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.

Exomek

The Chief Conquerist of the Dobraxu Expansion Army, the diminutive alien Marjantar may not seem like much of a threat, but inside the high-tech Exomek vehicle, Marjantar becomes a near-unstoppable threat on whatever world they may be trying to conquer. But near-unstoppable is not unstoppable, as Marjantar has learned time and again in their efforts to conquer Zunoltia, where the Astro-Hero is ever there to defend against such threats.

With the loyalty of dozens of fellow Dobraxu soldiers, also using vehicles similar to the Exomek, Marjantar repeatedly attepts to make moves against Zunoltia. A failure of this magnitude could hurt Manjantar’s standing in the army, so they must try again and again, each time with more desperation.

I don’t think I have much to comment on for this one. I knew I wanted to give a villain to the Astro-Hero, so when I drew an alien invader, it seemed like a good fit. And, just to be complete, let us say that inside that vehicle there, behind the controls, Marjantar has a snake-like lower body, coiled around some more controls.

Killercat

There is a group called the Weird Assassins. If you’ve got a problem with someone who isn’t just a normal joe, you need an assassin who isn’t a normal assassin. That’s where the Weird Assassins come in. For a price these strange individuals will help you bring down anyone, no matter what.

Killercat is one of the Weird Assassins. Lewis Ridder has enhanced agility and reflexes as a result of cosmic energy released by a superhero fight in the middle of a city when he was young. He resents superhumans for what they did, though he has managed to find a way to make it pay off for him. Offering his services as a Weird Assassin helps Lewis put his children through school, keep food on the table, and he gets to end the occasional superhuman in the process.

This is another character who existed as a sketch in my files, nameless and storyless, so I decided to make up some stuff. The phrase “Weird Assassins” came to me and I figured I should work with that. After all, as normal as a guy in a cat suit being hired to kill people would be in the context of superhero comics, that’s some weird stuff man. Anyway, all too often a superhuman assassin in comics would be a killing-obsessed angry person with no life, so I though I’d do something otherwise here. I can expect I’ll probably end up doing more Weird Assassins over the course of the year.

Damager

When John Leong first woke up in smooth silver armor that he couldn’t account for, he was confused. It vanished into the thin air as soon as he removed it, but returned when he awoke the next day. This became a daily routine for Leong. A teenager at that time, Leong kept this secret and tried to continue his life as normal. But Leong had problems other than this. He had anger issues. He was greedy. Together, these made him a violent man, the type who would mug someone on the street or hold up a liquor store. It didn’t take long for him to realize that with every selfish crime he committed, the mysterious armor grew more villainous looking, getting larger and growing spikes.

That was when it occurred to Leong to try keeping the armor on. He wore it to a bank and demanded money, in the process learned that it tripled his strength and was utterly bulletproof. And by removing it, he could blend into a crowd and make his escape. And, of course, it kept growing more powerful with each crime.

I drew Damager and I was like “Well that’s pretty generic. My options are: bury him in a team of supervillains, or make his story unusually unique.” I aimed for the latter and hopefully I did a sufficient job.

Swarm Master

Doctor Emily Clayworth was always good at multitasking. Attaining degrees in several scientific fields by her early twenties, Clayworth had a promising career ahead. That is, until she discovered her great invention: tiny robots that she could control with her mind. A discovery like that would have plenty of legitimate uses, but Clayworth decided to go another way. The crime way. None of her associates are sure why she chose a life of crime, but some suspect that the fact that she places one of her own brain cells into every one of the robots she creates could be a contributing factor.

With drones that fly and drones that slither and even drones that are equipped with weaponry, Clayworth is, at all times, receiving sensory information from hundreds or even thousands of different sources, but she somehow manages to keep it all straight and organize intricate, if questionably motivated, crimes.

The Swarm Master is a character I actually sketched when I was planning to do a post of lady mad scientists, but I misplaced it and sketched the other ones instead. But now that I’ve found this one again, there’s no point in letting her go to waste. The thing about the robots having Clayworth’s brain cells in them is, I’m sure, totally unscientific, but I think its madness makes up for that.

The Besuited Beast

Governments are obsolete. Corporations rule the world now. If you want power, business is the route to take. But watch out, there are already those who have power in the world of commerce, and they don’t love competition.

The Besuited Beast works through proxy corporations and anonymous holding firms, but rumors of his existence have spread. People aren’t sure if he’s some sort of demon bent on acquiring wealth and power or simply a deformed businessman, but his penchant for hostile takeovers has made his intentions clear: complete domination of the business landscape. Those whose businesses are at stake might want to know more about there opponent, but who could investigate such a mystery? The Panda Detective, of course.

It’s inevitable that I’m going to write some corporate-type villainy every now and then, given my beliefs. That said, I’d try to be even-handed and not make literal monsters out of them. Except this time, I guess. I’ve got to have one.

The Burglaroid

Treasured things are kept behind closed doors and in locked boxes, which makes them a tempting challenge to a being who likes nothing more than to violate secret locations. From a mystical otherworldly dimension, the Burglaroid comes to Earth with no other purpose than petty theft. To him, the monetary value of an item is meaningless, but the sentimentality of the item is what is enticing. Most importantly, if someone is worried about an item being stolen and makes an effort to protect it, that is an item the Burglaroid will want.

But when a creepy freakish being sneaks into your house in the middle of the night and takes only some trinkets that only matter to you, who can you call? The police wouldn’t care even if they did believe you. Who could investigate such a mystery? The Panda Detective, of course.

I don’t know what my fascination is with using the -oid suffix for names on my Super Sunday thing here. I’ve got Conjuroid, Horribloid, Orbzoid. I had to cut myself off from doing it during the hero portion, but I figure that since I hadn’t done one for a villain yet, it was fair game.

Why two villains for the Panda Detective in one week? Why not? They just seemed to fit.

(Guest Coloring by my friend @sanityormadness)