Purgatori is a
fictional comic book
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character, created by writer
Brian Pulido
Brian Pulido (born November 30, 1961) is a creator, writer and producer of comic books and films.
Early life
Growing up in Long Branch, New Jersey, Pulido first developed an interest in the horror genre after the release of ''Night of the Livin ...
and artist
Steven Hughes
Steven Jay Hughes (February 12, 1954 – February 18, 2000) was an American artist for the Chaos! Comics company. Hughes provided the art for many of the company's comics, including ''Lady Death'', ''Evil Ernie'', and the short-lived superhero s ...
. A
crimson
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It originally meant the color of the kermes dye produced from a scale insect, ''Kermes vermilio'', but the name is now sometimes also used as a generic term for slightly bluish-red colo ...
-skinned, winged
vampire
A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the Vitalism, vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead, undead creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mi ...
goddess
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, she first appeared in ''Evil Ernie: Revenge'' #1 (October 1994), published by
Chaos! Comics
Chaos! Comics was a comic book publisher that operated from 1993 until 2002, mostly focusing on horror comics. Their titles included ''Lady Death'', ''Purgatori'', ''Evil Ernie'', ''Chastity'', ''Jade'', '' Bad Kitty'', and ''Lady Demon''. Chaos! ...
. She has since appeared in books published by
Devil's Due Publishing
Devil's Due Publishing (often abbreviated as DDP) is an independent comic book publisher in the United States. Based in Chicago, Illinois, DDP is best known for its wide selection of genres, including licensed and original creator-owned proper ...
(2005–2006). The
intellectual property
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(IP) for future works was bought by
Dynamite Entertainment
Dynamite Entertainment is an American comic book publisher founded by Nick Barrucci in 2004 at Mount Laurel, New Jersey. It is best known as the owners of '' The Boys'' franchise across several IP medias. Dynamite primarily publishes adaptation ...
in May 2010. Although Dynamite Entertainment President Nick Barrucci stated they will publish new series of both Purgatori and
Lady Demon
Lady Demon is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Chaos! Comics. Her first appearance was in ''Lady Death: Between Heaven and Hell'' #3. Lady Demon is Lady Death's much darker and evolved form.
Fictional character biogra ...
, nothing came into their project regarding her appearance until recently. This October will be a new Purgatori comic series. This will not be the only new Chaos series.
History
In Egypt as Sakkara
Purgatori was born in
Ancient Egypt around 1390 BC, and raised in the city of
Alexandria
Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria ...
. Her parentage is unknown, save that she has the blood of the Fallen Angels in her veins. Her human name is Sakkara, and she was part of the team of slaves that built the burial tomb for Queen Ostraca. Sakkara's job was to grind corn all day under the desert sun, and she was constantly whipped by the brutish male guards. Amongst the slaves was a foreigner, an old man of
Celt
The Celts (, see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples () are. "CELTS location: Greater Europe time period: Second millennium B.C.E. to present ancestry: Celtic a collection of Indo-European peoples. "The Celts, an ancient ...
ic origin who told Sakkara he knew a way to escape slavery and achieve immortality.
One day Sakkara was grinding corn when the Queen came to inspect the progress of her tomb. Sakkara was in the way of her chariot and narrowly escaped being run over. Ostraca wanted to punish Sakkara for not moving quick enough, but as soon as she saw her she was mesmerized by her beauty and her blue eyes. The Queen was well known for her
love of women
''Love of Women'' is a 1924 American silent drama film directed by Whitman Bennett and starring Helene Chadwick, Montagu Love, and Maurice Costello.
Synopsis
An unscrupulous millionaire schemes to break up a marriage with the aid of a vamp.
C ...
, and Sakkara became the newest acquisition to her
harem
Harem (Persian: حرمسرا ''haramsarā'', ar, حَرِيمٌ ''ḥarīm'', "a sacred inviolable place; harem; female members of the family") refers to domestic spaces that are reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family. A hare ...
. The two were married, and for a year Sakkara lived a life of luxury.
