • The crappy notes for Gladiatrix have now been replaced by a real writeup
  • The writeups for the first Black Widow and Rockman have received clarification notes, as well as illustrations, regarding the newer version of those characters in The Twelve
• One of Hal Jordan's girlfriends from way back then, the Gypsy psychic Kari Limbo
• Another character inspired by a song - Mack the Knife, by Kal El
• Yet another obscure 1940s Marvel/Timely universe -- the Master Mind, Excello ! With clarifications and illustrations re: The Twelve miniseries.
• GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY UNIVERSE. Final entries in Gareth's arc about that sub-universe within the Marvel Universe. If you just read 'em it's sad because it's over, but it you use 'em it's good because you finally have everyone !
  • Rancor
  • Sidestep, lieutenant to Rancor
  • Talon, of the Guardian of the Galaxy
• Joining our slowly-growing collection of combat robots, the redoubtable Mechagorgon, who once defeated Iron Fist
• Slowly continuing Tom's Black Lagoon arc - Sawyer the cleaner, a mute girl with a chainsaw.
• And finally, in the Marvel universe, here are Unicorn I and II. The first is a classic and tragic Iron Man villain, whose instability and complex alarums led to a rather big and detailed writeup ; the second is the far more obscure mutated madman who has been part of the Remont IV and Thunderbolts Army super-groups but wears the costume of the first Unicorn.

Current number of entries is 3657.

04/25/2008

In a savage burst of randomness, a new batch arises ! And this time the pattern created by said randomness seems to be very minor/obscure villains. Which make sense, since we love those and they are arguably the most useful type of entry for GMs - they are ready do use !

So, after waaay too much time spent on Photoshop (again) - roll call:

• ART. New hi-res art for the following entries:
  • Dr. Henry Pym (his Ant-Man I / Giant-Man I entry)
  • Black Knight V (Dane Withman)
  • Black Panther (T'Challa)
  • Roy's entry on Captain America's gear ; the same illustrations also made it into Cap's main writeup
  • Darkhawk (early)
  • Dart (Larsenverse)
  • Forgotten One (aka Gilgamesh)
  • Captain Marvel III (Genis-Vell)
  • Grasshopper (Great Lakes Whatever)
  • Hawkeye I (Clint Barton)
  • Monstroid
  • Moon Knight
  • Proctor
  • Rage
  • Red Wolf (Will Talltrees)
  • Sandman (Marvel Universe)
  • Valentina (Darna's nemesis)
  • Wonder Man (classic writeup) ; the same illustration also made it into the main Beast (X-Men) writeup
  • Baron Zemo II / Citizen V
• A second dragon from Kal El's campaign - Akalandrazor
• While the Worgmeister loathes the 2006 version of Heroes for Hire, he wrote up a minor villain from that book - Insecticide
• Tejja the Silek Killer, possibly the first League of Assassins killer seen in the DC Universe ; he's of course an exotic martial arts specialist
• I also reviewed the characters and critters named 'Monstro' in the Marvel Universe. The two that emerged as writeup material are:
  • Monstro III, a very giant octopus from an old Cold War story (Monstro was written up shortly after the release of Cloverfield, amusingly)
  • Monstro V, a contemporary strongman on the run, and incidentally an interesting character
• The first excerpt from our Voltron (a 1980s giant robot cartoon) work by Pur_see_i8 - Lance, the pilot of the red lion robot
• Civafan was kind enough to write up Smooth Criminal, Michael Jackson's character in the extensive music video for that tune, following a request
• Tigress III, formerly known as Artemis II, of the DC Universe's Injustice Society and Injustice Unlimited. She's the daughter of the second Tigress and the first Sportsmaster, and she turned out to be more interesting that anticipated before the research took place.
• More adventures in the realm of the foreign heroes features in the Planet DC annuals of 2000:
  • The third of the three DCU Mexican super-heroes we found in the DCU so far - Acrata
  • A Greek/Armenian super-assassin, who is both an ally and a foe for the JSA - the second Nemesis
  • The country of origin is now also indicated in the Notes field of the Planet DC (since that was the point of those Annuals)
• The Secbots who clashed with the X-Men within the Strategic Air Command's base are lighter versions of the Mandroid power armour, and are excellent for GMs who want thugs or soldiers in light power armour
• Another 'tough mook' writeup - the Shaolin Terror Priests, from the pages of the popular series Immortal Iron Fist, are cool-looking kung fu goons
• LARSENVERSE. Continuing Peter's varied arc through the work of Erik Larsen, we got:
  • Abner Cadaver, the evil zombie sorcerer supreme of the Larsenverse
  • A minor villain, Bad Axe
  • A minor (and rather faecal) villain, Dung
  • A minor (but very dangerous !) villain, Negate
  • A minor villain... ah, no, it's over, wait for the next batch ! :-)
• Another character from Tom's arc through the Black Lagoon manga and anime - the Russian mobster Balalaika
• From a minor DC limited series, a cool pistolera and desperada from northern Mexico - the bounty hunter Cinnamon II, patterning herself after the Old West lady avenger
• I've found an unpublished article for our 'wrestlingverse' writeups - about the Hart Dungeon
• GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY UNIVERSE. More of Gareth's work. This should be the next to last pack of writeups in that arc. Roll call:
  • Composite, from Inhuman Assassination Squad (turns out I had forgotten a few of them -- ooops). He has the powers of the entire XXth century Royal Inhuman Family !
  • Wormhole, a colleague of Composite
  • Martinex, one of the original Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Rhodney, one of Rancor's mutant lieutenants
  • Shaddo, a colleague of Rhodney
• Another of Chris's writeup about the Pre-Reboot (and usually Pre-Crisis) universe of the Legion of Super-Heroes - this time minor Legionnaire trainee Lamprey

Current number of entries is 3633.

04/23/2008

Incredibly small batch ! Those are entirely small changes and addition in the Background blocks - exciting stuff such as real names and corrections to heights and weights ! All are based on the Civil War Companion TPB, so they only concern Marvel Universe characters. Also, I usually average height and weight when we produced an estimate before Marvel did - which should be more accurate.

Roll call: Smiling Tiger, Pretty Persuasions, Gladiatrix, Equinox, Ghostmaker, Lightbright, Shockwave, Blistik, Brother Nature, Exterminatrix, Lazarus, Man-eater.

04/17/2008

I had a lil' bit of free time, so here we go. Due to the effect of randomness it's full of really obscure and occasionally weird characters, except for the cartoon version of Robin and (much more tentatively) Joystick and Starhawk. Roll call of the unexpected:

• ART. New artwork has been added to the following entries:
  • Iron Man (grey armour)
  • Bane (with a very nice new shot)
  • Meglaro (the obscure LSH villain)
  • Black Cat (the 'middle' writeup - Black Cat (Superpowered)
  • Rick Jones
  • Drom the Backward Man
  • Ruby Thursday (she's cool)
  • Mirage I, the Spider-Man villain who's both obscure and ubiquitous !
  • Sif
  • Rocket Racer
  • Thor
  • Shado (the archer lady)
  • Wonder Man (the 'current' writeup)
  • Spider-Man
  • Jackdaw II (aka Blackbird)
• Al Bundy from Married With Children. Yep. Not a joke, not a dream, not an imaginary story.
• Gwangi, a dinosaur who fights cowboys in a 1960s movie. No, really.
• Joystick, a memorable and risk-craving Thunderbolts member
• SUPERNOVA. Two more characters from Kal El's campaign:
  • Barret Blanc
  • El Roc
• One Marvel Russian I forgot last time, which is odd since he's a key figure -- the electrical engineering genius Anton Vanko, also known as the first Crimson Dynamo.
• Two obscure superhuman agent/thug - Assault and Battery.
• A C-list WildStorm Jamaican thug and enforcer, Johnny Too Bad
• From time to time I do a 1940s character ; in this batch it is the first Marvel Boy
• HEAVY METTLE. This is an obscure group of enforcers, and fairly low-powered, so they can be fairly useful in many campaigns. The whole team is here:
  • Barracuda
  • Blackwing
  • Firestrike
  • Riot
  • Stronghold
  • Warbow
• A really tough zombie with a big badass magic bone sword - what's not to love ? Cadaver, from the Secret Defenders in the 90s at Marvel.
• Deliverance Drue, an obscure Solomon Kane analogue from the WildStorm Universe
• GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY UNIVERSE. Continuing Gareth's big arc, which is full of characters that could be useful anywhere:
  • Bubonicus, a big bad
  • Mindscan, one of Rancor's lieutenant
  • Protege, the super-powerful godling from the Universal Church of Truth
  • Ripjak, the Last Son or Mars
  • Starhawk, the most powerful Guardian
  • Stupor, the missing Inhuman Assassination Squad operative
• The animated version of Robin, by Pufnstuff
• Another Black Lagoon character - Claude 'Torch' Weaver
• Finally, Adam wrote up Darna's nemesis - Valentina the Serpent Queen

Current number of entries is 3608.

04/13/2008

Be merry and find joy in even the dreariest of travails, for the new batch is arrived !

As usual this batch took longer than I thought to prepare - the overall quality level of the list's work keeps improving and that means more, longer and more detailed texts, more reviewing, more illustrations, a lot more banner illustrations, crisper detouring of the main illustrations, etc. In short, more work. :-)

Roll call:

• ART. New artwork has been added to the following entries:
  • Aleta (Guardians of the Galaxy)
  • Charlie-27
  • Hawkeye
  • Powerhouse (Larsenverse)
  • The Red Skull
• UPDATES: Only one update this time around - Fahrenheit (Wildstorm Universe) got reviewed and updated to reflect the events of the StormWatch PHD miniseries, further extending an already extensive writeup.
• Agent 47, the protagonist of the Hitman video games, now has a very detailed entry by Roy
• Another character from Tom's writeups arc on the Black Lagoon anime is in - Benny, the hacker.
• MARVEL RUSSIANS. For some reason I forget, there was an arc about a few minor Russian (or at least ex-Soviet) characters in the Marvel Universe. In this batch:
  • Concussion, an energy-projecting mutant freedom fighter from Garnoff's underground
  • Firefox, a deadly and cybernetically armed one-man commando and mutant killer, now a merc
  • Iron Curtain, a superhumanly strong and tough colleague of Concussion
  • An intriguing figure from the Garnoff underground (and now the Winter Guard) - Sibercat (formerly Siberian Tiger)
  • Another interesting survivor from the Garnoff railroad - Stencil
• Peter wrote up another post-apocalyptic character - this time it is Hombre, from the Segura and Ortiz comic book.
• Another entry from the New Frontier version of the DC Universe (the previous ones being the notes in the Cold War Suicide Squad entries) - 'John Henry', the hammer-wieldin' man who clashed with the Klu Klux Klan in Tennessee.
• Two more entries from Peter's arc through the Larsenverse, this time with two major characters:
  • Mighty Man
  • She-Dragon
• We did it ! Well, Gareth did it. The Marvel Universe's ELEMENTS OF DOOM are now online. Don't worry, we did not make 109 entries - just one mammoth entry with all of 'em. That took a lot of work to write, research, review, edit, illustrate, etc. so go ahead and use them in your campaign... but probably not all of them at once, though.
• We've got three more of the popular pre-Crisis Legion of Super- Heroes entries from Chris in this batch:
  • Meglaro, a very obscure XXXth century villain
  • Mentalla, a very minor but somewhat popular Legionnaire
  • Tellus, also a minor but popular Legionnaire with mental powers
• One of the chronological entries Puf wrote on Mirage (Danielle Moonstar) is now online ; this entry covers Danny as an Asgardian valkyrie.
• The most recent Marvel character named White Tiger - Angela DelToro. She's cool.
• GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY UNIVERSE. Another random grab from our files:
  • Malevolence (a descendent of the Mephisto)
  • Phobia (from the Inhuman Assassination Squad)
  • Replica, the Skrull member of the Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Vance Astro, leader of the Guardians
  • Yondu, a mainstay of the Guardians
  • The Spirit of Vengeance - the Ghost Rider of that era
• And finally - although I did not have time to rewrite the entry for Zaran, here is a full entry for Zaran II (Zhou Man She), pretty useful when you need some real tough kung fu muscle.

Current number of entries is 3582.

03/30/2008

There are three main themes to this bigger-than-planned batch - new art, fully revised entries and the Guardians of the Galaxy universe. Roll call:

• ART. New artwork has been added to the following entries:
  • Argus II
  • Misty Knight and Colleen Wing
  • Atom I
  • Slayback
  • Confessor (the Astro City one)
  • Jack-in-the-box (Astro CIty too)
  • Darkhawk (early)
  • Avenger (the Femforce Universe one)
  • Booster Gold
  • American Dream
  • Captain America (Rogers)
  • Green Arrow II (Connor Hawke)
  • Nightcrawler
  • Swordsman II
  • Angel II (early)
  • Box (Jeffries)
  • Lobo (the main man)
  • Ghoul (the Ultraverse one)
  • Batman Beyond
  • Night Thrasher
  • Jesse Quick
  • Shatterfist I (the one from the original Cadre)
  • Daredevil
  • Master Majestic
  • Apparition
  • Nova I (Classic era)
  • Beast (both the Early writeup and the main writeup)
  • Aquaman
  • Nightwing
  • Hourman I
  • Barb Wire
  • Bloodhawk 2099
  • The Great Gambonnos
  • Black Cat (both the Superpowered and the Modern writeups)
  • Bouncing Boy
  • Crystal Man
  • Firebrand II (Danette Reilly)
  • Silver Surfer
  • Huntress (Helena Bertinelli)
  • Liberty Belle
  • Catseye (Hellions)
  • Lightning Lad
  • Spider-Man

• UPDATES:
  • Our helpful Animals File has been revised and improved once more.
  • Two key Black Lagoon characters (Levy/Revy and Rock) have been cleaned up and improved
  • Bonk, Ghoul and Terminal from the Jokerz (a Batman Beyond gang) have been cleaned up and improved

• REWRITES. Another series of entries that have been dramatically overhauled after a full re-research and rewrite (they got plenty of new art too)
  • American Eagle (incorporating his Thunderbolts appearance)
  • Armadillo (incorporating his Modok's Eleven appearance)
  • Blizzard I (with detailed stats for all abilities)
  • Janissary
  • Man-Ape (with a large amount of background explanations and illustrations)
  • Nikki (as part of the Guardians of the Galaxy push)
  • Slaymaster (now split in two full writeups - 70s Slaymaster and 80s Slaymaster)
  • Weasel (the obscure Firestorm and Suicide Squad one)

• GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY. A random grab in our file to go along with the Nikki update:
  • Aleta (the female half of Starhawk)
  • Charlie-27 (of the Guardians, of course)
  • Bat-Wing (one of Rancor's mutant lieutenants)
  • Blaster (one of Rancor's mutant lieutenants)
  • Blockade (one of Rancor's mutant lieutenants)
  • Imprint (of the Inhuman Assassination Squad)
  • Overkill (formerly Taserface of the Stark)

• SOME RANDOM STUFF:
  • Doctor Midas, the foe of the Kree Marvel Boy
  • Doctor Kurrarkill, an old and obscure Iron Man foe
  • Iman, a Mexican Iron Man type in the DC Universe
  • The Tri-Man, an old and obscure Daredevil foe

Current number of entries is 3558, since those were chiefly changes to existing entries.

01/17/2008

Here we go again. Roll call:

• ART. Four recent entries just got illustrations:
  • Cyberface (placeholder peekchur replaced by the real deal, plus a banner peekchur)
  • Greenback Jane
  • Green Lantern Beyond
  • Imagine (homemade character)
• REWRITES. Two of 'em, more or less:
  • The rewrite for this batch is the Flying Tiger, a convenient and somewhat obscure Marvel villain
  • Not a full rewrite, but Kal El's extensive Harry Potter writeup (philosopher Stone era) has been further detailed and discussed and improved - it's now version 2.5.
• Barrier, likely the most obscure member of the B-Team of Justin Hammer operatives
• Carcharo, an old opponent of Infinity, Inc. He's a vicious shark- man.
• Chroma, another Infinity Inc. encounter - the mysterious space alien type
• Another semi-obscure group of Marvel supervillains by Gareth, which should be useful in many campaigns. The galactic felons of Force, from the Guardians of the Galaxy subset of the Marvel Universe ! Roll call:
  • Brahl
  • Broadside
  • Eightyfive
  • The leader, Interface (who of course does not have the Interface Power)
  • Photon (not to be confused with the numerous other Marvel characters of that name)
  • Scanner
  • Tachyon
• The major superheroine in the Philippines - the legendary Darna, by Adam
• A since we're at it another Filipina character, the far less exalted Maritess. She's the much abused maid of the Super-Friends.
• Gort -- a big underground monster with lots of pointy teeth. He's dangerous.
• Another monster (but richly-illustrated so it's not a slab of text) writeup covers the Cold War incarnation of the Suicide Squad, with all their odd adventures full of space aliens, giant monsters, growing insects and dinosaurs (lots of dinosaurs). The four members are here:
  • Karin Grace
  • Dr Hugh Evans
  • Jess Bright
  • And of course Rick Flag Jr.
• The last batch had Larsenverse's Super-Tough, so this one has his former sidekick Young Tough, now called Mace.
• Continuing Peter's research in to the Larsenverse we also have a pair of fun thugs, the Rumble Brothers
• A homemade character by Peter, from an old campaign of his - Mad Peter Quick.
• A very minor but quite attaching DCU character - Mary Kramer, the best friend of the second Star-Spangled Kid in Blue Valley.
• Paintball, a minor but kinda fun opponent of the second Star- Spangled Kid
• And one last Star-Spangled Kid II-related character -- Shiv I, IMO a very interesting villain
• The Seven Soldiers arc may be over, but we have more Grant Morrison stuff -- this batch has Officer Ned Slade, from the miniseries The Filth
• More Black Lagoon manga and anime material from Tom, this time with Shenhua

The head count is now 3546 entries. We're getting there.

01/14/2008

Continuing a frenzied but hopeless effort to catch up with the backlog, I've blindly grabbed some more stuff from the DC Heroes Mailing List Archives. Roll call:

• ART. This time we got new art for the following entries:
  • The Question (comic book version)
  • Solitaire
  • Samaritan
  • Shaft (early)
  • Hitman I (the Spider-Man foe)
  • She-Hulk
  • Miss Marvel II (She-Thing writeup)
  • Blackwing I (Marvel Universe)
  • Punisher II (Frank Castle)
  • ShadowHawk
  • Shield III (Red Circle)
  • Quicksilver (Earth-616)
  • Power Princess
  • Silver Dagger
  • Avalanche
  • Black Bolt
  • Captain America
  • Clive Reston
  • Lion God
• REWRITES. The only rewrite in this batch Marvel's Iron Maiden I -- an obscure but cool, simple and effective villain with potential.
• Ah Keung is one of Jackie Chan's most famous character, whom he played in Rumble in the Bronx.
• The Man with No Name is from the over the top Muse music video for the geek hit Knight of Cydonia.. He's a laser cowboy who speaks with his fists, and his fist speak kung fu !
• Starting Peter's arc about classic 1980s comic book series Atari Force, this batch carries Dart and Tempest.
• This batch also finishes Gareth's arc through the Alias action spy TV series, with:
  • Eric Weiss
  • Jack Bristow
  • Marcus Dixon
  • Marshall Flinkman
  • And of course Sydney Bristow
• Estoria Ritz is a minor character from the old Transformers cartoom, from the awkwardly-named episode The Girl Who Loved Powerglide.
• Green Lantern Beyond is a homemade character from Pufnstuff, adapting GL to the universe and style of the cartoon
• Batman Beyond
• Another of the characters from the Black Lagoon anime written up by Tom - Greenback Jane.
• Another entry in the Rockworld themed homemade characters - this time Imagine by Kal El.
• The Inheritor from Beyond, a powerful but nearly forgotten enemy of the Hulk.
• Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter, gets a post-mortem writeup.
• The version of Jinx from the animated Titans show, by Puf.
• This batch also marks the end for the big big Morrison's Seven Soldiers arc, with:
  • Klarion the witch boy
  • Neh-Buh-Loh aka the Nebula Man
  • Timothy Ravenwind
  • I, Spyder
• One of the missing Ultramarines -- the Master (formerly Pulse 8)
• Monkey Luffy from the anime One Piece
• A malevolent minor Marvel mystic - Moondark
• Continuing Peter's Larsenverse entries - Super-Tough.
• Synth, a DCU villain with a problem and an odd past
• The missing Young Avenger - Wiccan, by Gareth

Current count is 3521 entries.

01/10/2008

I'm not going to catch up with the backlog, but I can try... Apparently this one's theme is "chiefly street-level people" -- the joys of randomness, I guess.

• ART. There is a Flash site at http://www.hyperborea.org/flash/, and they have among other good content some excellent detoured illustrations (go visit them !) ; I've borrowed those for the characters we also have, since this type of site has an history of disappearing. The characters with new cool art are thus:
  • Cicada
  • Double Down
  • Folded Man
  • Girder
  • Heat Wave
  • Magenta
  • Mirror Master III
  • Murmur
  • Peek a boo
  • Tar Pit
• Further new art has been added for the following characters:
  • Roadblock
  • Namor the Submariner
  • Storm
  • Star Boy (post-reboot)
  • Star Spangled Kid II
  • Spoiler
• Dana Sterling, from the Robotech universe
• A short generic benchmark for skill levels in the DC Heroes/ Blood of Heroes game
• The first half of Tom's arc on the Jokerz, a very minor street gang from the Batman Beyond cartoon:
  • Bonk
  • Ghoul
  • Terminal
• Eden McCain from the TV series Heroes, with the power of persuasion
• The famous Lucky Luke, the fastest man in the Old West, is now in.
• A one-shot arc about a series of Big Jim action figures from the 1970s, the P.A.C.K.:
  • Doctor Steel
  • Torpedo
  • Warpath
  • Whip
• The Exterminatrix -- the ally of the Kree version of Marvel Boy
• One of the lesser members of the Johnny Sorrow version of the Injustice Society -- Geomancer
• The next-to-last instalment of our very big Morrison's Seven Soldiers arc:
  • The Hand aka the Iron Hand. He once nearly crushed the Earth, you know.
  • Misty Kilgore, Zatanna's apprentice (and the Queen of the Last Age of Man)
  • An entry about the various Sheeda forces - troopers, monsters, etc.
  • The third Shining Knight (aka Justin/Ystin or Justina/Ystina)
• The Homeless Avenger, an old antagonist of the second Vigilante
• Another Ultimate by Gareth -- the Ultimate Universe version of Hawkeye
• Gareth's Alias arc is also in its next-to-last batch. Roll call:
  • Irina Derevko
  • Kelly Peyton
  • Michael Vaughn
  • Nadia Santos
• Continuing Tom's profiles of Final Fantasy characters, here comes a favourite - Lulu.
• Another Flash's Rogues Gallery member by Mirage - this time it's the Top

We now have 3495 entries online.

01/06/2008

In this batch:

• ART. The image refreshing project is about 2/3 of the way through. Images that looked faded, washed out, etc. are now more vibrant, images that were blurry or smudgy are now sharper, hue saturations or (more commonly desaturations) have been dealt with, images looking too cold for the subject now look warmer, etc, I don't expect anybody to notice this (unless one holds the 'before' and 'after' images next to each other), so it boils down to the site now having prettier and more engaging images. Of course, not all the old stuff can be made better that way.
• NEW ART. Just a few:
  • Ariadna from the Patrulla Barna.
  • Bombolla (same)
  • Timber Wolf (pre-Crisis)
  • Wildfire (pre-Crisis)
• 'Mace' Samuels, a minor NPC from L.A.
• Silver Dagger, a classic and rather interesting Doctor Strange enemy
• The Seven Soldiers (Grant Morrison version) writeups continue trickling in, so as not to overwhelm readers with the coolness. In this batch:
  • The Bulleteer
  • Ebeneezer Badde
  • Frankenstein
  • The Leviathan that was encountered in the sewers of NYC
• A Mexican hero in the DCU - El Muerto
• A gang of magical mummy soldiers -- the Sons of Anubis who fought the JLA
• UPDATED CONTENT. The rewriting of entries that no longer met quality standards continue ; this time:
  • Mark Scarlotti (the first Whiplash, as well as the first Blacklash) is now very thoroughly covered in three writeups (in chronological order Whiplash I (early), Blacklash I, and Whiplash I (late)).
  • Blackwing I (Joey Silvermane) has been entirely redone
  • Ivan the gunman, secretly one of the key charcaters of the Marvel Universe - redone
  • His former colleague Shellshock, also a minor villain with a special weapon - redone
  • Levy and Rock of Black Lagoon have been upversioned
• The much-awaited Kim Possible writeup (sixth iteration) is now online.
• A new entry for the Ultimates -- the mighty Thor !!
• This batch marks the beginning of the Alias (the TV series, not the comic book) arc by Gareth. This batch has:
  • Anna Espinosa
  • Arvin Sloane
  • Julian Sark
  • Rachel Gibson
• The Ninja Mimes who tried to kill Grimjack
• Two more characters from Kal El's Spanish campaign:
  • Mascara (the Masked Lady)
  • Pyremus Heraklyon, a great dragon

Headcount is but 3470, given the number of upgrades.

12/30/2007

It's been a long time coming, but the new batch is finally here before the end of the year. Roll call:

• NEW ART. People enjoying the pretty peekchurs will find new and/ or improved illustrations for the following entries:
  • Demogoblin
  • Carrion I
  • Doctor Octopus I
  • Gibbon I
  • Wonder Man (classic era)
  • Wolverine
  • Rocket Racer
  • Dream Girl (pre-Crisis)
  • Colossal Boy (pre-Crisis)
  • Carnage
  • Rhino
  • Vulture I (Toomes)
  • Thundra
  • Tarantula II (Rodriguez)
  • Morbius (early/classic writeup)
  • Lizard
  • Kraven
  • Answer
• The lengthiest entry for this batch is probably the full profile of Aztek, an excellent but short-lived hero brought to the DCU by Grant Morrison. He's pretty spiffy.
• This batch also includes two more Aztek villains, or rather, a couple of heroes tragically fallen into bitter villainy - Bloodtype (formerly Mr. America) and Death Doll (formerly Liberty Lass).
• A timeline has been added for Kal El's campaign Patrulla Barna
• The rewrite for Nomad III (Jack Monroe) has started, though this is pretty hard to predict when it will be finished. The old writeup is still available, and there are two new, very detailed ones:
  • Jack as Bucky III (both in the 1950s and in the 1970s)
  • Jack during his early Nomad career (before he started using firearms)
• Here are further writeups from Peter's research into the Larsenverse. In this batch:
  • Cutthroat
  • Cyberface
  • Mako
  • Powerhouse, the superman with the head of a chicken
• A home-brewed character; Death Hunter by Lord Jobe
• A triad of very old writeups for Doctor Who - the Fourth regeneration, the Eighth Regeneration and a 'generic' writeup. Those writeups are so ancient they no longer meet our quality requirements, but since people keep requesting them to be reposted and we're not going to rewrite them any time soon, they're in after all.
• This batch also has more of those really, really cool characters from Grant Morison's Seven Soldiers meta-series. Namely:
  • Don Vincenzo the Undying Don (formerly Kid Scarface)
  • Mister Melmoth, one of the key villains of the story
  • Sally Sonic, another tragically fallen heroine (lots of those from Grant M. in this batch)
• From Pufnstuff's work on the Stephen King Universe, here is an entry for the young Firestarter.
• A classic Marvel villain finally got a full, quite detailed writeup (and thus a complete rewrite from the previous entry): the second Gladiator, Melvin Potter ! This entry also fixes a grave issue - for some reason, all the Gladiator II profiles I ever saw had a terrible picture. Well, *ours* has a really cool leading illustration..
• Another Marvel bad guy who got a complete overhaul since his existing entry no longer matched quality standards - the second Silencer.
• We don't have an entry for Earth-616's Janet van Dyne yet, so here are three other Wasps to compensate:
  • The Golden Wasp, an early enemy of Wildcat from the 1940s
  • The Killer Wasp, an enemy of wildcat and the JSA in the 2000s
  • The Wasp, but from the Ultimate Universe
• Speaking of the Ultimates, this batch also has an entry for two more - Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch !
• Speaking of the Scarlet Witch, this batch includes an entry for the Wanda of Earth-616. Since this is one of those very complete writeups, it only covers her early career ; more to come, err, later.
• Remember our Tommy Vercetti (the main character from the Grand Theft Auto - Vice City videogame) writeup ? Well, the second half is here ! Covering Tommy in his career as a full-fledged drugs lord.

And that's all the content for now. Current number of entries is 3452.

