A carrion-crow like devil who feeds upon human misery. Apparently has free run of earth, stimulating violence, anguish and pain to increase the harvest.
His domain is a hell-like place known as 'Genesis"
Melanikus is from the best graphic novel ever, Shadowslayer: The Mark of Melanikus
After my father would beat me and lock me in the closetI would find myself alone with Melanikus
A long family line of bear-riding, shirtless, Russian motherfuckers who know their shit and produce offspring that literally draw women to their penises and men to their glorious woman-holes.
"Yo dawg, I heard those Melnikovs once ate fire, shit it out whole, and melted Hell when they flushed the toilet"