In Egypt, the situation with the citizens of Alexandria had grown steadily worse. The Queen realized that if they rebelled, she would never get her tomb finished. The general of her army, Ramses, made her an offer: if she married him and made him pharaoh, he would keep the population in check and ensure the completion of the tomb. He had one condition: Ramses must be her only lover, and all of her harem must die. Sakkara returned to the palace one night to find all the other girls dead. She fled into the night, in search of the old Celtic slave and his secret of immortality.
She found the old man as he was being attacked by guards. She killed them and he lived long enough to direct her across the desert to a cave set into a mountain peak. There she met Rath, an ancient Celtic
vampire
A vampire is a mythical creature that subsists by feeding on the Vitalism, vital essence (generally in the form of blood) of the living. In European folklore, vampires are undead, undead creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mi ...
. She wanted to gain immortality for her revenge; he wanted a weapon to help him turn man from the civilized path to the wild ways that Rath advocated. Rath drank Sakkara's blood and fed her some of his own, turning her into a vampire. As Rath's blood mixed with her own, it combined with the strange blood of the Fallen Angels within her, transforming her into a creature with blood red skin, horns, glowing white eyes, and bat-like wings.
Sakkara returned to the Queen's temple on her wedding night and attacked the married couple and their guests. Amongst them were the
samurai
were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in 1876. They were the well-paid retainers of the '' daimyo'' (the great feudal landholders). They h ...
Jade and her father, and Kabala and her husband from Africa. Sakkara bit Jade and Kabala, turning them into vampires. She incited the citizens of Alexandria to rebellion, and they demolished the city. She then bit Ramses and Ostraca and entombed them in the Queen's burial sarcophagus. They were rescued five days later, but by then they had turned vampiric - starved of blood, they were wizened and insane, and would stay that way forever.
In Necropolis as Purgatori
Sakkara left the city and set about a new task: having learned that the blood of gods, and especially a god in torment, holds extreme power, she began work to attract the attention of Lucifer. He eventually came to her, entranced by her dark and savage nature, and took her to Hell. He intended to marry her, but she had other ideas: as soon as he joined her in his bedchamber, she bit him and drank from him. Infuriated, but impressed by her spirit, he cast her through the Nexus of All Things, exiling her to the city of Necropolis. Lucifer also gave her a new name: Purgatori.
Purgatori stayed in Necropolis for millennia, feasting on its occupants and acquiring a pet
chimera
Chimera, Chimaera, or Chimaira (Greek for " she-goat") originally referred to:
* Chimera (mythology), a fire-breathing monster of Ancient Lycia said to combine parts from multiple animals
* Mount Chimaera, a fire-spewing region of Lycia or Cilici ...
. She was unable to pass through the Nexus, but one day she saw the soul of Marion,
Lady Death
Lady Death is a fictional goddess appearing in American comic books published by Coffin Comics. Created by Brian Pulido, Lady Death first appeared in ''Evil Ernie'' #1 in December 1991.
Lady Death then reappeared in the ''Evil Ernie: The Resur ...
's mother, passing on its way to Heaven. She intercepted it with the help of her chimera, and kept her in Necropolis for over 400 years, studying her and the Nexus to see if there was a way she could return to Hell. Her hand was forced by Lady Death: with the disappearance of Lucifer, the Fallen Angels were moving on Hell in a bid to rule it. They attacked Necropolis first and Purgatori was forced to flee. Risking all, she used Marion's soul to travel through the Nexus and ended up in Hell. This was the home of Lady Death now, and Purgatori knew all about her from studying Marion. She knew her blood would be rich in power, and she wanted both her blood and the soul of Lucifer, now trapped inside Lady Death.
In Hell: Against Lady Death and Lucifer
Camping by the
River Styx
In Greek mythology, Styx (; grc, Στύξ ) is a river that forms the boundary between Earth (Gaia) and the Underworld. The rivers Acheron, Cocytus, Lethe, Phlegethon, and Styx all converge at the centre of the underworld on a great marsh, whi ...
with her new
jackal
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pets, she located Cremator, lost after the battle for Hell, and entranced him, turning him against Lady Death and setting him to forge a magical sword for her to reclaim Lucifer's soul. Casting a spell to sever the psychic link between Lady Death and
Evil Ernie
Evil Ernie, an undead psychotic killer, is a fictional supervillain created by writer Brian Pulido and artist Steven Hughes in 1991 and originally published by Eternity Comics. The imprint shifted hands in 1993 to Chaos! Comics and then Devi ...
and dealing harshly with Mary Young who had turned up in Hell to kill Lady Death, she set about tormenting Lady Death in order to make her blood all the richer and sweeter.
