NighTforce
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
First Appearance: NighTforce # 1, January 2008
Members:
NighTrain
Dennis Holman
Julie Sasso
Gerry Powers
Paula Sherman/Zap Mom
Joey Powers
Powerman/Jonathon Stanford
Kelly O'Connell
Victoria-21
Frankie McKenzie
The Fallen
Jen Holman
Sam Donnelly
Zap, Master of Power
Biography:
When former vigilante Phil Sherman learned the New Power, one of the most dangerous groups of villainy, has reformed, he recruited a team of experts in crime fighting and the occult to combat the threat. He called this new team NighTforce.
As NighTrain, Phil led the team, that was headquartered in a facility located beneath a store owned by Sherman.
The team was funded by billionaires Michael Bossman and Dennis Holman, who ironically both turned out to be high ranking members of the New Power.
After this revelation, the team's funding was provided by Michelle Wrigley, who had legally obtained Bossman's company after his evil was revealed, and Jen Holman, Dennis Holman's sister.
When it appeared the New Power was defeated, the team redirected it's efforts to catching demons that had been set free upon Earth. But when it was revealed that the New Power was still active, the team split its efforts to both missions.
Eventually, Phil Sherman stepped down as leader to devote more time to family, and Gerry Power, an ex-cop who was a founding member of the team, took over as leader.
Comments:
NighTforce was a series that debuted as part of my recent Super Comics resurrection. The team is inspired by a real life paranormal investigation team that I belonged to, but there was no evil terrorist cults or demon hunting involved in the true exploits.
The series is still ongoing, though is slated for cancellation in May 2012 as the world as we know it comes to an end.
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Saturday, December 17, 2011
NighTrain
NighTrain
Created by Phil Sheridan
Real Name: Philip Sherman
Alias: Zap, Master of Power II
Current Occupation: Store Owner
Parents: Richard Sherman (aka Pac Man) and Pauline Sherman (aka Zap Mom)
Siblings: None
Spouse: Patience Glenndale Sherman
Children: Tara (aka Zap, Master of Power IV), Alison, and Carter Sherman
Group Affiliation: Super-Trio, Powerkid Police, Zap Family, Heroes of Earth, Champions, NighTforce
Place of Birth: Paradise City
Current Place of Residence: Paradise City
First Appearance: Powerkid # 1, September 1982
Biography:
In the 1960s, three cosmic beings decided to create three champions to protect Earth from their evil brothers. The three decided that three sisters would bear the children who would be those champions. One of the three, Zeus, then chose to create his champion by visiting Pauline Hasser in the form of a leaky roof to impregnate her.
Pauline found herself an unwed pregnant teen, and was kicked out by her mother. Pauline left her home city of Worcester and moved out west to Paradise City, where she met and married a political intern, Richard Sherman. They decided to let the public think that the child was his.
The child born was Phil Sherman. Phil grew up with a fairly normal childhood, even though his father, who became mayor, would disappear occasionally (because he unexplainably transformed into a monster from time to time) and his mother maintained no contact with her family, thus Phil didn't know he had cousins.
When Phil was 10, however, he started developing abilities like super-strength. He started secretly using his powers to fight crime, and his powers continued to increase and evolve. Over a three year period, he became super-strong, nearly invulnerable, super-fast, able to fly, and even shape shift. He did also develop strange weakness to cheese, that was never explained.
When Phil was 13, he was visited by a Venusian named Ooga Booga, who claimed to be responsible for giving Phil his powers. Ooga Booga was actually acting under the instructions of Zeus, who did not wish his son to know his true origins. Shortly after, his cousin (though he didn't know they were related at the time), Chris Kowalki, had publicly debuted as the hero Powerkid. This inspired Phil to do likewise, and he became the hero called Zap, Master of Power.
Zap decided to meet Powerkid, and the two became great friends and allies, eventually sharing secret identities and learning of their relationship. Phil and Chris eventually met another cousin, Shon Crest, aka Speedy, and the three created a super-team called the Powerkid Police.
Zap became a celebrated hero in Paradise City, and set up a headquarters underneath his home. He eventually discovered he could bestow some of his powers on others, and eventually a Zap Family was formed, with Pac Man, Zap Mom, Zappette, Girl Zap, and Zap Dog.
When he turned 16, Phil's mom told him the truth about his true father and the source of his powers. Phil lost those powers in 1988 when Zeus was killed by a time renegade named Cronstar. He spent a few years living the life of a normal college student, but in 1991, Allorin Vonski gave Phil a portion of his cousin Chris' power in order to aid him in a battle with Krusher. However, a few months later, Vonski took the powers away in order to use them to create a new replacement hero for Powerman in the form of Chris' sister Michelle.
Less than a year later, during a War of the Gods, Phil found his powers restored. At ths time, there was another hero now calling himself Zap, and Phil fought the newer hero to reclaim the title, but lost. Phil chose to then operate without the title, and went to work for the government as an agent briefly. But once again, he found his powers faded away.
