Adam Rubinstein
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
Real Name: Adam Rubinstein
Current Occupation: College Student
Parents: Unnamed
Siblings: None
Spouse: None
Children: None
Group Affiliation: Heroes of the People
Place of Birth: Hadenville, OH
Current Place of Residence: Amherst, MA
First Appearance: Powerman # 263, September 2010
Biography:
Adam Rubinstein has been called the John Barstaman of his time.
Adam's grandfather was the villainious Dr. Rubinstein who was the chief enemy of Captain Hero during World War II. Dr. Rubinstein also menaced the Mystery Men, All-Star Squadron, and League of Extraordinary Gentlemen during that period.
Adam himself grew up with a super-intellect, just like his grandfather. However, Adam chose early on that he would use his brains in the opposite ways of his grandfather. (The one exception was that Adam had no problems using his brains to gain access to money if he needed it for the "greater good.")
When Adam turned 18, he went to the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where his roommate was fellow freshman Jonathon Stanford (who was secretly Powerman, minus the powers).
Shortly after arriving on campus, Adam recruited several new and young heroes to form a team called the Heroes of the People, who would have a more proactive mission than the Heroes of Earth. The two teams would clash often.
Adam recruited Jonathon to work with team. At the time, Jonathon had become well known in the area for solving mysteries, but Adam had also deduced Jonathon's true identity and sought out his experience.
Adam currently is the brains behind the team, although ironically a new Captain Hero had been handpicked by Adam to be the face of the team.
Comments:
See my comments for Pretty Gal II.
Adam is in a way a remaking of an 80s hero in that he very much filling the role that John Barstaman held with the Heroes of Earth. Dr. Rubinstein (and the original Captain Hero) are retcons added in recent Powerman stories.
It should be noted that the Heroes of the People do not have their own title. They appear frequently in the pages of Powerman, Heroes of Earth, and Justice.
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Pretty Gal II
Pretty Gal II
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
Real Name: Sheryl Carlson
Current Occupation: Owner of her own public relations and marketing firm
Parents: Unknown
Siblings: None
Spouse: None
Children: None
Place of Birth: Arkansas
Current Place of Residence: Orange City
First Appearance: Powerman # 263 (September 2010)
Biography:
Sheryl Carlson is a mutant who has the ability to manipulate any straight male or gay female with her abilities. Sheryl's power manifests itself in several ways to create this ability. First, she emits a chemical which causes a submissive reaction in those exposed. Second, he emits radiation that causes an aura which seemingly invisible can actually be seen subliminally causing a hypnotic state. Finally, her voice emits a hidden sound that affects the brain.
Sheryl discovered this power early on and used it to get whatever she wanted. Within a matter of months after graduation, she became the most successful marketing and PR person in Orange City. However, after discovering the evils of one of her clients, Michael Bossman, and the role she played in helping him cover it up, she vowed to find a way to use her powers for good.
Taking a cue from a hero of the 1980s with a similar power, she took the name Pretty Gal, and became a hero, soon being recruited by Adam Rubinstein to join his new team, the Heroes of the People, a role she currently fills.
Comments:
All of the Heroes of the People are based on friends of mine from my time on the UMass Mock Trial team. Their fictional counterparts have mostly taken names of classic Super Comics characters from the 1980s, putting a new modern spin on them.
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
Real Name: Sheryl Carlson
Current Occupation: Owner of her own public relations and marketing firm
Parents: Unknown
Siblings: None
Spouse: None
Children: None
Place of Birth: Arkansas
Current Place of Residence: Orange City
First Appearance: Powerman # 263 (September 2010)
Biography:
Sheryl Carlson is a mutant who has the ability to manipulate any straight male or gay female with her abilities. Sheryl's power manifests itself in several ways to create this ability. First, she emits a chemical which causes a submissive reaction in those exposed. Second, he emits radiation that causes an aura which seemingly invisible can actually be seen subliminally causing a hypnotic state. Finally, her voice emits a hidden sound that affects the brain.
Sheryl discovered this power early on and used it to get whatever she wanted. Within a matter of months after graduation, she became the most successful marketing and PR person in Orange City. However, after discovering the evils of one of her clients, Michael Bossman, and the role she played in helping him cover it up, she vowed to find a way to use her powers for good.
Taking a cue from a hero of the 1980s with a similar power, she took the name Pretty Gal, and became a hero, soon being recruited by Adam Rubinstein to join his new team, the Heroes of the People, a role she currently fills.
