Friday, June 17, 2005

Cast

Let it be known throughout the land that this cast page is thoroughly incomplete. It can only reflect what is clearly demonstrated in the strip unless I say otherwise. In other words, I know more than I'm telling. Expect lots of cross-outs. After all, white out is carcinogenic.

Deity

First Appearance: Pre-Strip
Name: None, Deity
Age: Infinite
Blood Type: N/A
Powers: All
Desc.: Deity represents the forces of good in the Nerdz universe. Deity is not the biblical god although he may act that way sometimes. Deity is a being who is all-powerful but amidst other beings with an infinite supply of power even an infinite amount is not enough. Deity is responsible for setting all the balls in motion including the creation of Satan as a fleshed out being and various lower-level demon henchmen for Satan.

Evil Personified

First Appearance: The Seventh Day
Name: "Satan"
Age: Infinite minus a wee bit
Blood Type: N/A
Powers: Wish granting, Shape shifting, Telepathy, Organization, Pyrokinesis, Abililty to be unaffected by environment.
Desc.: Just as Deity is not the bibilcal god, Satan is not the bilblical Satan. His motivations are small and unambitious. Just as postitive and negative electricity is present in the universe, so are good and evil. Rather than let evil be a free-floating scourge, Deity created Satan the embodiment of evil. Satan ultimately became lonely when it turned out most of his demon henchmen were idiots. After the failure of his family-style Bar & Grill sometime before sentient life, Satan decided to grant wishes in exchange for human souls. He could use these souls to perpetrate evil and as his evil spread, the nowrm would continue to drop allowing him to became "one of the guys." For some reason Deity has not attempted to affect these planns in thousands of years.

Protagonist

First Appearance: "Psycho Sid" goes Wild
Name: None, Protagonist, Unnamed Protagonist, Vick McMahan, Groo the Wanderer
Age: 15-40?
Blood Type: Unknown
Powers: Unknown. Shows small bouts of anger.
Desc.: All that's known about the protagonist is that he watches lots of television. It doesn't seem to have dulled his intelligence any... miraculously. Although it doesn't seem that way, the future IceBreaker promotional art (Aug. 1st) proves that the Protagonist can get out of his leather recliner. He doesn't like leather recliners. Too bad.


He's watches an awful lot of television, but doesn't seem to enjoy it much. At one point in time, he was the head booker of a backyard wrestling federation. At another he needed a haircut. Yet again, it seems that he has some sort of job. Oh, what a twisted web I've weaved!

The Villain

First Appearance: Never trust those pricing guys.
Name: Unknown.
Age: 30-50?
Blood Type: Unknown
Powers: Smooth talker, Shape-shifter?, electrical discharge from the horns
Desc.: The villain seems to have some master plan that relates to television. He also wears lots of green. At the end of his first run, he started speaking in an archaic manner.

Little Old Lady Who Doesn't Reside in Pasadena

First Appearance: Never trust those pricing guys.
Name: Agnes De LaRutho
Age: Really old... 70+
Blood Type: Unknown
Powers: Blue hair... Well, bluish-grey
Desc.: She's just a batty old lady. She did show up to see Erik get his spine crushed though. Interesting...?

Once and Future Sidekick

First Appearance: The Death of "Lucky" Erik
Name: Unlucky Erik nee Lucky Erik, the Masked Eric
Age: 15-40?
Blood Type: Unknown
Powers: Ability to calmly withstand the impact of a falling anvil. It still hurts. Also holiday related falling object mishap seems to BEFALL him. Get it?
Desc.: Used to live in an urban area. Was extremely talented and lucky in all endeavors until he pulled a string to change his luck. Now searching for a way to free himself from this curse.
He signed up as one of the first wrestlers in the Unnamed Protagonist's wrestling federation. He also appears to have a similar job.

Superb Lackey\Salesman

First Appearance: Santa gets one too.
Name: Satan's Little Helper
Age: Unknown but Undoubtedly Large
Blood Type: Unknown
Powers: Removable horns and facial hair. Ability to control chair? Wish-granting ability may go through Satan.
Desc.: His job is to be the door-to-door representative of Satan. Give that Satan's success is inevitably assured he doesn't need to visit every schmoe. Although, SLH is a great bargainer he also has a soft spot for the humans as they ultimately descend to his rank.
He has some sort of relationship with the home base that allows him to get products.

4-Eyed Fire-Enveloped By-stander

First Appearance: Shrinky-dink Shaq
Name: Unknwon
Age: Unknown
Blood Type: Unknown
Powers: That weird force-field thing. The ability to show up in the bottom panel?
Desc.: He has a beard and glasses. He also watches (a?) Lakers game(s?)
In addition one (or two) of him are responsible for firing a dog from Sirius at Erik.

The Stupid Hippie

First Appearance: I thought I....
Name: Unknown.
Age: 20-50?
Blood Type: Unknown
Powers: Cowardice... Hey, it gets me out of lots of potential problems.
Desc.: This is a brown-haired man wearing a leather jacket and a headband. He is trying to honor Native Americans, but is too ignorant of their practices to accomplish anything. He is also a washed-up one-liner. Look out for his treacherous Poison Sting (-15HP!) OK... That last part's made up.

The Hillbilly

First Appearance: Dragon Ball Z is an action cartoon!?
Name: Chuck, Chuck the Trucker
Age: 25-45?
Blood Type: Unknown
Powers: Ability to wear mohawk without being in the 80's or a Native American that follows tribal tradition on hairstyle, Ability to watch Dragon Ball Z without exploding or self-disemboweling.
Desc.: He wears a plaid shirt. He also has a terrible fixation for dried fruit. He's one of the few "fat" characters in the strip. Not much is known about him other than the fact that he's obviously frightening for the plaid, the DBZ, AND the dried fruit.

The Rap Druid

First Appearance: The New Prune
Name: Unknown
Age: 50-150?
Blood Type: Unknown
Powers: Loss of several fingers, some sort of rap-based talent which is more of an un-talent, fear-inducing decrepity.
Desc.: An old bearded man short teeth and fingers remains dressed in a brown hooded cloak. He used to be a popular musician but now writes rap ".music.". He has very few friends as he is always in the dark working and loves visitors.

The Humanist

First Appearance: Let the lice eat cake!
Name: Unknown
Age: 15-30?
Blood Type: Unknown
Powers: Haircutting and small-talking linked to narcopathy.
Desc.: Not much is known about this barber or why she is a barber other than that she is a good barber with the exception of her inability to simply cut someone's hair without having a thirty-minute oddly one-sided discussion on the weather.

The General

First Appearance: Tax Hike
Name: Marshal Hakkingkoph
Age: 40-60?
Blood Type: Unknown
Powers: Gruff redtape cutting, paper signing
Desc.: The Marshal is in charge of some division somewhere and is partly captive of his job while also holding others captive with his administrative powers. Darn. That should have gone up there.

The Scientist

First Appearance: Timely's rolling over in its grave.
Name: Unknown
Age: 20-40?
Blood Type: Unknown
Powers: Acronym creation, general smartiness like a Spree
Desc.: He seems to enjoy the company of his co-workers and science but unlike Dexter it looks like he doesn't enjoy the job or the military presence.

The Cute Puppy-Wuppy

First Appearance: Crazy Things
Name: Woofles
Age: How should I know? I'm going to have to friggin' multiply by seven.
Blood Type: Unknown
Powers: Contrary to popular belief Woofles cannot withstand space flight himself. The burlap sack is thousands of times safer than the average American space capsule.
Desc.: He's pug-ugly because he's a pug. I lost the concept art. What can I say? Also, he hates Pokémon. He's like an adult person but with four legs!

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