After getting Cremator to attack Lady Death, Purgatori attacked her herself. In a long battle she lost her jackals to the Nameless Wolves but beat Lady Death. When she impaled her with Cremator's sword, her magic backfired, hurting her and allowing Lady Death to escape. Lady Death plunged Purgatori into the Styx, impelling her to tell her the truth, and Purgatori revealed that Lucifer's soul had never actually been inside Lady Death. He reappeared at that moment to confirm the point: he had been playing her for a fool as one of his games. Annoyed at having his hand shown, he took Purgatori to
Dis and tortured her while taking Lady Death and turning her into a creature of evil —
Lady Demon
Lady Demon is a fictional character that appears in comic books published by Chaos! Comics. Her first appearance was in ''Lady Death: Between Heaven and Hell'' #3. Lady Demon is Lady Death's much darker and evolved form.
Fictional character biogra ...
.
The next day, she was forced to fight Lady Demon in Hell's Arena. Still very weak after being tortured, Purgatori lost the fight, but still refused to submit to Lady Demon and reveal to her where Marion's soul was. Lady Demon drained her of her powers and cast her through the Nexus, sending her to the one place she loathed more than any other: Earth. With her power gone, the Separation spell began to erode.
On Earth: Against Jade, Kabala, and Rath
Purgatori arrived in San Francisco on 13 October 1995, and immediately became a victim to the ravenous thirst that is a vampire's own form of slavery. She secured a victim at a local lesbian S&M bar and was attacked by a tormented creature who called himself The Faithless One. She killed him in short order, at the very instant of the Pandora Effect.
Her arrival back on Earth had been noticed: Jade and Kabala
contacted her psychically, telling her of their intention to kill her, and Rath too began to track her. Realising she was too weak to fight them, Purgatori stowed away on a freighter and made her way back to Alexandria, hoping to confront her enemies on home turf. She was ambushed by Jade, who mindprobed her to find out what both she and Kabala wanted to know - why they had been made into vampires. Purgatori managed to force an image of Lucifer onto her, a vision that horrified Jade and knocked her off-guard. Purgatori drank her blood but lost it almost immediately when Rath chose that very moment to attack, draining her of her newly acquired power and taking her to be interrogated.
Rath offered to save her from her enemies if she would accept him as her master. She refused, and he left her to be captured by Jade and Kabala. Taken to Africa, they probed her mind and were enraged to find that they had been created as a mistake, in a moment of passion. They tortured Purgatori, trying to make her beg for her life, but she denied them too. Rath arrived and told her he had just been testing her limits. When he was attacked by the samurai, Purgatori was drenched with his blood and absorbed tremendous amounts of power. She killed Kabala and Jade escaped. Rath offered to teach her again but she spat in his face, unwilling to side with someone who had used her in such a way.
Prelude to Vampire Wars
Returning to the United States, she began to come across traces of
Dracula
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. She set off to find him, and finally tracked him down in his castle. They made love, Dracula swearing his loyalty to her.
Purgatori returned to the USA again, and set about trapping Evil Ernie, the lover of her enemy Lady Death. In the middle of a battle, she appeared through the blood of Mary Young, with whom she still had a link, and knocked out and kidnapped
Chastity
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, taking her to
Los Angeles
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where she had already recruited The Faithless One — now calling himself The Saviour — to do her work. While The Saviour was setting up Ernie, Purgatori scanned Chastity's mind to find out about her history, and took her to a lesbian bar for purposes of pleasure. Purgatori sensed the Saviour had failed in his plan, and she took Chastity with her, attacking Ernie herself. She got inside his mind and discovered his ability to shape reality, but before she could take action, his Cyber Dead attacked the house and destroyed it, forcing her to flee. Her probing would have disastrous consequences for Ernie. She was in fact, the direct cause of his death.
She travelled to the ruins of New York, seeking the blood of the Fallen Angels. Here she encountered Metatron (named after the
angel
In various theistic religious traditions an angel is a supernatural spiritual being who serves God.
