18th of February, 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 ageing 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.

12th of February, 2006

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.

5th of February, 2006

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