LONAR

Real Name: Lonar

Class: God (New Gods)

Occupation: Warrior, Council of Five head of off-planet operations

Group Affiliation: Council of  Five

First Appearance: Forever People I #5 (November, 1971)

Powers: Lonar possessed superhuman strength and was a disciplined and practiced soldier. He rode his winged horse Thunderer into battle.

History: (DC Graphic Novel #4 (fb, BTS)) - Lonar dressed and conducted himself in the manner of the Elder Gods because of his fascination with them and his respect for their nobility.

(New Gods III #6) - The Council of Five blamed Highfather for Orion’s brash destruction of the insect colonies, but he reminded them he was the original founder and ruler of New Genesis. Lonar stood by Highfather, but the rest did not, so Highfather proclaimed the dissolution of the Council. Highfather’s actions threatened civil war on New Genesis.

(Forever People I #7) - Lonar sought universal truth through his wanderings, hoping to learn by seeing and experiencing everything he could. A battlehorse of the Old Gods was resurrected, and Lonar took him as his own and named him Thunderer. Lonar came across Orion, who was brooding and in a deep depression. The sight of the magnificent Thunderer momentarily cheered him, but the animal reared at his touch. Orion wondered if life would always recoil from him.

(DC Graphic Novel #4) - Darkseid unleashed Microi-Mark tech on New Genesis, destroying the planet and forcing Highfather to construct a satellite city to save the New Gods. Lonar was saved., but demanded vengeance against Apokolips, and asked for a campaign of terror to match Micro-Mark. Highfather refused to become corrupted by Darkseid’s evil, and brought Lonar to see his way. Aboard the satellite city the New Gods scoured space for their new home. Metron brought an unspoilt paradise planet to them using his Mobius Chair to serve as a new homeworld.

(New Gods III #3) - Orion arranged peace-talks between the New Gods and the Bugs, demanding independent states for the Bugs in exchange for their services in the war against Apokolips. Some of the Council of Five bristled at the idea of cooperating with Bugs, and the Commander claimed they’d be poor soldiers. Prime One offered Forager as their champion, and challenged the New Gods to select their own to battle her in an arena., Lonar was chosen, and after a brutal fight he won, but was impressed with her skills, and the fact that she would rather die than be beaten, so he proclaimed the Bugs worthy allies.

(Jack Kirby’s Fourth World #6) - Lonar investigated when New God Harmon disappeared down a hole tunneled into New Genesis. He found Harmon’s mutilated body, and the culprit, Mad Harriet of the Female Furies, who’d dug there way to New Genesis from Apokolips. He quickly overpowered her and brought her before Highfather, who sent the new Gods to fight an impending invasion by the Furies and the Parademons.

Lonar received a profile in Who’s Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe #16 under the New Gods entry.