Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dartvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!bellcore!decvax!dartvax!mwm From: mwm@dartvax.UUCP (M. W. Modrall) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Cerebus Message-ID: <4261@dartvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 17:59:25 EST Article-I.D.: dartvax.4261 Posted: Thu Mar 6 17:59:25 1986 Date-Received: Sat, 15-Mar-86 20:22:43 EST Distribution: net Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH Lines: 96 in regards to the request for the posting on cerebus main characters: Red Sophia - parody of red sonja of the marvel line... met cerebus early on and loved him because "he was the only man to beat her in fair battle" but cerebus wasn't interested... she pops up from time to time. weishaupt drugged cerebus in an issue in the 60's and married them to get cerebus to be prime minister of iest and undo all the republic silly ness that he had started in his previous term. currently separated from cerebus Elrod the albino- parody of Elric of Melbourne by Micheal Moorhead... general nuisance, pops up to annoy cerebus at various points in his life... last seen in cerebus #52 i think it was... Weishaupt - now dead, but during his day, he concocted several schemes to take over everything... last was the confederation of which he was a president... real wheeler dealer, but his plans tend to contain tragic flaws (like cerebus being made pope) Astoria - female counterpart to Weishaupt... key figure in getting cerebus elected prime minister of iest in the issures 30-50, but then for political reasons relegated to being his secretary... she has been seen skulking around the political scene since Cerebus resigned his prime ministership in issue 51... she is a cirinist, a feminist religion that thinks women should take over... the Countess - mysterious lady who gave cerebus shelter after he was ousted from the prime ministership in iest. appeared to be developing a strong relationship with cerebus until the bug appeared in yet another in carnation , the wolveroach. it turns out that she is enormously taken with the bug. Cerebus leaves her house, and she is not heard from since... Lord Julius - caustic obnoxious groucho look alike who is the pm of the largest and richest city state in the region. everyone owes large sums to him... he rules through confusion, primarily never letting anything constructive be accomplished. always is behind the scenes in any given venture... opposed cerebus' election in 1414, and is now apparently in line for presidency of the confederation. Duke Leonardi - counterpart of Chico marx... rather stupid ruler of new sepra always hangs around julius and plays straight man for his jokes. Jaka - a nightclub dancer in beduin.. once cerebus was drugged to fall in love with her, and she returned the sentiment. the drug evenutally wore off, leaving cerebus with no memory of her. at some point cerebus remembers what they had, but never goes back for her. she on the other hand pops up now and again, still loving cerebus, though recent developments indicate that cerebus waited too long and she got married to someone else, and is now pregnant the bug - largest source of comic relief in the series, the bug has a rotating series of personalities, and he parodies whichever comic character that sim feels like lambasting... he started as batman, then became captain cockroach after captain america, then moon roach, then sgt preston of the yukon, then priest roach, then wolveroach. hasn't been seen in quite some time , and we're still wondering where he is. Prof. Charles X Claremont - last seen as a ghost controlling the wolve roach. he started as a magician who cerebus stumbled across while he was making the armageddon beast "the woman thing". cerebus traveled with him a while until they found the "sumpthing". the two beasts lunged at each other and started to mate, crushing claremont and making him a ghost. the two creatures, and the owner of the sumpthing now form the "triumviate of tarim" as seen in 82... the regency elf - a beautiful, innocent little pixie who inhabits the room that cerebus lived in while he was prime minister. loves cerebus and prob provided him with most of his emotional support during his reign thrunk - now calling himself tarim. used to be necross the hahahahahah mad, and evil magician. he was killed by a bunch of peasants and his consciousness transferred to his large stone figure, thrunk. "Cerebus isn't quite sure. 12 ton paperweights arent usually given as proof of sanity". anyway... at last sighting, he was stuck in his tower, because the stairs wouldn't support his stone weight. henrot the magician - father of red sophia, magician and occasional supporter of cerebus... on a couple of occasions he has given cerebus help,. but mostly likes to laugh at him. bran macmuffin - ex-leader, ex-living member of the pigts a sect of barbarians living underground who worship a later figure of cerebus. bran took cerebus as the second coming, but the people weren't quite sure so while bran took a position of cerebus' adviser, the rest of the pigts have been conspicuously abscent. with the showdown with thrunk, bran became disillusioned and impaled himself. there are many other minor characters, like poobah, silverspoon, and the three girl claremont used to make the woman thing, but they are so negli gable that descriptions of them are irrelevant... -hope some of this helps... -mark mwm@dartvax