Happy Times
Origin
Ernest Fairchild was born as extraordinary kid; he inhibited the power of telepathy and precognition. His parents noticed how Ernest was drawing things happening before they actually did. They misunderstood his powers and thought that Ernest makes things happen by drawing them. Being devoted Christians they thought Ernest to be possessed, they saw a priest in these matters, but got no help there. When his father went bankrupt, he started drinking, occasionally hitting Ernest. One time Ernest secret friend, a mouse named smiley dropped down into his mothers coffee cup, his father killed smiley. Ernest being angry with them drew a picture of them hitting a lamp post. Coincidentally his parents drove off the road and hit a tree. His father was in a coma for a while and mother lost a baby. His parents still thinking that Ernest's drawing was the reason they crashed, feared him. Over time Ernest's life descended into hell. His abusive parents and lack of any friends made him a very lonely child. After being relentlessly beaten he told his school about how his parents beat him, his parents denied the charges and said he was uncontrollable. The school requested he be taken to a psychiatrist. Doctor Price believed that Ernie's problems were so ingrained into his subconscious that he would need to use his experimental Dream Probe which would put Ernie into a deep sleep. While Doctor Price worked, Ernie dreamed. He dreamed of a large endless graveyard with a beautiful caretaker who called herself Lady Death. Seeing his potential for destruction, Lady Death told Ernie that in exchange for killing everyone on the planet she would love him forever.
When he awoke, he seemed like an ordinary little boy and the operation was considered a success. It wasn't until night fell on the happy town that Ernie took an axe to his uncaring parents. He then went on a killing spree that claimed the lives of 12, not including his parents. He was imprisoned until Dr. Mary Young claimed that she had perfected the technology once used by Dr. Price. Once Ernie was in the machine his mind brought him to the endless graveyard once more. Lady death was pleased with him and told him as a gift for trying so hard she would give him a kiss, but she couldn't be with him forever until all life was wiped from the planet. He agreed to do it and she kissed him. As their lips met the machine Ernie was in exploded killing him. Moments later he awoke, undead and full of an arcane green energy that gave him the ability to command the dead to rise and serve him. His transformation complete he took up the new moniker of Evil Ernie and led a war against the living in the first world war that was meant to extinguish all life.
Quest for Death
After leaving Clearview Mental Institution he moved on randomly killing every person he saw. This stopped when Dr. Price and Mary Young came after him and tried to kill him. Mary shot Ernie to the head, he felt great pain and the pain crossed over to the dead as well. Ernie recovered from that quickly, he pinned Mary to the ground and left for the ghouls, he himself moved toward Youngs house to punish them. At Youngs, Ernie first disposed the guests, but when the time to kill Youngs came, he was again stopped by the doctors, who had somehow survived the ghoul attacks. They blasted Evil Ernie with a rocket launcher, effectively killing him. Smiley survived the explosion, and was picked up by Commissioner William Stone.
Takeover
Force of Love
Assassin/Lover
Separation
Ernie and Ernest
Evil Laugh
Second chance
New Earth, new beginning: in Widmark Prison in Oklahoma. From a rift of reality, The Badge of Evil drops into the prison. It's picked up by a prisoner who stuck himself with it, making him ill very quickly. At that same moment one prisoner is executed in electric chair. The presence of The Badge of Evil let Evil Ernie to take over the executed prisoner's body and mold it into his own image. In the search for his friend Ernie kills most of the prisoners and raises them as ghouls. After finding Smiley again, he orders the dead to die again. Knowing that he's on some new earth, he goes on a search of answers.
New Love
Couple of years later, Ernie returned to his hometown, he made the old sawmill as his home. He just sits there and watches TV, as there is no Lady Death anymore, who wanted him to create megadeath. Ernie wants to find love again, but don't know where to look. At the same time Cassie Hack and Vlad move to his location. They are attacked by zombies, while they kill them, Evil comes out to deal with them. Ernie first slashes Cassie, and then disables Vlad. However Cassie's mind is calling out, and Ernie is curious why. Learning her origin, he feels that they are alike, and that he loves her for it. Vlad slices Ernie's scalp off and escapes with Cassie. Ernie follows them for a while, but is unable to outrun a car. Knowing that Cassie dedicated her life to kill evil killers, Ernie breaks into Clearview Mental Institution maximum security ward and starts killing evil ones. Cassie and Vlad learning where Ernie is return to finish the job. Ernie tries to talk Cassie to join him but is interrupted by a guard, who shoots at their direction. Ernie kills the guard, but then notices that Cassie was hit. Evil is saddened by that, and agrees with Smiley's advice to bring her back. But Ernie didn't mean to bring her back as a dead one, he sacrifices his arcane energy and with it his life to revive Cassie to full health.
Publishers
Another of Brian Pulido's creations (Lady Death, Purgatori, Smiley, Chastity etc.), Ernie was originally published in a five issue series for Eternity Comics. When Chaos! Comics was formed, Ernie went there and enjoyed his largest popularity to date. As a result of the Chaos! Comics bankruptcy, Ernie was forever separated from Lady Death (as she was sold on to Avatar Press but he was not) and disappeared from view.
However, back from the dead, Chaos! Comics (with partners Devil's Due Publishing) have returned to publishing, and Ernie has returned to mayhem.
Powers
As long as Evil Ernie is in contact with Smiley, he is connected to Lady Death's arcane power. This is depicted by the green glow in his stomach. The arcane power allows him to regenerate from virtually every wound (one time his whole body was disintegrated and he instantly recovered). At the time he was connected to Lady Death, every time Ernie went to sleep he would go to hell through astral projection. Before becoming "Evil Ernie", Ernest could draw pictures of future events that indicate to precognitive powers. Ernie is also telepathic, as he could use his telepathy to raise the dead he recently killed and was soon able to raise any dead.
