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@tsukiakari1203 Travis Morgan is The Warlord, from Mike Grell's eponymous sword-and-sorcer fantasy series.
Ringo Chen was Garth Ennis and John McRea's Chow Yun-Fat pastiche from Hitman.
And the Barbary Ghost is an old west crimefighter/avenger from Palmiotti, Gray and Moritat's All-Star Western.
Welcome to the Most Important Day in Comics History [citation needed]!
On this date, September 30th, 1975, issue #5 of RICHARD DRAGON: KUNG FU FIGHTER introduced the world to the Mistress of the Martial Arts! Welcome to #LadyShivaDay!
@tsukiakari1203 Of course, the real kicker of this is that in her classic incarnation, Shiva is aggressively opposite to the League's goal of achieving peace through the control/destruction of mankind. But again, more people have read Hush than Question.
@tsukiakari1203 It started in Batman: Hush and later in the last arc of Cass' Batgirl run, but it didn't really gain a lot of traction until it happened in cartoons like Beware the Batman and games like Arkham Origins. From there it leaked back into comics in the New52.
It sucks ass.
@DailyHawkwoman Need some of that purple goodness back in our lives.
And without that drive to do better, would Shiva even exist right now? Would she have turned into another forgotten 70s character, some gaudy old relic tucked away in the pages of Who's Who, fodder for online listicles and "Did you know?" trivia questions?
While 70s Shiva is an absolute blast to read, there's a maturity to 80s Shiva that reflects O'Neil's own, a desire not just to dust off old unused characters but to make them better, to reach new heights and explore new territories with them and to achieve their full potential.
O'Neil was always fond of having characters return in the weirdest places. The Question saw the return of the Musto crime family and Richard Dragon, but the first was Lady Shiva. And when she did show up, she wasn't the same Shiva from Kung Fu Fighter. Not by a longshot.