One of many of Wildstorms comic characters, Majestic, formerly known as Mr. Majestic is most known for his affiliation with the Wildcats created by Jim Lee.

Wildcats or WildC.A.T.s is the name of multiple incarnations of a superhero team created by the American comic book artist Jim Lee. The team first appeared in 1992 in the first issue of their eponymous comic book WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams, published by Image Comics. It was Image founding partner Lee's first work published by the newly-launched company, and his first creator owned project after achieving fame and fortune as a penciler of X-Men and Punisher comics published by Marvel Comics. The Wildcats were the starting point for Lee's menagerie of interconnected superhero creations which became the foundation of the Wildstorm Universe. The Wildcats comics, launched at the apex of a speculator-fuelled comics sales boom, was wildly popular at its inception, with wholesale sales to comic book stores above one million copies for early issues and the fan press whipping comics buyers into a frenzy of anticipation. An animated TV cartoon adaptation of the comic made its Saturday morning debut on CBS in 1994. As the comics market cooled off, the title's popularity waned somewhat, and it was cancelled and relaunched several times as various new approaches to the concept were introduced, although it never went away for very long. In 1998, ownership of the Wildcats concepts and characters were sold to DC Comics, a subsidiary of Time Warner, as part of DC's acquisition of Lee's company Wildstorm Productions, previously his imprint within Image. In addition to Lee, the Wildcats comics have also featured work by such prominent comics creators as Jae Lee, Travis Charest, Chris Claremont, James Robinson, Alan Moore, Joe Casey, Sean Phillips, Dustin Nguyen, and Grant Morrison.

In the first series the Kherubim, a group of immortal aliens stranded on Earth for centuries, organize a "Covert Action Team" to fight the Daemonites, a second alien race with whom the Kherubim have long been at war. After 50 issues, the first series ended and a new incarnation was launched, under the simplified title Wildcats, focusing on the former members of the now-disbanded team and emphasizing a grittier tone during its 28-issue run.

Lord Majestros was stranded on Earth along with his fellow Kherubim thousands of years ago as a result of a run in with Daemonites in Earth-space. At the time of the crash to Earth, Majestic was a great and powerful warlord and commander of all Kherubim forces on the ship with him. Once on Earth, he devoted his life not only to the battle against the Daemonites, but to the fight against evil in all its forms. Majestros has fought on the side of good for so long that his exploits have been the basis of many myths and legends. He was seen defending Christians from lions at the Roman Colosseum when the WildC.A.T.s went back in time and he also recalls a time when he fought in WW2 in one issue. Though he’s been a hero for thousands of years, he only became a (costumed) superhero in the 40’s, and he is best known in the Wildstorm universe for his adventures in the 40’s, 50’s and 60’s.


Team One


Team OneAs Mr. Majestic, he was a member of I.O.'s super-secret Team 1 in the early 60’s but he left the public eye after the team’s first catastrophic mission. A Daemonite named Helspont made a move against humanity. He tried to start a nuclear war between the most powerful nations on Earth in order to get humans to destroy themselves so the planet would be empty for the Daemonites. Lord Emp (going by the name Saul Baxter at the time) persuaded the head of I.O. to make a super powered team to combat the growing Daemonite force on US soil. As a part of Team 1, Majestic fought alongside Zealot, John Colt (the mind of Spartan), Think Tank (Henry Bendix), Slay and Isaiah King. As soon as the team was formed, they were sent into battle against Helspont, who had already seized control of a US missile base so he could get access to a nuke. Since Helspont wasn't acting alone, he was more dangerous than they had expected. Along with some Daemonites he had working for him, Helspont had also allied with a man that was known as Slaughterhouse Smith. Smith was a super powered human that could shoot lasers from his eyes and hands as well as fly. He ran a large gang that pretty much owned New York. Helspont thought he would be good to have working with him so he recruited him and his men (one of which would go on to become Pike, a member of Helspont's second Cabal) to help him. As Helspont got ready to launch the missile, Team 1 arrived and a fight ensued. Team 1 was vastly outnumbered and things quickly got out of hand. Various Team 1 members paired up with named and unnamed villains on Helspont's side, but Helspont himself was locked in battle with Mr. Majestic. Helspont was winning and he launched the missile while he fought Majestic. Things went awry and Majestic had to kill John Colt and couldn't stop the missile from being launched. Fortunately, one member of the team (Regiment) jumped on the missile and destroyed it as it flew, possibly dying in the process. After the disaster that was Team 1, Majestros spent 30 years keeping a low profile somewhere above the Arctic Circle, away from the problems of the world.