11/04/2007

I'm not supposed to have time for this, but this batch is just so full of genuinely cool stuff it was impossible to delay it further. Roll call:

• Some of Gareth's work had been accidentally missed for publication, which deprived our Faithful Readers of the full roster of two mid-level, obscure groups of super-villains - a rather useful resource in most campaigns. Here's the lacking material:
  • An illustration for Rik of the Gatherers
  • Tarkas, the missing Gatherer
  • Hungyr, the missing member of the Supremacists
• Blackstarr, a powerful and somewhat odd DC Universe villainess. Who may or may not be able to repel galaxies, and may or may not have survived the Crisis. In some ways she is DC's equivalent of Molecule Man.
• Another obscure character from the rich past of the DC Universe - Morgana the Witch. This chaotic, bellicose powerhouse almost had her own series at one point.
• Sai, a mercenary martial arts weirdo from the Marvel Universe. We got a lot of those.
• This batch includes more material from Morisson's fascinating Seven Soldiers meta-series. This time you'll be treated to the mysteries of:
  • Ali Ka-Zoom, once the Merlin Of the Ghetto, now deceased but watchful
  • Big Ed, the mysterious publisher of New York City broadsheet the Manhattan Guardian
  • His best-known employee, the professional super-hero and one- man-riot-squad reporter, the Manhattan Guardian
  • The deadliest killer in the employ of rogue wetwork agency S.H.A.D.E. -- the Bride of Frankenstein !
  • Her boss, the devious and manic Father Time
  • Gimmix, a strictly small-time and neurotic super-heroine and Pemberton fortune inheritor - but with an odd touch of class of her own
• Slowly continuing entries for characters from the Invincible universe -- Bulletproof
• Another entry from the somewhat odd continuity of What If Stan Lee Had Invented the DC Universe" - this time with a parallel universe version of Catwoman. Different but still very dangerous.
• Donovan Flint, the he-man hero from the 1970s space opera stories of the Starhunters. Now definitely a blast from the past.
• Dormammu, the ruler of the Dark Dimension and mystic quasi- principality - as well as one of the key Doctor Strange villains
• The mythical Judge Anderson, Psi Division, has finally migrated from the old version of writeups.org
• Lion-O - of the Thundercats, obviously
• The first of our entries for Danielle Moonstar (most famously of the New Mutants), concentrating on the early era during which she was known as Psyche
• Omega - the mega-powerful opponent of the pre-Crisis Legion of Super-Heroes. Omega is the sum total of all the hatred in the universe !
• Another powerful classic villain - Moira McTaggart's son, Proteus (aka "Mutant X"), a vintage X-Men opponent more recently seen in the pages of the Exiles
• In order to continue to bring in more JSA-related content, this batch includes two rather large writeups:
  • S.T.R.I.P.E. (Pat Dugan) has been entirely rewritten (and should be further detailed with Infinity Inc. content at a later point)
  • His stepdaughter Courtney, who became the second Star-Spangled Kid as well as a major source of adolescent trouble
• Tony Stark - this time it's the version from the animated Iron Man movie
• Another entry based on classic rock tunes - this time it's the Trooper, of Iron Maiden fame
• Finally, Ursa Major has been entirely rewritten since we were not happy with the existing writeup. It's now rather big and detailed.

That's 3427 entries.

08/14/2007

Well that one went fast - lot of help, and an unusual number of entries that do not have an illustration. Now let's break 3400. Roll call:

• ART. The entries that received new cool art are:
  • Zeek
  • The Marine from the Doom video game
  • Shadow Lass (pre-Crisis)
  • Validus (pre-Crisis)
  • Cyberdemon (from the Doom video game)
  • Mancubus (id.)
  • Revenant (id.)
  • Spider Master Mind (id.) (he he, 'id'. OK, not funny.)
  • Nightwind, who previously did not have a peekchur.
  • Whispering Jack, who was in the same awkward situation as Nightwind.
• FABLES. This writeup arc ends with:
  • Beast
  • Cinderella
• Breetai, the giant commander-in-chief from Robotech
• Avatar, a Authority-style homemade character by Chad
• The new Vision from the Young Avengers
• We're starting our entries about DC's International Ultramarine Corps with:
  • 4-D
  • Glob
  • Warmaker One
• Fascination, from the Special Executive (and the Technet)
• Hexus, the Living Corporation
• Jack Carver, from the Far Cry video game (PC version)
• We will slowly go through practically everyone who appeared in the Seven Soldiers Grant Morrison 2005 meta-series. In this batch:
  • Cassandra Craft, a dealer of mystical artefacts
  • FBI Special Agent Helen 'Sky-High' Helligan
• Giles, one of the missing major characters from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• The entry for Groo has had a few minor upgrades
• Karb-Brak, an obscure pre-Crisis Superman opponent
• The two main missing people from the Freedom Force video games:
  • El Diablo
  • The Ant
• Maco, from Mike's Wink World campaign
• Solar, a homemade villain from Kal-El's campaign -- not to be confused with Sol, from Kal El's random character generator, who is also in this batch
• Steel Wind, a classic Ghost Rider enemy
• Valfadir, a PC from Kal-El's campaign, has been upgraded
• Synergy, a now dead hero from Bil's campaign
• Two tests from Kal-El's random character generator:
  • OK Corral
  • Sol
• Vash the Stampede -- from, of course, Trigun
• Refit, from an ancient TSR's Top Secret game supplement
• Fleur-de-Lis, one of the few French characters in the DCU.

And thus, 3403 entries. See you next batch!

07/22/2007

This here batch is a snapshot of the most recent completed writeup at the time it was assembled (though some old stuff managed to get in by virtue of being republished at just that moment). I chose to do this at one point where a lot of DC villains were being published, for people who grumble they don't even have 350 DCU villains to chose from on that stupid site. Roll call:

• ART. Not much (got tired) - one new shot for Zoom II, and Superman Beyond (the homemade version) now has a nice illustration.
• Two of the missing Strikeforce Morituri heroes:
  • Adept
  • Marathon
• Most of the aforementioned DCU villains are from various versions of the Cadre. The following are the neo-Nazi militia called the Aryan Nation, that was also part of the Judgement Day version of the Cadre:
  • Backlash
  • Blind Faith
  • Golden Eagle II
  • Heatmonger
  • Iron Cross
• The original, 1980s Cadre is now here, too. Like the Aryan Nation, those villains are just the right level for a big brawl in many campaign:
  • Black Mass
  • Crowbar
  • Fastball
  • Nightfall
  • Shatterfist I
  • Shatterfist II
  • Shrike III
  • Starshrike
• The famous inept barbarian, Groo.
• The first two entries for the Force of July quasi-governmental team, which happens to be a big bunch of bullies and fanatics:
  • Major Victory (I and II)
  • Sparkler (I)
• The Master Mold, the original mutant-hunting uber-Sentinel in the Marvel Universe
• The world-famous Monkey King, as seen in Chinese epic Journey to the West
• Morgg, a giant DCU henchman who happens to be immune to magic
• The pre-Crisis Legion entries being pretty popular, here comes another big one for... Phantom Girl! With a super-cute illustration to boot.
• T-Bag from Prison Break
• Our first entry for the famous Tommy Vercetti, of Grand Theft Auto fame
• Zeek, the strongest person there is in the Larsenverse

Let me check... 3376 entries now, we'll break 3400 by the next one.

07/06/2007

Another somewhat random array, though with generally much bigger names than the previous random picks. Roll call:

• ART. Not much this time, I don't have the time, so mostly late submissions. New and/or improved art for:
  • Vigilante II (Adrian Chase)
  • Captain Nemo (LXG comics)
  • Mystelor (Taurus Gang)
  • Shagrek (Taurus Gang)
  • Mister Popo (Dragonball Z)
  • The homemade Tangent version of the Swamp Thing
• FABLES. This batch has Bluebeard.
• 790, the insufferable robot head from LEXX.
• Azalin, a lich-king from the Raveloft AD&D setting
• Cyborg, from the cartoon version of the Teen Titans
• The Dark Messiah and his disciples, an old Moondragon-created Daredevil villain - during the San Francisco era
• HK-47 -- no, not that one, a homebrewed character
• The Lizard King, one of the most dangerous enemies Aztek met during his brief career
• The "Junk Cyborgs", two servants of the Lizard King
• Notes for Miss Victory, the chief Femforce character
• Mister Gargoyle, one of those terrible old Wonder Woman villains from just before the mod karate era
• Mysterio - a classic Spider-Man villain
• The fascinating Nemesis III, the Spirit of Retribution seen through several eras of Alpha Flight adventures. I say "era" a lot, today. Era. Era.
• Nicholas Wolfwood from Trigun. His cross is full of mercy.
• JC Roque, which I think is the last of the Losers (2000s version)
• Two of the missing magical sailor girls:
  • Sailor Jupiter
  • Sailor Venus
• The Scarlet Mask, a random artefact from a thoroughly obscure Boris Karloff comic book
• Scripture, the Teragen guy, and thus a conversion from Aberrant
• S T R I P E from the JSA -- formerly Stripesy, aka Pat Dugan
• More Superman goodness. This time:
  • Superman as he was in 1942
  • Superman from Earth-1, on a PRE-CRISIS POWER SCALE
  • "Superman Beyond", created by Puf on the template of the Batman Beyond cartoon
• The fourth Whip -- a forerunner of a batch full of Seven Soldiers (Grant Morrisson's 2005 version) that will come, hmmm, at some point
• Notes about Zeitgeist -- the one from the Special Executive
• Zoom II, from the DC Universe.

So that's 3351 entries by now ; the next batch will probably take recent work rather than diving deep into the past.

06/27/2007

Another dump from our archives, ranging from the cool to the useful to the bizarre. For some reason this one went down real fast -- I had more help and there was less stuff to detour, I guess. Roll call:

• ART. The following entries get new and/or better art:
  • Antithesis (the DCU one)
  • Fury I (the DCU one, too)
  • Manhunter I
  • NIL-8 (the previous illo was a ugly coffee smudge, basically)
  • Big Wheel
  • Cyclone I (sacrebleu !)
  • Multi-Man
  • Mina Harker
  • Catwoman
  • Doctor Strange
  • Invisible Man (the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen one). He didn't have an illo before. Why ? Because he's invisible. Duh.
  • Massacre
  • The Gargoyle (the DCU one)
  • The Dalek and the Cybermen have got back the photos they had in the old database (and get to keep the new stuff, of course)
• The Afro Samurai. He's a samurai. He wears an afro. Really. From a Spike TV anime.
• The first two characters from Final Fantasy X -- meet Auron the ronin and Rikku the thief.
• Some very, very small-time super-mercenaries from the DCU, for low-level enounters - Dial V for Villains. Roll call:
  • Awol
  • Bloodhound
  • Deathgrip
  • Tattoo
• Count Magnus Lee, the very powerful vampire foe of Vampire Hunter D
• One of the Great Lakes Whatever that was missing - Doorman. In fact we might be done with them. I'll have to check.
• Freak, another product of Kal El's random generator
• Fred -- like Shaggy, this is an 'alternate future' version of the Scooby Doo character.
• Hawkman -- Mike's homebrew version from his Wink World
• The Impossible Man, one of Marvel's least tolerable characters
• Liomane, an invulnerable Chinese modern-day pirate and colonel with a neat costume
• Major Fraiser - continuing our Stargate:SG1 characters writeups
• Man-Bot, continuing our Freedom Force video game writeups
• The Mangler II, a brutal, bestial wrestler who's also a thug. Any campaign need those, right ? Right ?
• Necromancer -- the eeeeviiilll version of Dr Strange on Counter- Earth
• Spear, an old Luke Cage villain with a spear launcher. Actually he's kinda cool.
• Another Young Avenger -- Speed. You'll never guess what his power is !
• Spirit Guardian, a ghost from the Miracles TV series
• Sporty Spice. Worse, this is the second Spice Girls writeup on WORG.
• Steel Kommando -- because everyone needs flying armoured Nazi villains with guns.
• Sylvester J. Superman, from an abysmal episode of the 1950s Superman TV series. He's the strongest man in Skunk Hollow County.
• Whispering Jack, a homebrew from Pufnstuff. I'm having a bit of HD trouble for the peekchur, hang in there.

And we triumphantly reach 3326 entries. I'm gonna celebrate with, hmm, a bottle of Vitamin Water, I guess.

06/24/2007

As I continued my industrious (if somewhat repetitive) descents into the archives, I've brought from the depths a fair bunch of random and interesting stuff. Roll call:

• ART - Like with much of the previous art improvements, many of those illustrations come form the rapsheet.co.uk site I already recommended. We often use the exact same sources, we detour in the same way and for all I know we use the same Photoshop filters - several times I was ready to detour an illustration when I realized the work was already done there.... And in quite a few cases, we have the exact same illustration, except we worked on it independently. So anyway, new, cool art for:
  • Cluemaster
  • Kingslayer
  • Magog (the Superman-killer)
  • Phobos (Ares' son in the DCU)
  • Pteradon
  • The Warlock of Ys
  • Bulldozer (from the Wrecking Crew)
  • Vermin
  • Whiplash II (from the Femmes Fatales)
  • Barbarus (from the Savage Land Mutates)
  • Prometheus (the JLA villain)
  • Tremolo
  • The Weasel
  • Jack Burton (Big Trouble in LIttle China)
  • Misfit (Night Shift)
  • Awesome Replicoid
  • Shocker
  • Brutale
  • Electrocutioner (the DC one)
  • KGBeast (modern version)
  • Lynx (of the Ghost dragons)
  • Killer Moth (post-Crisis version)
  • Tally man
  • King Snake
  • Cosmic King
  • Mist Master
  • Diamondback I
  • Mollaka
  • Frenzy (Joanna Cargill) has a new in-text illustration
• ART - I have also started haphazardly correcting color levels in some illustrations that were too faded (most comic book papers do not age very well), making them more vibrant and better-looking.
• The entry for the Whip II has been slightly upgraded.
• FABLES. In this one we catch up with the low number of entries in the last batch or two. We got:
  • The Adversary (and the Emperor, and the wooden soldiers)
  • Boy Blue
  • Goldilocks
  • Mowgli
• Losers -- the cat dragged Cougar (the laconic Catholic sniper) in.
• The Disco Boys, enforcers not-so-extraordinaire in Mystery Men, with a focus on Tony C. and Tony P. Would they win against the Roller Disco Devils and the Hypno-Hustler, though ?
• Golden Beetle, a homebrewed from Mike.
• Kill-Cat, the inept super-hero from the Larsenverse
• Killraven, the legendary leader of the human resistance after the War of the Worlds
• From the old database comes Lord Defile, a Daemonite lord, and a capsule entry for Muhgi, the mutant cat from Dirty Pair
• Manhattan Flash, from a Johnny Cash song, joins Rockworld
• "Marvel Boy" -- Noh-Varr -- the wild Kree super-soldier
• Mister Popo, a Dragonball character
• Writeups are surfacing that laid unpublished for six or more years, such as Mustang from the Exiles (in the Ultraverse). The illustration was a bitch to detour, too.
• The Piper, a pipe-themed Silver Age villain, starts our sweep through the Morrisson/Millar Aztek mini-series of ten years ago
• The entry for Richard's homebrewed Powerslide has been updated
• Various editorial clean-ups in the very detailed Prisoner / Number Six entry
• An adaptation of the Skull Spirits, undead monsters from a GURPS supplement
• Somehow, poor Sliver had been forgotten when I was putting the Gatherers online. Here she is now.
• The second Smuggler -- Erik Josten's bro, with the Redeemers
• Stanley Tweedle, the pathetic captain of the LEXX
• Three 'Tangent' characters, homebrewed in Kal El's namesake campaign:
  • Holocaust
  • Manhunter
  • Swamp Thing

So, as previously implied, headcount is now 3301 (which is about one entry a day, 365/7, for nine full years plus a month and a week, including leap years, according to me calculator).

06/20/2007

Yet more content to continue to compensate for those months that went without an update during the last year (I was a tad busy). Roll call:

• ART. New, cool stuff (along with, quite often, improvements in the old stuff) for:
  • The Warlord (the DCU one, Travis Morgan)
  • Will o' the Wisp
  • The Wraith (the old Spidey villain)
  • Magnir (converted AD&D character. I've also tweaked the mechanics, but who cares)
  • Black Mace
  • Beast (of the X-Men, and others)
  • Penance
  • Spider-Woman I (Jess Drew)
  • Nightcrawler
  • Black Lightning
  • Booster Gold
  • Night Girl (pre-Crisis LSH)
  • Omni-Man
  • The Thing From Another World (literary version)
  • Charcoal
  • Jolt
  • Superboy (pre-Graduation Day)
  • Mister Terrific II
  • Powerhouse I (Champions of Xandar)
  • The Lion God
  • Ravan
• Acolytes of Magneto. Ain't none. I'm trying to write up some DC stuff ATM.
• Fables. Next batch !
• Allen the Alien, the one eyed Kryptonian-level brick from the Invincible universe
• Batman Beyond
• The main types of Boomer androids from Bubblegum Crisis's Mega- Tokyo
• An updated entry for the first Captain Boomerang
• Losers: In this one we got the boss, Clay
• Cerebro's X-Men. Since people are likely to use them as a group, here goes the rest:
  • Crux
  • Gray King
  • Landslide II
  • Mercury
  • Rapture
• Long time since we didn't have a Buffy writeup... so why, why, WHY did it have to be Dawn Summers?
• The Gas Man, a toilet humor homebrew from Jay
• The first Green Goblin -- but this detailed writeup captures the *movie* version of the character, as played by Willem Dafoe
• Jill Valentine, one of the core character from Resident Evil
• Johnny Clonic, another experiment from Kal El's random generator
• Kid Lantern, an homebrew in the style of DC cartoons by Azrael
• Klamos and Grok, two terrible villains from old Wonder Woman stories. We do have a few of those, unfortunately, since for some reason I read a few issues preceding the 'karate mod era' when writing that up.
• Marian, another NPC from an old Shadowrun campaign
• Medini, the world's greatest hypnotist -- a very old Superman villain
• Meryl Stryfe - Milly's derringers-wielding colleague from Trigun
• Miss America, inspired by a Styx song like the rest of the core Rockworld homebrewed
• Plunder, a secondary Flash villain
• Power Core, a group entry for the guys in Bil's campaign
• Sailor Mercury -- joining Mars on WORG
• Snowblind, a minor yet somehow classic Ghost Rider villain
• Tru Davies, the character portrayed by nerd-favourite actress Eliza Dushku in the Tru calling TV series.

The next batch will break 3300.

06/18/2007

I ended up doing most of he illos for which a volunteer was needed, again... :-((. Anyway, roll call:

• ART. In this batch, the entries for which the art has been enhanced are:
  • Brainwave II
  • Bulletgirl
  • The Persuader (post-reboot version -- the previous illustration was from a *wrong* version of the Persuader)
  • Likewise Cdr Adama is now illustrated with the correct version of the character
  • Stegron the Dinosaur Man
  • The Turtle (the Wild Cards one)
  • Onomatopoeia
  • Antaeus (from the New Olympians who fought Batman and the Outsiders)
  • U235
  • Venom
  • The Cyberdemon and the Demon Spitter from the Doom videogame
• Typos and small modifications and additions-- I've cleared as many typos and assorted stuff and changes signaled by the WORG Patrol as I could stand. Go go, WORG Patrol !
• Acolytes of Magneto -- none in this batch, you guys had two last time.
• Fables. In this batch, Prince Charming. Stay tuned!
• A first three-round burst from the recent Losers series from DC: Aisha the scary badass warrior/assassin from Afghanistan, Jensen the Special Forces techie and Pooch, the Special Forces vehicles specialist.
• Animal, from a Rob Schneider 'comedy' role. It did a big fat 31% on Rotten Tomatoes...
• The Animals File is a large and extensively researched compilation of real-world animals, useful both for animal opponents and for people with Shapechange, Animal Mimicry, etc. -- in fact, special attention has been paid to model animal abilities for those with those Powers. This entry is still being worked on since it's so full of content, but I couldn't deprive faithful writeups.org readers of it any longer.
• The Black Star Ninja was one of the bad guys in American Ninja I. He shoots lasers and flames, and he trains ninja thugs !
• The Brain Globes of Rambat are a very early Legion of Super- Heroes foe. They did not age very well, as you will see...
• Brother Nature is an obscure Captain America opponent who can control natural forces
• Celine "Echo Zombie" McGowan is a conversion of an old Shadowrun super-cop NPC.
• Chaos aka Xaos, the first of the various "Cerebro X-Men", which can be convenient throwaway opponents
• Chief Tyrol, a member of the Battlestar Galactica crew (the 2003 version)
• Another ninja with a difference -- the unkillable Death Ninja, a foe of the Ghost Rider
• The Gashouse Gorillas baseball team, from a findly remember Bugs Bunny 1946 cartoon
• I-Ching, the Mysterious Aged Oriental Master who mentored Wonder Woman during the 1960s "mod karate era"
• Charles-Ingvar "Sickan" Jönsson, from a series of whimsical Swedish gangster movies
• Milly Thompson, the strong-armed lady from the manga Trigun
• Mollaka, the guy James Bond chases in the second opening sequence of Casino Royale - and the first movie role of traceur Sebastien Foucan
• Nightshade, a weird lady scientist from the Marvel Universe. She dabbles in werewolves. And mob robots. And chemical weapons. And dragon-god DNA. And all of this is in the hands of an incredibly cocky and immature young woman.
• Two capsule entries I'm not quite happy with but I couldn't really throw away... grumble grmll... since they were on the previous version of WORG, many years ago. Psycho Mantis from Metal Gear Solid and Shasti from Dirty Pair.
• Safeguard, a homebrewed that was part of Kal El's experiments with his random character generator
• Shaggy (and Scooby Doo) - an Elseworld version of the famous cartoon character, intended for a homebrewed continuity where everyone grew up and changed Genre
• Shagrek, the missing member of the Taurus Gang, joins WORG.
• The notes for DCU's second Vigilante have been upgraded

Okay, I'll admit it was full of the obscure, the quirky and the weird. But batches tend to be assembled somewhat randomly, so we'll see how the next one turns out ! Headcount is now 3252.

06/12/2007

What is huge, enormous, humongous, gargantuan? The WORG publication backlog. So here's an attempt to make it a bit less disastrous, with a random selection that ranges from the really cool to the bizarre and unexpected. Roll call:

• ART -- the art for the following entries has been redone or noticeably enhanced:
  • Hacker
  • Manhunter IV (Mark Shaw)
  • Dragon (leader of the Dragon's Claws in 8162)
  • Rogarth (of the Taurus Gang)
• REVISIONS -- as you know, there is an effort underway to bring old, messy writeups to modern quality standards. In this batch, the following have been thoroughly re-researched, rewritten and re- illustrated:
  • Black Mace, a member of the Taurus Gang and semi-classic Legion of Super-Heroes pre-Crisis opponent
  • Demogoblin, a warped demon on a demented crusade for good and order in the Marvel Universe, who formerly possessed the Hobgoblin
  • Fahrenheit, a regular StormWatch character in the Wildstorm universe. Includes updates for her StormWatch PHD appearances and, for some reason, a huge illustration bar
  • Machete I, from Batroc's Brigade and a Captain America opponent. Well, *I* like him
  • Pagan, the feminist street vigilante who clashed then cooperated with Batman
  • Slaughter Boy, a superstrong psycho built for random combat encounters
• Fables. We are starting a series of DC's Fables writeups with the following entries:
  • Snow White, which also includes an explanation of the Fables universe
  • Bigby Wolf
• Brute, the superhumanly strong street kid from Trash
• Coldheart, a Marvel vigilante with frost swords
• Cthulhu. Nuff' said.
• Damon Dran aka the Indestructible Man, a superhuman but James Bond-esque Marvel villain
• Ruby Thursday is a quite interesting and creepy mad lady scientist from Marvel. As a bonus there is also an entry for her superhumanly powerful servant, the Dibbuk.
• Fan-favourite rogue adventurer Fantomex, a complete badass and occasional X-Men ally. Go go Jean-Philippe !!
• Firefly, a Nova villain who had a three-pages appearance
• Two writeups for the Fixer -- one for the current version (as a Thunderbolts member onward), with another entry centering on his period as the completely artificial Techno
• The superstrong Frenzy, formerly from the Alliance of Evil, Acolytes of Magneto and X-Men. A handy character to know about for GMs in the Marvel Universe.
• G-Girl, the superpowered girlfriend from Hell played by Uma Thurman in the movie My Super Ex-Girlfriend.
• An entry for a generic semi-low-powered security robot, for GMs needing cannon fodder generic opponents
• Grasshopper, a thoroughly minor and dead (twice, and those were different guys) Marvel 'hero'
• Halloween Jack, an insane and dangerous opponent of the X-Men 2099
• An entry for Hellcat that focuses on Patsy after her suicide and sojourn in Hell. She came back, and she's now rather tough.
• This batch again has two members of the Young Avengers:
  • Hulkling, who's actually a teenage Skrull
  • Stature, who is Scott "Ant Man" Lang's daughter
• Beloved by all here comes "Jolly" Jonah Jameson, publisher of the Daily Bugle
• An entry for generic Klingon soldiers from Star Trek.
• Leila Davis (aka Hardshell, aka the Beetle), the widow of the Ringer, has had an interesting quasi-villainous career in the Marvel Universe
• Leonard Shelby, the hero from the nerd-favourite movie Memento -- he has a memory problem.
• The Lion God, an African divinity who once beat up the assembled Avengers
• Mechanus, a servant of Destiny from Kal El's campaign
• This batch's Acolyte of Magneto (well, asides from Frenzy) is the monstrous Mellencamp
• Since Black Mace has been redone, here are two of his accomplices within the Taurus Gang:
  • Mystelor, a telepath and telekinetic
  • Quanto, a higher-dimensional lightform
• The in-game version of the history of the wrestling trio, the New World Order
• Yumiko Readman aka The Paper, the heroine of the anime Read or die and operative for the British Library Special Operations Division.
• Continuing our 'rockworld' series of homebrewed characters inspired by hit songs, here come:
  • Power (based on the Peter, Paul and Mary song)
  • Rocketman (based on the Elton John song)
• Ravan, Kali cultist and terrorist, but perhaps best known as a Suicide Squad operative
• Two key characters from manga Black Lagoon:
  • Levy aka Revy, the super-gunslinger
  • Rock, her Japanese and far less dangerous colleague
• Roger the Amazing Rabbit Man, another PC from Kal El's Tangent campaign
• Scythe, one of the more interesting (but forgotten) pre-Ellis StormWatch members
• Slayback, a rather dangerous opponent of Deadpool and Wolverine
• Starlord (Peter Quill) from the old SF series, plus updates for his Annihilation role
• Takeshi Kovacs, the hardboiled and very violent enforcer from the SF novels Woken Furies.
• Classic yet quite minor Marvel villain the Trapster
• The Ultimate Universe version of Doctor Doom
• The hammer-and-sickle-wielding Vanguard, from the old Soviet Super-Soldiers, was not on writeups.org since the ooold version of the site, years ago. He has been completely redone and now has a pretty big writeup.
• Uatu the Watcher, a classic Fantastic Four character
• The so-called 'Wild Bill' S.H.I.E.L.D. security robot

And thus we happily reach 3227 entries, with most of them being pretty cool. Have you noticed how it's always the female characters who get the super-long illustration bars extending way past the writeup itself ?

05/05/2007

While the new batch has languished far too much in no-free-time-limbo, it's loaded with interesting stuff, which I hope will compensate. Roll call:

• A new generic writeup for most campaigns -- ex-militray security guards wearing not-quite power armour
• Continuing our Great Lakes Whatever series, here come Big Bertha, Dinah Soar and Mister Immortal
• Claire Redfield, one of the key protagonists from the popular video game Resident Evil
• Colonel Saigon, who is Peter's favourite creation in the City of Villains MMORPG
• This batch's Acolyte of Magneto is the obscure Decay
• The entry for Maverick, one of Marvel's kewl 1990s mutant mercenaries, has been thoroughly re-researched, rewritten and re-illustrated and is now much bigger and much more precise and detailed
• Elena Ivanovna, who used to be an appendix in the old Maverick writeup, now has her own and fully detailed entry
• As a further bonus, we now have an entry for Isabel Ferguson, Maverick's attaching armourer and gadgets woman. She could be useful in many campaigns.
• Epsilon Red -- Elena Ivanovna's father, semi-failed Soviet super-science project, precursor of Omega Red, super-cosmonaut, target and then ally of Wolverine
• Continuing our Young Avengers series, here comes Hawkeye II (Kate Bishop)
• The lynchpin character from the Hellsing manga -- Sir Integra Hellsing, the vampire-hunting ice queen
• As a supplement to our series of highly detailed Black Widow writeups, here comes her chauffeur, confidante, adoptive father, etc. -- Ivan Petrovitch !
• Completing our cast from CGI-animation movie The Incredibles, here comes baby Jack-Jack
• At last, the two key protagonists from landmark anime Ninja Scroll Jubei Kepagami the ultimate swordsman, and Kagero the tragic, venomous kunoichi
• Scott James is the archetypal "ninja badass" role of Chuck Norris, from the terrible 1980 movie The Octagon
• As a bonus, Kyo (the big bad's main henchman in The Octagon) also gets an entry, because he wore a cool costume
• One of the missing Champions of Xandar reaches WORG -- the first Powerhouse
• From a long time ago here comes Rogarth, the Kryptonian-level thug from the Taurus Gang who fought the Legion of Super-Heroes well before the Crisis
• Marvel's forgotten Superman analogue, who has... issues: The Sentry!
• Shatterstar, one of the signature characters from the 1990s, joins the writeups.org cast at last
• Tower, a very convenient mutant villain for when you need semi-powerful thugs. He was part of the Alliance of Evil that fought X-Factor a while ago.
• Our very popular entry for the pre-Crisis version of Validus has been upgraded and improved

And thus we reach 3181 entries, which looks nice.

