LUPEX
LUPEX
Real Name: Ty Rejutka
Identity/Class: Extradimensional (Styrakos) technology and magic user
Occupation: Hunter
Group Membership: None
Affiliations: Formerly lover of Pyra
Enemies: Death's Head (Freelance Peacekeeping Agent), Pyra, numerous unnamed prey
Known Relatives: Death's Head ("son")
Aliases: Ty Rejutka Lupex
Base of Operations: Styrakos
First Appearance: Strip#13 (August 4, 1990)
Powers/Abilities: Lupex possesses great magical powers and a variety of technological weapons, though he must consciously shift his abilities from one to the other. His magical abilities are related to pet spirits known as Vukils.
His energies regularly burn out his body and he is forced to take over another to continue his existence.
He is pathologically obsessed with hunting his prey.
History:
(Strip#19 (fb)) - Born on Styrakos, Lupex soon learned that mortal flesh and
bone could not long could contain his energies, and so he would have to take
another host body over at regular intervals. Each time he passed to another he
became more powerful, but each time the vessels emptied faster.
(Strip#19 (fb) / Strip#20 (fb) ) - Lupex took the consort Pyra, who sought to steal his secrets, communing with his Vukils when he was away, learning their ways and the roads to power. However, because she was so repulsed by Lupex, she took a lover more physically compatible with her: Klu. Lupex punished her for this betrayal by slaying and then possessing Klu.
(Strip#19 (fb)) - Seeking a metal body mighty enough to forever contain his energies, Lupex designed the cyborg that would later be known as Death's Head. However, Pyra, wishing vengeance for Klu's death, gave the cyborg programming to make him a hunter, but also a clinical, business-like approach to death. Highly independent, the cyborg would balk at the idea of being possessed, and would fight back, and kill Lupex. However, the cyborg was taken by others before it could be used.
(Strip#13) - Lupex hunted down an armed mercenary, slaying him when he wandered into a magic-only zone.
(Strip#16) - Lupex watched via an interdimensional portal as Pyra continued to track down Death's Head.
(Strip#17) - Lupex watched with interest as Pyra stopped Big Shot from killing Death's Head. When she claimed she wanted to kill himself, Lupex teleported Death's Head to Styrakos and introduced himself.
(Strip#19 (fb)) - Lupex revealed to DH his belief that Pyra mistakenly believed DH to actually be Lupex, which Pyra had pretended to believe, to throw Lupex off from realizing that she really wished DH to confront Lupex. As Lupex revealed their origins, DH tried to strike him from behind, but found that they were in a magic only zone, and Lupex smashed him out of his hive-hut and began hunting him.
(Strip#18 (fb) - BTS) - Lupex set DH free on Styrakos and began stalking him.
(Strip#18) - In a magic zone, Lupex nearly slew the rapidly weakening DH, but DH diverted his remaining power to launch his electrified mace into Lupex's shoulder, and then burrowed underground, out of site. The magic zone then faded, replaced by techno.
(Strip#19) - Lupex confronted DH anew, but DH, knowing that Lupex was more powerful than he, fled to arrange a confrontation on his own terms.
(Strip#20) - Lupex ambushed DH in a magic zone, but DH continued to flee, tracking the zones of Styrakos with his scanner, even as his power levels dwindled dangerously low. Lupex grabbed DH, preparing to transfer his energies into his form, but just then, the magic zone ended. With techno now functioning perfectly, DH leapt up and skewered Lupex with his wrist blade. Lupex screamed in agony and fell to the ground below, barely alive. DH followed him to the ground and made certain that he was zero alive.
Comments: Created by Simon Furman and Geoff Senior.
The Death's Head serial from Strip#13-20 is reprinted in Marvel Graphic Novel: Death's Head: The Body in Question, and was released in the USA just one month after the Strip series started.
Profile by Snood.
CLARIFICATIONS:
No known connection to:
A pocket dimension, it is divided into realms where only technology functions and other realms where only magic functions. Some of these realms will shift back and forth at regular intervals. The environment shifts from dark, thorny forests to sunny fields with crystal buildings to dry deserts to small towns.
--Strip#13 (19(fb)/20(fb), 13, 16, 17(fb), 18-20
Pet spirits of Lupex, which trained both he and Pyra in the roads to power.
--Strip#20 (20 (fb)
images:
Death's Head: The Body in Question p41, panel 3
p43, panel 1 (face)
p2, panel 1 (Styrakos)
p62, panel 4 (Vukils)
Strip#14 (August 18, 1990)
Strip#15 (September 1, 1990)
Strip#16 (September 15, 1990)
Strip#17 (September 29, 1990)
Strip#18 (October 13, 1990)
Strip#19 (October 27, 1990)
Strip#20 (November 10, 1990)
Last updated: 08/16/04
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