WildC.A.T.S


Behold Majestic!Majestic’s return to Earth and its struggles came when Zealot and the WildC.A.T.s went to battle against an old enemy, Tapestry. Savant called him in as backup for Zealot, who was planning on facing Tapestry by herself. If she lost, she would have turned evil and gained the power of a god, and Savant knew that Majestic was the only one who could stop her if that happened. Zealot won and since he wasn’t needed, Majestic left. During “Wildstorm Rising” Majestic met Union and after the usual crossover mix-up they worked together along with all the other Wildstorm heroes in a fight against the Daemonites over a space ship. The good guys won the fight and the WildC.A.T.s took the ship to Khera, but as they left there was a flash of light and everyone thought they had died. In response, Savant got together with Majestic and started building a new team. They recruited Tao, Condition Red and Ladytron. Majestic lead the team in battle but Savant determined who they would go after. Unfortunately, she was being manipulated by Tao, who was maneuvering the new WildC.A.T.s into starting a Gang War.

The original WildC.A.T.s returned right as the crime war was taking off, but they couldn’t stop to help their replacements. Grifter took the team (not including Voodoo and Emp who had left) to Gamorra to help Deathblow and Gen 13. Majestic followed them when he saw the face of the man behind the problems in Gamorra. It was the face of his friend John Colt, a Kherubim he’d been forced to kill during their short time as members of Team 1. His Kherubim body had survived and grown evil so Majestic had to kill him again, this time blasting him to ash. The team returned and now both WildC.A.T.s groups were fighting in the crime war.


Majestic dances on Tao’s grave.When everyone found out that Tao was behind it all and went after him, most of the team was defeated by his intellect, mind control and other skills. He fought Ladytron and pulled out the part of her that kept her nuclear power system in check so Majestic had to cut her in half and take her core to space where it blew up. He survived the nuclear explosion and came back just as Tao was about to take out the rest of the team. Majestic was the only one that was able to resist his mind control and mind games. He killed Tao, ended the crime war and saved the WildC.A.T.s. (It gets revealed at the end of the first volume that Tao had “convinced” the shape shifting Mister White to stand in for him and die in his place.)

After the crime war the other WildC.A.T.s told the new team that the Daemonite war was over and while the group was figuring out what they should do, they were attacked by a Kherubim-hunter named Crusade. He was an enhanced human who was stronger and smarter than he appeared. He was able to go head-to-head with both groups of WildC.A.T.s, Majestic and Union. Savant beat him by messing with his head like Tao used to, and while he was out cold Zealot tried to kill him but Majestic stopped her. After this little episode, Savant quit the team and Majestic left with her in order to protect her.

Savant Garde
Majestic’s life continued in Savant Garde, a seven part story in which Savant searched for an ancient Mayan artifact. She didn’t really want Majestic’s company but he knew she needed his protection. On the hunt for the artifact (a mask) they ran into others looking for it, among them, thugs working for Tapestry. Savant used the artifact to escape but ended up in an alternate dimension. Tapestry was the ruler of this dimension and the Katrina Cupertino (pre-Cybernary) there had led a rebellion. Her side had sent the artifact Savant had found to gather champions to fight for them, so Majestic became the leader they needed. He led the rebellion against Tapestry and they won. Eventually Majestic, Savant and a couple others were able to get back to the real world. After the events of Savant Garde (and the WildC.A.T.s’ time traveling adventure) Majestic was asked by Grifter to be a reserve member of the team but was a little insulted by being considered a second-rate superhero.