04/06/2007

Another medium-sized batch to try to eat away a bit of the backlog:

• ART. The entry for the Snake (the first costumed Superman villain) and Venom (Eddie Brock) have received the illustrations they were missing. The illustration for Trevor Fitzroy has received a lot of new art. Our small Mazinger entry has received a very impressive new piece of art.
• The Banana Monster (or possibly the Watermelon Monster), a weird guardian from the movie "Taoist Drunkard"
• Batwoman and her Batgirls, from the incredibly bad Z-series 1966 movie "Wild world of Batwoman" aka "She was a Hippy Vampire"
• Button McBoomBoom, the gangster with machineguns in his torso from 1980s cartoon C.O.P.S.
• Dagon-Ra, the very powerful space pirate and crimelord whose defeat definitely put L.E.G.I.O.N. on the map
• Stiletto, an old Luke Cage villain (and later Justin Hammer flunkie)... his brother and partner Discus also got an entry in this batch
• Beginning our Great Lakes Whatever series -- Flatman
• The standard entry for Heat Wave has been upgraded and is now on WORG
• The first two members of the Young Avengers to be covered are Patriot (a direct descendant of the 'Black Captain America') and Iron Lad
• The Acolyte of Magneto for this batch is Isaac Javitz
• An article on the Leon Genetic Sequence, an alternative explanation for those things which most heinously damage suspension of disbelief in the Marvel Universe (chiefly time and aging)
• Leon Kennedy, the male hero from the Resident Evil games
• The Mecho-Assassin, an obscure A.I.M. killer robot. MORE ROBOTS !
• Meteorite III, from the Redeemers
• Jack Tanner aka Night Zero, from the eponymous 2000 AD prog
• Nightwind, a minor character from nthe Legion of Super-Heroes universe
• Nomad II -- the imposter that came between Rogers and Monroe (chronologically speaking)
• Professor Neon, the mad and incompetent scientist that opposed the Batwoman in this batch
• Rockman, Underground Secret Agent, a Golden Age two-fisted hero from the subterranean empire
• Salamandra, the shapeshifting dragon who once married the Wizard (the Fantastic Four opponent)
• Skullcrusher, a highly skilled kung fu villain who fought Shang- Chi with his meteor hammer
• Suspiria, the female, Italian, really hot Punisher
• Vlad Plasmius -- Danny Phantom's nemesis
• White Tiger ('Kasper' Cole), an urban vigilante with strong ties to the Black Panther
• Zombo, a reeeeaaaallly obscure opponent of Rockman (above)

3158 entries now.

03/26/2007

Long time since the last one, I know... but hey, life.

In this mid-sized batch:

• The following entries have received improvements to their art: Danny the street, Demise, Johnny Quick (CSA, post-Crisis version), Owlman, Power Ring II (CSA), Superwoman (CSA), Yeoman, Double Dragon, Golden Boy (Wildcards), Alexander Luthor (post-Crisis) and Ultraman. Tao Pai Pai and the Legion Elseworld version of Vai have also received illustrations, which they previously missed.
• Absorbancy Boy, an obscure rejected LSH applicant who could replicate superpowers
• Auron II, a clone of Jim Harper with cosmic powers who left Earth to explore the DC Universe
• Big Ben, an obscure but classic Power Man/Luke Cage character
• Continuing our Black Widow serialized writeup, we now reach the 1970s -- the era during which she was wearing the dark blue jumpsuit with yellow bracers and belt. During much of that era, she was Daredevil's partner
• Bloody D.I.C.E.S., a PC from one of Kal El's campaigns
• Cocamama, from a GURPS Wild Cards adventure
• Diamondhead, a classic Nova enemy
• Doctor Lansing, a mad scientist and foe of the Champions of LA who had an army of super-bums
• Doctor Tannenbaum, allegedly the greatest opponent of the Great Lakes Avengers. X-Men. Whatever.
• Trevor Fitzroy, the Chronomancer, a decadent enemy of the X-Men (and Bishop in particular)
• Continuing our cycle of Acolytes of Magneto, this batch includes Gargouille
• Johnny Quick from the CSA -- but this time it's the pre-Crisis version
• The seventh Manhunter. In case you lost count (I won't blame you), that one was Chase Lawler, possessed by the Wild Huntsman and bad Image Comics
• The third Mirror Master joins our collection of Flash's Rogue Gallery writeups
• Nova -- the Human Rocket ! This is an entry for the classic era of Richard Rider, covering his late 1970s book in its first volume.
• Completing our fairly large collection of Supergirl writeups -- this one is the Peter David version, aka the Earth Angel
• Our Venom writeup has, at long last, joined WORG after being stuck in limbo for way too long. This is the Eddie Brock version.
• Zorr -- the first opponent of Nova -- who is a super-tough space ravager.
• The following entries have been completely re-researched, re- statted, rewritten and re-illustrated since they did not match modern quality standards:
  • Bengal, a martial artist from the Marvel Universe
  • Blackout, the psychopathic vampire and monstrous serial killer. Due to the amount of material, this one is split between a pre- resurrection and post-resurrection versions
  • Blue Blaze, a somewhat creepy Golden Age hero from Timely/Marvel
  • Devos the Devastator, a genocidal madman from space armed to the teeth, and Fantastic Four foe
  • The Grappler, an early and somewhat lame She-Hulk opponent.
  • Midnight, the adoptive brother of Shang-Chi and his match at kung fu, has also been entirely redone -- both as Midnight I and as a the mute cyborg clone who fought the Silver Surfer for the Kree - Midnight Sun
  • Nicholas Scratch, a slightly minor but interesting malevolent mystic mastermind from the Marvel Universe. A good opponent in many campaigns.

12/26/2006

C'mon ya yahoos, get that roll call rollin' or Mrs. Fury's boy's gonna introduce ya to his size elevens ! Oh, and merry Christmas.

• NEW ART. The following entries have received brand new art: Deadshot, Cole, Macon and Reese, Kulan Gath, the pre-Crisis Legion of Super-Heroes equipment entry, the MkII Sentinels, the Phantom of the Paradise, the post-Crisis Owlman. Thanks to Chris and Roy for those.
• Small changes in the Headless Horseman (movie version), Dragonfly (Supersoldiers) and the Invisible Man (League of Extraordinary Gentlemen version) entries
• Banshee (of X-Men fame) is on WORG at least
• The entry for the first Black Widow (Satan's agent) has been entirely re-researched, rewritten and re-illustrated. She brings... DEATH !
• Blackout I, the Darkforce-wielding insane villain
• Another Nova villain -- the Corruptor. He's really useful in most campaigns, being your perfect excuse for heroes to fight heroes.
• Count Dante -- a fictional version of the character that appeared in the "red ad" in 1970s comic books. He's the deadliest man alive !
• Crimebuster, an obscure crimefighter who allied with Nova
• Danny Torrance, the little boy from the Stephen King novel The Shining.
• Deadeye, the marksman and soldier-type from Ultraverse's Exiles
• The entry for the post-Zero Hour version of the Emerald Eye has had its text upgraded
• Mr Hyde -- the version in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• The Outcasts (from the 1987 DC dystopian future miniseries) -- the beautiful and deadly Kaine Salinger, the electric Shock, the brutal BD Rickenbacker and the undying Yancy Queeg,
• The King of Crime, a terrible and very obscure pre-Crisis Wonder Woman villain
• Megaman, a grotesque Nova villain. LSD or mushrooms were probably involved in his creation.
• The entry for Mr Terrific II, from the JSA (Michael Holt) also finally made it to WORG
• Paragon, an original character from David
• Since last batch had the Hellion's Roulette, here comes the first Roulette -- the demonic fiend that clashed with the Ghost Rider back then
• A detailed entry for a favourite of mine, the quasi-vampire, highly competent assassin Sandra Verdugo who hunted down, and then allied with, the Hulk
• Another Acolyte of Magneto (we're slowly going through them) - Scanner, who has a surprisingly high number of appearances
• Slamdance, an original character from Michael and Chris
• Two of the Alliance of Evil mutants, Timeshadow and Stinger, have been re-researched and entirely rewritten. Both have received a new piece of art, too.
• Terrex (not Terrax, Terrex) a Titanian Eternal weapon/being of mass destruction that was once unleashed on San Francisco. He's Terrex -- he who is of the earth !
• A classic Golden Age anti-hero, the Terror. Simple and memorable, except for his origin which is rather belief-defying.
• The militant, armed American Fascist militia in the Marvel Universe, the Watchdogs.
• One of Roy's characters, Pathfinder, has been upgraded
• Small updates to the Apparition writeup
• The Beast Men of Diemos (yes, Diemos) and Phobus, who once clashed with the Amazons in another dimension
• Black Jack, the anime/manga surgeon with the hands of God -- and an entry for his companion Pinoko.
• Another step in our series of pre-Crisis Legion of Super-Heroes entries - Bouncing Boy
• Carnifex, from the Wild Cards novels
• Cinnamon, the beautiful and deadly avenger from the fading days of the Old West
• The Comet, a very 1950s super-hero who once allied with (and mentored) the young Nova
• The timeline for Earth Omega, a super-hero world published by the fictional Omega Comics company
• The Enforcer, an old creation of Chad
• The Winkler World version of Impulse, from Mike's campaign
• Another member of the pre-Crisis version of the Crime Syndicate of America -- the original Owlman.
• The post-mortem version of the iconic Old West hero by Clint Eastwood -- the preacher, as seen in landmark movie Pale Rider.
• Photon I, an obscure Maffia thug with some pieces of super-equipment
• Public Enemy, a comedy character by Mike
• Madame Jasmine, Bronskon and Moorek, three rather obscure thugs with low level supernatural armament.
• Rampage -- sort of a failed version of Tony Stark, with a brutal and straightforward suit of power armour.
• The second Puck, from Alpha Flight. She's fast ! She's really agile ! She's incredibly cute ! And she's funny too ! And a skilled barmaid ! And maybe... other things, eh ?
• Her teammate Yukotujakzurjimozoata aka Yukon Jack -- a strange blend of Native Canadian mystic and Tarzan type, who is also a colossal pseudo-Shakespearian prick, if you don't mind me saying.
• Colonel Ling, former CO of Red China's most secret base ! Includes the Psychotron and tons of illustrated 1960's sci-fi military hardware ! And Migs, too !
• Tao Pai Pai, because it's been a long time since we added a Dragonball Z character to this database.
• Last but certainly not least -- the entry for the Titanium Man has been entirely re-researched, rewritten and re-illustrated since it was longer up to par. It's now a fairly massive writeup with lots and lots of detail about comrade Bullsky and his various suits of mighty, massive, green power armour !

12/03/2006

So here's the small-ish batch I wanted to reach before I added all of 'em peekchurs :

• The third Green Goblin has new art. Yes, again.
• Continuing our Supremacists series (the Black Panther villains) -- Barricade
• Captain Ultra, to stem the tide of people writing him up. He's done guys ! Give it up !
• A good part of this batch is made of further Hellions - and, y'know, some of them were pretty cool, actually. The inhuman Catseye ! The manipulative Empath ! The noble Jetstream ! The cruel Roulette ! The tragic Tarot ! Mmm, I think we have everyone from the old team now.
• More classic Doctor Who opponents -- the Daleks
• Darksun, from Kal El's campaign
• Some missing Endworld (the post-apocalyptic novels series) writeups : Hicock and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
• Kulan Gath, the sorcerer whose career span both the Hyborean Age and the Modern Age
• An entry describing the standard gear of the pre-Crisis Legion of Super-Heroes
• The missing Hellfire Club mercenary-turned-cyborg : Macon
• The alien who can beat up Superman (almost), and thus one of the most dangerous killers in the galaxy - Massacre
• Pumaman, from the legendarily bad eponymous movie. Meeeooowww ! Grrrr ! Pfsschhh !
• Rampage, the DCU's equivalent of the Hulk
• The long-lost entries for two types of Sentinels -- the briefly-seen MkIV and the dreaded MkII
• The entry for Shape of the Squadron Supreme has been upgraded

The little site now has 3069 entries.

12/02/2006

Well, that went surprisingly fast. Yay for Superspeed !
More art added, most from rapsheet.co.uk (go visit them if you feel like it) :

• Parademons
• Persuader (post-Crisis, pre-ZH version)
• Scirocco, Prometheus
• Solaris
• Piledriver
• Tiger Shark
• Letha
• Shockwave (Marvel)
• Montana and Ox II of the Enforcers
• Hydro-Man
• Lightmaster
• Lizard
• Molten Man
• Tombstone
• Mammoth (Fearsome Five)
• Screaming Mimi
• Johnny Quick (CSA)
• Owlman
• Shape
• Superwoman (CSA)
• Kingpin
• Magneto
• Red Skull
• Mister Hyde
• Vulture I and II
• Hella
• Knave
• Midnight II
• New-Wave
• The Russian
• Shrike IV
• Tarantula III (DC)
• Torque
• War Machine
• Murmur (DC)
• The Quiz
• Tar Pit
• Peek-a-Boo
• Wargod
• Harpoon
• Titania I
• Mariner (Waterworld)
• Thanos
• Scramble
• Ultraman (CSA)
• X-Ray
• Lightning Lord
• Knockout (Femmes Fatales)
• Mindblast

12/02/2006

Two small changes:

• The characters from TV movies and series now include in their name which actor played them in which movie or series (Bruce Willis in Die Hard, Arnold Scharzenegger in Commando, Olivier Gruner in Interceptor Force, etc.) since most readers will recognize an actor they like but may not remember the name of his/her character in a movie 20 years ago.
• The British site http://www.rapsheet.co.uk offers images that have been worked in in the same style as much of WORG (detoured on a bright white background) ; I've used a few to enrich WORG's illustration bars, since good personal pages have a distressing tendency to disappear -- and since I appreciate not having to detour those illustrations myself. All are of course duly credited in the headers of the entries.
  Here's a first set to unclutter my work folder ; more will follow. New art for:
  • Black Hand
  • Deadshot
  • Green Goblin I and III
  • The Gibbon
  • Fer-de-Lance
  • Foolkiller III
  • Cobra (as King Cobra)
  • Galactus' "cat"
  • Brutale
  • Coachwhip II
  • Cyber
  • Firefly
  • Centurius
  • The Folded Man
  • Frenzy II (from the Brotherhood of Dada)
  • Girder
  • Fatality
  • The Executioner (from the Crazy Gang)
  • Carnage
  • Fabian Cortez
  • Kara "Starbuck" Thrace
  • Captain Boomerang II
  • Gorgon and Harpi (from the Hybrid)
  • Blackout II
  • Bulldozer (from the Wrecking Crew/
  • Bushmaster (from the Serpent Society)
  • Fancy Dan (from the Enforcers)
  • Demogoblin

11/15/2006

After a lot of work done at a somewhat insane speed, here comes the new batch and oh boy, is big, wild and wooly. In fact I think I'll split it into two parts.

Part 1/ New art
Mostly it's a large influx of Bob McLeod art from his web site (www.bobmcleod.com), because I really like his art. But there's a few other things, too. Anyway, the following entries have received new art:

• Dracula (the Marvel one, of course)
• Doc Savage
• Black Goliath / Giant Man
• Captain America
• Invisible Girl
• Galactus
• Thing (both the Spiky and the Modern writeups)
• Colossus
• Wonder Woman (the main Diana entry. Yes, again)
• Spider-man
• Sun Boy
• Mister Furious
• Shang Chi
• Silver Surfer
• Blue Raja
• Saturn Girl (pre-Crisis entry)
• The Shoveler
• Storm
• The Phantom
• The Shadow
• Thor (the "Simonson era" entry... I should change the name)
• The Beast
• Captain Amazing
• Cardiac
• Wolverine
• Black Canary
• Cannonball (early writeup)
• Green Arrow (Grell era writeup)
• Iron Man (Golden Avenger armor)
• Jonah Hex
• The "Iron Spider" Spider-Man costume
• Magik
• The Punisher
• Doctor Strange
• Supergirl (the 1980s Kara entry)
• Syndrome

Part 2/New and revised entries:

• Agamemnon III, a terrorist foe and ex-lover of the Black Widow
• Continuing our Harriers series - Blindside (the ninja type of the group)
• The Cybermen -- classic Doctor Who villains
• Amok, from the movie The Specials
• The last two members of the original Hellions - Beef and Bevatron
• Continuing our series for the popular Runaways -- Bruiser and Victor Mancha
• Brutha, the hero from Pratchett's Small Gods novel
• Two writeups from the previous batch - Chrome and Lady Cop - have been upgraded based on recent comments
• Captain Boomerang II - son of Captain Boomerang !
• Commander Adama of the Battlestar Galactica (reboot version)
• Post-Zero Hour Legion of Super-Heroes foe the Composite Man
• Dominic Toretto, the short-haired and muscular driver from the Fast and Furious guys movie
• Doppler, a homebrewed character from Jason and Andrew
• The Great Vorelli and Hugo the dummy, from the 1964 movie Devil Doll
• The harpies -- one of the versions seen in the Marvel Universe
• Roy's homebrewed Hermaphrodite character has been updated
• The Huntsman of Zeus, terrori of wayward Olympians
• The entry for Hussar, of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, has been upgraded
• Invisible Boy, from the Mystery Men movie
• The Invisible Man -- the variant in League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (the comic book, not the LXG movie)
• The entry for Johnny Quick of the post-Crisis Crime Syndicate of America has been upgraded, as were Owlman and Superwoman (who went through no less than sevem versions). As a bonus, we also have a new entry for the *pre-Crisis* Superwoman of the CSA.
• Another Gatherer, this one quite obscure - Korg
• The second Kryptonite Man. What do you think ?
• In our Rockworld series about Styx songs -- Lady Lorelei
• The Marvel version of the Greek Titanson Menoetius
• Mentor -- the one from the Freedom Force computer games
• Mister Fish, occasionally celebrated as Marvel's worst villain ever
• Mister Kline, aka the Assassin, as promised in the previous batch
• The savage Mutates from the post-atomic future ! Bum bum bum bum !
• Still in the homebrewed characters inspired by songs -- Nothing Else Matters by Kal El
• Oryx, an obscure Kareem Abdul Jabar-like Marvel villain
• Oz, the young werewolf from Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• The entry for the post-Zero Hour Persuader has been upgraded
• We had a capsule entry for the post-Crisis Ragman -- now we have an almost complete and fairly detailed version
• Shego, the female teenage villain from Kim Possible
• The post-Crisis Superboy, as he was before the evnts of Graduation Day
• The second Swordsman, from the Avengers and Gatherers
• Syndrome, the villain from The Incredibles
• The Ultimate version of Captain Marvel as he has appeared so far
• The Ultimate version of the Falcon. Just because *I* hate Millar doesn't mean you can't have those
• The Ultimate Fantastic Four (damn good book) so far. All four have of course individual entries (lots of invisible people in this batch...)
• The Ultimate version of Namor
• Valfadir, a homebrewed character from a Kal El campaign
• Another Supremacist -- Voortrekker !

Pfew, That was... big. But at least that's a small slice of backlog that is now over ! Current head count at WORG is a nice, round 3050.

11/12/2006

Another nice batch full of good things -- including some fan-favourites, more rewriting of weak entries, a bit more manga material (since this is our major weakness), etc. Roll call:

• Both the Badger and Wonder Woman (Diana - the main entry) have had their illustrations overhauled. For the 12 people who missed it, the White Witch of Narnia also received an illustration a few hours after the previous batch was finished.
• Continuing the Battlestar Galactica Reboot series -- Apollo.
• Starting our Runaways series, writing up the heroes of the popular Marvel series. In this batch Arsenic, Lucy in the Sky, Sister Grimm and Talkback.
• The Astrologer, an obscure 1970s Marvel villain and Black Widow foe
• Bloodmoney, an obscure 1990s DC villain that looks like an Image one
• Finishing our entries about the original Acolytes of Magneto (started with the Cortez siblings), here are Chrome and Marco Delgado
• Here comes the... peculiar robotic assassins of Mister Kline, aka the Assassin (who should be in the next batch). We give you the insane Demitrius, the trenchant Slasher I and the power-mad Lord of the Earth and the Inner Mind -- Mikas and his demons !
• Dr. Apocalypse, the Big Bad of an old Villains & Vigilantes module
• Ed Glosser, based on a SNL skit by Christopher Walken. Well, why not. I suppose it's our equivalent of Karen on Wikipedia.
• Ironstar, a home-brewed character by Gareth
• Pulp fiction classic John Carter, Warlord of Mars -- it's quite an honour to have him aboard, really.
• Konik, an obscure foe of Machine Man with lots of special weapons
• Lady Cop - I'm *trying* not to write up the other obscure DC characters from the FIrst Issue Special series of the 1970s, but it's hard.
• Llan the Sorcerer -- his previous entry was deemed below the current quality standards, so everything has been entirely redone and is now thoroughly researched
• Magdalene, formerly of the Gatherers and later of the Avengers (sort of)
• Continuing our Freedom Force series (the computer game) - Minuteman !
• Mirage II, formerly of DC's Team Titans
• Two entries from terrible, terrible pre-Crisis Wonder Woman stories that were processed as part of the Karate Mod writeup. Steve Trevor as the Patriot II, and the Triple Stars. Meh. Let me know if you use those horrors. :-)
• Proctor, the leader of the Gatherers. Which prolly closes the Gatherer series of writeups, I haven't counted. Too much backlog. :-)
• The Psycho-Man, a fairly classic Fantastic Four villain
• The animated version of The Question, which seems to be somewhere between the pre-Crisis Question, the actual Question and Rorschach -- only smoother.
• CIA agent and champion kickboxer Rufus "Super Midnight" Carter. He's larger than life !
• What I think is our first entry for the entire "magical girl" genre -- Sailor Mars
• Scarth, another obscure and heavily Image-esque DCU villain from the 90s
• Michael Scofield, from the TV series Prison break
• Completing our large The Incredibles writeups -- Syndrome !
• The legendary Crow -- this is Eric from the original, poignant and much-admired graphic novel
• The Watchlord is an hideously obscure Black Widow foe
• Yuta -- from the "Mermaid Saga" manga. This entries include profiles for Mana the mermaid, and the Lost Ones.

And thus we break the barrier of the Big Three Thousand Entries On WORG -- since we now have 3006. Yay us !

11/04/2006

This batch turns out to be quite large, and is full of stuff I think is pretty cool -- from the fan-favourite to the downright obscure, there's a lot of useful and interesting material. We've also revised some material we thought was weak. Roll call:

• Proudstar and the pre-Crisis Sunburst were both recent writeups missing illustrations ; they are now illustrated.
• The illustrations for the Night Rider and Cicada have been improved, and the Richard Dragon one now ends with a post-Crisis mugshot.
• The remaining Strikeforce Morituri characters have been illustrated and completed
• The entry for the AMEE robot (from the movie Red Planet) has been overhauled and re-illustrated.
• 8-ball, an... odd-looking but oddly neat Marvel villain
• Anne-Marie Cortez, who was the first Acolyte of Magneto
• The entry for minor Marvel superthug, the third Assassin, has been completely rewritten and re-illustrated
• A quick entry for second-string DC hero the post-Crisis Black Condor
• Volume 2 of the epic Black Widow writeup, covering the "early costume" years as an associate to the Avengers
• Bloodlust, the feral type from Marvel's Femmes Fatales.
• Blue Collar Man, from our short series of Styx-themed characters
• Boris Turgenov, the KGB partner of the Black Widow in her youth
• Bubbles, a player-created minor supervillain
• The Condor, an obscure foe of Nova I which makes a good opponent for beginning characters
• The second Crusher, one of those obscure Marvel Communist villains that fought Iron Man way back then
• Doctor Dredd, a Dire Wraith warlock who tried to kill Rom
• El Jaguar, a cool but very 1970s-y Daredevil/Black Widow villain
• Three of the Generals of the Red Ribbon Army, an adversary in the early Dragonball saga -- General Blue, General Silver and General White.
• Continuing our series of generic writeups for basic NPCs -- generic soldiers, from militia to elite special forces
• Since it's more or less Halloween, here comes the perfect trick-or-treater and his humongous illustration bar -- the original Green Goblin !
• From Mike's Wink World campaign, the Green Huntress
• The recently re-illustrated Hammer Harrison of the original Enforcers has now been entirely rewritten
• From the games Another World and Heart of the Alien, both entries for the Heebies ("Buddy" and the "reds") have been entirely rewritten and re-illustrated
• For those complaining about the lack of very recent material, here comes the "Iron Spider" Stark armour worn by Peter Parker
• The entry for Marvel's Jackhammer, a minor supervillain, has been entirely rewritten and re-illustrated
• Fan-favourite character from the New Universe -- Justice ! (John Tensen)
• Juston Seyfert, the kid with a pet Sentinel from the Marvel mini-series Sentinel .
• Kim Taylor, a rookie but talented S.H.I.E.L.D. agent for those campaigns that use this organization a lot
• Knockout, the leader of the Femmes Fatales
• The entry for Lester Chaykin, the hero from classic computer game Another World, has been entirely redone
• Here come the Knight Saber, the heroines of classic anime Bubblegum Crisis -- Priss, Sylia, Linna and Nene, plus an entry for the motorslaves covering the Hurricane, the Typhoon I and the Typhoon II. Everything is heavily illustrated.
• Mindblast, the telekinetic from the Femmes Fatales
• N2, a killer clone of Namor
• A classic and cool but very minor Marvel villain -- the Night Phantom
• Ragansi, a mutant fighter from the world of Vampire Hunter D.
• All the Red Guardians we had available from Marvel -- Red Guardian I from the WWII era, Red Guardian II from the Cold War era (Black Widow's ex-husband) and the Red Guardian from the Ultimate universe
• Continuing our series of Superman analogues -- a conversion of the Sentinel from the game Silver Age Sentinels
• A short technical paper on how the Shadow Belt (worn by the Shadow Thief) works
• A beastie from
• Another World has also been redone -- the Shadow Lion.
• Shortpack, the extremely diminutive handler of Mystique
• The entry for Snake Marston, recently re-illustrated, has been entirely rewritten
• Continuing our Mystery Men series, their mentor -- the Sphinx.
• The last Femme Fatale, Whiplash II, has been entirely rewritten and re-illustrated to celebrate the arrival of her team mates.
• The White Avenger, one of the missing Supremacists from the MU
• The White Witch -- the version the 2005 Narnia movie
• Wonder Woman -- a writeup focusing on the famous "mod karate" era, when Diana had lost her powers and was roaming the world with her martial arts skills and Emma Peel-type fab clothing
• Another version of Wonder Woman, from Mike's Wink World campaign

That's 2972 entries - my psychic senses tell me the next batch will put us at 3K !

Ghostwise, who's always amazed at how many people stumble on the entries as they are being uploaded, checked and corrected.

10/22/2006

• Numerous small modifications suggested by WORG readers on the mailing list have been done.
• Bronze Tiger, Deadshot and Quicksilver have received significant amounts of new texts, again from readers
• I forgot to mention on this page small upgrade done on March 27 of 2006 - and well, you never know, one of these guys is probably someone's favourite. The missing message:

  "Glacial pace" comes to mind...Asides from numerous entries with enhanced art, whole new art has been put online for :

  • Fury (the one who killed Captain Britain and millions of others)
  • Velocity (Cyberforce)
  • Diva (Stormwatch)
  • The first Gladiator
  • Bonfire
  • Mark Hazzard (whom Puf doesn't like)
  • Gamora
  • Crippler

10/15/2006

I managed to get some time with my friend Photoshop recently, and so did Roy. Thus:

• I don't think there are any images with the old width (250 px) on WORG. There are still some pictures of lousy quality, of course, but at least they're big enough.
• The pictures for Madame X and Jackdaw/Blackbird had been corrupted, so I've done new, much better ones.
• The following pictures have been redone or updated:
  • Namor the Submariner.
  • Night Rider
  • John Rambo
  • Mystique (comic book version, not the movie one)
  • Quicksilver
  • Professor X
  • Arch-Vile (the monster from the Doom video game)
  • The "Silver Centurion" Iron Man armour
  • War Machine

10/07/2006

More work done... this time on fixing old pictures. Many of the old, small pictures have been, at least, resized to the correct width. The following illustrations have received a more thorough overhaul, or have had new pictures added:

• The Box
• The Jackson
• Sabra
• Eel II
• The Beast
• Grim Ghost
• Fancy Dan
• Hammer Harrison
• Montana I
• Ox
• Nicholas Scratch
• Captain America
• Sunspot
• Digit
• Protocide
• Mister Sinister
• Fabian Cortez
• Junko Aoki
• Flying Tiger
• US Agent
• Juno
• Manslaughter
• Snowbird (still an obscure gag writeup)
• Destructor
• Snake Marston
• Whisper
• Big Daddy Dawson
• The Commissar
• Death's Head I

The following, previously unillustrated entries have gained art at last:

• The Leopard
• Flood
• Shadow Warrior
• Chick
• Honeysuckle
• Kitten
• Sardine
• Toyboy

Most of those were pretty old writeups, and having to pass by them without fixing them was hard -- but I don't have enough time. :-(

09/30/2006

This batch *does* include *several* characters that more than three people will recognize ! Yay !