Comments:
All of the Heroes of the People are based on friends of mine from my time on the UMass Mock Trial team. Their fictional counterparts have mostly taken names of classic Super Comics characters from the 1980s, putting a new modern spin on them.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
Hell Child
Hell Child
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
Real Name: Amy (Last Name Unrevealed)
Current Occupation: Agent of the New Power Organization
Parents: Unnamed
Siblings: Jill (Last Name Unrevealed)
Spouse: None
Children: None
Group Affiliation: Champions, Heroes of Earth, New Power Organization
Place of Birth: Somewhere in the deep South
Current Place of Residence: An undisclosed location
First Appearance: Blackbirds # 6, July 1991
Biography:
Amy was the oldest of two daughters living in the deep south. When she was 14, she began to develop mental powers. She was able to read minds, move objects with her mind, and even make people do her bidding. Her parents thought she was a witch, and kicked her out, calling her a hell child.
Amy decided to head north, towards Orange City, where people with unique abilities were celebrated as heroes. She instead ended up in Greenfield, where agents of Project: Franklin tried to abduct her because of her abilities and age, but she was rescued by the Blackbirds, a team of young heroes who were in constant conflict with Project: Franklin.
Amy was invited to join the team, and seeing the irony, chose the code name Hell Child to use for a heroic identity.
Amy's powers were rapidly growing stronger and stronger, and the power was corrupting her. In fact, one evening, when only her and War Child, the team leader, were at headquarters, Amy used her powers to rape him. Even though War Child was traumatized by the experience, he felt Amy could not be blamed for not being able to keep her powers in control, and they kept her on the team in order to help her.
A few months later, Amy's younger sister Jill showed up, having developed the same powers and also been kicked out of the house. Jill took up the identity of Devil's Daughter. Jill's powers weren't as strong as Amy's and thus did not cause the same problems.
In late 1992, it seemed that the team had been killed on Metor, but indeed they had survived and been captured by the Project, who had experimented on them. The team escaped and based on advice from Powerman, changed their name to the Champions.
In 1995, a mutant named Adam used his powers to take over the Earth. He mind controlled every metahuman on Earth to serve as his honor guard, the Heroes of Earth. However, when the spell was broken, it was discovered that some metas, like Hell Child, were willingly serving Adam's cause, believing in a world where super beings ruled. Hell Child was defeated along with Adam, and her powers were then stripped by Allorin Vonski, along with her memories of ever having powers. In fact, the whole world forget, and because of this, Amy and Jill returned home, their parents having believe the children had just ran away for a few years and were so relieved to have their normal children back.
Thirteen years later, a spell cast by the New Power Organization restored the powers and memories of all super-villains, brought dead ones back to life, and upgrades all of their powers. Amy had her powers back. She had her memories back. She was even more powerful. And she was more evil than ever.
First, she killed her parents and Jill. Then she willingly served as one of two of the New Power's top agents (the other being Powerlord). Hell Child was feared by heroes as she had no problems with killing, and liked to make sure it was going to hurt...physically and emotionally.
The New Power's scheme to reshape Earth as a world of evil failed, however, and Hell Child had to escape and go into hiding. However, not long after, she was abducted along with several other villains and heroes and transported to an alternate dimension by the Protector. They were to do battle for his amusement.
Hell Child killed the heroes Truth and Powergirl during this "secret war", and even killed her teammate Nicole Barstaman. Nicole had very similar powers as Amy. When Amy was mortally wounded, she absorbed Nicole's powers, her memories, and her life force into her, restoring her life and doubling her power. The side effect was that now there are two separate beings residing in one body, though Amy remains dominant.
When the heroes and villains returned to Earth, Hell Child returned to service for the New Power, that had rebuilt itself in her absence. She currently serves as one of the organization's number one agents.
Comments:
This character is actually inspired by one of the nicest, most innocent girls I knew in high school, based on the premise of what those types of powers could do even to the best of people.
Though I never expected when I created this character as a member of the Blackbirds that I would one day maker her one of the most dangerous villains in the Wronskiverse.
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
Real Name: Amy (Last Name Unrevealed)
Current Occupation: Agent of the New Power Organization
Parents: Unnamed
Siblings: Jill (Last Name Unrevealed)
Spouse: None
Children: None
Group Affiliation: Champions, Heroes of Earth, New Power Organization
Place of Birth: Somewhere in the deep South
Current Place of Residence: An undisclosed location
First Appearance: Blackbirds # 6, July 1991
Biography:
Amy was the oldest of two daughters living in the deep south. When she was 14, she began to develop mental powers. She was able to read minds, move objects with her mind, and even make people do her bidding. Her parents thought she was a witch, and kicked her out, calling her a hell child.
Amy decided to head north, towards Orange City, where people with unique abilities were celebrated as heroes. She instead ended up in Greenfield, where agents of Project: Franklin tried to abduct her because of her abilities and age, but she was rescued by the Blackbirds, a team of young heroes who were in constant conflict with Project: Franklin.
