Brendon d'Arkness-a Guide to the series-part III
Filed Under (Comics ) by Lex Luthor on Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Posted at : 5:01 AM
The secondary characters:
The world of "Brendon" is full of enemies and difficulty, a world dominated by desperate struggle for survival. And in this world, Brendon is very much alone, despite his constant search of friends and love.
He meets friends and allies on the path of his fate, but almost all die around him of an untimely death, preys of a world thirsty for blood, leaving Brendon increasingly alone and putting more and more at test his hope and his faith in justice.
Many are the enemies of Brendon, and this is natural, given the fate of revenge chosen for our wandering knight. And he accepts his fate, inevitably but with responsability and value.
Anja:
Anja is a warrior-assassin, fierce, beautiful and full of sadness and despair, once one of the best warrior in the "Army of Nympha", an army composed exclusively of ruthless and cruel women. "The Race of Nympha", the number 59 of the comics, is dedicated to this army, where also Shawnee and Greta have fighted, both friends and allies of Anja and of Brendon.
Anja and Greta during the training in the Fortress of the Army of Nympha
The story of Anja is told in the second number, "Tears of Darkness",where Brendon meets her.
Anja is the only woman that Brendon loves deeply, and indeed one is the reflection of the other: both have experienced a childhood and a life full of pain, and both live for the revenge. But while in Brendon there is also hope, Anja lives just with pain and death. Their love is not wanted by destiny, and in fact Anja dies prematurely, leaving Brendon in the continuously painful memory of her, a sorrow that accompanies him constantly.
In the number 39, "Anja returns", the two lovers meet again, but only in a parallel world, where Brendon, and not Anja, is dead. But their encounter is temporary and illusory, but in all cases it is, also if only for a moment.
Anja in dejection
Skarr :
Skarr is the murderer of mother and of the master of Brendon. Character disturbing, powerful and cruel, Skarr is an adept of the "Black Moon", blinded by his faith in the sect and by his thirst for blood and destruction.
His weapon is a sickle black crescent-shaped, the main symbol of his belonging to the sect.
The fate of Skarr meets the destiny of Brendon, marking him profoundly, when the adept was searching a lost ritual knife of the "Black Moon", a kind of key able to open one of the "Time capsules" assiduously sought by the sect.
The "Black Moon":
The "Black Moon" is a mysterious religious sect, the most influential sect of the "New England". Many other sects exist in the world of "Brendon", as the "Sect of Death", but the "Black Moon" is the most powerful and dangerous, and also the oldest one: it already existed in the times prior to the "Great Darkness", and the four high priests have been largely responsible for the catastrophe on Earth; a destruction supported and hoped by the "Black Moon", with the end to be able to destroy the world and for to start a new beginning in the human history.
The adepts of the "Black Moon" are armed with blacks sickles, ritual weapons with which they celebrate their sacrifices of blood. They gather in temples of steel and glass, inside the galleries of the old subway (like some humans of the movie "Planet of the apes").
The "Black Moon" is constantly in search of the "Time capsules", a sort of underground libraries built prior to the "Great Darkness" and dispersed all over the world once civilized. In these libraries were saved and hidden all the knowledge of the past. And the "Black Moon" seeks the knowledge, that is an ineffable source of power. It is precisely due to a key that is able to open one of these old libraries, that the fate of the "Black Moon" and that of Brendon meet, tragically and in blood.
The adepts of the sect worship the "Black Snake". This serpent was born from the blood of the four high priests at the time of the ritual celebrated by the sect to prevent the deviation of the huge asteroid, called by them the "Messenger of the Darkness."
The "Black Snake" is hidden in one of the temples of the sect, asleep. In honour of that serpent the adepts make constant sacrifices of blood in attempt to awake him, bringing thus a new "Great Darkness" on the whole Earth.
The "Black Serpent"
Zeder:
Zeder is a sorcerer who lives among the ruins of "Old London". Among his magical powers Zeder has the ability to make the souls of the living able to travel in time and space.
He appears for the first time in the n. 11, called "Back to the Past", a tale regarding the inevitability of fate: Brendon encounters the sorcerer for to go back in time, initially with the sole purpose of understanding his fate, but then instead trying in vain to change his tragic past and to save Boris and his mother from death.
The mother of Brendon in another dimension as an adept of the "Black Moon", tries to kill his own son
First friend and ally, Zeder after becomes the nemesis of Brendon, the anti-hero of the saga: after being killed, Zeder reborn together with the snake of the "Black Moon". The "Black Serpent" now lives in him and inside him.
In the n. 63, "The Serpent and the Sorcerer", Zeder is then supported by Ysp, who kills the former high priest of the "Black Moon", taking so the supreme power together with Zeder. In addition to use his new immense magical powers, the sorcerer begins also to gather all the followers of the "Black Moon", with the end to arrange a war in the "New England" and cause a second "Great Darkness", a new disaster, a return of murkiness, already prophesied in the prophetical texts of the "Black Moon".