Abrahamic religions often depict angels as benevolent celestial intermediaries between God (or Heaven) and humanity. Other roles include ...
), and met Blattidae (named after the
cockroach
Cockroaches (or roaches) are a paraphyletic group of insects belonging to Blattodea, containing all members of the group except termites. About 30 cockroach species out of 4,600 are associated with human habitats. Some species are well-known as ...
), who told her of an ancient Prophecy that detailed her life history and told of her return to Goddesshood. In her battle with Metatron, she began to have doubts about whether she would ever be more than just a common vampire, but after beating him she realised that part of the problem was that she had been wasting her time with lesser creatures like him and should have been aiming higher. She left New York to Blattidae, most of her army having been crucified by Metatron, and began plotting her Ascension.
Travelling to Necropolis, she found it in ruins and was attacked by
Rubicante, Rath's brother. Knowing of her abilities he decided to test her, and teleported her to the nightmarish world of Trandaemonium. Beating off an attack by the freaks that inhabited the world, she scented Lady Death here, and tracked her down. Lady Death pretended she didn't want to fight, then used her sword to fight for her — Nightmare swallowed Purgatori. Purgatori was well versed in magic and Blood Alchemy and made the sword submit to her will, allowing her to escape. She was ready to fight Lady Death again, but realised that if she didn't leave Transdaemoniium immediately, she never would. Taking the blood energy from Nightmare she left, returning to Earth where a war between the vampire clans was under way.
Vampire Clan Wars
Having set herself up as the CEO of Isis International, she scoured the planet for artifacts of power. Her first task was to take a team of mercenaries to New York to recover her Prophecy hieroglyphs. The team was attacked by the remains of Metatron's army, but she dealt with them easily. Back in Cairo, her work at Isis International was interrupted by illusions that turned out to be the work of Satrina. An ex-lover of Purgatori's, she returned to seduce her again, and showed her visions of struggles around the world. The message was to teach Purgatori that strength was not enough - she had to believe in herself, as did any army she raised; that they must be willing to fight for her even if they knew the battle was lost. Satrina left her, secretly hiring a vampire hunter called Karmilla to assassinate Purgatori.
Purgatori watched the vampire war escalate, deciding that Dracula was becoming too powerful for her liking. She was attacked by Karmilla, who had been given various powers by Satrina, but defeated her, trapping her in her dungeon to torture. Karmilla managed to escape but Purgatori deflected her teleportation spell and left her to die in the cold tundra of North America while she traveled to the Invisible Village to find out whether or not it was Rath who had given Karmilla her charmed weapons.
Karmilla followed her, freshly armed with the Spine of Eden, and attacked Rath instead, tricked by Purgatori into thinking he had kidnapped her children. In the ensuing struggle, Purgatori learned that it was Satrina who had betrayed her and was trapped and almost killed by the Spine of Eden, but escaped by turning herself into blood, a sign of her rapidly growing powers. She splattered Karmilla over most of the landscape.
Her next stop was
Shanghai
Shanghai (; , , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ) is one of the four direct-administered municipalities of the People's Republic of China (PRC). The city is located on the southern estuary of the Yangtze River, with the Huangpu River flow ...
, to take down Jade's empire and recover the Chalice of Regeneration. Intercepted in the Sun nightclub, she dispatched her attackers and met up with Dracula who was secretly after the same thing. Together, they assaulted Jade at her fortress home, Purgatori almost killing Jade by shoving her onto a stake. Dracula left her to fight and traveled to get the Chalice himself, enraging Purgatori at having been used. She followed him and was almost killed by Blood Sect vampires who were armed with a new type of bullet lethal to vampires. She bested them and Dracula, recovering the Chalice for her own use. Dracula fled, happy that she had inadvertently helped him - by taking apart Jade's empire, she had strengthened Dracula's position immeasurably in the war.
Ordeals with Dracula
By now, she had become fed up with Dracula. The final insult came from his name being raised in conversation with a "bimbo" at the Usher club. She teleported to his castle only to find everyone dead. Lured by the only survivor, she was trapped in a furnace and almost incinerated, but managed to escape by taking the blood of the bait and teleporting out.
Weak and without blood to feed on, she found herself in the
catacombs
Catacombs are man-made subterranean passageways for religious practice. Any chamber used as a burial place is a catacomb, although the word is most commonly associated with the Roman Empire.
