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'Widow' Catherine
With the all the spunk of Linda Hamilton a’la ‘Terminator 2', Undertaker and Kane’s mother proves she’s NO old lady!
Paula ‘The Black Widow’ Walker who played the part of the boys’ mother was also an accomplished woman’s wrestler on the independent circuit in real life when she joined the ‘Dark Testament’ RPG in 1999. I loved the idea that Paula had instilled to the story which proposed that the Undertaker and Kane’s mother had survived the fire. She had been existing these past 20 years in secret and in hiding.
It is also revealed that her relationship with Paul Bearer wasn’t as ‘spur of the moment’ as first believed when Widow finally shares her history. She implies that her husband was violent and controlling and so she often sought comfort and safety in the care of Bearer who was her first and grade school sweetheart.
NOTES: I injected a lot of 'puns' into Widow's character throughout the story. Her name is actually the name of Mark Callaway's real mother and her relationship with Paul was designed off Bill Moody's relationship with his real wife, Dianna --Especially when she was sick and fighting cancer.
Illustration from the "Dark Testament" RPG, a Windowknocker inspired 2 year effort that incorporated 30+ different individual authors and talents. A collective blend based on current WWE storylines (Then know as the WWF), the UT CHAOS comic, and Windowknocker, this tale of prophecy, curses, love, hatred, and hell on earth produced some of the most imaginative fan-fiction spectacle ever written!
In their fight against a immortal unseen war of good verses evil, Kaninites and Creatures (The fans of Kane and the Undertaker) gather to silence the prophecy of absolute damnation and retain the sacred bibles of Stygian that is it’s root. But new evils arise –as well as untold secrets– when a dark priest by the name of ‘Father Aristedt’ (a reincarnated alter ego of the vile, Darin Hill) appears and ultimately possesses the body and mind of the modern-day Undertaker to the command and whim of an ancient vaticination not yet revealed.
The truth is unveiled when the Undertaker’s brother, Kane remembers the ‘ghostly man in the fire’ (Kandle) that he had always sworn saved his life from the flames as a child, that could very well be the answer they’re all looking for .... as well as the embodiment of all the rationality that has survived of the everlasting spirit of the Undertaker.
Berol Primacolor and chalk; cir. 1999
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