About the project

As a comic book scholar and collector, I have always admired the construction and development of stories and characters.

Now with this exposure of characters in the movies, characters that were already in evidence became even more in evidence, on the other hand characters not so evident the so-called ''B'' or "C'' characters had their highlights and in the vast majority a good acceptance by the public.

However, in my 40-something years of comics I saw many characters appear and suddenly disappear. This project: Do you know who you are? aims to rescue characters that at some point were successful and for some ''kind of'' reason disappeared.

I'm going to draw the character in a more cartoonish way, just to make it a little difficult and see who remembers or knows.

Here I will tell you a little about the character!

So let's draw.

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Badger – the badger

Badger was primarily set in Madison, Wisconsin, where Capital Comics was situated. The main character was Norbert Sykes, a Vietnam War veteran who suffered from multiple personality disorder. "The Badger", an urban vigilante who spoke to animals, was just one of his personalities.

Strangely, he used to call people "Larry", and it was later revealed that "Larry" was the name of his father who left his mother when Norbert was five. His mother remarried to Rollin Sykes, who physically abused Norbert. After escaping a mental institution, Norbert met a 5th century druid named Ham (Hammaglystwythkbrngxxaxolotl), who had just awakened from an 800-year coma (this was later corrected in a dialogue where it was noted that Ham's coma lasted 1,500 years). years old).

Ham took the Badger as an inmate to his castle in exchange for the Badger's bodyguard services. Other characters included Norbert's social worker Daisy, Vietnamese martial arts expert (and Norbert's wife) Mavis, and Lord Weterlackus, a demon who gave Ham power until they had a falling out. Before his coma, Ham would sacrifice children in his castle in Wales, but after his resurrection he would sacrifice animals (which infuriated Badger) or computer files. Ham would use his power over the climate to influence markets and generate wealth for himself; occasionally, his supernatural ways brought him into conflict with demons, which Badger would be called upon to fight.

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Editor   IDW Publication (current); Capital Comics , First Comics , Dark Horse Comics , Image Comics
First time appearing:   Badger #1 (July 1983)
Created by:   Mike Baron

Badger

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grimjack

John Gaunt

John Gaunt, aka Grimjack, was born in The Pit, a slum in the pan-dimensional city of Cynosure, where both magic and technology, humans and aliens mingle.

His mother, Anya (née Laughton), died in childbirth. John had two older brothers, Nick (nicknamed "Young Nick" after his father, "Old Nick") and Jake. Her father married Anya's sister Maite (nicknamed "Mouse") and they had a son, Joe. Joe was the only one of his brothers that John cared about and he swore to Mouse that he would take care of him. ''Old Nick'' had a brother, Jack. The ''young Nick'' hated and resented John, blaming him for the death of his mother, the only person who loved him.

When John was about five years old, Old Nick attacked and killed Jack in a drunken rage. He was sentenced to prison, but later escaped. The day he returned home, Mouse disappeared. It is unknown if Old Nick killed her. On John's eighth birthday, Old Nick, having decided that Gaunt was actually Jack's son, attacked John with a broken bottle. This caused the distinctive vertical scar that Gaunt carried throughout his life. Old Nick fell into the fireplace and burned to death.

After their father's death, the four brothers survived on the streets by stealing. One night, they broke into a merchant's house to rob him. Jake killed the merchant when he discovered them in the house. Nick, Jake and Joe escaped, but Nick knocked John unconscious and abandoned him to take responsibility for the murder. John was found guilty and sentenced to fight in the Cynosure Arena. The day he arrived at the Arena, he swore to kill Nick.

Gaunt joined one of the gangs of child warriors called the "Wolfpacs". During this time, Gaunt went by the name "Grinner" and was known as the second best fighter in the Arena, second only to The Dancer. Gaunt was released from the Arena at age 22 because, while fighting and killing, he refused to make his kills fun for the crowd.

After his release, Gaunt began a search for his brothers. Attacked and badly injured in a street fight, Gaunt stumbled upon the entrance to Pdwyr's dimension. There he was taken care of and regained health and met the love of his life, a woman named Rhian. He studied magic under Rhian's father Maethe Mathonwy, but while Gaunt could summon the power, he lacked the inner peace necessary to properly control it. Another Cynosure resident, Major Lash, found his way to Pdwyr and informed Gaunt that the city had been overrun by Hell itself. Lash convinced Gaunt to return to Cynosure and fight in the Demon War, persuading him that if the city fell, the demons would find and destroy Pdwyr. The city's forces were able to repel Hell, but demons invaded Pdwyr, causing the destruction of the land and the death of all those Gaunt loved, including Rhian. After burying his dead, Gaunt joined the Major's group of temporal bounty hunters, the Lawkillers, unaware that it was Major Lash who betrayed Pdwyr to the demons. Gaunt would not learn the truth for about 25 years.

At age 30, John Gaunt had a final fatal confrontation with his brothers. Nick shot John, prompting Joe to draw his gun and shoot Nick. Jake then shot Joe and Joe shot Jake. John shot Nick. Jake shot Joe again, killing him. John then finished Jake. Nick shot John again and John killed Nick.

After leaving the Lawkillers, Gaunt joined the Trans-Dimensional Police, Cynosure's police department. Upon leaving the TDP, he was enlisted as the first member of Cadre, a spy agency of the Cynosure government. After the events detailed in the Grimjack: Killer Instinct storyline, he abandoned Cadre and became a mercenary and private investigator in Cynosure. At some point, he bought the bar known as Munden, apparently named after the bartender Gordon Munden, from Munden's ex-wife.

publication information

Editor First comic publication: IDW Publisher

First Appearance: Starslayer #10 (November 1983)

Created by: John Ostrander / Timothy Truman