Etymology and history
The first place to be referred ...
under
Vatican City
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* german: Vatikanstadt, cf. '—' (in Austria: ')
* pl, Miasto Watykańskie, cf. '—'
* pt, Cidade do Vati ...
, attacked by
revenant
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s. She beat them but Dracula moved in, trying to dominate her will. He offered her the use of his army if she would join him but she refused. They fought, and ended up on the roof of the Vatican, both ensnared by the
Octarine
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chains she had found in the Vatican treasure rooms. Dawn was coming up fast, and she was rescued at the last moment by Pope Stephen, who realised that Purgatori was the stronger vampire and stood the best chance of winning the war. She tore out Dracula's fangs, escaping just before the rising sun fried Dracula forever.
Satrina and her legacy
Purgatori took Satrina back as her lover, finding her treacherous nature arousing, and together they put down a potential uprising by Pope Stephen, who intended to take Purgatori's power. Still unsatisfied, she felt she was no nearer to her goal of goddesshood that she was when she started.
She left for Cairo, to study the Prophecy hieroglyphs at Isis International, and while she was gone Satrina began an invocation ceremony to summon a demon and steal Purgatori's power, killing her to rise as the goddess herself. The spell was corrupted and she raised Gorge instead, who had been watching Purgatori's progress from his home in the Unknown.
Purgatori returned from Cairo, having discovered the betrayal, and killed Satrina, ripping out her heart. Gorge revealed that she was his blood-mother, and he would help her Ascension. Feeling she had to leave the weaknesses of her humanity behind she partially destroyed the Isis International buildings. Gorge showed her that the power of all she had killed was at her disposal. She also saw Rath's creation at the hands of Satrina and suspected that they were still in league. Tracking him to the Serengeti, she killed Rubicante by ripping out his spine, but Rath revealed that he was actually here to help her.
Final battles
Gorge transported them to the Unknown where she raised an army of dead warriors. Purgatori and her army set off for
Asgard
In Nordic mythology, Asgard (Old Norse: ''Ásgarðr'' ; "enclosure of the Æsir") is a location associated with the gods. It appears in a multitude of Old Norse sagas and mythological texts. It is described as the fortified home of the Æsir ...
on a "training exercise", unaware that
Odin
Odin (; from non, Óðinn, ) is a widely revered Æsir, god in Germanic paganism. Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about him, associates him with wisdom, healing, death, royalty, the gallows, knowledge, war, battle, v ...
was one of her warriors. Her army ravaged Asgard, killing some and converting the rest to her warriors. She defeated Odin and stole his powers. Vandala and Vulnavia fled the carnage, trying to take Frigga to safety, but Purgatori followed them to Transdemoniium, killing Frigga. Vulnavia cut off Purgatori's hand but she regenerated immediately and bit Vulnavia, turning her into a faithful convert. She fought with Matthias, who had been banished here by Lady Death, and took possession of Nightmare. Vandala managed to escape with the help of Brock and Grimmir, leaving to find Lady Death. Purgatori burned Transdemoniium and left for Earth, determined to find and kill Lady Death.
She assaulted Lady Death's fortress in Oblivion, but after a long battle she was stabbed through the heart with the Scythe, degenerating into a pool of blood. Armageddon resurrected her with his power and took her as a servant, ordering her to kill Lady Death. She attacked Lady Death's forces and then sneaked off to attack Armageddon, her plan all along to steal his blood and power. The raw energy and chaotic power in his blood poisoned her, and she collapsed unconscious. Nightmare was taken from her and used to attack Armageddon. He died, but in a final act of defiance unleashed an Uncreation Wave to destroy everything in the cosmos. The effect of the Wave was altered by Mitchell Wardlow, who managed to use it to create eight different parallel universes. Purgatori recovered just in time to be swallowed by the Uncreation Wave.
