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Sorceress of Grayskull

Cartoon and Anime Masters of the Universe

We continue our big writeups arc through the 1980s He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

In this update, another central hero – the Sorceress of Castle Grayskull.

As of a week later, added further illustrations.

Black Canary – A guide to Black Canaries

Articles about Writeups.org Comics DC Universe

A guide/disambiguation page to help readers navigate our different Black Canary DC Comics character profiles.

Black Canary

Comics DC Universe Post-Flashpoint (New 52)

Another profile for Black Canary (Dinah Drake). This one covers a *specific* era during the mid-2010s, when she was part of a rock band.

It was fairly cool, though IMO it was Annie Wu’s art that really sold it.

Generic kavat

Shooting games Video Games Warframe

A strange, feline-like species of heavily engineered war beasts and predators in the Warframe video game.

They’re like psionic space super-panthers, I guess.

Death-Man

Comics DC Universe

An odd Batman foe with an improbable mystique to him.

As of September of 2019, this entry received some polish — plus manically morbid Mutants & Masterminds modelisation.

Omnibus re-edition of the 1980s Marvel Handbook

I discovered today that there’s a 576-pages omnibus reissue of the 1980s Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe coming in November.

More — and a preorder link — in the article.

Weapons Locker – Modern firearms – Chapter #2 – Small arms, part 2

Technical RPG articles Weapons Locker articles

A big, heavily illustrated article about rifles, shotguns, submachineguns, etc. in fiction. So that’s useful to have.

This content used to be presented in the same article as Weapons Locker – Modern firearms – Chapter #2 – Small Arms, part 1. But the article was getting too big and with too many photos for slow connections and less powerful devices, so it’s better to cleave it in two.

Recent additions:
— Large-bore air rifle
— Drum-fed shotgun
— Badass tommy gun
— Badass Mosin-Nagant
— All-Inclusive Assault Carbine
— Integrally Suppressed Assault Carbine
— Four-barrelled combination gun
— Microwave gun

Weapons Locker – Modern firearms – Chapter #1 – Handguns, part 2

Technical RPG articles Weapons Locker articles

A big, heavily illustrated article about handguns in fiction. So that’s useful to have.

This content used to be presented in the same article as Weapons Locker – Modern firearms – Chapter #1 – Handguns, part 1. But the article was getting too big and with too many photos for slow connections and less powerful devices, so it’s better to cleave it in two.

Recent additions :
— Body pistol
— Changed stats for the humongous hand cannon
— Badass .45
— Fitzed revolver
— Quadruple stack pistol
— Lancaster pistol

Old West firearms – Weapons Locker

Technical RPG articles Weapons Locker articles

Big article about all of ’em guns in Old West stories. Lots of illustrations and videos, simple explanations about all the important things. Dual-statted for DCH and M&M.

Latest additions :
– Chain revolver.

Warframe weapons locker (part 1)

Shooting games Video Games Warframe Weapons Locker articles

A selection of weapons — ranged and melee — from the Warframe video game.

New weapons and pictures get added as I play. Additions since the original release :
– Twin Gremlins machine pistols.
– Boar assault shotgun.
– Fixed missing illustrations, added some.
– Orthos poleaxe.
– Miter launcher.
– Vectis precision rifle.
– Kohm shotgun.
– Ignis flamethrower.
– Nagantaka repeater crossbow.
– Pandero pistol.
– Amprex electrical projector.
– Rogga flintlock shotgun pistol.
– Synapse beam emitter.
– Lenz launcher.
– Phage emitter.
– Pox biological payload.

Spitfire

Comics Marvel Universe

Profile #5 (yeah, I know) in our chronological coverage of Marvel’s Spitfire.

This one covers her appearances during the late 2000s and early 2010s, when something about her nature has become much more apparent.

As of September of 2019 this entry received clarifications courtesy of a Marvel researcher, plus an umpteenth editing pass and having the pictures redone in HD.

Titano

Comics Proto-Marvel Universe (Atlas, Timely)

This titanic crab appeared in a 1959 proto-Marvel Comics story, in Tales to Astonish. Giant monsters were hip in the 1950s, daddy-o.

There’s also notes about the BODY score of giant monsters, somehow.

Alex Rogan

1980s movies Movies

Alex Rogen is the hero of The Last Starfighter.

This sci-fi 1984 movie was an important precursor in using a lot of CGI to depict out-of-this-world action. Such as, in this case, space battles.

Khalid

Adventure/RPG games Baldur's Gate Dungeons and Dragons RPG Video Games

One of the core companions from the canon adventuring party in the original Baldur’s Gate D&D video game.

Neutral Good Half-Elf fighter from Calimshan.

Castle Grayskull

Cartoon and Anime Masters of the Universe

Full notes about this important — and ominous — location in the He-man and the Masters of the Universe cartoons of the 1980s.

Psylocke

Comics Marvel Universe

Second profile for Psylocke of the X-Men, covering the era from the Siege Perilous until the year 2000.

As of August of 2019, our contributor Pawsplay used the focused psychic totality of his powers to append M&M stats to this article.

99 article reviews on the wall

The march of progress forges on, step by step, with feet of walking justice.

Green Lantern Lysandra

Comics DC Universe

From the old Tales of the Green Lanterns pre-Crisis back-of-the-book features.

An obscure but interesting Green Lantern Corps officer, albeit one with travel limitations.

Doomsday Man

Comics Marvel Universe

The last third for our profile of the Doomsday Man and Kerwin Korman, who form an Avengers-class Marvel Comics villain. With links to the two previous bits, of course.

He’s obscure, but he’s powerful. And he has an interesting history that is intertwined with Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers)’s and has quite a few hooks.