Dr. Archeville is the alias of Jonathan Howell, a Library Assistant at the NCSU Libraries.

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History

Jonathan has always been interested in comics - some of the first things he remembers reading were some old JSA comics. He tries to keep an even balance between DC and Marvel comics, and has read the occasional "sideline" title. Personal faves include Avengers, Dork Tower, Evil Ernie, Fantastic Four, Hellboy, Iron Man, JLA and JSA, Knights of the Dinner Table, MetaDocs, X-Men, and The Walking Dead. He likes both DC and Marvel roughly equally, but has had more exposure to and experience with Marvel than any other.

Jonathan's also a big fan of cartoons, especially the plethora of action-oriented (and, honestly, blatantly commercial) 'toons of the 1980s and 1990s. He's also quite fond of the CGI series Beast Wars and ReBoot.

Jonathan also likes most anything relating to zombies, and to a slightly lesser extent fantasy, horror & science fiction in general. He loves the works of H. P. Lovecraft; other fave authors include Greg Bear and Robin Cook.

Contributions to the Wikipedia

I created and/or heavily edited/modified the following articles:

Comics Related, DC

• Amazo (a supervillain)
• Black Manta (a supervillain)
• Blockbuster (a supervillain)
• Copperhead (a supervillain)
• Doctor Destiny (a supervillain)
• Doctor Polaris (a supervillain)
• Doomsday (a supervillain)
• Evil Star (a supervillain)
• Gentleman Ghost (a supervillain)
• Gorilla Grodd (a supervillain)
• KGBeast (a supervillain)
• Metallo (a supervillain)
• Neron (a supervillain)
• Nth Metal (a fictional metal)
• Rampage (a superheroine/supervillainess)
• Silver Banshee (a supervillainess)
• Venom (a super-steroid)

Comics Related, Marvel

• A.I.M. (Advanced Idea Mechanics), a branch of the Marvel Comics terrorist organization HYDRA
• Ajak (an Eternal & superhero)
• Arnim Zola (a supervillain)
• Baron Blood (a vampiric supervillain)
• Baron Strucker (a supervillain)
• Blacklash (a supervillain)
• Blue Shield (a superhero)
• The Book of the Vishanti (a magic item)
• Captain Omen (a supervillain)
• The Casket of Ancient Winters (a magic item)
• Chief Examiner (a alien)
• Controller (a supervillain)
• Cybele (an Eternal & superheroine)
• Cyborg X (a supervillain... mostly)
• Darkoth (a supervillain/antihero)
• Demons (Marvel Comics) (and the entries for several individual demons)
• Doctor Bong (a supervillain)
• Doctor Demonicus (a supervillain)
• Doctor Doom (a supervillain; I did not create the article, but contribute hevily modify it)
• Doctor Doom's devices (detailing over 100 devices used by Doctor Doom
• Doctor Sun (a supervillain)
• Dragon of the Moon (a malevolent cosmic entity)
• Dreadknight (a supervillain)
• Dreadnought (a robot used by supervillains)
• Eel (a Marvel Comics supervillain)
• Epoch (a cosmic entity)
• Equinox (a supervillain-turned-superhero)
• Eternals (and the entries of several Eternals character)
• The Evil Eye of Avalon (a item)
• The Eye of Agamotto (a magic item)
• Fafnir (a supervillain)
• Fantasticar (a flying car)
• Fear Lords (a group of demons)
• Geirrodur (a supervillain)
• Godzilla Squad
• Gremlin (a supervillain)
• Guardsman (a superhero)
• Hela (an Asgardian goddes & supervillain)
• Heliopolitans (Marvel's Egyptian gods)
• The High Evolutionary (a supervillain; I did not create the article, but did hevily modify it)
• HYDRA, the super-terrorist group.
• Ikaris (an Eternal & superhero)
• Interloper (an Eternal & superhero)
• Iron Man's armors (detailing the many armors of Iron Man)
• Karnilla (a supervillainess)
• Khoryphos (an Eternal & superhero)
• The Legacy Virus (a plague that spread through several Marvel comics titles)
• Legion of Night (an occult investigation team)
• Legion of the Unliving (a supervillain team)
• Lethal Legion (a supervillain team)
• Machinesmith (a supervillain)
• Maggia (Marvel's Mafia analogue)
• Makkari (an Eternal & superhero)
• Malekith the Accursed (a supervillain)
• The Mandarin (a supervillain)
• Mandroid (a suit of power armor)
• Manslaughter (a supervillain)
• Master (a supervillain)
• Master Pandemonium (a supervillain)
• Mauvais (a supervillain)
• Mister Sinister (a supervillain)
• MODOK (a supervillain)
• Mole Man (a supervillain)
• Morgan le Fay (a supervillain)
• The New Men/Knights of Wundagore (uplifted animals created by the High Evolutionary)
• Obliterator (an Elder of the Universe)
• Octessence (an octet of demons/cosmic entities)
• The Orb of Agamotto (a magic item)
• Phastos (an Eternal & superhero)
• Plantman (a supervillain)
• Possessor (an Elder of the Universe)
• Quasimodo (a supervillain)
• Runner (an Elder of the Universe)
• Serpent Men (a villainous race tied to the Serpent God Set)
• Six-Fingered Hand (a sextet of demons)
• Sons of the Serpent (a quasi-terrorist organization)
• Super-Adaptoid (a supervillain)
• Surtur (a supervillain)
• Thena (an Eternal & superhero)
• Trader (the Elder of the Universe)
• Union Jack (a superhero)
• The Wand of Watoomb (a magic item)
• Will o' the Wisp (a supervillain)
• The Wizard (a supervillain)
• Wong (a superhero sidekick)
• Zuras (an Eternal & superhero)