Phil opened up a convenience store in Paradise City, but working for the first time as an ordinary guy in his city, he realized that there was a serious crime problem, even without the super-villains, mad scientists, and alien invasions. Paradise was overrun by gang violence and corporate greed. Phil decided to create a new identity as a masked vigilante to fight crime. He took the name NighTrain, as he was "Loaded like a freight train with power, and flyin' like an aeroplane at the enemy...".
During this time he became an ally of a local gang called the Illusions and a major adversary of Mr. Brownstone, who ruled the town. He also met and fell in love with Patience Glenndale, who turned out to be a member of the Interstellar Peace Organization, assigned to monitoring and protecting Earth.
Created by Phil Sheridan
Real Name: Philip Sherman
Alias: Zap, Master of Power II
Current Occupation: Store Owner
Parents: Richard Sherman (aka Pac Man) and Pauline Sherman (aka Zap Mom)
Siblings: None
Spouse: Patience Glenndale Sherman
Children: Tara (aka Zap, Master of Power IV), Alison, and Carter Sherman
Group Affiliation: Super-Trio, Powerkid Police, Zap Family, Heroes of Earth, Champions, NighTforce
Place of Birth: Paradise City
Current Place of Residence: Paradise City
First Appearance: Powerkid # 1, September 1982
Biography:
In the 1960s, three cosmic beings decided to create three champions to protect Earth from their evil brothers. The three decided that three sisters would bear the children who would be those champions. One of the three, Zeus, then chose to create his champion by visiting Pauline Hasser in the form of a leaky roof to impregnate her.
Pauline found herself an unwed pregnant teen, and was kicked out by her mother. Pauline left her home city of Worcester and moved out west to Paradise City, where she met and married a political intern, Richard Sherman. They decided to let the public think that the child was his.
The child born was Phil Sherman. Phil grew up with a fairly normal childhood, even though his father, who became mayor, would disappear occasionally (because he unexplainably transformed into a monster from time to time) and his mother maintained no contact with her family, thus Phil didn't know he had cousins.
When Phil was 10, however, he started developing abilities like super-strength. He started secretly using his powers to fight crime, and his powers continued to increase and evolve. Over a three year period, he became super-strong, nearly invulnerable, super-fast, able to fly, and even shape shift. He did also develop strange weakness to cheese, that was never explained.
When Phil was 13, he was visited by a Venusian named Ooga Booga, who claimed to be responsible for giving Phil his powers. Ooga Booga was actually acting under the instructions of Zeus, who did not wish his son to know his true origins. Shortly after, his cousin (though he didn't know they were related at the time), Chris Kowalki, had publicly debuted as the hero Powerkid. This inspired Phil to do likewise, and he became the hero called Zap, Master of Power.
Zap decided to meet Powerkid, and the two became great friends and allies, eventually sharing secret identities and learning of their relationship. Phil and Chris eventually met another cousin, Shon Crest, aka Speedy, and the three created a super-team called the Powerkid Police.
Zap became a celebrated hero in Paradise City, and set up a headquarters underneath his home. He eventually discovered he could bestow some of his powers on others, and eventually a Zap Family was formed, with Pac Man, Zap Mom, Zappette, Girl Zap, and Zap Dog.
When he turned 16, Phil's mom told him the truth about his true father and the source of his powers. Phil lost those powers in 1988 when Zeus was killed by a time renegade named Cronstar. He spent a few years living the life of a normal college student, but in 1991, Allorin Vonski gave Phil a portion of his cousin Chris' power in order to aid him in a battle with Krusher. However, a few months later, Vonski took the powers away in order to use them to create a new replacement hero for Powerman in the form of Chris' sister Michelle.
Less than a year later, during a War of the Gods, Phil found his powers restored. At ths time, there was another hero now calling himself Zap, and Phil fought the newer hero to reclaim the title, but lost. Phil chose to then operate without the title, and went to work for the government as an agent briefly. But once again, he found his powers faded away.
Phil opened up a convenience store in Paradise City, but working for the first time as an ordinary guy in his city, he realized that there was a serious crime problem, even without the super-villains, mad scientists, and alien invasions. Paradise was overrun by gang violence and corporate greed. Phil decided to create a new identity as a masked vigilante to fight crime. He took the name NighTrain, as he was "Loaded like a freight train with power, and flyin' like an aeroplane at the enemy...".
During this time he became an ally of a local gang called the Illusions and a major adversary of Mr. Brownstone, who ruled the town. He also met and fell in love with Patience Glenndale, who turned out to be a member of the Interstellar Peace Organization, assigned to monitoring and protecting Earth.
In 1992, it appeared that Mr. Brownstone had shot NighTrain to death, but in fact, the hero had been not died. He managed to escape after being left for dead, and for months hid while recovering from his wounds, only to re-emerge and take the villain down.