Powers
Sakaara of Alexandria is a powerful and dangerous demonic undead. A vampire with cambion ancestry, when Rath sired her she underwent an oddly monstrous transformation: taking on a red succubi like form reflecting her fallen heritage. Purgatori is an all powerful Demigoddess of incredible ability and experience, this added to her hybrid nature makes her several time stronger than either hellborn or vampire. She boasts incredible amounts of physical conditioning easily able to rend flesh, toss around cars and bend steel. She's also fast enough to dodge gun fire, catch arrows and is resilient enough to resist even the most extreme of physical or mystical assaults be they by man, monster or even that of godlike entities. She can change her physical appearance at will taking on a human guise or morphing into the shape/form of another person is no great feat for her. Her wings also double as weapons since they're tough external appendages of her own body, she can use them as shielding or razor blades and can fly in incredible speeds to complement her strength becoming that much like a wreaking ball while in motion.
One of her greatest strengths is her biophysical Immortality, possessing a self-healing capacity rivaling that of Evil Ernie backed by his partner Smiley. Recovering from minor injuries ranging from destroyed bodily anatomy to total conditional discorporiation, having been able to regenerate herself from a pool of her own blood. This ability to resuscitate is virtually endless provided she has a steady intake of fresh blood to sustain her. The blood goddess is highly versed in various fields of magic, her mastery of occultism is such that she has vast control over the natural and supernatural forces of the cosmos. Her primary source of mystic power stems from her mastery of the Blood Alchemy, her primary source of power and prestige. Through it Purgatori is able to manipulate blood in all shapes and forms for in her own words "Blood is the life, life travels through blood". It strengthens her natural vampiric attributes using the flowing plasma in herself and others to incredibly violent degrees, utilizing it as a catalyst for a great many physical as well as mystical feats. The blood is also used to teleport across vast distances for one along with the unique twist in using it to enthrall, strengthen and empower others by enwrapping them in mystic armor with it, instantly creating loyal vassals who'll do her bidding.
She can even use this to animate lifeless object by infusing her blood into them, animating an Egyptian Sphinx in the new universe created after Armageddon to attack an adversary. Likewise she also grows stronger with the intake or reclamation of hers or the blood of others making herself that much stronger than she already is. Purgatori's Blood Alchemy also enables her to emulate and become blood in order to ovoid physical assaults, interfere with another's teleportation, create tangible constructs like armor and weapons even portals to other dimensions, etc. The greatest testament to her power would be the assimilation of reality effectively becoming one with the universe and beyond. A couple of abilities stemming from outside her mystic craft include pyrokinesis, nature manipulation, pain inducement, teleportation and portal creation. Sakaara is also an adept telepath with a mastery over the mind be it living or deceased allowing her to manipulate dead bodies as well as live minds. She can project the most convincing illusions possible on top of being able to read minds and view memories, not only that but she herself can shield her mind and the minds of others from mental intrusion and is adept at empathy; the art of reading and sensing emotions. Like all vampires in the Chaos! Universe the blood queen can sense the presence of other vampires and supernatural beings, the only acception to this rule is Chastity Marks who is invisible to the paranormal detection capabilities of other undead.
The goddesse's most dangerous attribute lies in her ability to gain in power by drinking the blood of others, learning from the undead offspring of a former sire she raised; Purgatori found she has the sum total memories and experiences of every individual being she's drained swirling around inside of her. Through this she realized she not only gained their knowledge but all of their power as well; she found use in this particularly when killing and draining other deities of their life's blood and divine power. To date Purgatori has drained and gained the essence druids learned in the mystic arts, Dracula the vampire king, the Odinforce from its titular named chaos lord who was king of magic and the Norse Gods, a monotheistic entity representing the creator and more.
