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 events 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.

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 !

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.