Zeder with Brendon, Margaret, Boris, Skarr, and other characters of the comics
Brendon and Zeder
Conclusion:
"Brendon" shows us, in all its various characters, the human response to despair and to the pain of the loss, that is the pain of an entire era; and everyone reacts according to his own nature: some abandon themselves to sorrow; some instead fight the violence with other violence and madness; others still do ignore the reality, pretending to live in a normal world; the sect of the "Black Moon" seeks power and magic for to create a world of darkness and obscurity and for to rule the whole Earth; and then there is Brendon, who lives for revenge and hope, wandering constantly in search of his own destiny.
Complete list of the issues of "Brendon" till now:
1 Born February 31 (drawings M. Rotundo)
2 Tear of Darkness (drawings G. Franzella)
3 The Black Moon (drawing M. Rotundo)
4 The wings of the night (drawings C. Roi)
5 Animah (drawings by E. Maroto)
6 The Ballad of the assassins (drawings M. Rotundo)
7 The man of the stars (drawings G. Franzella)
8 The shadows of Pinewood (drawings E. Maroto)
9 The chariot of fear (drawings C. Roi)
10 The reflection of evil (drawings G. Ricciardi)
11 Return to the past (drawings M. Rotundo)
12 The blue fairies murder (drawings E. Maroto)
13 Anja (drawings G. Franzella)
14 The Orcs (drawings G. Ricciardi)
15 The legend of Lizard (drawings E. Maroto)
16 Tales of death (drawings M. Rotundo)
17 The night of the witches (drawings E. Simeoni)
18 The breath of the afterlife (drawings L. Simeoni)
19 The mystery of Jacknife (drawings L. Arduini)
20 Dreams of blood (drawings G. Franzella)
21 Line of Fire (drawings G. Ricciardi)
22 The Breath of Darkness (drawings E. Maroto)
23 The Death and the Maiden (drawings M. Rotundo)
24 Heart of Crow (drawings L. Arduini)
25 The woman who came from the impossible (drawings E. Maroto)
26 The return of the Black Moon (drawings G. Ricciardi)
27 Before the dark (drawings Franzella)
28 Love and Darkness (drawings L. Airaghi)
29 The road on the edge of the world (drawings G. Viglioglia)
30 Beyond the Universe (drawings L. Airaghi and G. Ricciardi
31 The Lord of Illusions (drawings L. Arduini)
32 Horror Night at the drive-in (drawings C. Spadavecchia)
33 The shadow of the jester (drawings G. Viglioglia)
34 The man who never sleeps (drawings G. Franzelli)
35 Gifts from Hell(drawings L. Airaghi)
36 The stories of the not-never (drawings L. Arduini)
37 A kingdom without light (drawings M. Rotundo)
38 Midnight at Stonehenge (drawings G. Acciarino)
39 Anja returns (drawings G. Ricciardi)
40 The man of the desert (drawings C. Spadavecchia)
41 The revenge of the magician (drawings L. Arduini)
42 The sign of the crime (drawings E. Simeoni)
43 The king of the autumnal dolls (drawings G.Franzella)
44 Lostville (drawings G. Acciarino)
45 The tears of the innocents (drawings C. Spadavecchia)
46 The door of nightmare (drawings L. Airaghi)
47 Magic show (drawings G. Viglioglia)
48 The Lost Truth (drawings L. Arduini)
49 The secret of Wynkle Tynkle (drawings M. Rotundo)
50 The double life of Marianne (drawings G. Acciarino)
51 Bogey Man (drawings by E. Maroto)
52 Desert of ice (drawings C. Spadavecchia)
53 Where the unicorns die (drawings G. Viglioglia)
54 The day of violence (drawings L. Arduini)
55 Year Zero(drawings M. Rotundo)
56 In Search of Oz (drawings by E. Maroto)
57 The exterminators (drawings G. Ricciardi)
58 Fate of blood (drawings G. Acciarino)
59 The race of Nympha (drawings L. Arduini)
60 Beatrix (drawings E. Pugliese)
61 The angel of the Apocalypse (drawings G. Viglioglia)
62 The dark side (drawings by E. Maroto)
63 The Serpent and the sorcerer (drawings G. Acciarino )
64 The island of no return (drawings A. Vitti)
65 The Shining (drawings E. Simeoni)
66 Timerider (drawings A. Fattori)
67 From the ashes of the centuries (drawings G. Acciarino)
68 Techno-Darkness (drawings G. Franzella)
69 Framents of madness (drawings C. Spadavecchia)
70 From dream to death (drawings L. Airaghi and S. Corbetta)
71 The girl of the river (drawings E. Maroto)
The Special numbers (Annuals):
1-"Memories of another time"
2-"The murderer of the Beyond-World"
3-"The secret of the alchemist"
4-"We are Legend"
5-"The signs of evil"
6-"Games of death"
7-"The flowers of the demon"
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