The Gglemps. Strange beings from some strange dimension, they occasionally turn up on the Earth to enact some evil scheme or another. Most often they are seeking silver and gold, rare elements of mystic power on their home world, but this otherworldly duo is not above returning to Earth just to take a shot at revenge on some hero who has foiled their schemes in the past.

Each Gglemp has a single eye (capable of seeing thermal heat), claws, and tough greenish skin. Each is over seven feet in height. They could not easily blend in to a crowd of humans, but they generally don’t bother to try. Though neither is fluent in any Earth language, they have both picked up bits and pieces of English, German, Urdu, and Russian, so they can have grown capable of communicating with humans. Unfortunately, that has only lead to them agreeing to work alongside some of the world’s other supervillains, like the Besuited Beast or Sorcerox.

First, the apparent leader of the duo, is the ever-smiling Glad Gglemp. Agile and lanky and prone to sudden movements, the Glad Gglemp is the more talkative of the duo. It is the one that is more likely to communicate with humans, be they victims or allies. The Glad Gglemp also seems to have some skill as a prestidigitator and can throw a blade before the victim even knows it is coming.

The Glum Gglemp, incredibly strong, unbelievably tough, and terribly morose. It does what the Glad Gglemp tells it to, but doesn’t seem to be just dumb muscle. The Glum Gglemp is often the one who has to get into the fights when a superhero shows up, but it is also the one who seems to understand more about Earth-technology. The Glum Gglemp is the one who can commandeer a vehicle or work a phone or computer when such a thing is needed.

Almost nothing is known about the strange dimension from which the Gglemps hail, but a magical hero called the Danger Mage once traced the energy of the portals through which they generally arrive. Hoping the find something in their world that could prevent them from returning to Earth, the Danger Mage used his magical knowledge to open another portal to the same destination and went on an investigative journey. He never returned. Only a panicked mental message to his assistant to “Close the portal!” to give any indication of what had happened.

Those Phone Guys just don’t shut up:

Gorope

A bird mutated by Strange Cosmic Energy, the nearly mindess beast called Gorope is prone to swooping in on coastal cities and attacking the populace. Too powerful for conventional military technologies to destroy, Gorope can only be driven away by superhuman intervention. But always it returns to its nest to heal up and attack again.

One thing I want from superhero comics is less focus on fighting supervillains. There should be more superheroes working to prevent damage from natural disasters or fighting fires and stuff. I am sure that writers feel like they’d be missing something without an antagonist with actual emotions, but I say: just write better. Anyway, I can’t really do a whole lot of “not supervillains” in a year of creating supervillains. But a monster that is just a bird with no actual malice, that’s something slightly different, I guess. Also, the name “Gorope” comes from my ancient notes. I have no idea what Little Me thought that name might mean, but whatever residue of it remains in my brain tells me it is pronounced so that the last syllable sounds like “-ay”.

Bloodhammer

In the aftermath of a superhuman battle in Miami, the superhero Manny Magnificent was badly wounded, a chunk of metal having smashed him in the head. While most of the crowd was gawking as the other heroes tried to help their wounded comrade, others began looting. Among those was Pete Lewis, who noticed the chunk of metal with glowing superhuman blood on it. Coming into contact with this blood he felt woozy at first, but soon noticed that he was getting stronger. Taking the metal shard, Lewis fashioned it into a hammer. As long as he and it are close together, he grows strong and nearly indestructible. As you might expect from a looter, he didn’t use these powers to make the world a better place.

Like Karl Franklin, Bloodhammer with a character with dwarfism who was in my notes (though only as a sketch, all story details were made up as of this post). There are more dwarf characters in my notes as well. I gather that Little Me was trying to create a pretty inclusive universe. My single favorite thing about this character: he has a picture of his hammer on his costume. That’s dedication.

The Hateful King

The one now known as the Hateful King was conceived during a tryst between an immortal magic user and a demon meeting in a spiritual plane. The future King’s mother was a messenger demon, a go-between between earthly wizards and a powerful demon, the Fear Fomenter. Born and raised in the demon realm, he was put into service of the Fear Fomenter, fighting against other demons who tried to muscle in on his turf, though the other demons mocked him for his partial corporeality. In his thirtieth year, the Fear Fomenter traded him to a human wizard. He was on Earth for the first time as a slave and being forced to build a castle alone, by hand. Doing this, he grew strong, and watching his master, he learned magic. After years of slavery, he was powerful enough to overthrow his wizard master. And after that he opened a rift to the demon realm and killed the Fear Fomenter. Claiming the castle as his own, the Hateful King now had an army made up of the remnants of the wizard’s goblin hordes and a fear demon mob. He looked at the world around him and decided, he would take it for his own.

The sharp-eyed among you may notice that this guy is in color. I’ve been toying with coloring some of my previous Super Sunday sketched and, while I don’t know how to make it look less messy, some of the results please me. I guess from time to time when I feel like it, I’ll throw a color sketch up on here. Why did this guy deserve to be the first with color? Well, as of this writing, I think there is no story I’d rather be writing than the story of the war against the Hateful King. If I had an artist who wanted to work with me, this is the first idea I’d pitch right now.

Zglarxon

A walking mass of space matter that resembles a color-inverted starry sky, Zglarxon is not from around here. Spawned in some anomaly deep in space, Zglarxon has come to Earth with an apparent mission, though its nature is not understandable to us mere mortals. Often it appears to steal rare elements and using them in constructing strange machinery, often in places that cause trouble for humanity (it seems to prefer building its structures on city streets). If it completes its machine, it will often leave. If the machine’s operation is impeded, it will attack.

Given the “inverted starry sky” description I gave above, Zglarxon is practically colored as well. Hooray. As a mysterious space-thing with unknowable motives, Zglarxon is a counterpart of the Orbzoid. What makes Zglarxon a bad guy and Orbzoid a good guy? The Orbzoid seems to help people on occasion, but Zglarxon barely notices their presence, uncaring as it causes harm to achieve whatever it is trying to achieve. And if someone stands between Zglarxon and his goals, Zglarxon will become extremely violent.