Shortly after, the government imposed a ban on vigilantes. NighTrain refused to stop his activities and was arrested.
After his arrest, an alien invasion taking advantage of the act caused the government to reverse its decision to allow the heroes to return to duty and save Earth. However, NighTrain was not retroactively pardoned, and was forced to serve his sentence.
Bitter about being confined with the scum he helped put away, NighTrain was visited by Satan, who offered to restore Sherman's former Zap powers. Sherman accepted and used his powers to escape. He now became a wanted man, and clearly with his new powers was being swayed by it's demonic source. His own friends, such as Powerman and Patience, tried to convince him to turn himself in, but he chose instead to fight them and flee.
However, when the villain Continuity almost destroyed reality, NighTrain sacrificed his life by using his power to stop the time wave that was erasing history.
Because NighTrain was a demigod of Greek heritage, when he died he went to Hades, where he challenged the prince of the underworld and won, regaining his life.
When Sherman returned from the dead, he was without his Zap powers, but had gained some dark abilities, which he generally only used subtly and didn't reveal to others. He returned to operation as NighTrain. Shortly after this, Phil married Patience.
About a year later, a mutant named Adam used his ability to take control of Earth, creating a new society where mutants and metahumans were of a higher class of citizenry. He maintained a police force of metahumans who were under his mental domination. He also forced aliens off the planet, as well as humans associated with the IPO, such as Patience.
NighTrain led an underground resistance, though he was unsuccessful for three years until Powerman, who had been in a self-imposed exile, returned to free the metahumans from Adam's control and defeat the villain.
After Adam's defeat, Powerman spoke to Earth's heroes. He told them that he had traveled to the future often, and in the future, there are no super-beings or costumed vigilantes. Humanity achieves great things on their own. To establish this future, with the consent of the heroic community, Allorin Vonski uses his magic to remove all super-powers on Earth and remove any memories of super-powers except from a very select few who chose to retire or leave Earth.
Allorin also did one other act. He sensed that Patience was pregnant with Phil's child. He took the powers from Keith Sheridan, the hero who had been operating as Zap using the original Zap powers and placed them within the unborn child.
NighTrain was among those to leave Earth, boarding a spaceship with Patience (who he had married during the rebellion) and their unborn child. The others were Powerman and his alien bride Yana Oo, the hero Marvel, and some comrades of Powerman called the Group.
Those who left Earth explored the galaxy for some time, and Tara Sherman was born in space (though her powers wouldn't surface until years later.) In 2000, the group found a rift in space and wound up in an alternate reality where the Justice League had become the lead heroes of Earth. They lived there for a year, but eventually left and found their way back to their own Earth.
Returning home, Phil and Patience quietly retired to have a normal family life, opening a new store in Paradise City. The couple had two more children, Alison and Carter.
But in 2007, the machinations of the evil god Morgoth caused the world to remember metahumans, and the evil terrorist occult cult called the New Power Organization was revived. When Phil learned of this, he gathered together a team of crime investigators and paranormal experts and created NighTforce, dedicated to taking down the New Power.
At the same time, Tara's powers surfaced. Rather than prohibit her from taking on the mantle of Zap, Master of Power, he instead trained her so she would use them as safely as possible.
Eventually, the New Power was defeated, and NighTforce rededicated itself to hunting demons, as an after effect of the defeat of the New Power was a release of demons upon Earth.
Sherman, meanwhile, was transported for a year to an alien planet along with his daughter and several other heroes and villains in order to do battle for the amusement of a god-like being.
Upon their return, Phil left NighTforce to devote more time to his family, though he didn't fully uninvolve himself, as their headquarters was under his store.
Recently, Phil and Patience had more trouble with their children. It turned out that Alison was a slayer, part of an ancient order of chosen girls who inherit natural abilities to fight vampires. And Carter was abducted by a time travelling villain named Cronstar. Seconds after he disappeared, Carter returned, now in his 30s, having lived his life in the 22nd century.
The Shermans had to accept having one child out battling super-villains, another being trained by a Watcher to kill demons, and another who had aged 30 years and had an unpleasant personality.
Eventually, Carter returned to the future, and moments later, young Carter returned, having been rescued by his older self, thus negating his own existence in the hopes that he could grow up to be a better person if raised by his parents.
Comments:
Phil Sherman aka Zap, Master of Power and NighTrain, is the creation of Phil Sheridan. He first appeared in a cameo in Powerkid # 1.
Though Super Comics has many characters not created by me, most fall into two categories. Either they are characters created by my friends specifically for the purpose of Super Comics, thus giving me ownership of the characters to use as I wish. The other are unlicensed properties which I have adapted, such as Lord of the Rings or Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which I use without permission under the laws regarding fan fiction.
