Chaos! Comics (Publisher)



Chaos! Comics was a comic book publisher that was active in 1994 to 2002, when it filed for bankruptcy. It's main focus was in the horror genre, creating famous characters such as Lady Death, Evil Ernie, Purgatori and more. Chaos! was created by Brian Pulido and Steve Hughes.

Chaos! Comics also published comics based on Wrestling entertainment and famous rock bands.

History
Chaos! Comics was founded in 1994 in Scottsdale, Arizona by Steven Hughes and Brian Pulido, the latter became the company's president. It's purpose was to expand on the Evil Ernie comics - and it's characters - in a way that couldn't be done in Eternity Comics (the publishing company where Evil Ernie and Lady Death first appeared). The company was instantly successful with many Evil Ernie comics being sold and the expansion of the Lady Death character. Her origin-story comic, The Reckoning marked her as the first Bad-Girl comic book character in the 1990's.

New characters, such as Purgatori, Chastity, and Cremator, were created from the stories of pre-existing characters and given their own comics that either stood alone or crossed over in others. By tying new characters to the origins of popular ones (ex. Cremator in Lady Death), Chaos! insured to keep readers interested in the new characters as they were branched out.

Unfortunately, one of the new characters, Chastity was being accused for copyright infringement by Nancy A. Collins in 1997. She claimed the character and her storyline were too similar to one of her characters named Sonja Blue. But since Chastity was still in comics after the accusation, it can only be assumed that Chaos! won the lawsuit.

Chaos! gained more success with it's carefully written and coherent timeline. Intertwining popular characters in each others stories to create a bigger universe. This became very successful after publishing the long-planned Armageddon story arc, which saw multiple arcs converge to create a new central core storyline that led to January 1, 2000.

In late 2002, Chaos! Comics filed bankruptcy and all of the characters (with the exception of Lady Death) were sold to Tales of Wonder, who sold them to Devil's Due Publishing. After Devil's Due eventually closed, the rights to the Chaos! Characters went to Dynamite Entertainment.

The rights to Lady Death were sold instead to CrossGen Entertainment. When CrossGen also went bankcrupt, Lady Death was sold to her original creator Brian Pulido and Avatar Press who then founded Boundless Comics.

Notable Comics

 * Lady Death
 * Evil Ernie
 * Purgatori
 * The Omen
 * Bedlam
 * Chastity
 * Lady Demon
 * Suspira

Bands

 * Megadeth
 * The Pendulum
 * Static-X

Wrestlers

 * Chyna
 * The Rock
 * Mankind
 * Stone Cold Steve Austin
 * The Undertaker

Films

 * Halloween
 * The Mummy