First Solo Series


Mr. Majestic #1 Majestic’s first solo series (2003) tells the stories of what Majestic really did in the years following Team 1 incident. It turns out that Majestic didn’t isolate himself for 30 years; instead, he was working with the government and dealing with unnatural phenomena. He had a partner by the name of Desmond who was an extremely intelligent young cyborg boy. The idea behind the series (according to creators Joe Casey & Brian Holguin) was to have a superhero that - since he was capable of doing just about anything – faces enormous threats that were only limited by imaginations of the writers. It also gave Majestic a chance to use other abilities (his astounding genius for one) and not just his super strength. The first issue takes place after Team One and well before Majestic's involvement with the WildC.A.T.S, but the rest of the series happens closer to that time. The first few issues are before, but starting with the one with Ladytron, the rest seem to be post-WildC.A.T.S.


God MajesticHis first issue had him facing off against the Cosmic Negator, an immeasurable force of pure nihilistic energy, a threat he found out couldn’t really be defeated. Instead of trying to fight it, he decided to rearrange the stars, moons and planets in the solar system so it wouldn’t be what the entity was looking for. He had to invent gloves that would prevent planets from crumbling under their own mass as he moved them, as well as various machines to keep the Earth at its current environmental settings as he moved it across space. Majestic worked slowly so the alteration of the solar system wouldn't be noticed by those on Earth. The process took many years, but he succeeded in his efforts and the solar-system-devouring being was tricked into leaving Earth (and the rest of the system) alone. Other adventures included stopping a reality warping child from destroying the world, going on a date with Ladytron, containing an intergalactic prison break and dealing with the Ultravixens, a group of super powered, outer space seductresses. One issue actually revealed something about Majestic’s past. Apparently, he had a son and had brought him along with him on the Kherubim ship that crashed on Earth so long ago. In issue #4 Majestic gathered some pre-dimensional star-stuff from Otherspace to power the body of the robot he was to place Majestrate’s mind into. His son only lived for one issue though; the sleeping star that powered him was the only thing that could stop pre-dimensional black hole that appeared on Earth so he sacrificed himself. In the last few issues Majestic is invited to become of the Universals, (a group of god beings) where he would be given cosmic power so he could be on their level. He accepted, becoming a cosmic god and protector. After defeating an evil version of himself that was created by the process, he leaves Earth and the first solo series ends.

Mr. Majestic in the DC Universe

Majestic & SupermanDuring a strange time-storm that was creating chaos in Metropolis, Superman went missing and Mr. Majestic was left in his place, sent there by a violent quantum event in which a long lost Daemonite scout pulled him through the Bleed (the gateway to different dimensions. He immediately jumped into the empty role of protector of Metropolis, but was simultaneously looking for a way to get back home. The finest minds in the DC Universe tried to help him but when Majestic saw their plan; he knew it would only make things worse. Eradicator was mad that Majestic didn’t like the plan that he, Steel and other scientists had come up with, so he trapped Majestic in the phantom zone. A furious Mr. Majestic escaped the Phantom Zone while Eradicator and Superboy were attempting the plan, which consisted of dropping a bomb in the time-storm. He stopped them and saved Metropolis. Superman came back and had a talk with Majestic that revealed other things he had done after saving the city. Apparently he had patched the hole in the ozone layer, stopped California from floating away, thrown 131 metahuman criminals into stasis without trials, moved the entire French air force to Finland for attacking him and took the Green Lantern’s ring. After their talk, Majestic went to space and continued working on a machine he had started building to get him back home. He was attacked by Eradicator and they fought until Majestic started reprogramming him. Eradicator tried to self-destruct, resulting in an explosion that destroyed Majestic’s machine, flung him back to Earth and gave him amnesia. Majestic lived under the name Jim McArest and rented a room from a school librarian, staying with her and her son until his memory returned. The Daemonite scout responsible for Majestic being stuck on DC’s Earth attacked and Majestic fought it with the help of the reprogrammed Eradicator. Afterwards, Eradicator and Superman helped Majestic get back to his world.