But there are two characters (and affiliated supporting characters) that are actually owned by the creators but in which I have permission to use for Super Comics. Phil Sheridan's Zap, Master of Power is one of them. John C. Barstow's The Misadventures of Captain Zippy in the 24 1/2 Century is the other.
As I said, Phil's Zap first appeared briefly mentioned in Powerkid # 1, and became a regular recurring character in that series. At the same time, he was a member of the Powerkid Police, appearing regularly in that title as well.
A year after his debut, Phil launched Zap, Master of Power in his own title. This was the first Super Comics title that I had no creative input in at all. But it still fell within the Super Comics reality.
Phil's series, a brilliant satire of the super-hero genre, lasted for two years. After this, Phil retired from writing the character, but allowed me to keep using him. However, I soon after retired the character, relegating him to a non-powered supporting cast member for Powerkid/Powerman. Meanwhile, Bill Nault had created a new character using only the "Zap, Master of Power" name, but redefining everything else about the character.
In 1992, the character was officially licensed under a formal contract between myself and Phil Sheridan.
However, I chose to pass the Zap title onto a younger generation hero, and turned Phil Sherman into NighTrain, in a series that played tribute to the band Guns'n'Roses (a favorite band of both Phil and myself at the time). This series lasted a few years, but in 1995 was cancelled with the entire Super Comics line.
The character appeared in the 1998 mini-series Timeline, and then became a regular in Powerman for a few years. In 2001, he disappeared into comic book limbo until the revival of the Super Comics. He appeared in the initial 2007 storyline that spanned both Powerkid and Powerman, and then in 2008 became the lead character in NighTforce and a supporting character in the new Zap, Master of Power.
Phil currently appears in both those series. NighTforce is slated for cancellation in May 2012. Zap, Master of Power will be continuing, but and Phil Sherman will be appearing, though there is a dramatic change that I am not planning on revealing just yet.
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Jules Sasso
Jules Sasso
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
Real Name: Julianne Sasso
Current Occupation: Demon Hunter
Parents: Unknown
Siblings: None
Spouse: None
Children: None
Group Affiliation: NighTforce
Place of Birth: Paradise City
Current Place of Residence: Paradise City
First Appearance: NighTforce # 1, January 2008
Biography:
Jules Sasso is a member of NighTforce, a team devoted to both the eradication of the paranormal cult called the New Power, and to eridicating demons and other paranormal evil.
Jules was one of the original members of the team, handpicked by Phil Sherman, the vigilante called NighTrain. Before joining the team, Jules was already fighting evil creatures of the magical world on her own.
It's never been established how Jules became a paranormal hunter, or what she did before this career. It has been established that Jules is addicted to danger. She often dives into a situation knowing that she could be killed. This recklessness has often brought her at odds with her team leader. At one point she was even forced off the team, though she has recently rejoined.
Jules is a martial artist, and has a vast knowledge of the various types of paranormal creatures, and how to stop them. She has the instincts of a hunter. She is an excellent tracker and has demonstrated keen detective skills.
Comments:
Just as the Champions are all based on people from my time in Civil Air Patrol and the Heroes of the People are inspired by folks from my college mock trial team, the members of NighTorce are all inspired by a real life paranormal investigation team that I have been affiliated with.
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
Real Name: Julianne Sasso
Current Occupation: Demon Hunter
Parents: Unknown
Siblings: None
Spouse: None
Children: None
Group Affiliation: NighTforce
Place of Birth: Paradise City
Current Place of Residence: Paradise City
First Appearance: NighTforce # 1, January 2008
Biography:
Jules Sasso is a member of NighTforce, a team devoted to both the eradication of the paranormal cult called the New Power, and to eridicating demons and other paranormal evil.
Jules was one of the original members of the team, handpicked by Phil Sherman, the vigilante called NighTrain. Before joining the team, Jules was already fighting evil creatures of the magical world on her own.
It's never been established how Jules became a paranormal hunter, or what she did before this career. It has been established that Jules is addicted to danger. She often dives into a situation knowing that she could be killed. This recklessness has often brought her at odds with her team leader. At one point she was even forced off the team, though she has recently rejoined.
Jules is a martial artist, and has a vast knowledge of the various types of paranormal creatures, and how to stop them. She has the instincts of a hunter. She is an excellent tracker and has demonstrated keen detective skills.
Comments:
Just as the Champions are all based on people from my time in Civil Air Patrol and the Heroes of the People are inspired by folks from my college mock trial team, the members of NighTorce are all inspired by a real life paranormal investigation team that I have been affiliated with.
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Yana Oo
Yana Oo
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
Real Name: Yana Oo
Alias: Yana Oo Kowalski
Current Occupation: Vice President, Bossman Enterprises
Parents: Hwana Oo and Yana Chana
Siblings: Too numerous to list
Spouse: None
Children: Connor Kowalski (aka Powerkid)
Place of Birth: The planet Hanguk
Current Place of Residence: Orange City
First Appearance: Powerman # 82, August 1995
Biography:
Yana Oo grew up on her home world of Hanguk, a world that had been occupied by the Booers before she had even been born. She lived with a poor family with dozens of siblings.
