Angelus (comics)

The Angelus
Cover of The Darkness #3, art by Marc Silvestri
Publication information
Publisher	Top Cow Productions
First appearance	The Darkness #2 (Feb. 1997)
Created by	Marc Silvestri David Wohl Garth Ennis
In-story information
Alter ego	Finch
Notable aliases	The Bride of Inti, The LightLauren Franchetti, Celestine Wright, Danielle Baptiste, Jenny Romano
Abilities	Immortality Flight Superhuman strength Superhuman speed Healing factor Telepathy Pyrokinesis Shapeshifting Omnipresence Teleportation Extrasensory perception Spirit possession

The Angelus is an American comic book character published by Top Cow Productions which first appeared in The Darkness comic in 1997. The Angelus has been featured in comics with her enemies the Darkness and the Witchblade.

The Angelus played a prominent role in the First Born limited series and had a one-shot by Ian Edginton released in December 2007 as part of the Top Cow Pilot Season event.

The Angelus is immortal and has been worshiped as a sun goddess by the Inca Empire and the Shinto. The Angelus is known to have destroyed the Tower of Babel, torn down the Walls of Jerusalem, and ripped apart Krakatoa. She claims that both God and Jesus Christ are redundant in her presence.

The Angelus is a force of nature with the power of the sun flowing through her. She grants her hosts superhuman strength, speed, stamina, invulnerability to all Earthly weapons or harmful creatures, healing abilities, flight, the ability to create objects and sentient beings of pure light, and the memories of all previous Angelus hosts.

She can also breathe fire, melt magical armor with her touch, channel blasts of light from either her weapons or hands, teleport both herself and others, withstand the full heat of a dying sun for 13 years without harm or nourishment by sustaining herself on the "will of the Almighty" alone, and fly through outer space at a speed "besting the hands of time".