31st of October, 2004

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 ?

30th of October, 2004

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.

17th of October, 2004

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.

15th of October, 2004

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 hierarchy, 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.

14th of October, 2004

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.

13th of October, 2004

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 Nighwing (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 centre, 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.

12th of October, 2004

Roll call:

  • Meta, a superhuman street thug
  • Midnight III – 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

11th of October, 2004

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. :-)

10th of October, 2004

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.

9th of October, 2004

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 updates (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