In 1995, her whole world changed (quite literally) when Powerman arrived on her world, freeing the planet from Booer control and winning Yana's love. The two married, and were quite content on Hanguk, until Powerman received a mental distress call from his sister on Earth, which he had to respond to.
Yana chose to go with him, leaving her family and world behind. Also accompanying them were a group of adventurers whom Powerman had befriended on this world.
They arrived on Earth to find that during the three years Powerman had been away, a mutant named Adam had taken over the world, and had mental control over Earth's meta-humans.
Powerman of course defeated the villain, with the combined support of Earth's other champions. Following this, Powerman and Yana chose to leave Earth to explore space (and the multiverse) along with Powerman's friends from Hanguk and his closest Earth allies (NighTrain, Patience Glenndale, and Marvel).
For a year they settled into an alternate reality where they lived on a world where Superman had become it's greatest champion rather than Powerman (and had even survived his encounter with Doomsday.)
However, Yana became pregnant, and NighTrain and Patience had already had and were raising on their craft a three year old daughter, and so they chose to return home, and live a quiet, retired life in a world where super-heroics were no longer accepted.
The Kowalskis settled in the Pacific Northwest, and soon Connor was born. Shortly after, and for the first time, Chris Kowalski (Powerman) started suffering from the results of a strange mood disorder that would cause him to have erratic behavior (which would later be revealed to be the work of Doctor Deadly).
Yana couldn't deal with Chris' strange new behaviors, and the two divorced. Chris' mental breakdown continued to grow worse, and he left Earth to explore time, space, and alternate realities. (In fact, it seemed that the further he was from his home, the less erratic he was.)
Yana continued to raise Connor in a normal environment, though struggling with cultural differences and being technically an illegal alien. She also maintained a strong effort to have Chris' family be a part of Connor's life.
In 2007, Yana and Connor were visiting Orange City for Connor's birthday. Chris had also arrived home for the festivities, and surprisingly, Chris' father, billionaire/villain Michael Bossman also showed up, having been released and allegedly reformed. Michael began a close relationship with his grandson, though not to the liking of Chris, who didn't trust his father.
Shortly after, when the effects of Deadly's control were at it's strongest, Powerman killed the U.S. President, and Connor discovered he had the powers of Powerkid and stopped his father, who was then freed from the mental control.
Though Yana didn't like it, she agreed to allow her son to continue operating as Powerkid (because she knew he would do it anyways.)
As part of having a billionaire as a grandfather meant that suddenly, Yana has suddenly found herself with a nice monthly allowance from Bossman Enterprises which suddenly made her wealthy.
When Chris' mother became sick in 2008, Yana and Connor moved to Orange City and into the family home. Sadly, she passed away.
The next year, when Michael Bossman was revealed to still be a criminal, a clause in his corporate policies gave Chris, his sister Michelle, and Yana (as proxy for Connor) control of this mutli-billion dollar company. Since Chris was at the time in hiding (having killed the president), Michelle became President of the company, and Yana (whose legality was being handled but was still questionable) was content with the role of vice president.
Yana still operates as VP of Bossman Enterprises, worries constantly about her son, and lives in Chris' childhood home with Michelle and Connor.
Comments:
I have to be very careful with discussing the creation of evolution of this character, and the inspirations behind her. Though anyone who knows me personally will read this and know exactly who is the real person behind the fictional one.
Legally, I'm not crossing any lines with the creation and use of this character, but that wouldn't stop the person who inspired this creation from bringing me to court anyways. Good thing she never had any interest in my writing.
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
Real Name: Yana Oo
Alias: Yana Oo Kowalski
Current Occupation: Vice President, Bossman Enterprises
Parents: Hwana Oo and Yana Chana
Siblings: Too numerous to list
Spouse: None
Children: Connor Kowalski (aka Powerkid)
Place of Birth: The planet Hanguk
Current Place of Residence: Orange City
First Appearance: Powerman # 82, August 1995
Biography:
Yana Oo grew up on her home world of Hanguk, a world that had been occupied by the Booers before she had even been born. She lived with a poor family with dozens of siblings.
In 1995, her whole world changed (quite literally) when Powerman arrived on her world, freeing the planet from Booer control and winning Yana's love. The two married, and were quite content on Hanguk, until Powerman received a mental distress call from his sister on Earth, which he had to respond to.
Yana chose to go with him, leaving her family and world behind. Also accompanying them were a group of adventurers whom Powerman had befriended on this world.
They arrived on Earth to find that during the three years Powerman had been away, a mutant named Adam had taken over the world, and had mental control over Earth's meta-humans.
