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in regards to the request for the posting on cerebus main characters:

Red Sophia - parody of red sonja of the marvel line... met cerebus early
   on and loved him because "he was the only man to beat her in fair battle"
   but cerebus wasn't interested... she pops up from time to time.  
   weishaupt drugged cerebus in an issue in the 60's and married them to
   get cerebus to be prime minister of iest and undo all the republic silly
ness that he had started in his previous term.  currently separated from
cerebus

Elrod the albino- parody of Elric of Melbourne by Micheal Moorhead... general
   nuisance, pops up to annoy cerebus at various points in his life... last seen
   in cerebus #52 i think it was...

Weishaupt - now dead, but during his day, he concocted several schemes to
   take over everything... last was the confederation of which he was
   a president... real wheeler dealer, but his plans tend to contain tragic
   flaws (like cerebus being made pope)

Astoria - female counterpart to Weishaupt... key figure in getting cerebus
   elected prime minister of iest in the issures 30-50, but then for political
   reasons relegated to being his secretary... she has been seen skulking
   around the political scene since Cerebus resigned his prime ministership
   in issue 51... she is a cirinist, a feminist religion that thinks women
   should take over...

the Countess - mysterious lady who gave cerebus shelter after he was ousted
   from the prime ministership in iest.  appeared to be developing a strong
   relationship with cerebus until the bug appeared in yet another in
carnation , the wolveroach.  it turns out that she is enormously taken with
the bug.  Cerebus leaves her house, and she is not heard from since...

Lord Julius - caustic obnoxious groucho look alike who is the pm of the 
    largest and richest city state in the region. everyone owes large sums
    to him... he rules through confusion, primarily never letting anything
    constructive be accomplished.  always is behind the scenes in any given
    venture... opposed cerebus' election in 1414, and is now apparently
    in line for presidency of the confederation.

Duke Leonardi - counterpart of Chico marx... rather stupid ruler of new sepra
    always hangs around julius and plays straight man for his jokes.

Jaka - a nightclub dancer in beduin.. once cerebus was drugged to fall in love
    with her, and she returned the sentiment.  the drug evenutally wore off,
    leaving cerebus with no memory of her.  at some point cerebus remembers
    what they had, but never goes back for her.  she on the other hand
    pops up now and again, still loving cerebus, though recent developments
    indicate that cerebus waited too long and she got married to someone
    else, and is now pregnant

the bug - largest source of comic relief in the series, the bug has a rotating
    series of personalities, and he parodies whichever comic character that
    sim feels like lambasting... he started as batman, then became captain
    cockroach after captain america, then moon roach, then sgt preston of the
    yukon, then priest roach, then wolveroach.  hasn't been seen in quite
    some time , and we're still wondering where he is.

Prof. Charles X Claremont - last seen as a ghost controlling the wolve
    roach.  he started as a magician who cerebus stumbled across while
    he was making the armageddon beast  "the woman thing".  cerebus traveled
    with him a while until they found the "sumpthing".  the two beasts
   lunged at each other and started to mate, crushing claremont and making
   him a ghost.  the two creatures, and the owner of the sumpthing now
   form the "triumviate of tarim" as seen in 82...

the regency elf - a beautiful, innocent little pixie who inhabits the
   room that cerebus lived in while he was prime minister.  loves
   cerebus and prob
   provided him with most of his emotional support during his reign

thrunk - now calling himself tarim.  used to be necross the hahahahahah
   mad, and evil magician.  he was killed by a bunch of peasants and
   his consciousness transferred to his large stone figure, thrunk.
   "Cerebus isn't quite sure. 12 ton paperweights arent usually given
    as proof of sanity".  anyway... at last sighting, he was stuck
   in his tower, because the stairs wouldn't support his stone weight.

henrot the magician - father of red sophia, magician and occasional
   supporter of cerebus... on a couple of occasions he has given cerebus
   help,. but mostly likes to laugh at him.

bran macmuffin - ex-leader, ex-living member of the pigts a sect
   of barbarians living underground who worship a later figure of cerebus.
   bran took cerebus as the second coming, but the people weren't quite sure
   so while bran took a position of cerebus' adviser, the rest of the pigts
   have been conspicuously abscent. with the showdown with thrunk, bran
   became disillusioned and impaled himself.

 there are many other minor characters, like poobah, silverspoon,
and the three girl claremont used to make the woman thing, but they
are so negli
gable that descriptions of them are irrelevant...
-hope some of this helps...

-mark
mwm@dartvax