Francis Ghibourkei



Doctor Francis Ghibourkei was a Japanese-Swedish doctor from Earth-Kuru. At some point, he became a host for Edward Tamaron. Acting against his own will due to the nature of Earth-Kuru, Tamaron was forced to move to Death Island to start creating an army of zombies, in a grim parody of his previous life. He was opposed by Chuck Landauze and several others, who eventually caused his demise. Death Island was consumed in an explosion moments later, creating an energy whirlwind much like the one that brought him there, allowing him to escape to Earth-13151518.

Trivia

 * Doctor Ghibourkei was not the creation of Frank Jenkins, but rather Jenkins' associate, Yaubus Redford. He appeared in the novel Kuru, or, the Zombies as the main villain. ( Kuru  was published after Redford's death on Lulu.) The suggestion that Ghibourkei was actually Edward Tamaron was made by Jenkins in the Author's Notes, stating, “I had a nagging suspicion that Ghibourkei was Tamaron. Driven mad, perhaps, but Tamaron's sanity would already be slipping, and 'Earth-Kuru' would have taken him further. I always knew that Earth-Kuru wasn't the setting of a deliberately poorly-written story, but was actually depicted literally  within the story's contents; never solid, always shifting, full of lunatics who ranted and raved like pubescent children. The history would always change and people would be press-ganged by the universe itself into roles. That's why Tamaron acted like an idiotic mad scientist. The universe forced him to act like that, and it drove him even crazier.” A book-length essay on the works of Yaubus Redford is forthcoming from Life of Mocata Wiki user AmosTrar.

Sources and Appearances

 * Author's Notes
 * Kuru, or, the Zombies  (ambiguously canon)