It includes a lot of stuff from Gareth since he sent me lots of pictures, thus saving me a lot of work. Yay for Gareth !

It also introduces images within the text. Technically this is of course trivial, but I'm afraid of having entries that weight tons -- so for now I'm experimenting to see what load times result. Yay for peekchurs !

Roll call:

• Barney Ling, the slimy and highly connected chief of G.O.O.D. (and thus Richard Dragon's former fixer).
• The beginning of our epic, multi-part Black Widow II entry. In this batch the KGB years -- when she was a femme fatale trying to bring Iron Man down.
• George Bulman and Christopher Truelove, from Wildstorm mini- series the Establishment. This batch covers the whole organization, I think.
• Cassandra, one of the Gatherers allied with Proctor who caused a bunch of trouble for the Avengers.
• Charcoal, a former member of the Thunderbolts
• Charlie Arrows, a British mob enforcer who became a member of the Establishment.
• The illustration for Fight Man has been entirely redone. Likewise, Ultivac and Multi-Masters now have an illustration - the sole picture that exist of them, in fact... The illustrations for Hussar (of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard) and the Punisher II (Frank Castle) have also been enhanced.
• The huuuge Iron Fist writeup has finally been published, even though we think it's not complete enough. Standards are falling around here, let me tell you.
• The robotic Jocasta -- but the alternate version which operated with the Gatherers
• Jolt, the dynamic teenager who was a key member of the Thunderbolts
• Jon Drake, of the Establishment -- the Danger Man and Marvel Man rolled into one.
• Lucy Arrows, Charlie's superpowered granddaughter
• The HUUUUUGGGE first writeup in our multi-part Mandarin writeup, covering the early years with the classic costume. Will receive more pictures if the strain doesn't break the Internet.
• Mei Ling, who was the fiancee of the Mandarin. Really.
• Mister Pharmacist, the scientist of the Establishment.
• The Painted Doll, a postmodern villain seen in the Promethea story.
• Raphe Equus, bred to be the perfect man for the Establishment.
• Scarlet Fantastic, Equus' mysterious wife.
• Sloth, the brick of the Gatherers.
• Squirrel girl, one of the most powerful heroines in the Marvel Universe.
• Tabula, an alternate version of the Vision that served with the Gatherers.
• The Baron, a deceased Establishment agent.
• The Golden -- the three creepiest Establishment members.
• Vantage, a recurrent Thunderbolts character.

Well, that's 2928 swell people in our wonderful garden party. How lovely is that ?

09/07/2006

"Tyger tyger, burning bright'... this batch started by running searches on unpublished stuff with 'tiger', 'burn', 'fire', and so on and so forth, in the title. I'm still uneasy over the number of excellent writeups by our fine writers I have yet to publish, though.
Roll call:

• The major names in this batch might be the Kung Fu Fighters -- three major DC characters as they were in now obscure 1970s book Richard Dragon Kung Fu Fighter. Thus we have the 1970s versions of Ben Turner (who would become the Bronze Tiger), Lady Shiva (this version includes revelation about her past from the last issues of Batgirl volume 3) and Richard Dragon.
• Enrico Chavez, a criminal arms dealer and Carmen Cazotte, a bound succubus, from GURPS adventure Soulburner.
• Charm, a social engineer and emotions vampire from Top Secret supplement FREElancer
• Stats for the various incarnations of Firestorm -- Firestorm II (Ronnie and Mikhail), the fire elemental version, the universal elemental version, and the Extreme Justice version.
• On second thought the major entrant of this batch might be Harry Potter. :-) Those stats are for the character as to the Philosopher Stone book.
• Junko Aoki, the Japanese equivalent to Stephen King's Firestarter.
• Midnight Fire, an enemy of Night Thrasher and Silhouette and a Folding Circle member
• Paper Tiger, a Silver Age villain invented by Jeff
• The Preying Mantis, an insect-like mutant martial artist who fought Richard Dragon
• Professor Ojo, an obscure DCU villain and a foe of Ben Turner
• The Queen of Chaldonor, an extradimensional enemy of Wonder Woman during the Karate Mod Era.
• Ranagor, an extradimensional ally of Wonder Woman during the Karate Mod Era.
• Slash I, a pirate swordsman who was an early enemy of Lady Shiva
• Sunburst, a Japanese anti-hero from the immediate pre-Crisis DCU
• The Swiss, the international assassin who killed Lady Shiva's sister
• Tananda, from the book series Myth Inc.
• All four Japanese wrestlers who shared the name and mask of Tiger Mask (including the very first, who much later became the Tiger King -- not to be confused with Dark Horse's King Tiger)
• Tinsel, a very generic heroine from the Ultraverse's Exiles
• Topper, a thug employed by Doctor Moon against Richard Dragon.

And thus we break the 2900 threshold, with 2903 entries.

09/04/2006

I'm running searches through random keywords, so this batch and the next have some... very weird stuff in them. Roll call:

• A technical explanation of how the Bizarro duplicator ray works. Really.
• Lt. Sharon "Boomer" Valerii, from the rebooted version of Battlestar Galactica
• The Bowler (or rather his daughter), probably the most competent of the Mystery Men
• Catapult, one of the Exiles at the very beginning of the Ultraverse
• Esther, special agent from the Jewish Justice League in the comedy The Hebrew Hammer .
• A timeline from the Fighting Furies campaign. Which has been awaiting publication since 1999. Just saying.
• Gaia Moore, the super-badass blonde from teenlit series Fearless .
• Goliath - the most famous of Disney's Gargoyles.
• The Hebrew Hammer himself, jewsploitation circumcised private dick from the 'chood.
• Jackson, the buddy of the American Ninja (the very bad 1980s movies)
• The Left Hand, leader of the Folding Circle in the MU
• Lightning Lord, a classic LSH villain
• Longbow, one of the obscure yet popular Harriers
• The second Major Mapleleaf, from the third volume of Alpha Flight . Hiyo, good citizens !
• A version of Melusine, a classic figure of the French folklore
• Ricardo Montoya-Bernal, from Team Tomorrow in the Aberrant game world.
• Piston, the vehicles man for the Harriers
• Prism, one of the missing Marauders from the Marvel Universe
• Two writeups for James Proudstar - one covering his early Thunderbird II years, one covering his late Warpath/early Proudstar years
• The Rising Sun Archer II, a deadly assassin from the DCU
• A short article about groups in the homemade Starburst campaign world
• Them -- obscure Wonder Woman antagonists during the mod karate era.
• Willy Wonka - the cinematic version played by Johnny Depp.

That's 2875 entries.

09/02/2006

If you were to faithfully read one entry on WORG for every single day of the year, you would be reading for seven years and nine months.

Roll call:

• Alchemiss, the possible magician from the games Freedom Force and freedom Force vs. the Third Reich
• Blaze of Glory, a creation by Kal El el Vigilante
• Bosch, an obscure opponent for the Sovereign Seven in the DCU
• Centennial, the invulnerable retiree from the third volume of Alpha Flight. He's cool.
• Commander Blaze (formerly Captain Blaze), from the Supremacists in the MU's southern Africa
• The Djinn -- the main villain from the Wishmaster movies
• Gravedigger, one of the top Allies commando during WWII in the DCU
• Harrier I, from the Supremacists
• Helspont, arguably the most powerful member of the Cabal in the Wildstorm Universe
• We got all the U-Foes in this batch - basically, the evil Fantastic Four. Ironclad ! Vapor ! Vector ! X-Ray ! They're so mean they fought the Hulk several times !
• Hightower, a metamorphic Cabal officer
• Kai, the last of the Brunnen-G assassins, from the sci-fi series LEXX
• A detailed writeup for a complex character : fan-favourite Promethea from America's Best Comics. The entry is of course centered on Sophie.
• The Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons from Calvin and Hobbes. Yep.
• Titus Larkin -- Matthias Hues' character in Mission of Justice .
• Since the Crime Syndicate of America entries are quite popular : Ultraman, the Superman analogue
• The love-slave and werelizard from Lexx : Xev/Zev Bellringer

2851 entries now -- and yet *your* favourite character is still not in !!!1!

09/01/2006

Since I got me a few free hours... Roll call:

• Aeon Flux - from the 2005 movie version starring Charlize Theron. Big big writeup with lots of illo. Might be the biggest name in this batch, I'm afraid.
• Joe Armstrong, the American Ninja - from the cult, crappy 1985 movie. Another big writeup, this one.
• Baby Spice. Please don't ask.
• Casanova Frankenstein, the master villain from the movie Mystery Men.
• Damien Tomasso, the supercop from French action movie Banlieue 13 .
• Kator, a pre-Crisis Superboy self-made foe.
• Khumbala Bey, an obscure Iron Fist giant thug.
• Kurt Harris, the supercop (another one) from action movie Mission of Justice .
• Leito, the urban acrobat from French action movie Banlieue 13 .
• Bad bad Leroy Brown, as inspired from the song (with Chick art !)
• Lu Shan, an obscure Wonder Woman foe of particular interest... for Fritz Leiber's Newhon fans.
• Mekano, an obscure X-Men foe from the 1960s.
• The quick missiles essay, on how to model missiles in MEGS
• Number Six (prime), the sultry and intriguing Cylon from the rebooted Battlestar Galactica
• Ol-Vir, a Daxamite kid who's a fanatical servant of Darkseid
• Paratwa assassins, from various books by Hinz such as Liege- killer.
• Patrick McGuire, an ally of Wonder Woman during the Mod Karate Era.
• Not only has the entry for Power Ring (of the Crime Syndicate of America) has been revised and enhanced, but we have a brand-new entry for Power Ring II.
• The Spleen, the most malodorous of the Mystery Men.
• Tim Trench, a noir detective in the DCU who crossed path with Wonder Woman decades ago.
• Yeti, a giant thug from French action movie Banlieue 13 , because we must have all giant thugs.

Heacount is now 2831.

08/31/2006

First update in a looong while - I've been busy, which has also delayed the near-completed overhaul of WORG for a few months. Roll call:

• The Axeman, a kung fu assassin from the DCU with a so-called flying axe.
• Black Tom Cassidy, a classic X-Men villain
• Carapace, created by Kal El el Vigilante
• La Dixieme ("the Tenth"), another quite unique and rather complicated NPC from Sebastien's French gendarmerie stuff
• Doctor Strange, because it was a shame that he's been written up and still not published on WORG
• The writeup for Echo has been reengineered ; among other improvements it now includes her appearance as Ronin
• Fabian Cortez, a signature X-Men enemy from the 90s
• The writeup for Fer de Lance, one of those delightful Serpent Society thugs, has been improved
• The so-called Giant Green Mustachioed Android was a powerful android used by the Mandarin against Hulk a long time ago
• A gnarth is a powerful predator sometimes used as an arena beast (it was seen in old Wonder Woman stories)
• Hatchett, a murderous lumberjack from the DCU
• Interesting notes about the Hellraiser continuity and universe, covering many things about Cenobites, the boxes, etc.
• Jean Grey (aka Phoenix II, aka Marvel Girl) for the same reasons as Dr. Strange
• Jeremiah Rainmaker, a NPC derived from a V&V character created by David
• King Kong Bundy, a classic --and huge -- American wrestler
• Mister Roboto, inspired by a Styx song
• The Runner, one of Marvel's Elders of the Universe
• Scrambler, another of the deadly Marauders killing mutants in the Marvel Universe
• Sing, the man who trained with Bruce Lee and proved a match for Richard Dragon himself
• The Sinister Samurai, another obscure Richard Dragon foe (we have a few in this batch)
• Kara "Starbuck" Thrace, the heart of the new version of Battlestar Galactica
• Superstar, inspired by a Styx song
• Val and Earl McKee, the down-hone protagonists of the movie Tremors
• Viper, the cowardly masters of toxins and poisons for the League of Assassins
• The writeup for XS, of the post-reboot Legion of Super-Heroes, has been upgraded.

Headcount is now 2810.

03/25/2006

Much of the current work goes into the next version, but prep work on the old one is still going on. So before I lose track :

• A heavy push is underway to have all remaining texts conform to the current layout, and all pictures reach the correct width. See you in a few hundred ones...
• The entry for Bob Morane has seen some improvements ; so did the Nightwing restorations one.
• New art has been added on the following entries : Baron Strucker, Darkstar, Meltdown, the Goon, Captain America, Blue Diamond, Blizzard II, Bedlam II, Awesome Android, Atlas, Arsenal II, Arabian Knight, Amphibion, Carlos Lobo, Carl Kolchak, Gazelle, Brutacus, Vakume, Reptilia, Genins of the Hand.
• Lena Thorul is now illustrated, as are the losers of the Hero Group (Good Time, Desensitizer, Mover n Shaker, Compass, Particle Man, Wrapper, Zoolog, Evolvo)

02/18/2006

The plan was originally to publish old stuff and stuff by less-published WORG writers, but I got overwhelmed by all the Sovereign Seven and Power Man & Iron Fist stuff that was rapid-fire posted. At least, WORG-reading GMs will enjoy the flurry of obscure villains. Roll call :

• Arcimboldo, who can turn people into composite creatures ; and Escher, who can turn places into Escheresque paintings
• Bia, a superstrong servant of Nike ; Kratos - another superstrong servant of Nike ! ; and Zelus, superfast servant of Nike.
• Black Mariah, a corpse-stealing New York ringleader
• The third Cat, a liberated 1970s heroine who later became Tigra
• Chimera, a shapeshifting android
• The Christmas Madman, an odd encounter Cage once had
• Comanche, a Village People-like street villain from the 1970s
• The missing Sovereign Seven members : Cruiser and Network
• The first Devastator, an eeeevil Russian Soviet Communist Red Bolshevik !!
• Duplicate Boy, from the pre-Crisis Heroes of Lallor
• The Eskimo skating karate killers. Don't ask.
• Gideon Mace, a classic 1970s militarist Cage villain
• Great Teacher Onizuka, an atypical Japanese educator
• Hawk-Owl, the Batman analogue of the Ultimate Universe
• The entry for Lazon (of the League of Super-Assassins and Legion of Super-Villains. You remember him, right ?) has been upgraded
• Mal Donalbain, an obscure Cat foe who triggered her origin
• For months - if not years - the Manhunter II (pre-resurrection) has been damaged in a freak system file accident. I've finally managed to repair
• The Monstroid, a Skrull scout robot that was used as a weapon by several Earthlings
• Morningstar, a gorgeous but fierce post-Soviet warrior
• The entry for Nick Parker (from the movie Blind Fury) has been upgraded
• The Ninja (yes, just "the ninja"), a classic 1970s Iron Fist foe
• The Phantom of the 42nd Street appeared in an old Luke Cage case
• Professor Lee Wing, mentor to Iron Fist and dad to Colleen Wing
• Shades , a Village People-like street villain from the 1970s
• Shaya and Ushas, the Living Goddesses - priestess of on of the best-known Kali cults
• Shu-Hu the Lord of Lightning, one of the ritual trials from K'un-Lun
• Triage, a robot created by Maîtresse. Two of his servants, Siege and Triage, now even have entries of their own.
• Skin Dance, a superpowered psychokiller with scary abilities and habits
• Tuvok, the black Vulcan
• The entry for the generic vampires in the Buffyverse has been upgraded
• Victor Singleton, a highly skilled obscure Batman opponent and aging champions sportsman
• The entry for classic Power Man/Iron Fist opponent Warhawk has been entirely redone (and is much more detailed)
• Zabo, an obscure Cat foe at least two persons remember.

02/12/06

Managed to work a bit on WORG this week-end...

• Wise Son and El Toro have been upgraded (texts and peekchurs)
• Leeloo and Korben Dallas have undergone some text revisions
• Roy and me have started upgrading the Strikeforce Morituri writeups (various corrections, better description of the Morituri effect, quotes, pictures, etc.) . This round of upgrades covered Backhand, Blackthorn, Brava, Hardcase, Radian, Scanner, Scaredycat, Scatterbrain, Shear, Silencer, Snapdragon, Toxyn, Vyking and Wildcard
• A bunch of layouts have been modernized (jeez, how many hundreds left to redo ?) ; the following illustrations have been redone or otherwise improved : Edge, Angon (both human and parasite form), Black Canary II, Goblyn, Laura Dean, Marine Marauder I, Doctor Midnight II, Hero Zero, Max Guevara, Cammy, Willoughby Kipling, Geneworm, Sherlock Holmes (early), ULTIMATUM, both version of Brigade's Coldsnap, the Scarab (one of the worgmeister's fav'rit), Chun-Li, Phobos.
• I feel sympathetic toward Sisyphus.

02/05/06

Been improving what felt like a gazillion layouts and illustrations this week-end, in order to lessen the workload needed to switch WORG to the new look and ergonomics in a few months.
In particular, the following entries have noticeably improved illustrations :

• Sunfire (EXiles version)
• Colby
• Neo
• Lazarus
• Task
• NME
• Swift
• Ryu
• Void now has an illustration, as well as his buddy Null
• The brigade of writeups Sean did from an America's greatest Comics #1 reprint now all have illos - and in colour, too : America Smasher, Doctor Death, the Black Clowsn, the Brain, the Ghost, the Ghost of the Deep, the Horned Hood, the Invisible Man, the Laughing Skull, Mister Skeleton
• Minuteman and Spy-Smasher both have an additional shot
• Stalnoivolk
• Swashbuckler
• Razer
• Hellslayer
• Dracula
• Telepath
• Doctor Russell
• Rainmaker
• Jean-Claude van Damme
• Marrow

01/21/06

Here's January's update, despite the terrible lack of time...

• The usual low-key improvements in quite a few layouts and illustrations have been done.
• The following entries have received new high quality art : Tech, Shadowmage, the Snark soldiers, Backlash, the true Kaizen Gamorra, Regis, Korben Dallas, Leeloo, Alien facehugger, Aquaman, Big Dome, Bishop (from the Aliens movie), Cannonball (early era), Contessa de la Fontaine, Daredevil, DMZ, the Droidekas, Flash I, Green Arrow, the Home wrecker, Invincible, the Martian Manhunter, Pathfinder, Rocketeer, Sunspot (classic era), Wolverine, Wonder Man (classic era).
• The French Gendarmerie entries (Marianne, Sexy Boy, Whipping Father) have been updated *and* illustrated ! And Captain Sweden, too ! The crowd goes wild !
• The entries for the Daughters of the Dragons (Colleen Wing and Misty Knight- have received a first round of upgrades in texts and illustrations.
• The Baron Blood entry has been revised - as was Harpoon, one of the deadly Marauders

The entirely new entries are...

• Blow Dryer, a Hostess villain
• The Bush Rangers, X-Statix foes and CIA-enhanced metamorphic death row convicts
• Carnage, one of the most savage and murderous Spider-foes
• Most of the Sovereign Seven, an old Chris Claremont LS in the DCU - the rest will be in the next batch. In this batch - Cascade, Finale, indigo, Rampart, Reflex
• The Livewire mechas from the recent Warren LS - Cornfed, Gothic Lolita, Hollowpoint Ninja, Social Butterfly, Stem Cell
• Diamondback I, the earliest nemesis of Cage
• Gadget, Diamondback I's gadgets man
• Gamecock, a very obscure Captain America foe with a silly costume
• The Giant One, a huge thug from Indochina seen in a 1976 Spider-Man story
• Two new fascinating (I know this because I wrote 'em) French gendarmes - Godot the man who wasn't there, and the She-Wolf aka la Louve.
• Manta, a nasty Endworld mutant and aquatic tyrant
• Medusa, the startling Inhuman and interim Fantastic Four member
• Scythe II, a very early Iron Fist foe with a kusarigama
• Sore Sir's Apprentices, because it was important to have even more Hostess villains
• Storm of the X-Men, one of those biiigggg writeups that took so much time to publish
• The Superman Armour, built when Superman had lost his powers. It didn't work that well.
• Televillain, a cathodic Supreme villain
• Triple Iron, an interesting early Iron Fist villain

  Turbo-Man, from the Governator's Xmas movie Jingle all the way .

The DCH mailing list and the worgmeister wish you a happy new year. Now go read those 2754 entries.

12/25/05

Because the DCH mailing list crew keeps working even when it's Xmas.

This update sort of has two themes - it has every version of Supergirl we felt like writing up at that point (except the Peter David one, which is still in beta) and a bunch of timelines from various campaigns.

So, roll call :

• A Marvel/DC merged world timeline by JK Carrier
• The timeline to Bil's campaign (which has numerous writeups in the homemade section)
• Boulder, the strongman from Marvel's subterranean Outcasts
• Bra'tac, a key member of the free Jaffa nations in Stargate
• Crusher Hogan, the wrestler who unwittingly played a critical role in Spider-Man's career
• Crystal Man, a Mr. Fantastic analogue from Alan Moore's 1963
• A timeline by Kal'El for a world mixing superheroes, numerous geek media references and Cthulhu
• The Dagger (later) writeup's art has been upgraded
• Digger II, from the Outcasts
• Dyna-Mind, an obscure but powerful Superboy foe
• The electrifying EKGenius, a homemade flashy villain from Roy
• El Diablo, a villain from the Endworld post-apocalyptic novels
• Felix, from the Vampire$ novel, now has an illustration. So does Jack crow from the same novel - as well as Giles Redferne (from a Warlock movie)
• The illustrations for mam'selle Hepzibah and Jar-Jar Binks (sigh) have been enhanced
• Junta, from Black Panther and the Crew issues
• Klaw, the master of sound, a classic Marvel villain
• Landslide, from the Outcasts
• Laura Kent, a supergirl from an imaginary tale
• Manslaughter Marsdale, a very tough New York City enforcer
• Marty McFly, from the cult Back to the future movies
• The illustration for Melaka Fray has been redone
• Rictor, from X-Force
• Homemade character Robert the cat now has a mugshot
• Scramble, an early Alpha Flight opponent
• An article for inserting a Secret Age of Marvel mutants into the chronology of the DCU
• The timeline from the Starburst campaign
• Stormfront, from the TV show Big werewolf on campus
• Super-Girl (with an hyphen, mind you) from obscure Superman stuff
• A "typical superchild" for Superman and Lois Lane's toddlers in various imaginary tales
• The Supergirl of the 500,000 AD alternate future
• The first Supergirl - and she wasn't who you most likely think she was
• Supergirl II (Kara Zor-El), with a mammoth writeup covering her appearances throughout the 1980s. Since this has been finalized, I've also modified some of her opponents on WORG to reflect her final stats (I ain't done the mini-replicants yet, though)
• Superlass, a supergirl from an imaginary tale
• Supermaid, a supergirl from an imaginary tale
• The Texas Twister, a third-string Marvel character
• A study about the Tusken Raiders, aka the Sand People from Tatooine ( Star Wars)
• An Elseworld version of Vai/Shrinking Violet, that goes along the Elseworld Legion hoemmade background
• Water Witch, an outcast
• X-Man, the young Summers/Grey genetic construct from the Age of Apocalypse variant present, who became Earth's mutant shaman before his death.

All of this brings us to a total of 2726 entries.

12/10/05

Another pictorial update - no new texts this time around, but it's not like anybody (except a few fanatics and me) has read anything on WORG. The following illustration bars have been upgraded (most of the modern art retouched by me, most of the old stuff by Dan) ; a few other have received minor upgrades and are not listed here.

Roll call, in a mysterious and secret order :

• Thor (main writeup)
• Eel I
• The Fly (the Marvel one)
• Namor the Submariner
• Ibac
• Marguerite the clueless pink cow
• The Question
• the Skrullian Skymaster (aka Skymax)
• Amazo
• The Brute
• Blink
• Mimic (EXiles version)
• Morph (EXiles version)
• Aquaman
• Spider-Man (Ultimate version)
• Red Raven II
• Bulletgirl
• Bulletman
• Captain Marvel (main writeup)
• Quicksilver
• Validus (pre-Crisis)
• Doctor Midnight I
• Madrox
• Firebrand II (the DC one)
• The Fisherman
• Magik
• Golden Eagle
• Lobo
• Mister Scarlet
• Pinky the whiz kid
• Spy-Smasher
• The Thin Man
• Cannon (the Wildstorm one)
• Hammerhead
• Hydroman
• Kraven
• And the Mindworm, because... Madness is the Mindworm !!

11/30/05

Actually, the only new entry since the last update is the one for Gargoyle III - and it's not really new, though it's thoroughly revised.

There's been a bunch of work on updating illustrations and obsolete layouts, though. I'm also currently considering some layout changes on the homepage to make it more user-friendly, and possibly in every entry to make them easier to read.

In the meanwhile, the illustrations that have been improved since the last batch include :

• Wildcat I
• Triathlon
• Flash I
• Doctor Mid-Nite I
• Captain Marvel (the DC one)
• Capain Marvel II (Genis-vell/Legacy)
• Blackwing (the DC, Earth-2 one)
• Batgirl I
• Dove II
• IQ
• Sandman II
• Korben Dallas and Leeloo
• Batwoman
• Terra-Man (pre-Crisis)
• Simon Archard
• Deathlok I - the Demolisher
• Killer Moth (early career)
• Ibis
• Sickle (except for those blue stripes)
• Atom I
• Vigilante II
• Sunburst and Nautika
• Marvin (the paranoid android)
• ig'nea
• 3D-Man
• Cyberjack
• Isis
• Halo
• The Valkyrie
• Red Jack
• That big, scary N'Garai demon

11/13/05

There's been a flurry of writeups lately, so i gotta publish some before I perish.

Roll call:

• The Alien facehugger writeup has been revised. Again.
• The Banner, an obscure (but modern, this time) Batman villain with an imaginary militia and a real gun.
• Baron Strucker, a classic scary Marvel Nazi villain
• Big Thunder, an obscure - but very strong - Coney island gang boss who once fought Captain America
• Black Death, a third-string Marvel villain and Gravity's nemesis
• Bloodforce, an organization set in Bil's campaign
• Bloodhawk, the mutant eco-warrior of the X-Men 2099
• It doesn't rain blood, it pours ! Bloodstrike, the bruiser from Marvel's Folding Circle, a now obscure group of New Warrior antagonists
• Brains, the smart leader of the Gang, a band of criminals who once fought Supergirl
• Bulldozer II, another Gang member
• Captain Sweden, an anti-hero from one of Peter's old campaigns
• Cortana, the powerful Artificial Intelligence riding shotgun with the Master Chief in the Halo novels
• Detective Harrigan, the main protagonist of the Predator II movie
• Doctor Pendergast, the insane man who was Psi's cult leader
• Esper Lass, from the Legion of Super-Villains
• Future-Man, an obscure super-villain from Supergirl
• Lieutenant-General Hammond, commander of the Stargate USAF base
• Gertrude, Nazi queen of the jungle from an old Champions supplement
• Gravity, a newbie hero in the Marvel Universe
• Javert, from les Miserables
• And of course Jean Valjean
• Kong, a member of the Gang
• Kraken, one of the various obscure pre-Crisis Supergirl villains in this batch
• The Living Laser, an enduring minor baddie in the Marvel Universe
• Mathemanic, the math telepath from Psionex
• Matrix-Prime, a big, powerful robot who fought Supergirl pre-Crisis
• Megatak, a Thor one-shot villain who could bring video games to life
• Melaka Fray, a Slayer from the future with only the physical side of the powers
• The Mercenary, a daring soldier of fortune who once took on iron Man
• Metabo, a Deviant monster specially designed to thrash Eternals
• Ovu Mobani, a minor and early Buffy opponent
• Updated versions for two characters of Roy's : Pathfinder and the Red Jackal
• Psi, the fondly-remembered pre-Crisis Supergirl involuntary villainess
• Ravenne, an Italian superheroine from Kal El and Sebastien
• Reactron, yet another pre-Crisis Supergirl foe
• Saturn Queen, from our ever-expanding Legion of Super-Villains roster
• Silk Fever of the Folding Circle, aka Firewall of the Force of Nature
• Smiling Tiger of the Folding Circle
• The infamous... OK totally obscure Supergirl mini-replicants
• Wardog, the leader of the Special Executive of obscure Marvel UK lore
• Zymyr, of the LSV and a constant contender for the last place in the alphabetical order.
• A fair number of illustrations were also redone or improved... Winter, Jakita Wagner, Wildcat I, Mister Majestic, Headless Horseman, Shadowhawk, Duke Nukem, the pig cops from Duke Nukem, the Creature from the Black Lagoon, Chronos II, Hitman, Evo, Frostbite, the various Bounty Hunters, Battalion, Taboo, Pike, Steel 8162, Cordelia (the Coda one, not the Buffy one), etc. etc.