Second Solo Series
The second series (2005) was more connected to the rest of the Wildstorm Universe in that it dealt with characters other than just Majestic. It started after the short event where Majestic was trapped in DC’s Metropolis and replaced Superman. Majestic returned to his Earth with some help from Eradicator and Superman. His home wasn’t how he left it though; there were no living things other than plants and he had to find out why by himself since Superman and Eradicator had to get back to their own world. He found out that a space ship had taken every living thing off the planet so he went after it. After a run in with the Plenary he got back the people and animals from Earth and programmed the ship to return the trillions of aliens it had taken from other planets.

When he returned to the planet he discovered that Daemonites, his old enemies, had taken over and were going to use technology from Kherubim Planet-Shaper to reform the Earth to suit them. To stop them, he got Void’s power from Spartan and used it to travel back in time to before the Daemonites appeared. When he was in the past he got Zealot and Desmond to help him get to the Planet-Shaper where they were attacked by Helspont and Biomass. Desmond was bonded with the Planet-Shaper and Helspont made him recount the history of the Kherubim. Majestic was devastated when he discovered that the Kherubim species grew by taking control of planets as their own dominant form of life is evolving and turning them into slaves for more Kherubim and that Daemonites are just a slave species that fought back, not evil creatures.


The Death of Mr. MajesticMajestic was still in a depression when Javen, an old friend from Khera, returned to make him ruler of all Kherubim. He refused, knowing was all a plot for Javen and the Shaper’s Guild to take control, but when Majestic turned him down, Javen paralyzed him so his genes could be extracted. The plan all along had been to trick Majestic and take his genes, since they were pure as a result of his celibacy for the thousands of years he was stranded on Earth. The genes would be used to start a new Kherubim race on Earth. When his genes were to be harvested however, it turned out that Majestic’s many trips through time and across dimensions had begun to kill him and he wouldn’t live more than a couple months. The next best genes were in Savant, Majestic’s daughter from before they landed on Earth, and so Javen went after her. Spartan helped Majestic escape and they both teamed up with Helspont to stop Javen and save Majestic’s daughter. Spartan and Helspont dealt with Javen’s forces while Majestic fought Javen himself. In his weakened state Javen almost won, but Savant, who had been captured along with a dying Zealot, attacked him from behind and saved Majestic. Majestic made Zealot reveal that Savant was their child before he went to deal with Imperator, another enemy from Khera. He got Desmond to use the Planet-Shaper’s holograms to make Imperator think he had blown up the world and killed himself, leaving him in a coma.

After everyone had left the Planet-Shaper and Majestic went to shut it down he realized that Helspont had jumped into Desmond’s body and controlled the Planet-Shaper which he still planned to use for himself. Majestic could only stop him by changing the codes every time Helspont tried to use the machine. This went on for two and a half months with Majestic getting closer to death every minute. Majestic was about to die when Helspont suddenly shut down. The Planet-Shaper could only remain active while there were living creatures on the planet, but Majestic had calculated that the ship that stole all life from Earth back in the future when he first came back from the DC Universe would be coming right then, so Helspont shut down and Majestic had won. He left the Planet-Shaper and went to a park where he sat on a bench and disintegrated, the toll on his body from traveling time and space finally killing him. Just as he died another Majestic arrived, having just escaped the DC Universe to find his planet empty and void of all life save plants.

I added Fixit Sculpt around the face and airbrushed several layers of paint. I was reduced to hand painting a thick coat of white on the cape and the airbrushing it even and spraying a thick coat of clear overtop to help prevent the paint from chipping. THE LAST PICTURE WAS AN UNFINISHED SHOT. Compared to the others you can see the touch ups.