The Official Zot! Online
CHARACTER GUIDE



1.

ZOT


Full Name: Zachary T. Paleozogt

Appearances: Issues #1-36, "Hearts and Minds."

He's the most famous hero on a world where humankind's brightest dreams for the future have all come true...


2.

JENNY


Full Name: Jennifer Alexander Weaver

Appearances: Issues #1-36, "Hearts and Minds."

Insisting to this day that she is not Zot's "girlfriend," Jenny has nonetheless failed to offer any evidence to the contrary...


3.

PEABODY


Full Name: SKU #0635-588367-9402

Appearances: Issues #1-6, 9-27, 36 and "Hearts and Minds."

Peabody became one of Zot's surrogate parents after Zot's real parents disappeared...


4.

BUTCH


Full Name: Horton Everett Weaver

Appearances: Issues #1-6, 9-23, 26-28, 30, 36 and "Hearts and Minds."

In his first appearences, Butch was just Jenny's irritating older brother who gets turned into a monkey by the De-Evolutionaries...


5.

9-JACK-9


Full Name: J9AC9K

Appearances: Issues #2, 5-6, 9, 23-27.

The most infamous assassin in the galaxy was originally the astral projection of Sir John Sheers...


6.

MAX


Full Name: I forgot!

Appearances: Issues #2-15, 23-27, 36 and "Hearts and Minds."

Zot's Uncle Max raised the young hero from an early age and taught him much of what he knows...


7.

DEKKO


Full Name: Dekko (born Arthur Dekker)

Appearances: Issues #3-4, 17-18, 26-27 and "Hearts and Minds."

Dekko is powerful and dangerous, yet always convinced of the rightness of his actions...


8.

VIC


Full Name: Victor Knight Taylor

Appearances: Issues #1-10, 12-13, 15-18, 21-22, 26-27.

Zot's friend Vic is a master game player, but in the Key Storyline (Zot! #1-10), an interstellar game of intrigue nearly got him killed...


9.

FLOYD


Full Name: RocketBob Deluxe, Platinum Edition.

Appearances: Issues #2-4, 9-10, 12-16, 18, 21, 26-27.

Vic Taylor won the Deluxe Limited Edition of this popular robot helper in a regional Survivalax competition...


10.

WOODY


Full Name: Woodrow Wilson Bernstein

Appearances: Issues #11-12, 17-18, 21-24, 26-34, 36.

When he was first introduced in Zot! #11 and 12, Woody was a short, bumbling nerd with a seemingly doomed crush on classmate Jenny...


11.

ZYBOX


Full Name: "Oh my God! What the Hell is THAT?!?"

Appearances: Issues #13-15, 26-27.

A monstrous robot with monstrous appetites...


12.

TERRY


Full Name: Theresa Maria Veras.

Appearances: Issues #11-14, 17, 22, 26-28, 33-34, 36.

Terry's only ambition for many years was to just be a "normal" kid...


13.

JENNY'S MOM


Full Name: Barbara Alexander Weaver.

Appearances: Issues #13-14, 28, 30, 36, "Hearts and Minds."

Parents have been a recurring subject in Zot! and many stories...


14.

BELLOWS


Full Name: Dr. Ignatius Rumbault Bellows.

Appearances: Issues #11-12, 26-27.

Dr. Bellows was a famous inventor on the distant planet known as Ragnum...


15.

RONNIE


Full Name: Ronald Ulysses Curtis.

Appearances: Issues #23, 28, 31-34, 36.

More than one Zot! fan has accused me of spying on them after reading Ronnie's story (#31).


16.

BRANDY


Full Name: Brandy Hendrix Corrigan.

Appearances: Issues #28, 31-34, 36.

If "the power of positive thinking" was elevated to a religion, Brandy would be its high priestess.


17.

PRINCE DRUFUS


Full Name: Drufus Aurelius Tauterus.

Appearances: Issues #2-6, 8.

Though introduced as a clueless buffoon in issue #2, Drufus' personality deepened as readers learned more...


18.

THE BLOTCH


Full Name: Unknown.

Appearances: Issues #21-22, 26-27.

The Blotch is a corporate crime kingpin on Charity, a nightmarish world of pure capitalism run amok.


19.

SPIKE


Full Name: Robert Raleigh Madison III.

Appearances: Issues #23, 28, 31-34, 36.

A public nuisance in training, Spike is the classic "rebel without a cause" -- albeit on a small, unimpressive scale.


20.

THE DE-EVOLUTIONARIES


Full Name: "The Disciples of the Holy Church of the Blue Monkey."

Appearances: Issues #1-2, 9, 16, 26-27, "Hearts and Minds."

"Back to the Trees!!!"


21.

ELIZABETH


Full Name: Elizabeth Madison.

Appearances: Issues #17, 23, 28, 31-34, 36.

Jenny wrote "I have no idea what's going on in that head" when describing Elizabeth...


22.

THE DREEPS


Scientific Name: Phodopus Divinus.

Appearances: Issues #5, 20, 26-27.

To this day, I still get letters demanding that I bring back the Dreeps...


23.

GEORGE


Full Name: George Tanaka.

Appearances: Issues #17, 23, 28, 31-34, 36.

A true blue pocket-protector nerd...


24.

SARAH


Full Name: Sarah Melpignano.

Appearances: Issues #3-4, 17-18, "Hearts and Minds."

Dekko's young lover Sarah has appeared only in flashbacks within the pages of the Zot! series...


25.

JOSH HACKER


Full Name: Joshua Matthew Hacker

Appearances: Issues #11-12, 17-22, 26-27.

Hacker got his name in 1987, when the word didn't have the criminal association it would later acquire...


26.

DICK DIGGER


Full Name: Richard Seedman Digiorgio

Appearances: Issues #11-12, 17-18, 21-22, 26-27.

Dick Digger was intro-duced as a sort Fonzie, 50's, hot-rodding, greaser-type in #11.


27.

SGT. CHOW


Full Name: Lucy Chow

Appearances: Issues #24-25.

Sgt. Lucy Chow joined the Antares 3 rebellion when that distant planet's Democratically elected leaders were overthrown...


28.

DALLIT & BERBAX


Full Names: Richard Rowan Dallit and Robert Martin Berbax.

Appearances: Issues #2, 5, 26-27.

...a couple of running-joke throw-away characters...


29.

CHET BARKER


Full Name: Harold Czentorychy Garfinkle.

Appearances: Issues #16, 26-27 and "Hearts and Minds."

He's bad -- and proud of it...!


30.

THE POLE POLICE


Full Name: Peacekeepers International, Antarctic Division.

Appearances: Issues #3-4, 26-27.

The Pole Police include in their ranks at least one representative of every nation on Earth...