History[]
Ichabod Azrael was a gunslinger in the Wild West until the hazards of his profession inevitably got him killed. Determined to return to life to be with his beloved Zoe, he was less than pleased to discover that she had never, in fact, existed, but was a fiction created by Charon, ferryman of the Underworld, in order to give him a chance to use Ichabod to escape from his job. Ichabod killed Charon, potentially endangering all of creation, then set off on a quest to kill God for good measure. Eventually killed again, Ichabod was eventually (seemingly) reunited with his wife and their baby daughter in what appeared to be the "real" world, or at least a fairly convincing copy of it.
Three hundred years later, Ichabod resurfaced in the Cursed Earth and entered Mega-City One with a dire warning of a coming Apocalypse for Judge Dredd. He was eventually killed (again) by Dredd, after the Judge was possessed by Death, one of the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. However, Dredd's ally Judge Giant, Jnr. (who Ichabod had previously dismissed as being of no role or consequence in the affair) was able to use Ichabod's pistol to kill the creature.
Powers and abilities[]
Abilities
Shootin', ridin', shootin' some more.
Strength level
Human male who gets regular exercise shootin' things.
Weaknesses
Very short temper
Paraphernalia[]
Transportation
Charon's ferry; talking horse.
Weapons
Guns.
Notes[]
Ichabod was the protagonist of the 2000 AD series The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael (and the Dead Left in his Wake).
Trivia[]
'Azrael' literally means 'One whom God helps', but it is a name traditionally ascribed to the Angel of Death (although thre is no scriptural basis for this assignation). 'Ichabod' means 'no glory' or 'the glory has departed' (see 1 Samuel 4). 'Zoe' comes from the Greek word meaning 'life'.
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- Appearances of Ichabod Azrael
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