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.