irish superhero???

Victor

Shouldn't there be leprechaun villain?

secret_squirrel

Originally posted by superfly
i dont think Slaine was Irish i think he was more Celtic and later banished to Ireland

You could argue he was both. In Slainé the King he unites the 4 tribes and leads them to found Ireland from Tir Na Nog after the Flood.

Definately counts as a super hero in my book - he was a double hard bastard.

secret_squirrel

Originally posted by Victor
Shouldn't there be leprechaun villain?

How about the evil leprechaun from the Simpsons? 'We stow away in the wheel wells of Aerlingus Jumbo Jets dont ye know?'

de5p0i1er

Originally posted by monkeymagic
Black Tom is strangely enough Scottish... don't think Marvel ever explained why...

He just lives in Scotland but hes from Ireland There family home is in Mayo.

moggie

right
bare with me....

they were a group of elements...magic...type superhero group
formed by an earth spirit after several immortal mystics were wiped out just before they should have taken up the mantle

tornado was the wind spirit - and they twisted his character so that the shell was hollow - no robot, no man.....just wind,
there was a gollum - who wanted to be known as paul
there was a teleporting girl
a hongkong dragon claw guy
and a few others


and Liam...who was the Jack 'O' Lantern (or sum'tin similar)
(no I'm not making this up) and he was originally from around Crossmaglen, and had a ...big pumpkin head lantern thing - flight, blasts, magicky stuff....(no I'm not making this up) and he had a bag over his head as a mask (no I'm not making this up) and spoke in an irish lilting brog that came straight from darby o gill and the little people (no I'm not making this up)


It was DC....

jill_valentine

Are you sure you're not making it up?

MarVeL

I think hes making it up

<edit which just goes to show I know far less than I thought I knew about DC

Look here

moggie

PRIMAL FORCE!!!!

Yep, thats what they were called!
i think
and there was the bit where the teleporter girl introduces the Liam to her sister and the sister goes - "OOH I love the accent, where did you get him from"

yep
and his outfit was really tattered
and he saved a bunch of school kids



he's the one with the sack on his head see?

heres the page http://www.dcuguide.com/PF/Title_Index.htm

says he's Jack O'Lantern III, so it does now

secret_squirrel

From Primal Force #14 :

Villains: Satanus, Tornado Tyrant (absorbed by the Red Tornado); Cataclysm, the Cult of Cataclysm; Neron (behind the scenes); The Wisp (first appearance; an Irish terrorist)

Gotta love that typecasting

Evil_Bilbo

Slaine was one of my fav's from 2000ad - especially the Horned God series with Simon Bisley doing the paintwork - fecking unreal. Brilliant stories aswell.

http://www.2000adonline.com/index.php3?zone=reprint&page=gnprofiles&choice=horned

Hecate

Sláine was great, especially when he went into 'berserk' mode

tylerdurden

Bisley seemed like a godsend at first, but you can't beat Glenn Fabry's Sláine really at the end of the day...

I seem to remember meeting Mills and Fabry at a signing where they'd had too much beer and they were insinuating that Bisley only wanted to draw battles and naked chicks and so the stories suffered as he lashed lazily through "the boring stuff"

I loved Fabry's more human approach to the characters.

secret_squirrel

Horned God was the best sláine ever - epic in scope , before that it was good, but a bit derivative - Conan Lite if you will.

His warp spasms were class tho.... And Ukko was an evil little bugger and great comic relief, that and rogue trooper were probably my favourite comic strips ever. Shame 2000AD went downhill when it went colour - except for perhaps Sláine.

tylerdurden

but imagine if Fabry at his best had illustrated the Horned God...

Zenith was another great 2000ad strip. And a Superhero too. But not Irish. And a beautiful example of what can be achieved without the use of colour!