Roleplaying Game Related

• Eye of Vecna (an artifact in the Dungeons & Dragons roleplaying game)
• Freedom City (a campaign setting for the Mutants & Masterminds RPG; I did not create the article, but did hevily modify it)
• Hand of Vecna (an artifact in the D&D RPG)
• Sword of Kas (an artifact in the D&D RPG)
• Vecna (a wizard-turned-god in the D&D RPG)

Television & Movie Related

• Doctor Arkeville (a Transformers villain)
• Caroline Pierce, a pornographic actress.
• Slaughter Disc, an adult horror (macabre erotica) film.

Published Works in Other Media

• "Machines of Doom", an article detailing nearly 100 devices used by the nefarious Doctor Doom, translated for use in the Mutants & Masterminds superhero tabletop roleplaying game. This was published in the first issue of Super Samurai, a free-to-download .pdf fanzine available here.
• "Upon a Pale Horse", an article detailing dozens of diseases and poisons, used both in the real world and in comics throughout history, translated for use in the Mutants & Masterminds superhero tabletop roleplaying game. This was published in the second issue of Super Samurai, a free-to-download .pdf fanzine available here. This second article is far less "rules-heavy" than the Machines of Doom article, and is more easily accessible to the non-gaming layperson.
• "Down on the Farm", a Four Color/Silver Age-style adventure for the Mutants & Masterminds superhero tabletop roleplaying game. This was published in the third issue of Super Samurai, a free-to-download .pdf fanzine available here.
• Not content to be published in free fanzines, Jonathan Howell soon broke into the field of freelance writing. His essay, "Growing Up Super: A Study of the Metahuman Lifecycle from Conception to Death. Part One: Powerful Conception" discusses "the difficulties metahumans face in conceiving offspring and during pregnancy, written by preeminent physician Dr. Viktor Archeville, a specialist in metahuman physiology and psychology." The essay is written in the style of an article taken from the pages of the [fictional] Journal of the Metahuman International Medical Association. In the context of this work, metahuman is a term used to describe any human being with super powers. This is the first in a multichapter series of treatises detailing the metahuman lifecycle. Available at e23, Lulu, and RPGNow.
• "Growing Up Super - Part Two: Born to Fly", detailing the difficulties superpowers impose on the birthing process, and how the stresses of birth can affect superpower. Available at e23, Lulu, and RPGNow.
• "Growing Up Super - Part Three: When Toddler Attack", detailing the difficulties metahumans face while raising and caring for small children who may themselves have super-powers. Available at e23, Lulu, and RPGNow.
• "Growing Up Super - Part Four: Kids Do The Darndest Things", detailing the difficulties educators, and metahuman parents, face in the educational system and when disciplining metahuman children. Available at e23, Lulu, and RPGNow.
• "Growing Up Super - Part Five: Titanic Teens", a discussion of the difficulties associated with puberty, late adolescence, and teen culture when raising metahuman children. Available at e23, Lulu, and RPGNow.
• For Halloween of 2006, Jonathan released "The Journal of franklin von Mookenstein", which contained both journal entries from that famed monster hunter and detailed notes on ten undead monstrosities, suitable for use in a superheroic campaign, a game of post-apocalyptic mayhem, supernatural horror or heroic fantasy (as long as the Mutants & Masterminds RPG system is what's used). Available at e23, Lulu, and RPGNow.
• For Halloween of 2007, Jonathan released "The Second Journal of franklin von Mookenstein", which contained both journal entries from that famed monster hunter and detailed notes on several shapeshifting (and shape-stealing) monstrosities, suitable for use in a superheroic campaign, a game of post-apocalyptic mayhem, supernatural horror or heroic fantasy (as long as the Mutants & Masterminds RPG system is what's used). Available at e23, Lulu, and RPGNow.

Trivia

• Jonathan recently discovered that his long-repressed theatrical flair makes him an excellent karaoke performer, as he amazed the crowd at the 2004 Seasonal Library Staff Party with his rendition of George Thorogood's Bad to the Bone.