THE STATUS QUORUM
THE STATUS
QUORUM ARE FICTIONAL PROTECTORS OF THE PAPERVERSE. THEIR JOURNEYS TO OTHER
PLANETS, DIMENSIONS AND PLANES OF EXISTENCE ARE SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR
MINIMAL SCIENTIFIC FRICTION AND MAXIMUM CONCEPT-CROP YIELD.
THE TEAM AT THE BEGINNING OF the filth # 3 COMPRISES:
ALPHA SAPIENS: IS BILL TOMNEY, A
EDUCATIONALLY-SUBNORMAL CLEANER WHOSE SIMPLE BRAIN ALLOWS HIM TO PLAY HOST TO
THE TIME-TRAVELLING MICRO-CITY OF THE MORLOCKOI. THIS MINUTE, UTOPIAN SOCIETY
OF TOMORROW TRAVELS BACK IN TIME TO TAKE OVER BILL'S HEAD. BY ENHANCING HIS
ABILITIES AND USING THE NOW-SUPER-INTELLIGENT ALPHA-SAPIENS AS A MESSENGER, THE
LITTLE VISITORS FROM THE FUTURE GO ABOUT THE BUSINESS OF MAKING HUMAN SOCIETY
BETTER AND MORE EFFECTIVE. ALPHA SAPIENS PRIMARY MISSION IS TO ARRANGE CURRENT
EVENTS SO THAT THE WORLD OF TODAY WILL EVENTUALLY SHRINK AND BECOME THE PERFECT,
LOVING WORLD OF THE MAJESTIC, MINATURIZED MORLOCKOI!!!
ULTRA-HUMANITARIAN: THIS BUDDHIST
SUPERHERO IS AN AVATAR OF THE BODDHISATVA AVALOKITESHARA AND HAS VOWED TO USE
HIS 'SIDDHIS' OR SUPERPOWERS TO RID THE EARTH OF THE SO-CALLED FOUR SORROWS OF
EXISTENCE - HUNGER, SICKNESS, OLD AGE AND DEATH. SO FAR, ONLY HUNGER HAS
PARTIALLY SUCCUMBED TO THE MIGHT OF ULTRA-HUMANITARIAN BUT HIS FIGHT CONTINUES
UNDAUNTED. HIS STARE CAN SHAME A MOUNTAIN RANGE, HIS ANGER CAN TURN THE SUN TO
WATER! THANK GOD HE’S ON OUR SIDE!
DARK STRANGER: THIS SINISTER LORD OF NIGHT
AND FLIES BASED HIS WHOLE MODUS OPERANDI ON THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE
SWARMING INSECTS HE FOUND FEASTING ON THE CORPSES OF HIS PARENTS AFTER RETURNING
FROM SUMMER CAMP ONE YEAR TO FIND THEM DEAD - THEIR BODIES FOUGHT OVER BY FIVE
SEPARATE SERIAL KILLERS, FIVE UNDYING MANIACS DARK STRANGER HAS VOWED TO
DESTROY!
ZUR-VANN: ONE OF MANKIND'S OLDEST GODS,
ZUR-VANN HAS RETURNED FROM A 6,000 YEAR LONG MERCY MISSION INTO SPACE, ONLY TO
FIND HIS MIGHTY RACE LONG DESTROYED. SOLE SURVIVOR OF A TRIBE OF ANCIENT
MAN-GODS WHO ONCE TAMED THE PRIMAL EARTH, ZUR-VANN NOW FIGHTS AGAINST THE FORCES
OF CHAOS WHICH THREATEN EVERYDAY LIFE IN OMNITROPOLIS!
WOMANITE: WOMANITE IS A NEW ELEMENT: A
SOFT MINERAL SUBSTANCE, CREATED IN HIS LAB BY PROFESSOR MERVIN COYLE. A LONELY
BESPECTACLED LOSER, COYLE SOUGHT TO CREATE HIS OWN SEXY, SYNTHETIC COMPANION BUT
INSTEAD PRODUCED THIS ULTRA-MILITANT FEMINIST HEROINE. WOMANITE HAS ONLY ONE
WEAKNESS AND THAT IS ANTI-WOMANITE - A LIVING SUBSTANCE CREATED TO DESTROY HER
BY THE INSANE PROFESSOR COYLE, HER ENDURING ENEMY. IF ANTI-WOMANITE EVER TOUCHES
WOMANITE THE WORLD WILL EXPLODE AND POSSIBLY THE UNIVERSE AS WELL.
MACHINE GIRL: TESS BRADLOCK WAS ONCE A
PROMISING YOUNG GYMNAST UNTIL THE HORRIFIC CAR CRASH, WHICH LEFT HER FATHER IN A
WHEELCHAIR AND LOVELY TESS BURNED BEYOND ALL RECOGNITION AND CRIPPLED FROM THE
ANKLES UP. THE DISTRAUGHT DOCTOR BRADLOCK INVENTED AND BUILT THE WIND-UP
'MACHINE GIRL' SUIT WHICH ALLOWS TESS TO MOVE FREELY AND 'HELP PEOPLE'. ONLY DAD
CAN FIX THE SUIT WHICH RUNS FOR FIVE HOURS BEFORE NEEDING 'TINKERING'. MACHINE
GIRL’S PONYTAIL IS MADE OF LIVING FIBRE OPTIC FILAMENTS WHICH RESPOND TO TESS'
CONTROL AND CAN BE USED EITHER AS A DEADLY WEAPON OR AS A HANDY COMPUTER
INTERFACE!
THE SEVENTH MEMBER OF THE STATUS QUORUM - AND ITS FIRST CHAIRMAN - IS
SECRET ORIGINAL - NOW TRAPPED IN THE
THREE-DIMENSIONAL WORLD AS THE FIRST LIVING BEING TO TRAVEL FROM FICTION TO
REALITY. CRUSHED AND FOLDED INTO A WHEELCHAIR BY THE IMMENSE STRESSES OF HIS
PASSAGE FROM THE 2-D WORLD OF THE PAPERVERSE, SECRET ORIGINAL IS NO LONGER AN
ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE STATUS QUORUM!
UPDATED : 07/12/2003