Current headcount is 2692. Maybe I should have put eight more in that batch.

10/22/05

In this issue, a mix of the recent and the random :

• Adam Warlock, Marvel's answer to Jesus
• The Blonde Blade, a Fenris swordswoman by Sebastien
• Carrie, from the King novel (and De Palma movie)
• Darius Dax, Supreme's Luthor-like archvillain
• Divis Mal, the master bad guy in the Aberrant universe
• Furiah, a Fenris brawler by Sebastien
• Gitane, an Everquest I character by Sebastien
• Gunstrap, a Fenris gunman by Sebastien
• Hawkeye - Marvel's master archer. The bows and arrows are not completely finished yet but since he's in the batch...
• Hiroshima, a devastating villain by Kal El
• Ice Nine and Impferno, two more Fenris baddies by Sebastien
• Lynx, a feral Family member in the Endworld books
• Mister Rite, a Spanish drug lord, mystic and seducer by Sebastien
• Primator, the eeeeevil coimputer in the Endworld novels
• Ranger X, an ex-KGB archery assassin by Seb
• The Rocketeer - flying pulp hero
• Scott Hall aka Razor Ramon, one of the missing wrestlers
• Seraph, an Elseworlds Spawn by Pufnstuff
• Special Brew, a City of Heroes character by Niles
• Thanos the Mad Titan - '"nuff said
• The version of the Thing From Another World from the original Who goes there ? short novel
• Not only as our writeup for HG Well's Time Traveller has been upgraded, but we now also have a writeup for the version from the 2002 Time Machine movie.
• Venture, from an obscure Image miniseries way back then
• Veronic Mars - writeup for the first season of the fan-favourite show
• The Viscountess, a Fenris baddie by Sebastien
• Yama, one of the most dangerous Familiy members in the Endworld novels.

2652 entries... that's what I call a good start.

10/21/05

Spent an awful lot of time redoing layouts, illustrations, etc. all throughout WORG so it looks better and is more pleasant to read.

Changes worth of note :

• Added better explanations as to what the Google part of the search page does. Also made the page look a bit less ugly under Internet Explorer
• Blacksmith and Scorpion III from Bil's campaign now have peekchurs
• Added the infamous SHIELD flying Porches and a few notes to Nick Fury's writeup.
• Started the additions to the X writeup - because X is the baddest badass to ever bad ass.

10/19/05

I'm gonna finish this yet ! Roll call for today :

• Tangent versions of the Aquaman, Batman and Flash - that is, heroes who have nothing in common but the name with their inspiration - by Kael El.
• Teal'C, a core member of the SG1 team in Stargate : SG1
• Temptation, en eeeevil member of Kal El's Council of Ten
• The Master, a martial arts maven from Bil's Ccampaign
• Thunder Rider, one of Augusto's characters
• Thunderer, a member of Kal El's Council of Ten
• Toon, a change-of-pace character from Bil
• Toro - one of kristoff's COlumbus Crusaders
• Toro again - but this time member of Kal El's Patrulla Barna
• Ullals, a vampire and serial killer (known as the Dentist) from one of Kal El's campaigns. Amusingly, I'm typing this with a mouth full of blood.
• Ultima Ratio, an undead terrorist and French Doctor by Sebastien
• Ultra, a hero by Byron
• Vendetta, a powerful heroine by Lady Arakne
• Warriorjack, Jackson's contribution to our abuse of the Useless Hero Generator
• Watcher, a member of Kal El's Council of Ten
• Whisperman, a nicely detailed pulp vigilante by VBTusky - aka "The Voice In The Dead Of The Night".
• The entire cast of the Wild Hunt, an aborted PBEM in the late 1990s - Doppelganger ! Gom Jabbar ! Happy Jack ! Spiral ! Tarot ! The Shade ! They're pretty cool.
• Windwalker, a ghost superhero from Bil's U.N.I.O.N.
• Wingstorm, a teenage member of Bil's New Legion
• Wisp, the immaterial member of the Alliance in Bil's campaign
• Yo ("I"), an immortal telepathic aquatic monster living under Barcelona, who's willing to help out in Kal El's campaign
• Z'bp, a scientist from Kal El's Planet Z

Aaaaaaaaand that's 2625 entries. Time to prep a new batch.

10/18/05

Still crawling through the "home brewed special" batch until I burn out - note, though, that not all entries are of unpublished characters.

Roll call for today :

• Monotreme - a loser villain by John
• Mr. Fanshmabulous, a hero by Scott and Andrew
• Nebulous, a veteran hero by Michael
• Nightcat II, another feral hero from Bil's campaign
• Nightshadow, a super-mega-ninja from Bil's campaign
• Omnisciencce, an old character of Chad
• Pathfinder, a Dept. of Justice hero by Roy
• Pedra Roja, from Kal El's Patrulla Barna
• Le P`re Fouettard, another French gendarme by Seb
• Ping Pong, from kristoff's golden age Columbus Crusaders
• Power, another member of Kal El's Council of Ten
• Powerhouse, the mega-strong member of Bil's Power Core
• Powerslide, a young slip-slidin' hero by Richard
• Psialpha, an alpha-class psionicist by Chad
• Psyche, the big time psi from Bil's Power Core
• Pumpkin Man, a loser villain with a spare Aquaman costume by Andrew
• Quarterstaff, a veteran heroine from Bil's Alliance
• Raiden, the thunder god from Mortal Kombat
• Rava, an old character of Byron
• Rebound, the mega-agile member from Bil's Power Core
• The Double Dragon writeup of yore has been slightly upgraded
• The Red Jackal, a anti-hero from a nightmare Roy had
• Red Lantern, Seam's sexual energy-harvesting hero(ine)
• The Red Queen, from the Crazy Gang seen in Captain Britain and Excalibur . Orf wiv 'is 'ead!
• Reflex, a superhuman stuntwoman from Bil's campaign
• Render, one of the incompetent Devastators in Bil's campaign
• Reptile, one of the evil fighters in Mortal Kombat
• Rick Thunder, KJM's Amalgamated character for an old campaign
• Robert the Cat, one of Warren's characters
• Robot-Killer Aria, Mark's contestant in an old multiplayer web fighting game
• Sage, Michael's psiborg martial artist from an old PBEM
• Sandy, from Kal El's AD&Desque Justice Guild of Kildar
• Terry's take on Santa Claus
• Sargon the Super-Sorceror, a weird character from a future DCU by John
• Saturn Girl, the heart of the Legion of Super-Heroes
• Scorpion III, a legacy hero in Bil's campaign
• Seeker, a wandering hero in Bil's campaign
• Serp, a villainous archaeologist and snake-themed opponent of Kal El's Patrulla BArna
• Sexy Boy, last of the three French gandermaes by Sebastien
• Shadowgreen, from Bil's Alliance
• The first of our Sherlock Holmes writeups : Holmes himself at the beginning of his career
• Shimmer, a sophomore heroine from Bil's campaign
• The Shoveler, one of the unlikely super-heroes in the movie Mystery Men
• Shreds, one of Bil's incompetent Devastators
• Silverlance, a member of Bil's New legion, with a megablast
• Silverstorm, the megaflyer from Bil's Power Core
• Sir Tendeath, another strange villain from Sean
• Snowblind, the mace-wielding member of Bil's Alliance
• Sorcerer, from Kal El's Council of Ten
• Two very complete writeups from the Halo novels (which is somewhat different from the Halo videogame, but in a good way) : the Spartans themselves, and the MJOLNIR power armour in its various iterations. Also, cool art.
• The Spitting Spider, a villain designed by Sean after watching PBS
• Springer, from the Alliance in Bil's campaign
• Stallion, a hero and hacker from Bil's campaign
• Strongarm, the strong guy from Bil's Alliance
• Stuff, a Sean-designed villain who can conjure up stuff
• The Stupendous Shining Wave, a superpowered clown designed by Bil based on the Useless Hero Generator
• Sub-Zero II, on eof the cool ninja from Mortal Kombat
• Superfreak, a superpowered hippie designed by Matt
• Superior, the power replicator from Kal El's Council of Ten

2596 entries, 139 of those being homegrown characters.

10/17/05

Continuing to upload home brewed stuff, other writeups, and to fix wrestler pictures (as well as some pre-Crisis LSH stuff).

The Search page has been redone in order to include a search engine that can search entire site. Should be pretty useful for a number of purposes, such as searching for specific writers, characters with given powers, characters related to other characters, etc. It doesn't parse the entire site yet, though - but it's a first step.

Today's roll call, after quite a few hours of work :

• Bombolla has received a new illustration
• Damion Hellblaze, Mark's creation for the Amalgalated PBEM campaign What Else.
• Darkenwulf, another feral New Legion member in Bil's campaign
• The Detonator, a complete loser of a villain in Bil's campaign
• Diesel, the mysterious entity from the lastest Stephanie Plum novel.
• Doctor Anagram, created by Sean - he can turn people into anagrams of themselves
• Doctor Shiva, a mega-villain from Bil's campaign
• Dragonlord, a shapeshifting dragon in Bil's campaign
• Droidekas - the rolling fire platforms from Star Wars prequels
• Eartshaker, the cyborg boss of C.A.D.R.E. in Bil's campaign
• A DCU version of Elektra as an Amazon, by Jeff
• The Enterprise NX-01 starship - from Star Trek of course
• Eternia, an immortal from Bil's campaign
• The Executioner from the Crazy Gang, best known to US reader from the pages of Excalibur
• The Flame Demon, from our growing cast of minor Buffy opponents
• Flame Strike, the powerful fire projector from the New Legion in Bil's campaign
• Flare, a hero designed by Tom for a campaign in the real world
• The Fungus Under the Ice, a Thing Man Was Not Meant To Know designed by Bryan
• Gateway, the teleporter of the New Legion in Bil's campaign and Flame Strike's sister
• A generic writeup for the Jaffa warriors from Stargate : SH1
• Hardline, Ruiner's character in the What Else Amalgamated PBEM
• Hauler, the pure hearted strong guy in the New Legion, from Bil's campaign
• A personal version of Hercules by Chad
• Hermaphrodite, a weird creation of Roy
• The Horrifying Wacky_Man, a Useless Hero by Doug
• Igor, a snarky gorilla from an old campaign of Sebastien
• The Invincible Red Robot, a very tough and very early enemy of the Hulk in the Incredible Hulk comics
• Jackhammer, a tough member of the Alliance in Bil's campaign
• Jackhammer, a homebrewed hero by Tony
• JadeStar, Robert's entry for the What Else PBEM
• John the Quick, another member of Kal El's Justice Guild of Kildar
• K-9, a dog of a superhuman by Richard
• Kulak , from our growing cast of minor Buffy opponents
• Lady Liberty, a heroine that was part of Kristoff's Columbus Crusaders campaign
• Ladybug, Richard's character in an old campaign
• Lesser Cyclopes, as seen in old Marvel universe books such as The Fantastic Four or Namor the Submariner .
• The already quite complete entry for Samantha Carter from Stargate : SG1 has been further upgraded - and she's now a Lt.-Col to boot
• Lobo - the funny guy from the Endworld post-apocalyptic series.
• The long-debated writeup for fan-favourite Magik, of New Mutants and w X-Men fame
• Major Terror, an evil version of Captain Marvel Jr.
• Mangler, an incompetent Devastator from Bil's campaign
• Manitou, an heroine designed by Richard
• Marianne, a powerful French heroine, national symbol and gendarme designed by Sebastien
• Mariner, Kevin Costner's superhuman character in the movie Waterworld
• Marvel Woman, Seth's entry for the What Else PBEM campaign
• Medic, Mike's entry for the What Else PBEM campaign
• The Mental Lamprey, from Kal El's Council of Ten
• Meteor Man, a member of Kristoff's Columbus Crusaders
• Metis, another heroine designed by Richard
• Midnight Hour, Henry's character in an old PBEM campaign
• Mister Bubble, another weird character from Sean

2536 entries... might make 2600 by the end of the week.

10/16/05

As of today, I'm starting to upload a large number of home-brewed characters that were posted over the last ten years on the DCH list - they weren't considered high-priority content, but since we're reaching 2500 entries I might as well relax a bit and post more personal work from listmembers.

I'm also refreshing the pictures (and, where necessary, layouts) for a large number of wrestling entries, thanks to Andrew Lee.

Today's roll call :

• Abyss, an infernal bady from Bil's Campaign
• Agent Triangle, Donna's powerful bisexual heroine
• Aikido, a near-superhuman martial artist presented by Cyad
• Airforce, a powerful DCU hero with solid air powers by Tricktan.
• Amazon, a Wonder Woman parallel by Kal El - set in an AD&D world.
• Amber, Black Lion's ex from Bil's campaign
• American Star, an archetypal American champion by Byron
• Anathema, from Kal El's villainous Council of Ten
• Complete notes for Ant-Man/Giant-Man's earliest appearances in the early 1960s
• The Antagonist, KJM's villainous Nimh
• Ariadna, from the Patrulla Barna Spanish hero group in Kal El's campaign
• Aryan's Bloodforce's nazi leader from Bil's campaign
• The Astonishing Blood Armadillo, created by VBTusky and based on the Useless Heroes random generator
• Atlas, a villainous would-be god from Bil's campaign
• August von Doom, a hero created by Phil for the Brood campaign
• Bezoar, a mage from Bil's campaign
• The Big Heads, puppet rulers of Planet Z in Kal El's campaign
• The Bionic Goliath, created by Kal El el Vigilant and based on the Useless Heroes random generator
• Black Lion, the mega-powerful leader of Power Core in Bil's campaign
• Black Tiger, a heroic cat-man from the New legion in Bil's campaign
• Blackblade, a retarded guy possessed by a savage cursed sword in Bil's campaign
• Blacksmith, a Celtic god of the forge from Bil's campaign
• Blaster, a random superhuman mercenary from Bil's campaign
• Agents from the organization Bloodforce in Bil's campaign
• Bloody Mary, an antimatter/evil version of Mary Marvel with a neat cartoon illustration
• The Blue Raja - the pseudo-English forks-flinger in the movie Mystery Men
• Bolt, a young independent hero in Bil's campaign
• Bombadier, an armoured hero with magnetic powers by Bil
• Bombolla, a bubbly member of Kal El's Patrulla Barna
• Brigadier-General O'Neill, the humanist and aging yet arsekickin' soldier from < Stargate : SG1
• Cyborgs from the C.A.D.R.E. from Bil's campaign
• Captain Terror and Captain Thunder, from the Amalgamized "What Else" PBEM campaign
• Cataclysm, the son of Death hunting those who escaped her, by Bil
• The Caustic Green Menace, created by Gareth and based on the Useless Heroes random generator
• Champion, a powerful member of Power Core in Bil's Campaign
• Charger, a conversion of an old MSHRPG character of Peter
• Clean Up This Mess Boy, a strange creation froma strange dream Kynn had
• The Clever-A Djinn, by Gareth, based on the Useless Heroes random generator
• Crusher, a brick from Kal El's Council of Ten

Current total is 2487. Excelsior !

09/18/05

Roll call :

• Anakin Skywalker, as he was during The Phantom Menace ( Star Wars Episode 1)
• Battle droids from the various Star Wars prequels
• Dracul, an ex-Securitate cruel assassin (is that a pleonasm ?)
• The entry for the Buffy version of Dracula has been redone
• Fatality, the alien she-executioner and who tried several times to kill Kyle Rayner as the mailing list cheered her.
• GQ, the pretty flyboy from Wildstorm's Black Ops
• Guido Masseria, a low-superhuman mob made man and enforcer from the Wildstorm Universe.
• Harpoon, one of the cruel killers and slaughterers from Marvel's Marauders
• Inque, a recurrent villain in the Batman Beyond cartoons
• The Iron Despot, a minor villain from Marvel's MC2 continuity
• Jack Calhoun and Lucky Bishop, the detectives from the Agony Acres indie comics
• Kaizen Gamorra, the Wildstorm villain most famous for the carnage in early Authority issues
• Mahkizmo the Nuclear Man, a very powerful foe of the Fantastic Four coming from a very, very male-dominated possible future
• Mister White, a Daemonite shapechanger from the Cabal (Wildstorm Universe)
• A classic writeup of Onyx - that is, it's based on her 1980s appearance in Det backup stories, not the modern appearances
• Optilux, one of the great Silver Age-y villains who fought Supreme
• Pike, standard Wildstorm character and one of the main enforcers for the Cabal
• Poison, an obscure and unusual Marvel Universe vigilante in a class of her own
• Sagara Sanosuke and Shinomori Aoshi, from the Ruruni Kenshin manga and anime.
• Superman - the Stan Lee Elseworlds for you guys in need of variant characters
• Superpatriot, one of the greatest heroes in the Larsenverse, with cyborg action
• Tagak the Leopard Lord, a weird and failed obscure character from old Daredevil issues
• The entry for minor Marvel supervillain Thermo has been so redone it's not even funny
• The Thrash Bandit, a throwaway villain from the MC2 continuity
• Titania I... no, not that one... not that one either, she's Titania II... not, not that one... yes, the old Marvel female wrestler
• Victorius, another cool and obscure Marvel villain, with Super-Soldier action
• Wild Thing, Wolverine's and Elektra's superhuman daughter from the MC2 Marvel future
• The Wonder Man (solo era) writeup has not only been completely redone, but it has been broken down into two separate writeups (that's a total of 4 writeups for Simon on WORG).
• Another Stan Lee Elseworlds character - his take on Wonder Woman
• Obscure Wildstorm character tough-as-nails US Marshall Wynonna Earp.

And that's 2442 guests at our party. I hope I'll get gifts when we reach 2500 !

08/27/05

A few quick notes :

• Several common questions have been added to the, surprisingly enough, FAQ.
• The Letha writeup has been upgraded - since I worked on a Titania I writeup, which is in the next batch.
• The Incredible Hulk (TV version) writeup was revised directly on WORG.

06/23/05

In this one, a bunch of Legion of Super-Villains (LSV) people and random goodness. Roll call :

• The Acrobat, a 1960s beatnik who fought the Torch and heralded the return of Captain America
• Battlescar, an obscure Marvel universe thug
• Battlestar, former sidekick of Captain America VI / USAgent, now a superhuman Silver Sable International operative and a much greater man than he once was.
• Chameleon Chief, the shapeshifter from the LSV
• Cosmic King, the leader of the LSV
• Dash, from the Incrediblesmovie
• Dead Aim, a killer cyborg who once worked for the Foreigner and later hunted him down
• The second Dove (Dawn Granger) of DC's Hawk & Dove
• The second Firearm, from the Ultraverse - a special agent whose very, very deep cover proved to be more than he could handle
• The Foreigner - a very detailled writeup for the man who is possibly the best assassinn and infiltrator in the Marvel Universe. He's cooler than you think.
• Front Page - a superhuman gay porn actor and thug who's actually a living newspaper. Really.
• Captain Marvel III (aka Legacy) - aka Genis-Vell, the son of the original Mar-Vell
• HG Wells's original Invisible Man
• Fan-favourite character Jack Bauer, from hit TV series 24
• While we were doing LSV stuff, the Lazon writeup has been slightly updated
• Madrox (aka the Multiple Man), a spirited Marvel mutant who splits
• Mankiller I, a HYDRA killer robot
• Mary-Lucille Lopez, the wife of Firearm II, because she's crucial if you ever use Firearm III in a game
• Mist Master, another League of Super-Assassins / LSV dude
• Monster Master, a Japanese 1970 Iron Man foe with a giant robotic dragon
• Neutrax, a powerful League of Super-Assassins /LSV member.
• Peek-a-boo, a female teleporter who wanted to be a hero and ended up a member of the Flash's Rogue Gallery.
• Pulse, a disposable assassin for the Foreigner
• Radiation Roy - not the finest moment of either the Legion of Super-Heroes or the LSV
• The Silencer III - a very scary, old school Maggia super-enforcer from Italy
• The Silver Slasher, from the LSA and LSV.
• The Sun Emperor, arguably the most dangerous and psychotic member of the LSV
• Swift, a disposable Foreigner assassin
• Titania - the DC LSA/LSV one, of course
• Tomazooma - the giant robot based on the Keewazi god that fought the Fantastic Four a looooong time ago
• The first Torpedo, an obscure gunman who fought Daredevil a long time ago
• Varnae, a seriously ancient vampire - who was in fact the Lord of the Vampires before Dracula (Marvel Universe)
• Violet, from the Incrediblesmovie
• The Walking Stiletto - an A.I.M. killer robot, because WORG is full of killer robots, mwahahahaha
• Warfare, a disposable Foreigner assassinn
• Wargod, a very very obscure Captain America foe
• Whisper, a disposable Foreigner assassin
• Rose "Wild Rose" Kugel, a Mossad solo agent who fought several times along with the Punisher

And thus we break the 2400 threshold with 2412 entries.

05/27/2005

This patch, heavy on Marvel material, includes a very large amount of Silver Sable material - but also quite a few recent Flash foes. Roll call :

• Achilles Wiggen, ace fighter pilot from a Swedish comic strip.
• Afterburner, a very obscure Marvel villain and speedster.
• Baron Zemo II (aka for a time Citizen V of the Thunderbolts)
• Cathode, a Marvel Japanese scientist, collector and villain.
• Chen, a former assassin/ninja babe working for Silver Sable
• Cicada, a deranged mystic and cult leader who fought the Flash
• Crippler, an insane but highly efficient fighter working for Silver Sable who has a fascination for pain (entirely redone writeup)
• The Cyber-Warriors, who are big combat cyborgs from the Marvel Universe
• Cyclone III, a painfully obscure Marvel villain
• Emma Frost aka the White Queen, of major X-Men fame
• Fin II, an obscure Marvel mercenary brick
• The Fog - a dangerous member of the Brotherhood of Dada
• The Folded Man, a quadridimensional foe of the Flash
• Frenzy, another Brotherhood of Dada member
• Fritz Sablinova, Silver Sable's uncle
• Girder, a man of iron who fought the Flash several times
• The Grim Reaper, a classic Marvel villain and foe of the Avengers ; also a second, separate writeup focusing on his time as an undead.
• Havok, Cyclops' brother of X-Men fame
• Invincible, from the Image series of the same name.
• Larry, an obscure member of Silver Sable's Wild Pack II.
• Latisha, a tough gang fixer from L.A.
• Leviathan VII, a ruthless and extremely smart Marvel criminal with a truckload of unusual skills
• Lightbright, an obscure (pun !) Somalian energy projector and member of Silver Sable's Intruders
• Man-Eater, a man-tiger hybrid with a feral nature working for Silver Sable
• Mind-Wave, an obscure but fondly-remembered Daredevil foe, complete with Think-Tank.
• Murmur, a serial killer obsessed with silence who fought the Flash
• Nocturne I, a powerful vampire who fought the First Line during the Marvel Universe's lost generation.
• Nocturne II, an obscure retconned-1970s Marvel characters.
• Omni-Man, Invincible's dad.
• Powell, Southern muscle in the employ of Silver Sable.
• Quentino, a multi-talented techhead working for Silver Sable
• The Quiz, from the Brotherhood of Dada - the ultimate comic book character.
• Rick Jones, sidekick to half the Marvel Universe.
• The famous Samurai Jack.
• A completely redone and extensive writeup for Silver Sable, of course.
• Splice, a brutal Hollywood superpowered assassin from Marvel.
• Tar Pit, a criminal mind animating a body of burning tar who fought the Flash.
• Tarantula II (Anton Rodriguez), a classic Spider-Man foe entirely redone and re-researched.
• Tarantula III (Luis Alvarez), his successor
• Uri Geller - at least, as he was seen in one Daredevil story
• A detailed description of Vril-powered equipment from the classic crackpot novel "Vril, the power of the coming race."
• Another type of Doctor Doom robot because who love them - this time it's winged knight robots.

And that's 2376 entries now - next batch will prolly break the 2.4K barrier.

04/13/2005

A fairly nice batch, I think :

• A few set of stats for average cops - patrol officers, detectives, SWAT officers
• A set of stats for an average man
• A few sets of stats for thugs/goons/mooks/etc. - street thugs, connected thugs and rent-a-cops
• Black Racer, one of those Serpent Society goons we like so much
• Boomslang, another Serpent Society thug
• Yet another Serpent Society mook, Coachwhip, has been upgraded a bit
• Continuing our series about pre-Crisis Legion of Super-Heroes members, here is Colossal Boy. As always, those are modern-scale stats.
• Condition Red II, an enigmatic anti-hero from the enigmatic The Monarchy Wildstorm series
• The Contessa de la Fontaine, Nick Fury's lover and S.H.I.E.L.D.'s PR director, now has an additional illustration I've been wanting to include for a while
• Cypher - poor Doug from the New Mutants
• Doubledown, a minor Flash opponent who can shed his skin and turn it into razor-sharp playing cards
• Elastigirl aka Mrs. Incredible from the acclaimed The Incredibles Pixar movie
• Gattling, a minor heavily-armed villain who once clashed with Silver Sable and the Wild Pack
• The Gremlins, drawing from the movies
• As the entry for the Mk V. "Golden Avenger" Iron Man suit was very popular, here comes Mk. VI "Silver Centurion".
• Lamprey, an interesting villain from the Squadron Supreme. With pigtails.
• Lazon, the nutcase leader of the League of Super-Assassins from old LSH books
• A short guide to magic in the Marvel Universe
• Mister Furious, the inimitable protagonist from the Mystery Men movie
• Mountjoy, the remarkably deadly and cruel mutant from the future of the Marvel Universe
• Mr. Incredible, the dad of Pixar's The Incredibles family
• Nemesis Kid, from old LSH stories, has been rewritten to a great extend
• Professor Q, from The Monarchy - an Indian super-calculator goddess
• Quagmire, a punk villain from Squadron Supreme with a weird ability
• Sabra, Marvel's best known Israeli super-heroine. Now entirely rewritten from the previous take.
• Sabretooth, Wolverine's opposite number
• Sandra Silke, a metamoprh from the now somewhat obscure F5 Image series
• Shang-Chi, Marvel's own Master of Kung-Fu
• Shotgun II, a badass Marvel universe government agent with the credit line from Hell
• The one and only Silver Surfer !
• The writeup for the Skrullian Skymaster (aka Skymax) has been updated
• Speaking of Skrulls, we now also have the Super-Skrull himself
• A second Sunspot writeup starting where the Sunspot (classic) writeup ended - Sunspot (post-Reignfire)
• The writeup for the highly dangerous Terror, Incorporated has been updated and corrected
• The writeup for Timber Wolf has likewise been greatly enriched
• And lastly we have War Machine, aka James Rhodes

Headcount is now 2336.

03/25/2005

Changes over the last few week ends :

• The Punisher writeup has been much enhanced
• The Lady Quark writeup has been enriched
• Entirely redid the entry for Ramrod II, an obscure cyborg who fought Daredevil and Spider-Man
• All of the Doom and Quake (that's Doom I and Doom ][ and Quake I, to be precise) menagerie has been fine-tuned and improved
• Dozens of other writeups have had improved illustrations, improved layout, corrected text, fixed errors, etc. I mean, even beyond the constant quality improvement maintenance.

New stuff uploaded today :

• Alexander Luthor - Luthor's analogue from Earth-2 and thus a good guy
• Arachnotrons (the spider-like brains in mechanical walkers from the old Doom video game)
• The beheaded troopers (bombers, firecrackers, kamikazes, rocketeers) that were the signature opponents from the Serious Sam video game
• The third Black Widow - the young, deadly and naive Yelena Belova
• Bullet, an interesting and sometimes dangerous Daredevil foe, has been completely rewritten
• The Cyberdemon - one of the two bosses in the old Doom video games
• The Demon Spitter (aka Romero's Head) from the old Doom video games
• Guardsman Kyuzo, the badass NCO from the Red Star comic books
• Krystalin of the X-Men 2099
• Lieutenant-Commander Leonard McCoy of the US Enterprise. He's a doctor, not a bricklayer !
• The Pre-Crisis, classic version of Lightning Lad with extensive notes
• The fierce Makita, the teenage resistance fighter from the Red Star comic books
• A Mancubus - Mancubi being the fat monsters with flamethrowers from the old Doom video games
• Power Princess from Marvel's Squadron Supreme
• The Question writeup has been improved
• More Doom stuff with the Revenants
• Rintrah, the green minotaur who was once Doctor Strange's apprentice
• Sachs and Violens from the old David/Perez miniseries. With of course one writeup for Sachs and one for Violens.
• Shooter I and Shooter II from the Marvel universe - they are unrelated but they both are damn obscure.
• Sinister, the evil super-powerful geneticist and Apocalyse's former servant from the Marvel Universe, aka Mister Sinister
• Skullfire, of the X-Men 2099
• The Spider Mastermind, who is the other boss from Doom games
• The Whizzer from the Squadron Supreme
• Xi'an of the X-Men 2099

And that's now 2306 entries.

03/13/2005

In this update... well, what was complete in that damned folder, since the stock was getting confusing to manage. Though there's an unusual number of obscure thugs and enforcers in that batch, so that's almost a theme.