Powerman of course defeated the villain, with the combined support of Earth's other champions. Following this, Powerman and Yana chose to leave Earth to explore space (and the multiverse) along with Powerman's friends from Hanguk and his closest Earth allies (NighTrain, Patience Glenndale, and Marvel).
For a year they settled into an alternate reality where they lived on a world where Superman had become it's greatest champion rather than Powerman (and had even survived his encounter with Doomsday.)
However, Yana became pregnant, and NighTrain and Patience had already had and were raising on their craft a three year old daughter, and so they chose to return home, and live a quiet, retired life in a world where super-heroics were no longer accepted.
The Kowalskis settled in the Pacific Northwest, and soon Connor was born. Shortly after, and for the first time, Chris Kowalski (Powerman) started suffering from the results of a strange mood disorder that would cause him to have erratic behavior (which would later be revealed to be the work of Doctor Deadly).
Yana couldn't deal with Chris' strange new behaviors, and the two divorced. Chris' mental breakdown continued to grow worse, and he left Earth to explore time, space, and alternate realities. (In fact, it seemed that the further he was from his home, the less erratic he was.)
Yana continued to raise Connor in a normal environment, though struggling with cultural differences and being technically an illegal alien. She also maintained a strong effort to have Chris' family be a part of Connor's life.
In 2007, Yana and Connor were visiting Orange City for Connor's birthday. Chris had also arrived home for the festivities, and surprisingly, Chris' father, billionaire/villain Michael Bossman also showed up, having been released and allegedly reformed. Michael began a close relationship with his grandson, though not to the liking of Chris, who didn't trust his father.
Shortly after, when the effects of Deadly's control were at it's strongest, Powerman killed the U.S. President, and Connor discovered he had the powers of Powerkid and stopped his father, who was then freed from the mental control.
Though Yana didn't like it, she agreed to allow her son to continue operating as Powerkid (because she knew he would do it anyways.)
As part of having a billionaire as a grandfather meant that suddenly, Yana has suddenly found herself with a nice monthly allowance from Bossman Enterprises which suddenly made her wealthy.
When Chris' mother became sick in 2008, Yana and Connor moved to Orange City and into the family home. Sadly, she passed away.
The next year, when Michael Bossman was revealed to still be a criminal, a clause in his corporate policies gave Chris, his sister Michelle, and Yana (as proxy for Connor) control of this mutli-billion dollar company. Since Chris was at the time in hiding (having killed the president), Michelle became President of the company, and Yana (whose legality was being handled but was still questionable) was content with the role of vice president.
Yana still operates as VP of Bossman Enterprises, worries constantly about her son, and lives in Chris' childhood home with Michelle and Connor.
Comments:
I have to be very careful with discussing the creation of evolution of this character, and the inspirations behind her. Though anyone who knows me personally will read this and know exactly who is the real person behind the fictional one.
Legally, I'm not crossing any lines with the creation and use of this character, but that wouldn't stop the person who inspired this creation from bringing me to court anyways. Good thing she never had any interest in my writing.
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
Elizabeth Hasser
Elizabeth Hasser
created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
Real Name: Elizabeth Hasser (maiden name not revealed)
Current Occupation: Deceased, former dietician
Parents: Unknown
Siblings: None
Spouse: John Hasser (deceased)
Children: Colleen Hasser, Pauline Sherman, Maureen Wrigley
Group Affiliation: None
Place of Birth: Worcester
Place of Death: Worcester
First Appearance: Super Comics # 1, November 1979
History:
Elizabeth Hasser was a strong woman, whose husband left her, leaving her to raise her three daughters alone. These three daughters would become the mothers of three of Earth's greatest champions: Powerman, NighTrain, and Shon Crest.
Elizabeth died sometime during the years that Powerman was out in space.
Comments:
Not much to say. This character is based physically and personality wise on my grandmother, but my grandmother is still very much alive and well and has decades left in her.
created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
Real Name: Elizabeth Hasser (maiden name not revealed)
Current Occupation: Deceased, former dietician
Parents: Unknown
Siblings: None
Spouse: John Hasser (deceased)
Children: Colleen Hasser, Pauline Sherman, Maureen Wrigley
Group Affiliation: None
Place of Birth: Worcester
Place of Death: Worcester
First Appearance: Super Comics # 1, November 1979
History:
Elizabeth Hasser was a strong woman, whose husband left her, leaving her to raise her three daughters alone. These three daughters would become the mothers of three of Earth's greatest champions: Powerman, NighTrain, and Shon Crest.
Elizabeth died sometime during the years that Powerman was out in space.