Purgatori comic series
* ''Purgatori: The Vampire's Myth'' (1996)
* ''Purgatori: The Dracula Gambit'' (1997)
* ''Purgatori'' (monthly series, 1998–1999)
* ''Purgatori: Goddess Rising'' (1999)
* ''Lady Death vs. Purgatori'' (one shot, 1999)
* ''Purgatori vs. Vampirella'' (2000)
* ''Purgatori: Empire'' (2000)
* ''Purgatori Versus Chastity'' (2000)
* ''Untold Tales of Purgatori'' (2000)
* ''Purgatori vs. Lady Death'' (2001)
* ''Purgatori: Love Bites'' (2001)
* ''Purgatori: The Hunted'' (2001)
* ''Purgatori: Darkest Hour'' (2001)
* ''Purgatori: Mischief Night'' (2001)
* ''Purgatori: Heartbreaker'' (2002)
* ''Purgatori: Re-Imagined'' (2002)
* ''Purgatori: God Hunter'' (2002)
* ''Purgatori: God Killer'' (2002 - final series from Chaos Comics)
* ''Purgatori: Ravenous'' (2002 - 999 copies of an Ashcan preview was made available for this issue, but the full issue was never published)
*
Reading order
*Evil Ernie: Revenge #1-4
*Lady Death: Between Heaven and Hell #1-4
*Chaos Quarterly #1
*Purgatori: The Vampire's Myth #-1, #1-3
*Evil Ernie: Baddest Battles (That Never Happened)
*Purgatori: The Dracula Gambit
*The Omen #1 & 5
*Evil Ernie Monthly (Vampire's Vengeance) #1-3
*The Omen: Vexed
*Purgatori Monthly #1-7
*Lady Death #10
*Chastity Rocked #1-2, & 4
*Smiley: The Psychotic Button #1
*Purgatori: Goddess Rising #1-4
*Armageddon #1-4
*Lady Death vs. Purgatori #1
*Judgement War #2
*Dark Millennium #1
*Purgatori vs. Vampirella
*Purgatori: Empire #1-3
*Purgatori vs. Chastity #1
*Untold Tales of Purgatori #1
*Purgatori 1/2
*Lady Death: Tribulation #1-4
*Purgatori vs. Lady Death #1
*Purgatori: Love Bites #1
*Lady Death: River of Fear #1
*Lady Death: Alive #1
*Purgatori: The Hunted #1-2
*Purgatori: Darkest Hour #1-2
*Purgatori: Mischief Night #1
*Purgatori: Heartbreaker #1
*Purgatori: God Hunter #1-2
*Purgatori: God Killer #1-2
*Purgatori Re-imagined #1
*Dark Alliance #1-3 (4-5 unpublished)
*Purgatori Ravenous Ashcan
Character statistics
* Purgatori stands 5 ' 10 " (178
cm) to her head — not including her horns — and weighs in at 120
pounds (9
stone
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8 pounds, or 54
kilogram
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s).
*
Lady Death
Lady Death is a fictional goddess appearing in American comic books published by Coffin Comics. Created by Brian Pulido, Lady Death first appeared in ''Evil Ernie'' #1 in December 1991.
Lady Death then reappeared in the ''Evil Ernie: The Resur ...
's original costume was in fact the wedding dress made for Purgatori, given to her by Lucifer himself. Lady Death received it from Cremator after she renounced her humanity and entered Hell.
* Her favourite blood type is that of a god in turmoil.
* The endings for ''Purgatori vs Chastity'' were determined by the covers as ALPHA and OMEGA. In Alpha, Purgatori wins. In Omega, Chastity wins.
* Despite her and Chaos! Comics' other best-selling character,
Lady Death
Lady Death is a fictional goddess appearing in American comic books published by Coffin Comics. Created by Brian Pulido, Lady Death first appeared in ''Evil Ernie'' #1 in December 1991.
Lady Death then reappeared in the ''Evil Ernie: The Resur ...
's, storylines being heavily intertwined, she was not featured at all in the
Lady Death film. This was due mainly because Chaos filed bankruptcy & Lady Death's right were sold to Crossgen Comics while Purgatori was sold with the other Chaos Comics characters.
* Purgatori was featured in the artwork for the album ''
Days of Purgatory
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'' by the band
Iced Earth
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.
See also
*
Chaos! Comics
Chaos! Comics was a comic book publisher that operated from 1993 until 2002, mostly focusing on horror comics. Their titles included ''Lady Death'', ''Purgatori'', ''Evil Ernie'', ''Chastity'', ''Jade'', '' Bad Kitty'', and ''Lady Demon''. Chaos! ...
*
Chastity
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*Jade
*
Lady Death
Lady Death is a fictional goddess appearing in American comic books published by Coffin Comics. Created by Brian Pulido, Lady Death first appeared in ''Evil Ernie'' #1 in December 1991.
Lady Death then reappeared in the ''Evil Ernie: The Resur ...
(her former nemesis)
References
External links
Purgatori cover art*
*{http://www.toonopedia.com/purgatri.htm Purgatori in Toonopedia}
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