• The Arch-Vile, voted most annoying opponent in early Doomvideogames - and quite dangerous, too.
• Atmos, the Pre-Crisis "hero" from Xanthu in Legion of Super-Heroes books
• Batman... but a version of the character as imagined by Stan Lee for a parallel universe.
• Blok, an obscure Maori enforcer complete with superstrength, tattoo and shades.
• Bludgeon, superhuman West Coast muscle for hire
• A very detailed and completely redone writeup for Crossbones, one of Cap's most memorable opponents from the Waid run
• A complete and entirely redone writeup for Cutthroat, an interesting but minor villainous weapons specialist from the Marvel Universe
• Flash... but another Stan Lee re-imagining of that character
• Grimbor the Chainsman, a classic Legion of Super-Heroes foe
• Harpy III, a mad enforcer working for Maxie Zeus
• Headhunter I, a punk-like gunman and top assassin who once nearly killed Commissioner Gordon
• The Ladykillers - T and A - a pair of young oversexed female assassins and martial artists
• Revised entry for La Lunatica, one of the most notable X-Men 2099
• Mangler III, the most articulate minor superhuman thug around
• Metalhead, a brutal spiked headcase who once fought Batman
• Mister Phun, a tough but minor enforcer from Madripoor
• Pagan, a man-hating buttkicker from Gotham City

Which brings us to 2279 entries, since three of the new ones are upgrades.

11/24/04

Didn't have time to go fish for old stuff in my mail archives - new stuff and reposts rolled in too fast.. Here's the roll call :

• Ace, a superhumanly agile master streetfighter with a special philosophy and a 1985 Prince vs. Michael Jackson look. Clashed with Spider-Man in two Peter David-written SSM annuals.
• The Black Cat writeups has been totally redone and his now split into three large writeups - Black Cat (early appearances), Black Cat (superpowered appearances) - that one covers both the bad luck and super-feline powers - and Black Cat (modern appearances).
• Blockade Boy, a tremendously obscure (and dead) LSH character. He could turn into a wall. Oooohhh.
• Bruno Grainger and Doctor Korpse, two street mercenaries who appeared briefly in 1970s issues of Spider-Man as Black Cat's henchmen. I though they were cool when I was ten.
• A fan-favourite of the old-time Marvel Zombies, Captain Jean Dewolff. She wore a raspberry beret, too.
• The Controller, an old but still pretty cool and useful Marvel villain
• Two writeups for another fondly remembered Marvel villain - one for when he was the Exterminator, and one for his subsequent, scary career as Death-Stalker.
• Faze, an obscure Marvel villain
• Gary Hobson, the main character in the Morning Edition TV serial
• The most classic Iron Man suit of power armour - the fifth generation "Golden Avenger" red and gold suit.
• Jack Skellington from Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas - the pumpkin king, spirit of Halloween and main protagonist of the movie. Also includes Zero the ghost dog with a red nose.
• Kamiya Kaori, from the Ruruni Kenshin manga and anime
• Magno-Lad, a very pre-Crisis Legion of Super-Villains member and magnoball champion.
• Mister Sinister - no, not that one, but the awful poet with a mini-dress, grey skin and interdimensional technology who was a Superman foe a looooong time ago. The Marvel one will be in the next batch.
• Roughouse, the Asgardian brick who's Bloodscream's partner and a regular Wolverine opponent.
• Sally, the timid seamstress who's the other main protagonist of Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas.
• Scalphunter, the Marauder mutant gunman
• Scar the Stalker, a psycho with lots of blades who has a mad-on on the Black Cat
• Segen Avi Barak, the telepath of Team Achilles in the Wildstorm universe
• Every Marvel villain I'm aware of who's named Smasher - Smasher I through V. Smasher I (aka Man-Monster) is the giant who was the Disruptor's weapon against New York City and Spider-Man, Smasher II a very strong and dumb streetfighter who tangoed with Daredevil, Smasher III is an Imperial Shi'Ar Guardsman, Smasher IV and V were superstrong pawns of Death-Stalker.
• Spider-Man, an obscure Marvel hero
• Sun Boy - the pre-Crisis version of Dirk in the Legion of Super-Heroes
• Time Kun, the time travel gadget in Dr. Slump.

11/15/04

Found fifteen Half-Life critter in a dark corner of my archives and uploaded them on WORG.

11/08/04

Rather varied and odd coolitude. Roll call :

• "B.A." Barracus - Mister T's character in the A team. I pity the foo who misses this entry.
• Another complete writeup for Ben Santini - but this one for his Team Achilles days, not his Black Razor days.
• Bloodstone's writeup has been entirely redone and is now very nearly complete.
• Centurius, a very obscure Marvel mad scientist and monster maker - complete with volcano island base and dinosaurs.
• The entry for the Fatal Five's Caress has been upgraded and finalized
• Cyber's entry has been greatly updates and is now complete. He was a pretty mean Wolverine enemy, indeed.
• The entry for Doctor Octopus has been completely redone
• Ensign Sato, the linguist from the first crew on the USS Enterprise, has been added. Prettiest Ensign I've ever seen, I think.
• "Face", the handsome guy from the A Team
• "Hannibal", the leader of the A Team
• The writeup for Flare of the pre-reboot Fatal Five has been upgraded and finalized
• Himura Kenshin, the lead character of the Ruruni Kenshin manga and anime
• Hyperion, the Superman-analogue from the Squadron Supreme
• Jax, the black guy with cyber-arms in the Mortal Kombat videogame
• Yet another Killer Moth writeup, but this time from the pilot of the 60's Batgirl TV series. Since we still hate you and your cat, it takes place in the same universe as musical Superman and loser Wonder Woman
• "Howlin' mad" Murdock, the A Team's pilot
• The pre-Crisis version for Night Girl of the LSH (and LSubH), with cute peekchurs
• Puff Adder, another Serpent Society bad guy - because everybody love 'em. Well, we do.
• Sailcat, an improbable cartoon critter from Cow & Chicken
• Thessaly, the most powerful witch in the DC Universe - and a former lover of the Sandman
• Totentanz, a psycho-munchkin from the game Aberrant
• Another Validus entry - but this time the classic, pre-Crisis, pre-ZH, pre-reboot version.

Entry count 2221 - since a lot of those were upgrades and not new creations.

10/31/04

More Wildstorm stuff, more pre-reboot Legion stuff, etc. Roll call:

• Organization format entry for IO, including stats for Black Razors
• Johnny Cage, the JC van Damme type from Mortal Kombat
• Kame Senin (aka Master Roshi, aka Mutenroshi aka Tortue Géniale), Goku's old and libidinous sensei
• Kapitan Golovin, the Russian crack sniper of Team Achilles
• Khalid Tefibi, the guns and computers Egyptian-American nerd-genius of Team Achilles
• Lieutenant-Colonel Grunier, Team Achille's military physician-surgeon
• Luutnantti Hamalaien, Team Achilles' close combat specialist
• Ye Olde Maverick writeup. Will have to be updated with the Agent Zero stuff one of these days
• Mister Glass, the villain from the movie Unbreakable.
• Oberleutnant Weiss, the assault specialist of Team Achilles
• Uploaded at long last, the large entry for Professor X. To me, my X-Men !
• The finally fixed entry for Rose Tattoo, the insane spirit of murder. With large illo, since she's an... unique fashion statement on two legs
• Sergeant Pinckney, Team Achilles' spotter and secondary sniper
• Sergeant-Major Coleman, the now deceased ex-Razor and Team Achilles' assault specialist
• The pre-Crisis, pre-ZH, pre-reboot writeup for Shadow Lass
• Specialist Cisco, ex-Razor and Team Achilles' entry specialist
• Spider Jerusalem's writeup has been upgraded. Cheap bastard prolly wanted to maximize the hits.
• Steel Scarab, a Wildstorm merc with the evil version of the Blue Beetle's Bug
• Clone soldiers based on Steve "Captain America" Rogers and Bucky
• A generic entry for Techno-Enhanced SPB agents in the Wildstorm universe
• The Ultimate Teacher, from the eponymous anime
• Pre-Crisis entry for Wildfire of the LSH
• Because we still hate you and your cat - the version of Wonder Woman from the pilot of the (thankfully) aborted 1967 series

And what is it with all those people trying to read entries before I've even finished uploading them ? Are there people reading this site or something ?

10/30/04

With much Wildstorm stuff. And other stuff.

Roll call for stuff :

• The superpowered terrorist cell at the beginning of StormWatch : Team Achilles ; including al Afghani, Ash Shams, Aswad and Hassan-I-Sabbah.
• Black Spider II from the DCU. He's minor and dead, but since we already had Black Spider I...
• Borgia, a special operative from Garmorra in the WildStorm universe. Will upgrade illo when I upgrade the text.
• Buzz Dixon, Team Achille's superpowered recon specialist.
• Buzzard, the hunter/eater of zombies from the Old West
• Captain Alexandra Goncharova, the star of the first volume of The Red Star
• The entry for the Marvel Universe's Chamelon has been updated
• The faaaabulous Cleo Starr is now taking over WORG !
• Codename Alias, the superpowered infiltration specialist from Team Achilles
• Condition Red, Grifter's bro and WildCAT for a bit. Will upgrade illo when I upgrade the text.
• Cosmic Boy - the Pre-Crisis, pre-ZH, pre-reboot version.
• The Doctor - the Big Bad from the Endword post-apocalyptic novels
• Dream Girl - the pre-everything version
• Firefly - the 1959 version of that DCU villain, because he's lame
• The entry for Flint, the invulnerable mainstay of StormWatch, has been updated an awful lot and is now complete
• Giant (aka the Hallibastard), a... very modern "super-hero"
• The Goon, the anti-hero from a strange 1930s supernatural comic noir world
• Ye Olde Grifter writeup is now online. Will need a serious upgrade at some point
• Just upgraded the format of Jessica Jones' writeup - just mentioning it since I'm vaguely proud of that one.

And that's 2182 entries.

10/17/04

Ending the old backlog now - so there won't be new entries on WORG for a while.

Roll call -

• Several entries for organizations and places in the Wildstorm universe - the Daemonite Cabal, Clan Gamorra, Gamorra Island, the Gamorran rebellion, the Kindred and the Order of the Cross.
• Tarantula III, the very shady criminal/vigilante from the Nightwing comic
• By popular request the most popular Batman villain ever, the Ten-Eyed Man !
• Slight update for the Thing (classic era) writeup
• The Thing from another world - the 1951 movie version
• Thrill Devil, an obscure DCU villain with a motorbike
• A pretty dangerous Thugee martial artist from the DC Universe - obscure and nameless
• Tiger tiger, burning bright in the Endworld post-apocalyptic world
• Ting - Tony Jaa in the spectacular Thai martial arts and stuntwork movie Ong Bak
• Hostess stuff : fixed Slud Jak entry ; Topsy-turvy man, Triclops
• Torque, a weird and surprisingly dangerous Nightwing villain. In case you were wondering yes, pretty much everything that appeared in the Nightwing solo series (from #1 to #91) is on WORG.
• The Transbelvan maffia, the DCU's version of Serbian post-civil war criminal organizations
• Ra's al Ghul first known, and classic, Ubu
• Undercover Brother - the movie version. Solid !
• Donbe, aka Unt-cha Fox, the kitsune from Doctor Slump
• Ursa Major, the classic Russian werebear hero from the Marvel Universe
• Valerian Chimeran, the speedster from the Progeny (Crossgen)
• Vulcanus, the last member of the New Olympians
• Wez, the most remarkable member of Lord Humungus' punk horde in Mad Max II
• The White Tiger writeup has been completely redone
• As was the writeup for William Johns - the marshal in the Pitch Black movie
• Wonder Woman - as she was in 1942. This early version was, aah, a bit kinky
• Wonder Woman I - Queen Hippolyte, both in the WWII and the modern era
• A huuuuge Wonder Woman II (Diana) writeup. Not yet complete, but lots of material still.
• Zastrow, the highly competent Soviet spymaster and hed of the Red Shadows
• Zeiss, the very interesting super-martial artist and Batman and Catwoman foe - before he was ruined in a half-dozen pannels in the latest batbook mega-crossover. Imbeciles.

10/15/04

Next to last for this batch, I think. After that I can start a brand new backlog. Roll call :

• Skul, the leader of that group of elite SHIELD agents
• Slam Bradley, a 1940s two-fisted detective who is still around in the DCU (and working with Catwoman)
• Hostess nonsense : Slud-Jak, Tara Cobal
• A big writeup for the peerless Snake Plissken, from Escape from New York and Escape from L.A.
• DBZ heroism - Songoku at age 15, Songoku at age 23, and Songohan as the Great Saiyaman
• Generic writeup for Spandex-clad goons, as studies show that goons are tougher when they wear costumes.
• Completely redone writeup for Special Agent Cameron Chase (DC Universe) - the DEO agent specialized in metahuman cases
• Specialist Foss, a kiwi paratrooper and machinegunner from SHIELD
• Specialist Steiner, a German explosives expert from SHIELD
• Spider Jerusalem, the greatest journalist EVER
• A big and, like, totally redone entry for the Spoiler, see ?
• Completely redid the Stallion writeup, pardner
• A full organization writeup for Stargate command, with hierachy, typical marine stats, lots of gear, a bunch of details, etc.
• Stark - an old skool master criminal, one of Selina Kyle's first love and her mentor before her Catwoman days
• Steel, the main muscle of the Dragon's Claws
• Long time we hadn't had a wrestler as a guest on this show : Stone Cold Steve Austin
• Refreshed the entry for Storm Shadow (GI Joe's super-ninja) a bit
• Stormlord, from the first Villains & Vigilantes module
• Why did we write Superman from the thankfully obscure Superman : The Musical ? Because we hate you and your cat
• Refreshed the entry for the great modern Cossack hero, Svetlana X. You're so copulated.
• A classic Marvel character - the first Swordsman
• Sylph, a murderous avenger clad in a length of quite special cloth

2133 entries.

10/14/04

More cool stuff... Roll call :

• A big, ripped, revised writeup for Riddick, incorporating the second movie and stuff.
• The Riddler's big, musclebound henchmen - because they have a cool uniform
• Revised entry for Roadblock I from the GI Joe crew
• Robin I as he appears in pre-Crisis solo stories from the early 1970s
• Roald Bushman, a tinpot African dictator cum mercenary from the Marvel Universe
• Hostess stuff includes the Roller Disco Devils, the Sable Lady and Sis Ding-a-ling (aaaaargh)
• Roy Raymond Jr., a phony journalist with a lame crime show on local TV in the DCU
• The Russian - as he was for his first appearance in the Punisher books
• The Saibamen - little green super-henchmen from Dragon ball Z
• Sasha Bordeaux, Batman's former bodyguard and costumed ally, now a Checkmate agent
• Scavenger, from the Dragon's Claws
• A large, very illustrated writeup for Selene, the deadly and beautiful vampiric enforcer from the movie Underworld.
• Slight revision for Scarlett, from the GI Joe crew
• Senyaka, a semi-obscure X-Men villain/goon/henchman/killer.
• Sergeant Li, an excellent SHIELD marksman
• Shakedown, the strong guy from the Masters of Disaster in the DCU
• Shen Chi, a thoroughly Westernized Tibetan youth living in Paris, with a strong rivalry with Tim Drake
• Shiv II, an obscure DCU villain
• Shocker, a villain froom the first Villains & Vigilantes module
• Shotgun Smith, formerly Gotham's toughest cop and now the Sheriff of the Gotham County
• Shrike IV, a villainous martial artist with a mad-on on Nightwing
• Silicon, from the group of elite SHIELD agents

And that's 2113 entries.

10/13/04

Some very interesting and/or major characters, some minor guys so you have easy opponents and encounters for your games, some Hostess stuff. Roll call :

• A huge, entirely redone writeup for the current Nightwing (with a few notes about his titans career and a full biography)
• Completely redone entry for the coincidentally named brutal vigilante Nite-Wing
• Update entry for the super-vampire Nomak, from the Blade II movie
• The bitter, darkforce-manipulating Nox, from Maxie Zeus' New Olympians
• Nunchaku, one of the ancient warriors whose soul was taken by the Soultaker katana
• Officer Howard, a good street cop from the Leave it to Chance comic - who is now permanently a wolf-man but keeps his own personality
• This perimeter, thirty miles away from any population center, has been deemed safe for the Hostess characters to protest in. Known dissidents are the Orbitrons, Pa Ding-a-Ling (aargh), Photoman, Pigeon Person (no, really) and Professor Plutonium
• Pinpoint, the last of the HEATERS (I.O. heavies in power armour)
• Revised writeup for Polychrome, the fascinating ghost/angel in the Nocturnals
• Proteus II, the shapechanger of the New Olympians
• More proof we'll go to any length for a writeup : Protocide, the anti-Captain America. Sort of. Who cares ? But he's damn tough.
• Quicksilver (the Marvel one) was sorely missing, so here he is
• Same for Raditz / Radish, from Dragonball Z
• Ramon Bracuda was prolly not missed, but he's still a useful obscure street-level villain from the DCU
• A bit like the Ratcatcher, who's prolly better known though
• And finally Reynard, a seriously brutal Black Mask wise guy

2091 entries.

10/12/04

Roll call:

• Meta, a superhuman street thug
• Midnight II - the son of Midnight I (no, not that Midnight - that's Midnight II) who wanted to be the Moon Knight's sidekick and later came back as a killer cyborg.
• The Midnight Ladies, who steal Hostess cupcakes. Other Hostess nutjobs in this batch are Mister Foxx and The Muse
• Slight upgrade to Miss Marvel I in her Binary period (ah ah - astronomical humour)
• Mister Handsome II, a vaguely obscure Catwoman foe
• Mister Majestic, Wildstorm's Superman equivalent who recently moved to the DCU
• Mocker, the leader of the villains in the first Villains and Vigilantes module
• Molly von Richthofen, a tenacious NYPD detective gone politician in the Marvel Universe
• Moloch II, an obscure but cool 70s Batman villain
• Montana II, a pilot and soldier of fortune in the Marvel universe
• A not-complete-yet but pretty detailed writeup for the Moon Knight
• Mortadelo, from the famous Spanish comic Mortadelo & Filemon
• Mrs. Gradenko, a presentient werebear working for the Russian special services
• A big fat writeup for Mystique (comic books version, this time)
• Nail, another member of the group of elite SHIELD agents
• Nam, a minor DBZ character
• New-Wave, the dangerous leader of the Masters of Disaster in the DCU
• A consequent upgrade to that big Nick Fury writeup

10/11/04

Here we go again... Roll call :

• Killer Moth - the pre-Crisis writeup this time. The writeup focuses on his earliest appearances in the 1950s.
• A complete overhaul and big writeup for King Snake, the classic Robin III villain - blind martial arts master and highly aggressive crime lord
• Knockout, a nicely generic super-heroine from the Capes series - with fake boobs !
• Genegineered reptile soldiers from the DCU's Kobra terrorist cult
• Kurtis Stryker, the baseball cap-wearing cop from Mortal Kombat
• Kyra, from the Chronicles of Riddick (aka Jack from Pitch Black)
• The Manhunter V writeup (previously referenced as Manhunter III because I miscounted - in short, it's Mark Shaw) has been updated. Again.
• A big writeup for Manny Calavera from the Grim Fandango game.
• Marionette, a V&V villain from the first module
• Marlene Alraune, Moon Knight's occasional lover and sidekick
• Martin Soap - the unluckiest cop in the world, from those degenerate Punisher comics
• The Master of the Assassins, the man behind the Marvel Universe's 9/11
• Master Wong - Jet Li as a martial arts demigod in Once upon a time in China movies
• Mayme - a heavily 80s heavy from the DCU. Complete with special 80s action genre emulation rules !
• Mazinger Z - can't have too many giant robots
• Meathead - a disgusting, horrible and pretty dangerous DCU thug
• The only Hostess entry this time is Medusa (no, not that Medusa)
• Mega-Flex, a superstrength drug distributed in the DC Universe
• A completely redone writeup for ancient Batman villain Bag o' Bones, including his subsequent appearances as Meltdown
• Mercy, the professional vigilante from the Dragon's Claws

Current count is 2057 entries. Maybe it'll make it to 3K. :-)

10/10/04

After many hours of work today... those are rather recent entries and reposts from the list.

Roll call :

• Revised, updated info on the Alien Facehuggers
• Batgirl I - Barbara Gordon as she is currenty retconned (hence, the Batgirl I who existed in the past of the current DCU. Does that make sense ? )
• Bennett - Schwarzenegger's incredible, faaabulous, unequalled opponent in the movie Commando. With a special visual sequence !
• Cannon, an obscure expert assassin from the DC Universe and master of thrown weapons
• Cannonball - current stats for Sam Guthrie
• Captain Maggie Sawyer - former crack cop of the Metropolis SCU and Superman ally, now the head of the Gotham City PD's Major Crime Unit
• Tons of Doom things. All the critter writeups have been updated. The Hell Knights, Barons of Hells, Nazi zombies and pain elementals have been added. The Doom marine has be updated and is now a pretty big writeup.
• Doctor Julian Bashir, from the Star Trek multiverse
• Drake, one of the Marvel Universe's top martial artist, who once was Elektra's sensei
• Completely revised Elektra entry - a monster of a writeup
• The Fighting American - DC version of that, ah, unforgettable character. Alas.
• Firefly II - the current version of the character plaguing the Batbooks in the DCU
• A big writeup about two memorable Buffy villains, the Gentlemen
• Ghost Rider I (Johnny Blaze) as he's currently portrayed, the new version of the Spirit of Vengeance
• Gunmetal Gray, an unkillable and very proficient mercenary biker
• Gunship, a power armour-wearing thrill killer in the Marvel Universe
• Helmut, an arms dealer with power armour who allied himself with the Wildstorm Universe's Cabal
• Hyperdog, the staff sergeant of the infamous Top Ten police precinct
• The Jester - the one from the Crazy Gang. This also described Coco the Clown, for you legions of Coco the Clown fans.
• John Garrett, the very crude but effective SHIELD agent seen in Elektra: Assassin and some Daredevil issues
• Killer Moth - the post-Crisis but pre-Charaxes version of the character. Yeah I know, confusing.
• King Peacock, the badass cop who worhips the Good Devil at the Top Ten precinct
• The Knave - the muscle of the Crazy Gang
• Kuroyama, a super-powerful ninja much like Kirigi, also serving the Hand
• The Lord Marshall, the head of the Necromongers in the Chronicles of Riddick movie
• Current stats and description of Meltdown, from X-Force
• Miles O'Brien, heroic everyman engineer from Star Trek
• Everything you need to add the Chronicles of Riddick's Necromongers to your game
• Nina McCabe, Elektra's former roomie turned resurected evil Hand ninja bitch
• Quark - the big earred Star Trek trader
• The Quarry power armour, from the Marvel Universe
• Razorblade, a classic obscure Marvel villain, formerly known as Buzzsaw and the Slasher
• Reno, a sternly patriotic French... expediter and solver of problems in the Marvel Universe
• Saber, an obscure DCU killer who is the master of the gun - as well as Cannon's partner and boyfriend
• Sanction, another power-armour wearing sociopathic thrill junkie
• Shatterfist, a minor Thor II villain with power gloves who became quite important without ever knowing it
• Shatterhead, an obscure Marvel villain with a mean psychic attack
• Smax, the giant blue powerhouse with a crappy attitude from the Top Ten precinct
• Our ancient, spartan writeup for Super Cat Girl Nuku Nuku - with fan art ! But not porn !
• Detective Synaethesia Jackson, from Top Ten's finest, with... unique sensory assets
• The Tally Man, a weird psycho-hitman from Gotham, with guns
• Toybox, the promising rookie recently assigned to the TopTen precinct
• X-Treme, adventurer from the Shi'ar galaxy now living on Marvel Eartrh
• The update everybody was waiting for - Zairobs, a Villains & Vigilantes character
• Zot !

Which takes us to 2039 entries, since many items in that batch were updates and not new entries. FWIW, in 40 entries that'll mean an average of 4 writeups a week, every week, for the roughly ten years we've been around.

10/09/04

Another batch since I'd like to finish the current folder before we all die of old age (300+ files left... sigh...). Quite a few big names in that batch, which takes us to the halcyon shores of the letter M.

Roll call:

• First all the gonzo Hostess stuff : Goldigger, Granma and Granpa Ding-a-Ling (way, way too many of 'em, I reckon), Gudrun the Golden, the Home Wrecker, Icemaster (although he's also technically a Marvel villain), Impercepto, Intergalactic gold eaters, Jet-Set Jessie, Johnny Punk, June Jitsui, K-9, Legal Eagle, Ma Ding-a-Ling, MacBrain and Madam Web
• The Great Gambonnos, the Circus of Crime's acrobats. They're a bit camp but they're cool.
• Slight updates to the Green Arrow II entry
• Gunhawk, a renegade USMC Force Recon top sniper gone killer for hire and Batman foe (DC Universe)
• Not only is the Gunwitch way cool, but his entry has been considerably updated (Nocturnals)
• Half-Life II - a Hulk foe who is a gamma-irradiated, mummified and insane corpse feeding off gamma energy
• Hana - Namor's top agent and sexy praetorian guard. An Atlantean lover and fighter.
• Hartly, a very obscure DCU criminal enforcer who controls hard air
• Hazard, a low superhuman bounty hunter who was one of Image's various attempts at creating a cool solo hero for the 90s
• Heatstroke, the fire-wielding Master of Disaster (DCU)
• Hella - a buxom female cop on the path of terrible revenge, lots of guns, leather, motorbikes and rage. Can't go wrong with all of that.
• "Henri Ducard. He taught Batman the art of manhunting. An expert. A professional. An unprincipled killer."
• Heracles II - a really big and strong Maxie Zeus henchman. You always need henchmen.
• Holly - ex-teenage streetwalker, street urchin and junkie, now Catwoman's best friend and sort of sidekick
• The Hornet - from the first Villains & Vigilantes module
• Hotshot II, very obscure DCU criminal enforcer
• A big writeup for the Fantastic Four's own Human Torch II. Flame on !
• The Lord Humungus - the leader of the horde in Mad Max II
• A rather big but not completely complete yet writeup for DC's post-Crisis Huntress (Helena Bertinelli)
• Inali Redpath, former crack SHIELD sniper and Captain America ally gone mystical Indian terrorist
• The most famous fictional archaeologist, Indiana Jones
• Some upgrades for Sue Richards - the Invisible Woman (current) one
• Another Mad Max character - the colourful Ironbar
• Marvel's obscure villain Jackhammer - both as a HYDRA engineer and fighter, and as a Power Brokered thug
• Jaeger, the mercantile hunter of "monsters" from the DCU
• A big upgrade for Jar-Jar Binks, the most popular Star Warscharacter ever ! With illustrations that are certainly not for the squeamish ! Peruse at your own risks !
• Jareth - David Bowie as the goblin king in the movie Labyrinth.
• Jesse Quick's entry has been upgraded
• John Law - both as DC's wartime Tarantula II and, decades later, as a grouchy aged pulp fiction writer
• Slight upgrades to the Johnny Thunder entry
• Josie Mac, a Gotham City crack detective with psychometric powers
• The one and only Juggernaut, for his pre-X-Men career. No force in the universe can stop him !
• The KGBeast - one writeup for his classic "Ten Nights of the Beast" Batman appearance as an unstoppable killer, and a writeup for the modern, much less dangerous (but still pretty tough) KGBeast.
• Kid Thor, a nicely generic and simple super-hero from Image's Capes series
• DCU's Lady Vic's writeup has been completely redone and is now complete. She's a merc and martial artist with a vast collection of weapons from the defunct British Empire
• Lightwave, an obscure DCU villain
• Liu Kang, one of the main heroes from the video game Mortal Kombat
• Lo Ling, a half-Mongol bandit and martial artist who has served both Ra's al Ghul and the Batman
• Ludo, a superhuman bodyguard from the old USSR
• Lynx, the vicious streetfighter who was once King Snake's right hand woman and is now the mistress of what's left of the Ghost Dragons
• M80, an elite SHIELD soldier who as the name implies is into explosives
• The Kid, an elite SHIELD agent who's sort of like a cowboy Kid Rock with a pair of guns
• Two of the most influential and powerful people in the DC Universe : Ma and Pa Kent
• The Mach-One entry is now up-to-date... pictures-wise. The text is really old now, though.
• Mad Max himself - full writeup for the raggedy man, the road warrior.
• Major Bludd's illo is now more complete
• The second fourth of the Stargate SG-1 team - the peerless Major Sam Carter, USAF

10/08/04

The (basically) FAQ we discussed is now available from the "About this site" zone on the homepage.

The archives of update messages are now online, and accessible through the same means.

The peekchurs for the Cryonic Man and the Futurians have been fixed.