Comments:
Not much to say. This character is based physically and personality wise on my grandmother, but my grandmother is still very much alive and well and has decades left in her.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Adam
Adam
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
Real Name: Adam (Last Name Never Revealed)
Current Occupation: Deceased; former ruler of Earth
Parents: Unnamed
Siblings: Timeline (real name unrevealed)
Spouse: None
Children: None
Group Affiliation: None
Place of Birth: Somewhere in America
Place of Death: A satellite orbiting Earth
First Appearance: Timeline # 1 (September 1998)
Biography:
Adam and his brother were twins (not identical) born into a typical American household. It wasn't long before the household was no longer ordinary. From a very early age Adam begin to exhibit abilities. At 2 he was telekinetic. By 4 he was reading minds, and shortly after that he was beginning to be able to control minds. Meanwhile his brother exhibited no powers, and was often Adam's victim.
His parents grew scared and sent Adam away to a government agency called Project: Franklin. The Project tried to turn Adam into a weapon. They kept him locked away, conducted tests on him, sometimes painful. All this time, a psychic connection remained between the brothers. And the normal one knew his brother was evil, and he was afraid.
In 1995, Powerman left Earth after the woman he loved had left him. He left his sister, Powerkid, in charge of protecting Earth as its champion. A few months later, Adam, now 21, broke free of his prison, killing many in the process. He used his powers to within weeks become ruler of Earth, establishing a new order where mutants and meta-humans were a higher class of society than normal people. Additionally, he banished all aliens from Earth. With his amazing powers at this point, he had the power to dominate everyone on the planet. Even magic users were powerless against him.
Adam reorganized the Heroes of Earth as his private army. He admitted the former Misfits as his personal task force. And he placed Powerkid and Zap as his personal guards.
Some of these heroes served willingly, but most were victims of mind control.
During his reign, NighTrain led a team of underground freedom fighters who tried in vain to liberate Earth. However, Adam stayed in power for three years.
In 1998, Powerkid was finally able to gather enough will power to send a mental summons to her brother, who was now living on the planet Hanguk. Powerman immediately headed back to Earth with some new friends and his new bride. It took a few weeks, but Powerman soon found himself on Earth faced with a double threat.
First, he had to rally the Heroes of Earth and NighTrain's team to join forces, both to overthrow Adam and take on another threat. You see, when Adam rose to power, his brother felt he had to stop him. He found a means of gaining the power to travel through time of his own will in order to accomplish a specific plan. Calling himself Timeline, he felt that in order to prevent Adam's rise, he needed to create a world without meta-humans and mutants by travelling back and killing them before they got their powers.
Powerman was able to convince Adam to release the heroes from his control so they could help stop his brother. After all, if Timeline wasn't stopped, Adam was doomed as well. Powerman eventually defeated Timeline, but the only way to stop him was to kill him, and he did so, back in November of 1979, and moments later, off in the distance, he witnessed himself, at age 6, being struck by a meteorite that would change his world forever.
With the heroes free, they returned to the present. And that is when it was learned not all that served Adam had been under mind control. A battle was fought, but Powerman's will, with the power of the Great Unknown, was enough to destroy Adam, literally killing him by blowing up his brain.
Following the aftermath, Powerman reflected that in some ways Timeline was correct. Powerman had been to the future often, and after the next century, there are no meta-humans, and Earth has entered an era where it is part of an interstellar community.
The heroes agree that a world without meta-humans and vigilantes would be for the best. Knowing not all would agree, Allorin Vonski created a massive spell that took away all super-powers, and erased from the minds of all Earth inhabitants of any memories of super-heroes. Only some were spared, who chose to leave Earth to explore space.
Of course, those heroes returned a few years later, and when Powerman, under the control of Doctor Deadly killed President Bush, everyone's memories returned, but not the powers.
Only recently, during an event only known as the Crisis, has almost every hero and villain had their powers restored, and upgraded, and even the dead ones were brought back.
However, the New Power, who were resurrecting villains, knew not to bring Adam back. Adam's power had kept the New Power at bay before, and they weren't going to take that risk.
Comments:
Adam was created for a four issue mini-series called Timeline. In 1995, I was done with Super Comics, and cancelled all titles. I left the universe with Powerman leaving Earth and Powerkid becoming the new Champion of Earth. Powerman's final storyline regarded him learning some secrets from his past and where he truly came from.
Three years later, my creative juices returned and so I wrote Timeline. Timeline was meant to show the consequences of what happens when Powerman abandons his duty. Timeline was meant to show how power corrupts even our heroes. Timeline was meant to be fun, with time travel back to different origin stories, from a different perspective. And Timeline was meant to give Super Comics a better ending, setting the stage for all the future era stories such as Ticon Force, Star Trek: Azrael, Captain Zippy, Star Patrol, and New Earth.
Of course, I did not end things there. I soon continued with those who left Earth, and their explorations, and eventually brought back the entire Super Universe.
Adam will be returning within the next few years, though differently than he had appeared in the past. Stayed tuned to Powerman in 2014.
