Tag Archive for "Ancient World"

Amazonia

A pulpish horror-fantasy warrior queen from sleazy early 1970s Warren Publishing comics magazine. She's a Gardner Fox character.

Davy Tenzer

(King David)

DC Comics' Davy Tenzer is the Biblical King David, but as a 1970s immortal anti-terror international singing super-spy. Sometimes, he fights snake aliens.

Ogar

A sort of golem that once fought the Black Panther in King Solomon's tomb. It was pretty tough.

Leprechaun

(Low-rent horror movies)

A "magical slasher" villain seen in Z-list -- mostly direct-to-video -- horror movies.

Egg tengu

A small clan of magical Japanese creatures. These once helped the Outsiders fight crime, sort of.

Inhumans

(Part #1)

Let's talk about Marvel Comics' Inhumans. Let's walk among a few decades of ancient lore, cosmic grandeur and the occasional continuity gaffe.

This is our sample Player Character for Titan Quest, a cool action game about Ancient Greek, Egyptian and Chinese gods and monsters. Sylphid is a bratty, stealth demi-goddess of the wind and, inadvertently, the last Olympian and defender of mortals.

Generic Limos demon

Life-devouring scary demons that appear in Titan Quest, an action-adventure video game that starts in a fantasy Ancient Greece not unlike the world of Xena and Hercules (Sorbo version).

Human Ants of the Sixth Continent

Strange not-quite-people from an improbable underground not-culture. These appeared during the 1970s in the Luc Orient Franco-Belgian adventure comics.
Now with much better illustrations and upgraded texts and DC Adventures game stats.

Mad Pharaoh

Another very early foe of Iron Man (Tony Stark). Time-travelling Ancient Egyptian evil sorcerer, so it prolly was a Monday.

Crixus

The tough-as-nails Gaul gladiator and ally of Spartacus. This covers Manu Bennett's character in Spartacus during the first 2 seasons. Joey, do you like movies about gladiators ?

Lesser Cyclops

The lesser cyclopses of Greek Myth, and their appearances in early Marvel Comics (late 1950s, 1960s).

Gilad Anni-Padda, the Eternal Warrior

(1990s version)

This is the 1990s version of Valiant's immortal warrior for good.

Immortal

The foundational super-hero and super-hero leader in the Invincible universe.

Ulysses Bloodstone

Our infamous and rather large Ulysses Bloodstone profile. An immortal monster hunter who lived and fought for 10,000 years, with a bazaar of 1970s weirdness suffusing his bizarre biography. And he's very useful in stories, too.