Amy was invited to join the team, and seeing the irony, chose the code name Hell Child to use for a heroic identity.
Amy's powers were rapidly growing stronger and stronger, and the power was corrupting her. In fact, one evening, when only her and War Child, the team leader, were at headquarters, Amy used her powers to rape him. Even though War Child was traumatized by the experience, he felt Amy could not be blamed for not being able to keep her powers in control, and they kept her on the team in order to help her.
A few months later, Amy's younger sister Jill showed up, having developed the same powers and also been kicked out of the house. Jill took up the identity of Devil's Daughter. Jill's powers weren't as strong as Amy's and thus did not cause the same problems.
In late 1992, it seemed that the team had been killed on Metor, but indeed they had survived and been captured by the Project, who had experimented on them. The team escaped and based on advice from Powerman, changed their name to the Champions.
In 1995, a mutant named Adam used his powers to take over the Earth. He mind controlled every metahuman on Earth to serve as his honor guard, the Heroes of Earth. However, when the spell was broken, it was discovered that some metas, like Hell Child, were willingly serving Adam's cause, believing in a world where super beings ruled. Hell Child was defeated along with Adam, and her powers were then stripped by Allorin Vonski, along with her memories of ever having powers. In fact, the whole world forget, and because of this, Amy and Jill returned home, their parents having believe the children had just ran away for a few years and were so relieved to have their normal children back.
Thirteen years later, a spell cast by the New Power Organization restored the powers and memories of all super-villains, brought dead ones back to life, and upgrades all of their powers. Amy had her powers back. She had her memories back. She was even more powerful. And she was more evil than ever.
First, she killed her parents and Jill. Then she willingly served as one of two of the New Power's top agents (the other being Powerlord). Hell Child was feared by heroes as she had no problems with killing, and liked to make sure it was going to hurt...physically and emotionally.
The New Power's scheme to reshape Earth as a world of evil failed, however, and Hell Child had to escape and go into hiding. However, not long after, she was abducted along with several other villains and heroes and transported to an alternate dimension by the Protector. They were to do battle for his amusement.
Hell Child killed the heroes Truth and Powergirl during this "secret war", and even killed her teammate Nicole Barstaman. Nicole had very similar powers as Amy. When Amy was mortally wounded, she absorbed Nicole's powers, her memories, and her life force into her, restoring her life and doubling her power. The side effect was that now there are two separate beings residing in one body, though Amy remains dominant.
When the heroes and villains returned to Earth, Hell Child returned to service for the New Power, that had rebuilt itself in her absence. She currently serves as one of the organization's number one agents.
Comments:
This character is actually inspired by one of the nicest, most innocent girls I knew in high school, based on the premise of what those types of powers could do even to the best of people.
Though I never expected when I created this character as a member of the Blackbirds that I would one day maker her one of the most dangerous villains in the Wronskiverse.
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Booer
Booer
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
First Appearance: Super Comics # 23, September 1981
Biography:
Booer is a planet within a solar system near our own where every world is populated with lifeforms more advanced than we are.
Booer itself is a world in which only females exist, and males are captured from other worlds and brought to Booer as slaves. Booers (as those native of Booer are called) have greater strength and speed than humans. They heal much faster and age much slower. They are far more intelligent and have abilities of mental telethapy and telekinesis.
Booers do not give birth, but rather clone themselves at a certain age, thus creating daughters who from our Earthly perspective would appear very close in age.
A long time ago, the Booers were a peaceful people ruled by an Empress, who contained great mystical abilities. However, a power hungry Booer killed the Empress, but not before the Empress sent her power into a gem which she sent to Earth. The Empress' killer became the first queen of Booer.
The Booers became a war like race that believed that the galaxy was theirs to conquer. In 1972, they conquered the planet Hanguk for example, a world they occupied until 1995 when the hero Powerman rallied the Hangukians to rebel and free their world.
In 1979, teenager Christine Audder was on vacation in California when she discovered the Empress' gem and gained her power, which she used to become the heroic Witch Woman (though temporarily, she had been overcome with the Booer mentality in which men needed to be enslaved and tortured for her amusement.)
In 1981, three Earth teen boys were abducted and brought to Booer as a rite of passage by three teen Booer girls named Angela, Kirstina, and Tina. (It's always been considered an odd coincidence that Booer women have Anglo-Saxon names.) Angela didn't feel right about what was being done by her people, and allowed the three Earth boys to escape. They went on to a series on adventures on various alien worlds before finally getting home.
The next year, Angel, the daughter of the Queen of Booer, as an act of rebellion, ran away to Earth. At first, she became the villain called Man-Killer, keeping her Booer mindset, but after several confrontations with the heroic Powerkid, she realized her ways were wrong, and reformed, even joining the super-hero team called the Powerkid Police.