10/08/04

Jeebus, there are already people reading the entries and I haven't even started the update message. Roll call :

• Ego the Living Planet, a classic Marvel encounter
• The third Electrocutioner, a DCU street-level villain
• The Eraser (or Living Eraser), a vintage extra-dimensional Marvel villain
• Ezra, a mysterious DCU bounty hunter with a past and a shotgun
• An organization : the Family from Endworld, Blade and Co's home tribe
• The Fat Lady, Hostess, blah
• A generic writeup for fierce native warriors to populate pulp and comic book scenarios
• Fight Man, a mega-powerful ultraviolent imbecile who thinks he's a hero
• The Fly - but just an Hostess villain
• Jean-Paul "Frenchie" Duchamp, the Moon Knight's sidekick, pre-Bloodline
• The Frost Giant, a champion zombie hockey player from Leave It To Chance comics
• Fuckface, a giant disfigured Russian merc from Marvel MAX
• The Futurians - the 70s Batman obscure villains, not the Cockrum's GN ones
• The Gael, a mean IRA strangler and Daredevil villain from way back
• Upgraded entry for Galactus' "cat"
• Gateway, the X-Men's aborigine teleporter in the 90s
• The General II, a 12-years old military genius with lots of delusions (DC Universe)
• General Ross, Hulk's oldest nemesis and occasional ally
• Generic vampires for both the Blade and Blade II movies and the Vampire$ movie and novels
• Geordi LaForge, of Star Trek considerable fame
• Geronimo, one of the Warriors in the Endworld post-apocalyptic book series
• Ghetto Blaster, an obscure Black Lightning villain with power armour
• An elite member of the Ghost Dragon street gang in the DC Universe who caught our attention ; we call him "Mister Clean"
• Gideon, from the Marvel Universe - immortal mutant mastermind, the "Ziggy Stardust of industry", and an old nemesis of the New Warriors and X-Force
• Giles Redferne, the witch-hunter from the Warlock movies (without peekchurs, alas). includes numerous rules for witchery.
• And Golden Raven, because this site obviously needs more Hostess characcters.

Current count is 1941 entries, because this was a good movie.

10/07/04

A full-sized batch this time : 50 items or so, including some heavyweights. Roll call :

• Tetragrammaton Cleric John Preston, the hero of the Equilibriumdark scifi /action movie
• A now complete, full writeup for the Cluemaster from pre-Crisis to death
• Clyde Rawlins, the badass DEA agent from the ghetto who fought and died alongside Robin III
• Coachwhip, a minor Serpent Society member with a pair of electrified steel whips
• Enhanced entries for the officers and rank-and-file vipers from the COBRA terrorist organization in G.I. Joe
• Colby, a former Black Razor who now works with Santini at I.O. in the Wildstorm universe
• Coldsnap, the ice-wielding Master of Disaster in the DCU
• Colonel Gagarin, a Nick Fury antagonist with a serious and deadly case of Cold War nostalgia
• The Bajoran Colonel Kira Nerys from Star Trek DS9
• Colonel Sulphur, a very minor foe of the Batman and terrorist from the 1970s
• A ridiculously big writeup for Colossus (the Marvel Universe, X-Men one) with lots of peekchurs
• Combat, a very minor Texas martial artist and killer from the MU
• Commander Philip Boyce, the Chief Medical officer on the Enterprise back when it was commanded by Christopher Pike
• A full writeup for Commander Spock. 'nuff said.
• Upgraded writeup (yet again) for Commander William Riker of Star Trek fame. Now rather compleat.
• Cooky La Moo, a giant Hostess ads actress
• Marvel's first Copperhead, a scary psycho who thinks he's a scary pulp fiction vigilante. "Vengeance belongsssss to jussssstice... and jusssstice issss the Copperhead !
• The Cossack, a very minor Daredevil foe from the 70s
• Crane, the leader of I.O.'s Black Ops unit in the Wildstorm universe
• Crazy Eight, the intense superhuman vigilante from a gripping Hulk story
• Cricket, a member of the power armour-wearing I.O. trio the H.E.A.T.E.R.S.
• The Crime Director, another silly Hostess villain
• Crossbow, a peculiar English hitman from 1970s Daredevil stories. You'll never guess his weapon of choice.
• The Cryonic Man, an old but oddly cool Batman & The Outsiders villain (ah ah, "cool", get it ?)
• Cyber, the brutal mercenary with an Adamantium skin
• The Cypher, a totally obscure Batman foe
• Czonk, a strong by really really dumb Robin foe (aka the Baffler)
• Some upgrades to the Daredevil entry
• Dava, a pretty cool super-fast martial artist from the war-torn nation of Transbelvia
• Deadeye, a minor DCU hitman whose gun hand is guided by his cybereye
• Bunch of upgrades on the Deathblow writeup - and it now has very cool peekchurs
• The Destroyer, a very lame Hostess villain
• Diana II, the huntress and weapons specialist from Maxie Zeus' New Olympians in the DCU
• Digit, from Marvel UK's obscure Dragon Claws scifi series
• Doc Cancer, a nicely generic villain from Image's Capes series
• Doctor Friday, an obscure Marvel villain who provides zombie hitmen for the mob
• Doiby Dickles, Green Lantern I (Alan Scott)'s two-fisted, cab-driving sidekick from many decades ago
• A big fat upgrade (text and illos) for our neat Domino writeup (Marvel Universe)
• The Guardian Robots, the most common type of combat robot in Latveria
• The Timebot, a very dangerous Doom robot sending opponents into the deep past
• The Dormouse, an hideously obscure MU character (piloting the original Crazy Gang's flying teapot)
• The beautiful Double Dare, a duo of French thieves-acrobats who clashed with Nightwing a few times
• Doctor Blaine, an obscure and somewhat heroic scientist from a classic 70s Batman story
• Doctor Daniel Jackson, the civilian member of Stargate Command's SG-1 crack team
• Doctor Jace, the cold fish scientist of the Outsiders
• Doctor Live, an Hostess supervillain. Spell it backward and you'll know what it means !
• Doctor Sorcery. Another Hostess villains....
• Dragon, the leader of the Dragon's Claws
• Dragoncat, a very minor martial artist and criminal who clashed with Robin III a few times

With the Buu duplicate cleared, that's 1915 entries.

10/02/04

• Cane, a very minor hired killer in the Marvel Universe
• Cannon Fodder, an I.O. agent with a mecha and a member of the HEATERS
• Captain Axis, the Nazi super-brute from the Microverse that never existed
• A very complete writeup for Captain Benjamin Sisko (Star Trek)
• Captain Britain III (Kesley Leigh)
• Captain Christopher Pike - the second Captain of the original Enterprise
• A big writeup for the young and likeable Chance Falconer, the supernatural kid detective heroine of the Leave It To Chance books
• Charaxes, the horrible moth monster from the DCU (formerly Killer Moth)
• The Chocolate Baron, because it seems every upgrade must have a Hostess-loving villain

09/30/04

• Boone, the honorable fighter demon from the Buffyverse.
• The Borrower, yet another Hostess villain.
• Beatrix "The Bride" Kiddo from Kill Bill - with, for some reason, way too many photos. Maybe somebody should add some text to balance things out. :-)
• Bridget Clancy, the charming Irish-Chinese-American superintendent who had a crush on Nightwing
• Bro and Bye Ding-a-Ling. Way too many of those Hostess villains.
• Brok Chimeran, the strongest member of the Progeny in the Crossgen universe.
• Brutale, a third-string DCU villain with lots of knives
• The Bureauc-Rat, an Hostess villain. Can't believe we did that many.
• Buu, one of the Dragon Ball Z's Big Bads - at his "fat Buu" stage.

09/29/04

• Ben Santini, the vaguely good guy Director of Operations for the IO inteligence agency in the Wildstorm universe.
• The Beyonder, from Marvel. 'Nuff said.
• Big Dome, yet one more ridiculous Hostess villain.
• The Black Mask, a classic Batman and Catwoman foe, with updated stats and history and stuff.
• An updated version of the Black Panther writeup
• Blade, the lead character from the Endworld post-apocalyptic novels.
• Blockbuster II, the DCU villainous brick turned smart, powerful crimelord and Nightwing's nemesis.
• Blowdart, one of the Soultaker warriors for the past - an Asian dwarf with speed and a blowgun.
• Blue Talon, a Japanese karate master who once fought Daredevil and hits real hard.
• Bolt, a nicely generic superhero from the Capes Image series.

09/21/04

• Baby Face Johnny, a boxer from an Hostess ad
• The Bamboo Monkey, a truly elite fighter from the Monkey Cult in the DCU
• Barricade III, a psychotic SHIELD super-soldier with a flamethrower
• The Basilisk, a minor yet classic and powerful Marvel villain
• A huge writeup for Batgirl III - Cassandra Cain, one of the world's very best martial artists
• Battleaxe, an Hostess ads villain
• The Beach-Head entry (a GI Joe) now has a more complete illustration
• The Batman 2050 entry now has upgraded text
• Bedlam II, from X-Force
• Bee Ding-a-Ling, from the Hostess ads' Ding-a-Ling family.

09/20/04

• Further upgraded entries for the Aliens, with pretty much everything there is to know about them
• The upgraded entry for Ammo - a tough, Hobbesian ex-Army survivor who rose to a warlord position when Manhattan was briefly turned into a post-Apocalyptic milieu
• Antaeus, the brick from the New Olympians ( a team of very minor mercs assembled by Zeus around, of course, a Greek theme)
• The Answer - the excellent Marvel villain whose power is to come up with an answer to any conceivable problem or challenge
• Anodyne, a demented shape-shifter who fought Catwoman a few years ago.
• Amy Rohrbach, Bludhaven's most likeable cop and Dick Grayson's former partner, now a Captain.
• Alicia Turner, the brilliant I.O. paranormal researcher in the Wildstorm Universe.
• Agrippina, a DCU nutcase who thinks she's the last descendent of the Julio-Claudian emperors
• Agent Orange, a 1970s/80s terrorist Viet vet
• Agent Lathrop, a beautiful and highly skilled ATF agent who once had a relationship with Wolverine.

09/18/04 or so

NEW VERSION OF THE SITE

02/04/04

• Updated and upgraded entry for the Aliens (from the eponymous movies), with a large number of hybrids and variants from various tales and games.
• Amanda Waller, ruthless politician - and the brains and willpower behind the modern Suicide Squad in the DC Universe.
• The Android Man (aka the Super-Android), an obscure Mad Thinker creation because we like Mad Thinker androids.
• Artemis - the Coda elite warrior from the Image / WildStorm universe.
• Ash, the fan-favourite hero from the Evil dead movies - with stats covering all of the movies and some notes about the evil dead.
• An updated illustration for the Batman 2050 entry, as seen in old Hex comics
• Carl Kolchak, investigative journalist the main character of the old Nighstalker horror TV series
• Updated and upgraded entry for the Chameleon, a classic Spider-Man villain in the Marvel Universe and the GM's best friend.
• Corrected and upgraded entry for "Cockroach" Hamilton, a 70s Cage villain with a very big shotgun.
• An entry for the entire Coda organisation of female warriors and assassins in the WildStorm universe. Well, scantily clad babes with swords, actually.
• Cordelia - the head of the South-East Asian Coda chapter, not the Buffy character. Yes, we're dusting our Coda archives.
• The Deaf Man, the mastermind from many of the 87th Precinct novels.
• Delphae, seer and occultist from the Coda in the WildStorm universe.
• Updated and upgraded entry for Diamond Lil, the invulnerable and bitter member of Gamma, Beta and then Alpha Flight in the Marvel Universe.
• Dreamkiller, a very minor Darkhawk antagonist in the Marvel Universe.
• The Eliminator I, a scary killer cyborg once sent by the Witches of New Salem to eliminate the Fantastic Four.
• Ellen Ripley - the hero of the first three Alien movies and the ultimate survivor.
• Frank Bannister, the weird psychic and ghost-speaker from the Frighteners (an old Peter Jackson movie).
• The Golem - the version from the original movies in 1914 and 1920.
• Gomdulla, a totally obscure giant mummy/alien/monster from early Marvel.
• The Hood - the anti-hero from the recent Marvel MAX mini-series.
• Hulver Ramik, the otherdimensional slave driver who captured many of the 1960s heroes in the Supremeverse.
• Updated and upgraded entry for Jean-Luc Picard, from Star Trek : The Next Generation.
• Fan-favourite Jessica Jones, the broken hero and small-time private investigator from the Alias Marvel series.
• The legendary Judge Dredd from the 2000 A.D. magazine.
• King Mob, leader of the Invisibles in the Vertigo series by Grant Morrisson.
• Marco, capoeira maestre from the DC Universe and friend of the Question.
• Martin Riggs, Mel Gibson's character with details for all four Lethal Weapon movies.
• Matthias Hues, a hulking blond strongman well known to martial arts movies enthusiasts. This writeup covers his usual types of characters as well as the alien drug dealer from I Come In Peace.
• Max Guevara, beautiful Jessica Alba's starring character in the Dark Angel TV series (covering the first and second seasons).
• The Metalloid, another Mad Thinker android from the Marvel Universe.
• Updated and upgraded entry for Mister Hyde, from the Marvel Universe, to better cover power discrepancies for that character.
• Upgraded illustration for Nuke - super patriot, super-soldier, complete psycho from the Marvel Universe.
• Piranha Jones, a sharp-toothed mob boss from 70s Cage comics in the Marvel Universe.
• Number Six, Patrick McGoohan's legendary role in the The Prisoner TV serial, with large personality and background notes.
• Upgraded illustration for private J. Vasquez, from the Aliens (aka Alien 2) movie.
• Razorback, the weird Marvel Universe trucker hero from Arkansas.
• Red Raven II, an old Marvel Universe character from the Liberty Legion and king of he extinct Avians.
• Ripley-8, a clone of Ellen Ripley as infected by an alien queen, the hero from the fourth Alien movie.
• The Rocket Racer, an old Spider-Man villain with a rocket-powered roller skate. No kidding.
• Roger Murtaugh, Martin Riggs' aging partner in the Lethal Weaponmovies as played by Danny Glover.
• Samantha Stephens, the zany heroine from the old TV series Bewitched.
• Sean Lambert, hero of the obscure Interceptor Force movie, played by Olivier Gruner.
• Seeker II, a Doom-built hunter-killer robot.
• Upgraded and updated version of the Shocker, a classic and odd Spider-Man villain.
• Tam, the toughest and most proficient of the Genoshan Magistrates (and a babe too).
• Voodoo, of the WildC.A.T.s - both an early version and a more current, post-Khera version.
• Vor-Em, a super-tough axe-wielding thug from the Supremeverse.
• The first Vulture, a classic Spider-Man villain - upgraded and updated entry.
• The second Vulture, who briefly reigned over New York City's skies.
• Warblade, from the WildCATs - a human-Kherubim hybrid with living metal in his body.
• Zealot, the warrior-goddess from the WildCATs and former mistress of the Coda.

09/09/03

This batch was getting out of hand, so I put what I could online.

Roll call :

• Upgraded and expanded version of one of the Hulk's toughest opponents, the Abomination, with a very complete history.
• Notes about Aeon Flux, from old Liquid Television shows
• The quite enigmatic Agent Graves - former head of the world's best and most feared enforcers and main character of the 100 Bullets comic books series.
• Revised writeup for Altar Boy, the Confessor's sidekick in Astro City
• Revised and upgraded writeup for Arclight, of the Marauders - the group of mutant assassins.which fought the X-Men numerous times.
• The Mad Thinker's Awesome Android, a very early combat android with adaptative abilities.
• The Mad Thinker's Awesome Replicoid, a more modern combat android best known for having fought the assembled Thunderbolts
• Black Bolt - the Silent King of the Inhumans, long time ally of the Fantastic Four, whose quasi-sonic voice can level mountains
• The fifth Black Knight (Dane Withman), of the Avengers - with complete notes on various sets of equipment, and mounts.
• Blockbuster III, the strongman of the Marauders, who broke Thor's arm and fought the X-Men numerous times.
• An updated and upgraded writeup for Luke Cage, aka Cage, the comics' first major black hero and still going strong.
• A slightly revised writeup for Captain Britain (the Moore/Davis era, published in the UK), still with neat illustration
• Minor corrections on CMD Beverly Crusher's entry. We still need help on that one.
• Cool Jerk, an unkillable sidekick from a semi-underground mini-comic.
• Detective Deena Pilgrim, the quick-tempered partner of Detective Walker in the popular Powers comics books.
• Dragonwing, the leader of Marvel's Rising Sons, who can switch body parts to draconic equivalents.
• The first of two detailed timelines merging the Fantastic Four with Superman. Includes NACA, NASA, lots of experimental planes, the Challengers of the Unknown, the Planet of the Apes, the Red Ghost, Niels Bohr, etc.
• Green Arrow II - Connnor Hawke, Oliver Queen's son and aikijutsu master
• Gronk, the sticky strongman of the Maelstom's Minions in the Marvel Universe
• Homo Gal, the tough defender of Detroit and partner of Cook Jerk
• Jet Black, one of Marvel's Rising Son and transmutable cyborg
• Larry the cucumber, from children's entertainment the Veggie-Tales.
• The Lone Ranger. Now you'll know who was that masked man.
• The Mad Thinker from the Marvel universe. A very interesting opponent, and not that insane.
• Malice IV of the Marauders, a psionic entity best known for having possessed Polaris for months.
• M.A.N.T.I.S. from the old, cancelled TV show of the same name - a crippled inventor with a suit of power armor.
• Nightwind from Marvel's Rising Sons, a ninja-type darkforce user with long pigtails.
• Pretty Persuasions, from Marvel's Psionex team, an exotic dancer who can kill you with her erotic impulses.
• A revised version of the writeup for Colonel Rick Flag, longtime DC hero from Task Force X and former field leader for the Suicide Squad
• Roc II, an unstoppable Spanish strongman who fought the Punisher several times
• Samantha Stephens, the nose-twitching housewitch from the old Bewitched TV show
• The Sign, from Marvel's Rising Sons and quite possible Big Trouble in Little China :-)
• The second Silencer, a perfectly silent gunman once sent to dispatch Marvel's Hawkeye
• A revised version of Marvel's majestic Sphinx I, with a short DCU history section added.
• Spoilsport, the superfast valley girl from Marvel's Rising Sons. With pigtails, too.
• Steven Matrix, the resurrected hitman now working for the entities in the Purgatory (from the 1993 Matrix TV series).
• Superboy II - the one from Earth Prime, used during the Crisis to patch a continuity hole.
• The Fantastic Four's Thing. In four clobberin' writeups coverin' :
  • the early, lumpy, grumpy era
  • the classic era from the late 60s, 70s and 80s
  • the "spiky Thing" era during the 90s
  • the modern Thing
• The first Thunderbird, first member of the all-new, all-different X-Men to meet a tragic and early death
• Tonto, because we can't have the kemo sabe without Tonto.
• Tough Love, the strongman from Marvel's Rising Sons

There are now 1783 entries at WORG.

08/14/03

Presenting the wondrous, the weird and the wicked ! Mostly comic book characters this time around.

Roll call :

• Aardwolf, a feral mutant crimelord from Madripoor whose schtick is not what you think
• American Dream, Captain America's successor in the MC2 future continuity
• Black Canary II - a revised, upgraded and detailed writeup of Dinah
• An upgraded entry for Jake "Bobo" Benetti, of Starman fame
• Bolshoi - an obscure DCU Russian from the 80s, here with additional material
• Cannonball - one writeup for Sam as a New Mutant, and one for Sam as a member of X-Force
• An appendix to the extensive Captain America writeup, detailing his uncommon equipment (variant shields, vehicles, armors, etc.)
• Ch'od, the boldly big and rather reptilian fighter, engineer and philosopher of the Starjammers
• Christine St. Clair, the Swiss Interpol agent who was a partner of Manhunter II
• Detective Christian Walker, one of the two detectives from the Powers comics
• Doc Samson, the gamma-powered psychiatrist from Marvel !
• Doctor Demonicus, the creator of numerous Godzilla giant foes in the Marvel universe
• A revised, upgraded and detailed writeup for Green Arrow I (Oliver Queen) - specifically for his incarnation when written by Mike Grell
• Hammer - an obscure DCU Russian from the 80s, here with additional material
• Hepzibah, the furry and sexy freebooter of the Starjammers - with a past. Or maybe not.
• The Human Fly, the wildest super-hero ever--because he's REAL !
• A slightly upgraded entry for Impulse II, from the Marvel team Psionex - with a much improved illustration.
• Inspector Judiah Golem, a spooky psychic detective and Dracula foe (Marvel)
• Katinka, a mysterious albino doctor and vampire hunter (Marvel)
• Mademoiselle Marie, the French partisan from Sergeant Rock comics - revised and with detailed historical notes
• Manhunter II (Paul Kirk) - one full writeup for before his "death" in Africa as a classic '40s hero, and one full writeup for after his death as the ultra-cool 70s super-agent out for revenge.
• An upgraded version of the video game character Max Payne, with much more detailed history
• The Misfit (formerly known as the Hunchback), a member of LA's Night Shift in the Marvel Universe
• Molotov - an obscure DCU Russian from the 80s, here with additional material
• Nitobe Asano - the last ninjutsu master, though dead in Nagazaki, who taught Manhunter II
• Odd John - the first "homo superior" in literature
• Onomatopoeia, the savage black-clad assassin which almost killed most characters in the Green Arrow cast
• Pravda - an obscure DCU Russian from the 80s, here with additional material
• Rainbow Boy, an obscure Golden Age character from the Eastern Color Printing Company
• Raza, the badass pirate swordsman from the Starjammers
• Robocop, the cyborg policeman from the not-too-bright future (based on the first movie)
• Shadow, the hero from Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods.
• Sickle - an obscure DCU Russian from the 80s, here with additional material
• Sikorsky, the insectoid pocket medic of the Starjammers
• The Sphinx, the long lived Egyptian wizard who became a demigod, rewrote history and fought with Galactus
• An assortment of weapons from the Star Trek universe, detailing light infantry phasers
• Genre rules and Force rules for the Star Wars universe in MEGS
• Sunspot - his classic, pre-Reignfire era, including an early New Mutants profile
• The Target, an obscure Golden Age character from the Premium Group of Comics
• War Nurse , an obscure Golden Age character from Family Comics
• The Woman in Red, an obscure Golden Age character from Better Publications
• Zoga, a painfully obscure Atlantean supercriminal from Marvel
• Echo, the deaf choregrapher-dancer and multitalented artist... Matt Murdock's one time lover, raised by the Kingpin and gifted with deadly talents (Marvel) - complete with Photographic Reflex rules
• The Murphy Brothers, a pair of psychopathic twin hitmen from Marvel

Total number of entries is now 1747. Pfew.

07/26/03

A somewhat weird batch, with many obscure golden age characters from the old database. Roll call :

• Agent Smith, from The Matrix. One writeup for his Matrix I incarnation, one for his more viral Matrix Reloaded version.
• The post-Apocalyptic, year 2050 version of the Batman - as seen in the pages of old Hex comics.
• CDR Beverly Crusher, from the Start Trek: TNG crew.
• A large writeup of Booster Gold, the DCU's lucrative hero, covering his numerous battlesuits
• Heavily armed Combat Synthetics from the Aliens universe - specifically the AvP2 video game.
• Data, the fan favourite crew member of Star Trek : TNG.
• The Enforcer III, from the DCU - the Council's martial arts assassin in the mid-70s.
• A revised and upgraded writeup for Frank Drake, one of the Marvel Universe's vampire hunters and member of the Nightstalkers.
• The Big G - Galactus himself, from the Marvel Universe.
• Another pretty big G - the Grandmaster, the Elder of the Universe who specializes in gambling and games.
• Headhunter II, a Marvel universe mob financial wizard with a wall of talking severed heads and hypnotic abilities.
• The Human Meteor, an obscure golden age character
• Hydroman, an obscure golden age character
• Jack Crow, one of the lead characters in the book Vampire$. This version is a bit different from James Wood's character on the big screen.
• Kolu M'Beya, an ace African gunsmith, arms dealer and pretty good marksman from the 70s DCU.
• The Magician from Mars, an obscure golden age character from Centaur comics.
• Magno, an obscure golden age character
• The Man O' Metal, an obscure golden age character
• Marvo the Magician, an obscure golden age Mandrake wanna-be. With a monkey.
• Standard software agents from The Matrix, including notes on the Merovingian's goons.
• Miss Masque, an obscure golden age character (not the modernized version used by AC)
• The Music Master, a weird and obscure golden age character
• Nomak, the first Reaver in the movie Blade II
• The Nosferatu, from the Murnau classic movie
• A slightly upgrade version of the Red Skull
• Simon Archard, the detective, from the Crossgen book Ruse.
• A slightly adjusted version of a typical vampire in the Marvel Universe
• The Ultimate Marvel version of Peter Parker, the Amazing Spider-Man
• Warstrike, from the Ultraverse - before his breakdown and joining the Exiles.
• Lt -Cdr Worf, from Star Trek : TNG

Current number of entries is 1704.

07/08/03

In this batch (which for some reason contains very few villains) :

• A fine-tuned version of Andromeda, the Atlantean princess and Defender
• Ben Turner, formerly known as the Bronze Tiger, one of the greatest martial arts master of the DC Universe - who once beat Batman (upgraded from the official writeup).
• Blade - the movie version as played by Wesley Snipes in Blade and Blade II. Includes detailed equipment writeups and history.
• Captain America - a big, complete writeup of the star-spangled Avenger and Marvel's greatest hero.
• Corporal Hicks, one of the non-com of the USCMC squad in the movie Aliens, played by Michael Biehn.
• Deanna Troi, the Betazoid ship counsellor from the Star Trek universe.
• The nearly anonymous mariachi/gunfighter from the El Mariachi/Desperado/Once upon a time in Mexico trilogy (including stats for Campa and Quino).
• Glottis, the quasi-elemental of vehicles, speed and mechanics from the computer game Grim Fandango.
• A revised an expanded writeup for Golden Boy, the strongest hero of the Wild Card book serie.
• Susan Storm Richards, the Invisible Woman, along three eras - the early Invisible Girl, her 80s stats and personality as Invisible Woman, and a more current Invisible Woman writeup.
• Johnny Madrid, the fearless and well-armed rogue Mexican from From dusk till dawn III played by Marco Leonardi.
• Jonas Harrow, one of the old mad doctor opponent of Spiderman and "creator" of Hammerhead, the Kangaroo and Will o' the wisp.
• Mister Buu, the Dragonball Z character (fat Buu stage).
• Northstar, the Alpha Flight core character (and now X-Men character) - in a revised, upgraded version of the previous writeup.
• Olivia Ofrenda, the dame and poet from the computer game Grim Fandango.
• Private Vasquez, the tough machinegunner from the movie Aliens, played by Jenette Goldstein.
• Rocket II (Darnice, not Raquel) from the Icon comics in the Milestone universe.
• Skinner, an immortal killer and Lilin building his body from his victims' flesh, from the Marvel Universe.
• Steve Austin - the version from the four Cyborg books, which is a bit different from the one in the TV series The Six Million Dollars Man.
• Antonio Jose Bolivar Pronao, from the classic short novel El viejo que leia novelas de amor by Sepulveda.
• Whistler, Blade's aged and foul-mouthed mentor from the Blade movies - played by Kris Kristofferson.
• XS, the Flash descendant who works with the XXXth century post-reboot Legion of Super-Heroes.

Current entry count is 1676.

05/18/03

Roll call -

• An illustrated version of Attucka the Merciless - the undersea, four-armed Mongol warrior who's Tamerkhan the Cruel's main muscleman.
• An upgraded, improved version of Black Lighnting (formerly from the Outsiders) (DCU).
• The Golden Age avenging revenant called the Blue Blaze, from Timely comics.
• Captain Britain - the Davis/Moore version, as he was at the start of the Jaspers saga - with nice Davis art. Earlier, Excalibur and current versions are not worked out yet.
• The Golden Age Catman from Continental comics.
• Childs, a villainous and nearly psychotic British Super-Soldier with big guns (Marvel universe)
• The Golden Age Flash Lightning from Ace Magazines.
• The Golden Age Flexo the rubber man (well, robot), from Timely comics.
• Frank Drake, Dracula's descendant from the Dracula and formerly the "normal Joe" from Tomb of Dracula before becoming one of the tough hunters in the Nightstalkers.
• The Guvnor, a super-powered British football hooligan (Marvel universe)
• Hauer, a tough and professional British Super-Soldier with big guns (Marvel universe)
• An upgraded, improved version of Jesse Quick, Johnny Quick and Liberty Belle's daughter and Flash-type speedster (DCU).
• A general article about lightsabers in the Star Wars universe - stats for all known types, usage, construction, rules, etc.
• Magneto - the Big M himself.
• Typical Martian invaders from the War of the Worlds novels, adaptations, sequels, variants, lookalikes, etc. with extensive discussion of history, technology, spinoffs, etc.
• An upgraded, updated version of Mystique - the version seen in both X-Men movies.
• Peter Wisdom, the chain-smoking, foul-speaking British spook from Black Air who later joined Excalibur and X-Force before faking his death.
• Slaymaster, the British master assassin and Captain Britain's nemesis (Marvel Universe).
• Sleepwalker - the sleepwalking brick of the Brotherhood of dada I (DCU).
• An illustrated version of Tamerkhan the Cruel, the undersea Mongol mastermind and conqueror (DCU).
• The Golden Age spirit of justice, The Eye, from Centaur comics.
• An upgraded version of Topo - now with proper illustrations (including Topo as the one-octopus band).
• Virgil Swann, the wheelchair-bound genius scientist and Clark Kent's mentor in the TV show Smallville.
• A general article about personal weaponry in popular fiction - revised stats for dozens of weapons types from pistols to swords to grenades to crossbows to machineguns, with detailed comments for non-gun nuts types and blasé humor. Revised from last posting on the DCH mailing list.

