List of Warrior Nun Areala characters
God, in this fictitious series, is the Supreme Being, the Almighty Creator of Heaven and Earth, the Omnipotent, Omniscient, Omnipresent, the All-Perfect and All-Loving Father and Ruler of all Creation.
In the beginning, one of His creations, Lucifer rejected God's wisdom and, thinking that he could be a superior leader than his omniscient Creator, sought to take the throne of Heaven.
After showing exceptional academic and athletic abilities, she was chosen for the Silver Cross Program and was raised to be a Warrior Nun at upper New York State's Saint Thomas Academy.
Though the storyline was cancelled before it could be completed, the script for the unreleased third issue, (available at barrylyga.com) states that they were killed by Magic Priest Father Doloroso for having uncovered his criminal acts.
She left for two reasons: to protest the preferential treatment of the Magic Priests who, aside from being better funded, receive full training in the supernatural powers that both they and the Warrior Nuns have.
Gruff and hard-edged - she wears sunglasses and leather jackets, swears, smokes, rides a motorcycle, and has—according to some artists--tattoos, among them the words "Ju-Ju" to honor her surrogate mother.
In fact, when Julius Salvius planned to free the Devil from his dungeon in the lowest pits of Hell, Lillith's leader Orcus sent her to Earth—or the Prime Material Plane as demons call it—to keep this from happening.
[20] After she was sent to acquire the soul of her own father (and mother) who had been murdered due to Loki's machinations, she renounced Odin ultimately saying that she would "not stay and serve a god of death!
With sword in hand and wearing chainmail beneath her habit, she saved many lives and fought many monsters, such as a golem created by Helga the Valkyrie and one of the surviving Vikings who tried to kill her, Frost Giants, the possibly the goddess Hel.
(Though not specifically mentioned, it can be assumed that if the person is not a worthy avatar for her patron, Sister Areala will not send her back to Earth but allow her to remain in Heaven for having tried her best regardless.)
Outside of his appearances in Areala, Tomorrow Man has appeared in his own Antarctic Press comic books such as Last Rites and is also the father of Tomorrow Girl, a young superheroine from Ninja High School Samantha Eliot was originally a human secretary working for "Mr. Kailanx," a demon mad scientist, he worked in the vein of Dr. Mengele engaging in human (and demon) experimentation under the aegeis of Deltacorp' subsidiary Deltronix.
She grew up in Japan at Hokkaidō's Ise Grand Shrine alongside her sister where both were likely raised in Shinto before both converted to Catholicism early on ultimately becoming Warrior Nuns, much to their grandfather's dismay.
Like her sister, Sasuki is a skilled martial artist and athlete but her style incorporates ninjitsu—for example, her veil comes with mask to hide most of her face and she wears the Taijitu or Ying Yang symbol.
She was ultimately killed; her father, still possessing some connection to her despite having been separated from her since her birth, escaped from the psychiatric hospital in which he had been interned for decades and died in a failed attempt to save his daughter.
She won with the aid of the ghosts of Templar Knights who, due to their ignominious dissolution and excommunication at the hands of King Philip IV of France and Pope Clement V, had been languishing in Purgatory for hundreds of years.
Grim and taciturn, he grew grimmer (and got scars and cybernetic eye) when he returned after being thought dead when, in the "Masada Incident" of 1989, he disappeared fighting a "type 7 demon in the vortex."
The Silver Cross program has survived into modern times with the current crop of future Magic Priests and Warrior Nuns cared for by Sister Madeline.
While the real John Paul I has been called "an intellectual lightweight" he is portrayed in the comic book as a strong, decisive man dedicated to rooting out a conspiracy of Freemasons within the Vatican.
He would be referenced periodically by various people as "the Pope" and documents displaying his personal coat of arms—see here—do show that Sister Shannon's early adventures indeed happened during his pontificate.
Prior to Christ's sacrifice and resurrection and the subsequent spreading of the Good News, Satan had been free to deal with the gentiles with how God's favor was on just one Chosen People.
The Church soon became a bulwark against Satan's schemes spreading this faith and providing defense against physical assault in the figure of the Areala—whom God Himself had named and sanctioned—and her Warrior Nuns and the Magic Priests.
His first appearance was as a naked man named Az Rabah wandering the deserts of Libya wherein he amerged from the sea and spoke in quasi-Koranic verse saying he was sent by one who need only say "Be, and it is".
Beelzebub, the "prince of demons,"[58] makes a few appearances, chiefly in a "flashforward" at least two centuries into the future as the victorious emperor of a "hell planet" having crushed all human opposition.
[61] Over the centuries, Warrior Nuns Areala and the Nebelhexas have done battle as cowgirls in the Wild West, swordsmen in the Three Musketeer's France, as a Christian knight and a quasi-Muslim jihadist in the Crusades, and presumably many others.
She turned the lone survivor into an evil wizard who transferred his soul into a golem with the sole task of killing Arealas and it went about doing it sometimes successfully, sometimes not for over a thousand years until it was permanently destroyed by Sister Shannon.
While primarily hailing from the fallen angels who defied the Lord, Foster is seen to be friendly towards the monsters and evil spirits of other belief systems and hopes for the unity of all demons.
A sadist, his Hell laboratory is analogous to Imperial Japan's Unit 731 or the Nazi labs with the exception that the damned cannot be put out of their misery and suffer indefinitely.
(Holy Man's last appearance in fact ended with a sinister hidden camera at the Saint Thomas Church recording Sister Shannon's actions.
[66] Unfortunately for Lyga, the audience for the book liked the more tongue-in-cheek approach of other Areala authors and he left;[66] thus, despite occasional glimpses like him being used as a holographic training program,[67] Holy Man has never been seen again.
Though Lyga never managed to address that it can be assumed that in the larger context of the Areala universe, it is due to the "God-gene," a genetic mutation that allows humans to tap into supernatural powers, perhaps with or without the individual invoking his or her god.