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
Real Name: Adam (Last Name Never Revealed)
Current Occupation: Deceased; former ruler of Earth
Parents: Unnamed
Siblings: Timeline (real name unrevealed)
Spouse: None
Children: None
Group Affiliation: None
Place of Birth: Somewhere in America
Place of Death: A satellite orbiting Earth
First Appearance: Timeline # 1 (September 1998)
Biography:
Adam and his brother were twins (not identical) born into a typical American household. It wasn't long before the household was no longer ordinary. From a very early age Adam begin to exhibit abilities. At 2 he was telekinetic. By 4 he was reading minds, and shortly after that he was beginning to be able to control minds. Meanwhile his brother exhibited no powers, and was often Adam's victim.
His parents grew scared and sent Adam away to a government agency called Project: Franklin. The Project tried to turn Adam into a weapon. They kept him locked away, conducted tests on him, sometimes painful. All this time, a psychic connection remained between the brothers. And the normal one knew his brother was evil, and he was afraid.
In 1995, Powerman left Earth after the woman he loved had left him. He left his sister, Powerkid, in charge of protecting Earth as its champion. A few months later, Adam, now 21, broke free of his prison, killing many in the process. He used his powers to within weeks become ruler of Earth, establishing a new order where mutants and meta-humans were a higher class of society than normal people. Additionally, he banished all aliens from Earth. With his amazing powers at this point, he had the power to dominate everyone on the planet. Even magic users were powerless against him.
Adam reorganized the Heroes of Earth as his private army. He admitted the former Misfits as his personal task force. And he placed Powerkid and Zap as his personal guards.
Some of these heroes served willingly, but most were victims of mind control.
During his reign, NighTrain led a team of underground freedom fighters who tried in vain to liberate Earth. However, Adam stayed in power for three years.
In 1998, Powerkid was finally able to gather enough will power to send a mental summons to her brother, who was now living on the planet Hanguk. Powerman immediately headed back to Earth with some new friends and his new bride. It took a few weeks, but Powerman soon found himself on Earth faced with a double threat.
First, he had to rally the Heroes of Earth and NighTrain's team to join forces, both to overthrow Adam and take on another threat. You see, when Adam rose to power, his brother felt he had to stop him. He found a means of gaining the power to travel through time of his own will in order to accomplish a specific plan. Calling himself Timeline, he felt that in order to prevent Adam's rise, he needed to create a world without meta-humans and mutants by travelling back and killing them before they got their powers.
Powerman was able to convince Adam to release the heroes from his control so they could help stop his brother. After all, if Timeline wasn't stopped, Adam was doomed as well. Powerman eventually defeated Timeline, but the only way to stop him was to kill him, and he did so, back in November of 1979, and moments later, off in the distance, he witnessed himself, at age 6, being struck by a meteorite that would change his world forever.
With the heroes free, they returned to the present. And that is when it was learned not all that served Adam had been under mind control. A battle was fought, but Powerman's will, with the power of the Great Unknown, was enough to destroy Adam, literally killing him by blowing up his brain.
Following the aftermath, Powerman reflected that in some ways Timeline was correct. Powerman had been to the future often, and after the next century, there are no meta-humans, and Earth has entered an era where it is part of an interstellar community.
The heroes agree that a world without meta-humans and vigilantes would be for the best. Knowing not all would agree, Allorin Vonski created a massive spell that took away all super-powers, and erased from the minds of all Earth inhabitants of any memories of super-heroes. Only some were spared, who chose to leave Earth to explore space.
Of course, those heroes returned a few years later, and when Powerman, under the control of Doctor Deadly killed President Bush, everyone's memories returned, but not the powers.
Only recently, during an event only known as the Crisis, has almost every hero and villain had their powers restored, and upgraded, and even the dead ones were brought back.
However, the New Power, who were resurrecting villains, knew not to bring Adam back. Adam's power had kept the New Power at bay before, and they weren't going to take that risk.
Comments:
Adam was created for a four issue mini-series called Timeline. In 1995, I was done with Super Comics, and cancelled all titles. I left the universe with Powerman leaving Earth and Powerkid becoming the new Champion of Earth. Powerman's final storyline regarded him learning some secrets from his past and where he truly came from.
Three years later, my creative juices returned and so I wrote Timeline. Timeline was meant to show the consequences of what happens when Powerman abandons his duty. Timeline was meant to show how power corrupts even our heroes. Timeline was meant to be fun, with time travel back to different origin stories, from a different perspective. And Timeline was meant to give Super Comics a better ending, setting the stage for all the future era stories such as Ticon Force, Star Trek: Azrael, Captain Zippy, Star Patrol, and New Earth.
Of course, I did not end things there. I soon continued with those who left Earth, and their explorations, and eventually brought back the entire Super Universe.
Adam will be returning within the next few years, though differently than he had appeared in the past. Stayed tuned to Powerman in 2014.
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