- Phenix (comic character)
"Phenix" is a French
comic book character created byLuciano Bernasconi for French publisherEditions Lug in1978 .Phenix is the secret identity of Chicago socialite Patricia Hope. As the masked, leather-clad, bike-riding Phenix, she fights drug dealers, terrorists and other kinds of urban menaces.
When she was in college, Patricia Hope, the daughter of a billionaire couple, was raped by an assailant still unknown today. She slipped into a deep coma that lasted nine months, and emerged like a phenix from its ashes miraculously transformed, with a body and mind optimized to superhuman levels. After inheriting her parents' fortune and charitable foundation, Patricia became a leading Chicago socialite by day, and the black-clad, bike-riding crime fighter known as Phenix by night. Phenix occasionally helps Father Brown's local church; after breaking up with young Dr. Bob Carter, Patricia now shares her life with Dr. Douglas Sullivan, head of the E.R. at Saint Justin's Hospital. Phenix also teams up on a semi-regular basis with
Sibilla .Eight episodes of Phenix were originally published in the digest-size
magazine "Special-Rodeo " Nos. 74-78. The series was then discontinued.The character returned in
2002 in "Fantask " No. 5, before migrating to "Yuma" vol. 2, No. 1, in a series of new adventures, written byJean-Marc Lofficier and drawn by various artists, includingFrédéric Grivaud ,Mariano De La Torre andJuan Roncagliolo Berger . The series stopped when "Yuma" was cancelled with No. 10 in2003 .Phenix and Sibilla teamed up with
Witchblade in "Blood Oath", a one-shot published byTop Cow Productions in August,2004 .Phenix is now part of
Hexagon Comics which has published a collection of her adventures translated into English.External links
* [http://www.coolfrenchcomics.com/phenix.htm Phenix entry at Cool French Comics]
* [http://www.hexagoncomics.com/phenix.htm Phenix entry on Hexagon Comics site]
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