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.