Avengelyne

Avengelyne is a comic book character created by Rob Liefeld, Cathy Christian and Tony Lobito. Avengelyne is an angel who fights the forces of evil and often finds herself face-to-face with demons and monsters.

Publication history

The original character design for Avengelyne was based on the likeness of former Vampirella model Cathy Christian. Originally published in 1995 by Maximum Press, she was also inspired by Ben Dunn's comic Warrior Nun Areala from Antarctic Press, the characters then featuring in two crossover series in 1996.
By the end of the 1990s, Avengelyne had been used in comics by Awesome Entertainment and Avatar Press.
Avengelyne returned to comics in the Arcana Studio one-shot Avengelyne vs. Koni Waves in February 2010. In July 2011, a new ongoing Avengelyne series debuted at Image Comics under the creative team of Mark Poulton and Owen Gieni.

Character biography

As described in an article in Deadline Hollywood:

In other media

By July 2013, co-creator Rob Liefeld and Gina Carano were working on a big-screen adaptation of the series in which Carano was to star as Avengelyne. In November 2016, Paramount Pictures purchased the film rights for Avengelyne with Akiva Goldsman as the intended producer. In April 2024, it was announced Margot Robbie's LuckyChap Entertainment and Simon Kinberg's Genre Films were producing a feature film adaptation of the character set to be directed by Olivia Wilde. Deadline then reported Warner Bros. Pictures was pre-emptively nearing a seven figure deal to acquire the project, with Robbie set to play the titular character, despite initial reports denying this, and Tony McNamara set to write the screenplay.