Current entry count is 1655.

05/16/03

Roll call -

• All duplicate entries we caught (a dozen) have been terminated.
• Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise in Mission : Impossible I and II) has been restored after having been accidentally deleted at some point in the past.
• The Black Widow from Timely comics, a Golden Age harbinger of Satan and black magic.
• Bullet Tooth Tony, the vigorous English criminal problem-solver from the movie The Snatch.
• An upgraded, improved version of Cliff "Robotman II" Steel from the Doom Patrol (DC comics)
• Dalton, a British super-soldier, super-kung-fu-monk and charlatan from the Marvel Universe.
• Dracula - the Buffy universe version.
• The reporter Edison Carter, fighting against corporations in a dystopian future and better known through his digital alter-ego, Max Headroom.
• Gog V, a Welsh Guards cook turned bionic super-soldier.
• An upgraded, improved version of Halo, the aura-wielding teenager from the Outsiders.
• Ingrid Weiss, the Nazi uberfrau from WWII occasionally battling Tom Strong - and raising his son.
• The Invincible Robots - highly destructive, nigh-unstoppable robots from the labs of Doctor Doom.
• Jacob, the minister played by Harvey Keitel in the movie From dusk till dawn, complete with cross-shaped holy shotgun and True Faith.
• Katie Kaboom, the teenage weregiantmonster from The Animaniacs.
• Mickey O'Neil, the inintelligible but tough as nails Irish Gipsy from the movie The Snatch - played by Bradd Pit.
• Rocket I - The inner-city pregnant black 15 years old who's a super-sidekick (Miletstone).
• Sarah Wilde - A smart, cynical English left-wing journalist from Marvel.
• SHIELD ninja troops - They're SHIELD super-commandos and they're trained ninjas too ! With swords ! And guns ! Oh my !
• The Super-Man - A man with vast mental powers aiming to control the Earth, from an obscure Siegel short novel (the guy who later co-invented another character named Superman).
• An upgraded, improved version of the pre-Crisis Superwoman (Kristen Wells). *This* time we have gotten her right, we think.
• Topo, Aquaman's octopus friend and ally.
• Rules and description for a generic vampire in the Buffy universe.
• Reworked illos for Frost, the Viet vet in the movie From dusk till dawn.
• Xantia, the exotic warrior princess from Marvel UK.

Current entries count is 1636.

05/03/03

Roll call :

• Backlash - Colonel Marc Slayton, the half Kherubim with energy whips who once was part of Team 7 and later went rogue on Stormwatch (Wildstorm)
• Bishop - The tough black X-Man with big guns and intricate energy absorption powers (Marvel).
• Bobcat - A very minor acrobatic criminal with a small gang of acrobats (Marvel).
• Buckaroo Banzai - Brain surgeon, engineer, fighter, adventurer, saviour of the human race, rock star extraordinaire - and cult movie character (Movies).
• Bullet Biker - A very minor criminal with an armed bike, great stunt skills and an attitude (Marvel).
• Carrie Smith - The star from one of the short novels in the book Temps (Other).
• Cerebra - The raven-haired telepath, scientist and martial artist from X-Men 2099 (Marvel).
• Crimson - Backlash's daughter, a teenage American-Japanese speedster (Wildstorm).
• Cyberjack - Former elite soldier turned hacker after he was crippled, once part of Team 7 (Wildstorm).
• Dingo - A canine/man genetic meld trained as a commando, who worked with Backlash (Wildstorm).
• Dragonfly II - O.G., pimp, hustler, player and all 'round mack daddy. Undefeated champion street fighter and kung fu fat cat from the early 70s (Marvel).
• Horst Eiselme's HYDRA assassin squad - An elite HYDRA hit squad with excellent firepower and a professional leader (Marvel).
• The Flame - Elite costumed arsonist and old Dazzler foe (Marvel).
• Hannibal King - Hardboiled P.I. who became a vampire but never drank human blood - and is one of the most notorious vampire hunters and a part of the Nightstalkers (Marvel).
• The Incredible Hulk - David Banner, the TV version with Lou Ferrigno (TV).
• Meanstreak - The speedster and cool geek from X-Men 2099 (Marvel) (updated version from previous posting).
• Nightcrawler - The demonic-looking, teleporting, swashbuckling German X-Man (Marvel).
• Pinhead - The nightmarish demon and torturer from Hellraiser movies (Movies).
• Quincy Harker - Jonathan and Mina's son - the fanatic, crippled vampire hunter whose insane, cold efficiency made him the greatest (Marvel).
• The Shiver Man - A mysterious, creepy and highly efficient bounty hunter with guns, a long black coat and a Death Stalker-like presence (Marvel).
• Strong Guy - Guido, the wise-cracking, joking, deformed, smart kinetic energy-absorbing brick from X-Factor II (Marvel).
• A revised version of Kristen Wells, the pre-Crisis Superwoman (DC).
• Svetlana X, Tom's Strong's opposite number. You're so copulated, little boys (AB).
• Taboo - the call girl with a symbiote made from the flash of the first vampire and Backlash's lover and partner (Wildstorm).
• Ultima - Daddy's little Amazon, conditioned to believe she's superhumanly strong and fast (Marvel).
• V - The nearly superhuman and rather insane anarchist terrorist and freedom fighter from V for Vendetta (DC).
• Warlock - The witchcrafting son of Satan from the horror movies Warlock (Movies).
• The Word - A formidable orator and vocabulary maven who's an obscure villain (Marvel).

Which brings us to 1628 entries.

04/20/03

Roll call :

• Arclight, one of the fighter/bricks from the Marauders (Marvel universe)
• Blink, one of the few survivors from Age of Apocalypse and leader of the EXiles
• Chow Yun Fat - his gunfighting characters from The Killer, Hardboiled, A better tomorrow, etc.
• Cyclops - with both a Classic (until the Twelve story arc) and Early (black and yellow costume) writeup.
• An updated version of Daredevil (from the comics)
• David Addison, from the Moonlighting TV series
• Jack Burton, the trucker from Big trouble in Little China.
• John McClane, the tough and lucky cop from the Die Hard trilogy
• "John Murdoch", the protagonist from Dark City.
• John Nada, the tough and obstinate hero from They live.
• The Kingpin, the organized crime lord from Marvel
• Meanstreak, the speedster from X-Men 2099 (will be updated next batch)
• The Mimic - EXiles version, not Earth-616 version
• Morph - EXiles version of the shapechanger and comedian
• The Night Rider (aka Ghost Rider IV) - the phantom cowboy
• Nocturne, Nightcrawler's possible daughter from the EXiles
• John Rambo, Sylvester Stallone's character from the Rambo movies
• Red Wolf, a Native American hero from Marvel
• Shooting Star, a heroic Texas beauty from Marvel
• Sunfire - the female teenager from EXiles, not the Earth 616 version
• T-Bird, the EXiles' fighter/brick
• Warhawk, and old Cage/Iron Fist and X-Men mercenary and super-soldier

Which brings us to, well, a nice round 1600 entries.

03/12/03

Archiving some old database stuff as well as stuff that came along for the next two batches or so, although this is getting a bit of a chore.

Roll call :

• Adonis, a disfigured industrialist who wanted to become immortal
• Antro, part of the superhuman assassins group Deathweb
• Arachne III, part of the superhuman assassins group Deathweb
• The Brute, a parallel version of Reed Richards and Frightful Four member
• Deathlok I aka the Demolisher, a combat cyborg from an alternate Earth
• Deathlok III, a pacifist and family man trapped in the horrible body of a combat cyborg
• Devos the Devastator, a mad and powerful galactic enforcer
• Double Dragon (Billy and Jimmy Lee) from the landmark arcade hit back in the 80s
• Galactus' "cat", a powerful robot for pest-control on his world-ship
• Giant-Man II aka Black Goliath from Marvel
• Jackie Chan : an average of his supercop and Bronx rumblin' characters
• Killer Shrike, a skilled but unlucky super-merc
• Kurse, a creature of rage and innocence able to beat Thor down
• Richard Gecko, the psychotic phantasying killer from From dusk till dawn
• The Sensei, world-class assassin and fighter and head of the League of Assassins
• Seth Gecko, the always in control renegade criminal from From dusk till dawn
• Sex machine, the rough and macho adventurer from From dusk till dawn
• Talos the untamed, a proud Skrull mutant warrior
• Therak, part of the superhuman assassins group Deathweb
• Frost, the tough Vietnam invasion veteran from From dusk till dawn

Current number of entries is 1578.

03/05/03

Roll call :

• Updated versions of Anya and Xander from Buffy.
• The Foxbat, Champions's nuttiest supervillain
• Gibberne's accelerator, an early superspeed formula
• The Grey Seal, possibly the greatest thief of the last century
• The Hampdenshire wonder, a scary experiment in humanity in early SF
• Hugh Morrus, a loony wrestler
• Hulk Hogan / Hollywood Hogan, the most famous US wrestler
• Hurricane, a wrestler who thinks he's a super hero
• John Henry, the mythical Steel-Drivin' Man
• Kevin "Big Sexy" Nash, a good-looking villainous wrestler
• Le Tocsin, the Gray Seal's mysterious confederate
• Norman Smiley, a ludicrous wrestler
• Nuke, the tragic supersoldier and superpatriot
• The Bat, a fiendish pulp villain with many ressources
• Tom Strong, the perfect Science Hero
• Wishbringer, a legendary artefact from an old Infocom game
• Yakuza commandos armed to the teeth with military gear and tactics (generic writeup)
• Yeoman, the deadly heroic archer from the Wildcards universe
• Zombots, techno-zombie enforcers from the Wildstorm universe

Current count is 1559 entries.

03/03/03

This is mucho arbeit. Okay, roll call :

• Brock Lesnar, a demonically-powered wrestler who's the next big thing
• REZCat's take on the wrestler Rey Myserio
• HHH, a smart, evil and powerful wrestler
• Tron, the electronic gladiator and cop from the eponymous movie
• Trouble, a superhumanly strong killer from the Ultraverse
• Tsui Chiao Shang Chi, a low-powered bo-wielding merc from the Ultraverse
• Turf, a hateful fan and killer wielding the soil as a power armor suit (Ultraverse)
• The Great and Powerful Turle (Wildcards)
• A Typical Atlantean solider from the Marvel Universe for the next New York invasion
• Tyr II, from the Genedogs, our sample budget superteam from Marvel UK
• The Undertaker, a powerful wrestler and necromystic
• El Vampiro, another wrestler (guess what's his schtick)
• Violence, a failed S.H.I.E.L.D. super-agent with 'em big guns
• Voldo, the crazed, unpredictable blind fighter from Soulcalibur
• Voltigores from Half-Life/Opposing Forces
• The Vorpal bunny aka the Killer rabbit, from Monty Python's Holy Grail, complete with damning photographs
• The Vulture, from that old Villains and Vigilantes module with the Crushers
• The Vyr Seeker, powerful magical tracking beasts
• The Vyr, alien demigods of magic from the Ultraverse's Wold
• Walter Bennett, the most dangerous scientist in the world of Half-Life - at least in his own mind
• The Weasel, a psychokiller with claws and speed
• The White Dragon II, a New York kung fu villain with claws and fire breath
• Widowmaker, the French hand-to-hand specialist who beat Captain America (really)
• Some notes about the Wild Cards serie explaining stuff
• Wilhelmina Murray aka Mina Harker, head of the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• William Riker, from ST:TNG, and his beard

03/02/03

This wasn't planned, but I migrated the entire cast of wrestlers from the old database to the new, generally with enhanced pictures.

This means Abdullah the butcher, Amish Roadkill, Arn Anderson, Big Van Vader, Borne Again (also Doink the clown), Bruiser Brody, Cactus Jack, Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, Dusty Rhodes, the Dynamite Kid, the Four Horsemen, the Great Muta, Jake "the Snake" Roberts, Jushin "Thunder" Lyger, Power Team USA, Psicosis, Raven, Andrew's version of Rey Mysterio Jr., Ric Flair, The Rock, Stan Hansen, Sting, and the Ultimate Warrior.

For some reason the shapely Cat's Claw was also uploaded amidst all of this testosterone. Go figure.

02/24/03

• Redid illos on Blastaar and Spider-Woman I, there had been problems.
• The Four Winds, low-level Chinese ninja quatuor with theme weapons
• Superwoman - The evil Wonder Woman from the Crime Syndicate
• Superwoman - The time travelling Kristen Wells from pre-Crisis
• The Supreme Soviet, a really lame and obscure Ultraverse villain
• The Swiss Industrial Spies, dastardly commandos from a rogue nation thankfully defeated by the Tick
• Taki, the lithe ninja demon-slayer from the console game Soulcalibur
• Talia, Ra's al Ghul's cherished daughter and Batman's impossible love
• Tara, the Wiccan from Sunnydale
• Tech-9, the gunslinging leader of the Blood Syndicate (now deceased)
• Tech - Respectful Chinese daughter, young businesswoman, cyborg, hacker, leader of the reputed mercenary group the Solution.
• Teknight MkI, killer robot from Nuware (Ultraverse)
• Temper, the anger inducing psycho from Villains and Vigilantes
• Terry "Bam Bam" Gordy, a quite dangerous wrestler
• Third Rail, the Korean peacekeeper of the Blood Syndicate
• Timber Wolf, the pre-Crisis Brin from the Legion of old
• The Time Traveller - literary version from HG Wells with Moore footnotes
• Tom Devoe, American special agent from the movie The Peacemaker
• Tommy Dreamer, young wrestler struggling against big odds
• Topaz, proud warrior queen and buttkicker from an extradimensional city that knows only women
• Tracer, a complex, reprogrammable man in the bounty hunting business, using both smarts and power
• Wise Son, who became leader of the Blood Syndicate - unkillable street tough who discovered Islam
• Wolverine - version with Adamantium
• Xander - a helpful guy from Sunnyvale.

Pfew. I'm getting tired.

Oh yeah, current entry count is 1491, we break 1500 with the next one.

02/20/03

Roll call -

• The Grappler - An obscure Marvel villain using leverage for crimes
• Stats for a typical genin of the Hand - for the Frank Miller years, anyway
• New optional skills for MEGS (well, Subskills actually)
• Skrull X (from a What If alternate, with X-Men powers)
• The Skrullian Skymaster (aka Skymax), the Martian Manhunter from the Squadron Supreme
• Andrian Trofimovitch, the Speztnasz turned super hero from the Skull n Bones miniseries
• Skylark (formerly Lady Lark), the Black Canary/Hawkgirl analogue from the Squadron Supreme
• Slipknot, a nice forgotten Firestorm villain
• The Snake, an early Superman villain with poisoned spears
• Snapdragon, a female martial artist/mercenary/weapons expert
• Solitaire, a cunning and acrobatic urban vigilante trying to bring his powerful father down in the Ultraverse
• Solomon Kane himself - 'nuff said.
• The Son of Satan from the early 80s - this is a pre-Hellstorm writeup. Complete with trident and exorcisms.
• Spearow, a bird-like Pokemon
• Spider-Woman I - Jessica Drew, the angel of the night and one of the first strong super-heroines
• Spike Siegel, the light-hearted martial artist and prestidigitating bounty hunter from Bebop Cowboy who's dead inside
• Starburst, the Squad heroine from the Ultraverse now forever in a coma
• Steeplejack I, a formidably strong blue collar with weapons from the yard
• Steeplejack II, his villainous and devious boss
• The much lauded Stick Man Fighter, who has been known to undertake secret missions on the behalf of the DCH mailing list. Go go Stick Man Fighter !
• Storm Shadow, the uber-ninja from the GI Joe universe

02/18/03

With hands moving like lightning (I have Superspeed: 02), another update cometh !

Roll call :

• Agron, energy from a dying earth yet to be, possessing a corpse in the present
• Amphibion, planetary champion of Xantares who fought Hulk a few times and is now on a great quest and revolution
• Beach-Head, GI Joe's unflappable ranger
• Blastaar, the living bomb-burst, conqueror from the Negative Zone
• All of the Salem Seven (General intro, Brutacus, Gazelle, Hydron, Reptilia, Thornn, Vakume, Vertigo) plus the sorcerer Nicholas Scratch - check them out, they are great villains for most groups.
• Captain Nemo, from Jules Verne and the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
• Cardiac, the genius surgeon turned cybernetic vigilante and executioner
• Casca, the eternal mercenary cursed to live forever by the Christ
• The Forgotten One, a powerful Eternal loner (aka Gilgamesh when he was an Avenger)
• The Frog-Man, a clumsy but nice-meaning loon who wanna be a sooper heero
• The Headless Horseman, a Hessian mercenary from Hell and from Tim Burton's adaptation of the Sleepy Hollow
• Hugo Danner, the first superman depicted in popular fiction - from the novel Gladiator
• The Iron Monk, supernaturally strong martial arts killer from the Hand
• Knockabout, low-level brick from SHIELD powered by storytelling
• Psi-Borg II, Latverian psionic cyborg from SHIELD
• Roadblock I, the machinegunner, strongman and chef from the GI Joes
• Scarlett, the female special agent and ninja from GI Joe
• Shrek, the not-so-mean ogre from the eponymous movie
• Sin-Eater, from the Aberrant universe
• Shrew, the agressive boxer from the Crushers (V&V conversion)
• Skion, the dangerous macrophage from the Dark Horse Heroes continuity

Phew.

Current count of entries is 1453 (I've deleted a few doubles I've found)

02/16/03

This time we have :

• Movie version of the Crow, mostly based on the first movie.
• Corrected some stuff on Deckard (Blade Runner), Dutch's Team (Predator), the Man-Elephant, Miss Marvel I (early era), the Monster, the Snow Queen. Added Miss Marvel I (Warbird) that had been somehow deleted.
• The Machine, a tough cyborg grasping at his memories of humanity, from Dark Horse CGW.
• Rigoletto, a deformed madman from the Ultraverse
• The Road Warriors (Animal and Hawk), an explosive duo of wrestlers
• Rob van Dam, an acrobatic wrestler
• "Rowdy" Roddy Piper, the wrestler with the sleeper hold and a kilt
• Sabu, the mute, ultra-agressive wrestler
• Sakata, just a low-level goon with a sword for when you need one.
• The Sandman, a wrestler that doubles as the Budweiser Elemental
• Sayce, semi-sentient killer big cats from the book Reality Dysfunctions
• Scott Steiner aka Big Poppa Pump, a muscular wrestler turned bad
• The SeX Men, the Pentagon's answer to high orgone crisis
• Sergeant Todd 3465, an inhuman soldier who is slowly becoming human (from the movie Soldier)
• Shadowhawk, the savage back-breaking vigilante who is almost a villain (from Image)
• Shadowmage, an alien rune-mage, part of the mercenary team The Solution (Ultraverse)
• Shape, from the Squadron Supreme's world
• Shaw Michaels, another wrestler who's a pro at psy warfare
• Shellshock, obscure Marvel villain with a gun built by the Psycho-Man
• Sheriff O'Neil, the science-fiction untouchable lawman from the movie Outland
• The second Shield (from Archie/Red circle) - the double life of private Armstrong
• The third Shield (Archie/Red Circle), son of the original and Mighty Crusaders member
• Shocktroopers from Half-Life : Opposing Forces

02/07/03

Roll call

• Ankylosaur, loser with a power armor from Champions
• Badrock, the teenage of massive stone from Youngblood
• Black Lotus, female martial arts assassin from the M.U.
• The Blood Brothers, a pair of intergalactic thugs who used to work for Thanos
• "Deadshot" Darrance, former great white hunter turned manhunter
• Firebug, mad pre-Crisis arsonist and ex-soldier
• Grond, four-armed Hulk-like menace from Champions
• Hudson Hawk, the gentleman thief
• Iron Maiden II, the armored KGB assassin
• Jackdaw, professional thief of high technology and free spirit
• King Cobra, the super-contortionist with deadly gadgets who beat Mister Hyde
• Laralie, a rodeo queen turned assassin
• Longshot, the eternal rebel with a sparkling eye
• La Lunatica, fierce mutant rabble-rouser of 2099
• The Monster, gothic horror mystery from Champions
• N'Kama, greatest of the Zulu warriors turned assassin
• Power Ring, of the Crime Syndicate of Amerika
• Primal, a random mutant student from the MU
• Pursuer, a merc from the Aberrant world
• Loads of critters from Quake I - everything interesting, in fact. Fiends, flesh-hurling zombies, Death knights, vores, scrags, shamblers, grunts...
• The Quake I marine
• Quasimodo II, the superstrong villain haunting Paris !
• The Question, my own favourite comics character - faceless truthseeker and martial artist
• Rafferty, chilling and highly professional killer of superhumans in the Ultraverse
• Reese, gruff cybersoldier from the Hellfire Club and the Reavers
• Rhiannon, immortal and seductive Celtic blood-prietress
• Rhyhorn, the armored Pokemon
• Richard Riddick, scary psychokiller with muscles and silver eyes

02/01/03

Another small one.

• Baba - the mini-witch from Dragonball Z, flying on her crystal ball.
• Mister Hyde - the brutal, evil villain from Marvel
• Nimrod - the supreme Sentinel from Marvel (pre-Bastion)
• NME - the terrifying combat robot that was in charge of eliminating every single superhuman in the Ultraverse and performed admirably for thousands of years.
• The Northern Indian expert - another example of a skilled but not powerful martial arts mercenary
• Oblivion - the enemy of Milestone's Icon, a morphing alien brick.
• Outrage - the hardboiled alien fighter providing the muscle for the Solution
• Owen Hart - late wrestler, part of the Hart family
• Owl - old Daredevil villain and street-level mastermind
• Owlman - Batman's evil counterpart from the Crime Syndicate
• Pacer - field leader of the Genedogs
• Painkiller - dangerous mercenary hitman once fought by Black Lightning
• Panther II - late member of the Genedogs
• Penance - the handicaped, diamond-sharp member of Generation X
• Phobius - small mentalist, part of Maelstrom's minions
• Pit drome - from Half-Life
• Pit worm - from Half-Life
• Pixx - heroic by tortured goofy kid from Ultraforce
• Polychrome - the coolest ghost west of Hell

01/05/03

Small database update :

• Mockingbird, the low-powered competent Avenger
• Modular Man, the premier cyborg from the Wild Cards world
• Molecule Man, the most powerful man on the Marvel Earth
• Monarch (Elseworld version) - an original projection of what Monarch could have been if DC had stuck to the Captain Atom identity.
• The Monkey-Man from New Delhi, once the subject of enthusiastic list discussion
• Monkey-Woman, sinister street level cult leader in the Ultraverse
• Corrected and expanded version for the Morbius (early) writeup.
• Generic writeup for really big, musclebound thugs.
• Mystery Lad, house-made hero with random superpowers
• Mystique (movie version played by Rebecca Romijn-Stamos)
• Needler, a well armed assassin from the Ultraverse
• Neil Shaw (Wesley Snipes in The Art of War), along with notes on other action movies Wesley Snipes characters
• Nekra, the classic Marvel assassin/occultist/warrior/vampire-like mutant
• Nero, a small-time cyborg killer from the Ultraverse with interchangeable weapons
• Nick Fury, patron saint of soldiers and special agents in the Marvel Universe
• Nick Parker, the blind swordsman from the movie Blind Fury (and an hilarious quote)
• Night Man, the dynamic nocturnal hero, vigilante and jazzman from the Ultraverse
• Nighthawk II from the Defenders, the repentant hero
• Nikolai Apocaloff, Russian middleman, serial killer and werewolf from the Ultraverse

12/27/02

This time we've got about 50 new entries.

Cage (mostly redone illos), conversions of characters in Villains and Vigilantes ads from the 80s (Kali and Magnetor), wrestling stuff, minor Marvel villains (of course - including the inscrutable Kono the Sumo, the telekinetic Lazarrus, the flamboyant Machinesmith, the devious Madame X, the ever-popular Man-Ape and Man-Bull, the radical feminist Mankiller, the terrible Matador, the quite tall Megalith and the Melter), another generic writeup (katana expert goon), Kate Corrigan (from Hellboy), the one and only King Tiger, Kwai (from the Blood Syndicate), Lady Killer (leader of the Strangers), Leatherface (from The Texas Chainsaw Massacre), the Leopard (an ooooold Superman villain)... Aberrant stuff, Liberty Belle, Lone-Wolf-and-Cub, the semi-poetic Major Bludd (from GI Joe), Mandrake the Magician, Marion "Cobra" Cobretti (a terrible 80's Stallone flick), Marrow, the Martian Manslayer (from the CSA), some Half-Life stuff, Max Payne, the Men in Black (fnord)...

And a Miss Marvel I writeup in four chapters, and some other stuff.

12/03/02

Nearly 100 new entries, I think.

The return of the dread anti-munchkin characters (including Marguerite the Clueless Pink Cow and Lotsa Limbs Guy) ; plenty of Ultraverse stuff (including the ultra-cool Firearm ("Strewth, what a mess. A no winner, and no mistake. Bleedin typical. God forbid things ran smooth for once.") and Ghoul ("My name's Jonathan, I'm from Vermont, I'm a big fan of Tori Amos, and I'm dead."), detailed writeups for Hardcase, the deadly Hardwire, the mysterious Jinn), two T.H.U.N.D.E.R. agents (Dynamo and Menthor), the ED-209 robot from Robocop...

Plenty of obscure Marvel and Ultraverse and Dark Horse villains (yeah !), Elektra, the second Engineer from the Authority, Eric (DCH conversion of my main World of Darkness character - so sue me), Ethan Hunt (from the cinema so-called remakes of Mission : Impossible I and II), Blood Syndicate (including the interesting Fade and the walking game headache, Flashback), Felix the gunman from Vampire$...

Nocturnals stuff (Firelion, Eve "Haloween Girl" Horror, fan-favourite the Gunwitch), Sean's Firestorm writeups - including the longest Bonuses and Limitations section ever, Villains & Vigilantes stuff, Archie/Red Circle stuff (the Fly and the Jaguar), the Foolkiller (second and third incarnation, both quite interesting), Geryon from Aberrant...

Wrestling stuff (including Goldberg and the Honky Tonk Man), Golden Boy from Wildcards, Goliath (Youg Samson's dog/lion), Gordon Freeman as well as a detailed history of the Black Mesa Incident and, of course, guns galore (Half-Life) ; Green Arrow (Oliver Queen during Mike Grell's run), Green Lantern I (classic, pre-Sentinel Alan Scott)...

Harry Leland from Marvel's Hellfire Club, the intriguing Dark Horse villain Headhunter, Heebies from ancient PC game Another World, RCMP vigilante the Horseman, the pre-Crisis version of the Huntress, Ibac (the old Captain Marvel villain), the Jackal (old Spider-Man villain)...

Movie version of James Bond, Capitaine Jean-Luc Picard (commandant l'USS Enterprise), John Matrix (Arnold in Commando), John Shaft (both the 1971 (Richard Roundtrees) and the 2000 (Samuel Jackson) version), Johnny Thunder and his Thunderbolt, Johns from Pitch Black, Jones from the Project: IGI video game, Justin Hammer, Regis and the Sliding Albion reality...

All this and Jar Jar Binks too !

Current count is 1279 entries.

11/15/02

Added 50 or 60 writeups to the database.

Blood Syndicate stuff (including Brickhouse and DMZ), some Aberrant stuff, Captain Amazing from Mystery Men, Captain Trips in all his forms and Demise from Wild Cards, Carlton LeHah, Ultraverse stuff (including Choice, a very cool character, as well as Dropkick from The Solution and the heroic DJ Blast), Chen Zhen (Jet Li in Fist of Legend), wrestling stuff (including Chris Jericho, DDP and Chyna), Conan, minor Marvel baddies (we love 'em, do not hesitate to use 'em), the creature from the black lagoon, Crusade (a heavy hitter from Wildstorm), the Darkman (from the movie), Ding On (from the astounding The blade dark kung fu epic), Doctor Dolittle (literary version), Domino, Dutch from Youngblood, Dutch Schaefer and his team (from Predator), and others.

The "rules stuff" category has been expanded to include generic writeups (just one for now).

10/19/02

Added fifty new entries, most of them being published for the first time.

Cool stuff includes wrestling stuff, obscure Marvel and DC characters, obscure Ultraverse stuff, Half-Life, Aliens, Tick stuff, Buffy stuff, Arion, Bane, movie version of the Batman (Burton), Black Belt Jones, Black Lightning, Black Panther, Blizzard, Bob Morane, Bruce Lee...

There are minor formating bugs I'll correct tomorrow, right now I'm way too tired.

www.writeups.org, the coolest site in the world, now has 1130 entries.