Obscure is different to different people. To my family, Green Lantern is obscure. To a KMC newb, The Authority is obscure. To a vet of the forums, obscure begins to fall away...I can't imagine someone mentioning a comic character to me at this point that I haven't at least heard of unless they're specifically trying to stump me with the most random bio on the internet or something.
But I'll go with The Authority. Wildstorm is still indie enough to consider it a niche, unlike the mainstream Marvel and DC.
Originally posted by DigiMark007
Obscure is different to different people. To my family, Green Lantern is obscure. To a KMC newb, The Authority is obscure. To a vet of the forums, obscure begins to fall away...I can't imagine someone mentioning a comic character to me at this point that I haven't at least heard of unless they're specifically trying to stump me with the most random bio on the internet or something.But I'll go with The Authority. Wildstorm is still indie enough to consider it a niche, unlike the mainstream Marvel and DC.
yeah, i wanted to leave it open to however people want to interpret it 🙂
Mantra is an old character from Malibu Comics. She had one of the coolest powersets and backgrounds ever. An old buddy stole the #1 outta my collection. I'm still pissed to this day. 😠 Here's the only bio I could find:
Mantra (comic)
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Mantra was a comic book series written by Mike Barr and published by Malibu Comics in the mid 1990s until it was purchased by Marvel Comics, leading to the cancellation of the title after 24 issues.
Mantra was the name of the lead character, an Ultra (superhero) within Malibu's Ultraverse line of comics. An eternal warrior named Lukasz and his compatriots had been fighting the villain Boneyard for centuries: whenever an individual soldier would die, his soul would be placed in a new body, and take up the fight once more. In the 1990s, Lukasz' leader Archimage was betrayed and captured, leading to the permanent death of most of the warriors and a final reincarnation for one, Lukasz himself: to his shock, Lukasz was put into the body of a woman, Eden Blake.
In addition to being forced to deal with life as a woman, Lukasz was also faced with the particular challenges of Eden's life — in particular, her two children and her ex-husband. For the first time, Lukasz confronted the fact that for 1500 years he had been destroying families by stealing men's bodies and forcing them to walk away from their lives. He fell in love with her soul, which still existed within him.
He also discovered that Eden had vast latent powers, including a mystical armor activated by a specific invocation including the word 'mantra', leading to the media dubbing her as such.
Follwing the Black September event, the Marvel-led Malibu began publication of a second volume with a new Mantra, removing the magic from Eden/Lukasz and casting it onto a minor character from the first series named Lauren Sherwood, a young blonde woman Marvel hoped would be more enticing to readers. The series lasted only 7 issues, after a backlash from the original series' fans led to a general exodus of its readership.
Before the second volume of the series was released rumours and speculation surrounded much of the Ultraverse and how it would interact, if at all, with the Marvel Universe. A piece of promotional art was released showing the Eden Blake Mantra in a group shot with the Fantastic Four, merging the universes much like the latter Amalgam Comics did with Marvel and DC Comics a few years later. In this Four, member Ben Grimm wasn't stuck in the orange rock body of The Thing, but instead as Mantra. Though the rendition of Mantra in the art was much less feminine and more butch and muscular, though in the pages of the Avengers/Ultraforce crossover she was rendered in the usual familiar feminine manner.
FAVORITE DC OBSCURITY: Ambush bug
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambush_Bug
FAVORITE MARVEL OBSCURITY: Impossible man
http://www.marveldirectory.com/individuals/i/impossiblemanandwoman.htm