Shortly after that, Angela (who was in fact Angel's daughter), came to Earth herself, sick of the ways of her people. After a brief time on Earth, in which she found herself becoming a singer, she was recruited by a music promoter to join a group of teen super-powered musicians as Super Rock. The band was very successful for a year, then lost it's popularity and disbanded.
In 1983, Booer invaded Kookooronba, and though they were unsuccessful in conquering the planet, they still have a hold upon one of it's continents to this day.
Powerkid was instrumental in helping save Kookoorongba, which brought Earth to Booer's attention as it's next conquest. And they did indeed make the attempt, but were repelled by the combined efforts of Powerkid, Man-Killer, Angela, the Powerkid Police, Super Rock, and the other heroes of Earth (which also included Witch Woman.)
Angel killed her mother, the queen, and took her place. Angela opted to stay on Earth.
Under Angel's rule, Booer had set new more peaceful policies, but of course it's hard to make drastic changes overnight, and so though no new worlds were conquered, those already under their control remained so.
In 1986, the evil god-like Doctor Deadly began a plot to take back Earth that involved an alien alliance. When Angel refused to participate, Deadly uses his powers of mental persuasion to force her to do his bidding. Angela, upon speaking with her mother, sensed something was wrong and sought out Powerkid. The two went to stop Booer and Deadly and were joined by other heroes, who defeated the plans and freed Angel from Deadly's influence. The heroes involved chose to form a new super-team called the Heroes of Earth.
In 1990, the Booers discovered that Christine Audder had the gem, and in fact, the Empress' soul was within Christine, having been absorbed from the gem along with the power. The Empress and Christine's personas merged, and the Empress took a faction of the Booers, including Angela and Kirstina, and migrated to another plane of existence, which was named Boor, thus they became Boors.
Those who had migrated found they had new abilities, such as teleportation and phasing through solid objects, as well as being able to travel from their dimension to ours and back at will. They also had found they needed now to feed off the fear, pain, and sexual pleasures of males.
When the Empress began the old rituals again in order to sustain the Boors, Angela went to Earth to fight them. She returned to the Heroes of Earth, now calling herself Power Woman. Kirstina also left Boor, though simply because she wanted to follow her old rules, and became a villain, taking the name of Man-Killer.
Angela and Kirstina were both killed in 1992, but were resurrected in 2008 (by the Universal Protectors and the New Power, respectively.) Angel also has given up her throne to return to Earth and serve as a member of a heroic team of former super-villains called the Bad Guys.
Booer's relationship currently with the rest of the galaxy can be related to America's cold war with the Soviet Union for several decades.
However, thanks to stories of the future, which have been told, we know that something will happen within the next few decades to change that.
By the time of the late 21st century, Booer will be a major constant threat to Earth. In the 31st century, they will be in a full fledged war with Earth, allied with Doctor Deadly and space pirates. In fact, they will have actually taken the war to Earth, where Earth will have to fight on their own planet to repel the invaders, which they will successfully do, until a century later, when the Booers unite with several other worlds to successfully conquer Earth, and divide the planet up among them.
The future of the Booers (and Earth) beyond that time frame is unknown.
Comments:
The Booers have many influences from several different war like alien races from popular sci-fi, such as Klingons and Khunds, (and even the Venusians from the final season of Mork and Mindy).
Of course, there is also influences from the amazons of Greek mythology (and DC Comics) and from creatures like Succubi.
And there is also, perhaps not so apparent, influences from the British Empire, the Soviet Union, and even the United States and it's foreign policy.
(And yeah, there are various overtones of BDSM type stuff thrown in there as well.)
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.
Sunday, September 25, 2011
Jessica Warner
Jessica Warner
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
Real Name: Jessica Warner
Current Occupation: College Student, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Parents: Unrevealed
Siblings: None
Spouse: None
Children: None
Group Affiliation: None
Place of Birth: Unknown
Current Place of Residence: Amherst
First Appearance: Powerman # 263, September 2009
Biography:
Jessica Warner is a psychology major at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. At the start of her freshman year she first met Jonathon Stanford, also a freshman who was majoring in Legal Studies. What Jessica didn't know was that Jonathon was actually Powerman, who had chosen to give up his powers for a year and had taken this new identity to live a normal life, starting over.
Shortly after they met, Jessica and Jonathon found themselves compelled to help in the investigation of the theft of a painting from the campus art museum, which they solved successfully. This seemed to be the beginning of a string of campus and Amherst mysteries that the two inevitably found themselves investigating.
It wasn't long before Jessica and Jonathon were in love, and dating, and solving crimes. Things got weirder as wannabe super-heroes and villains began populating the campus and the town, as a reaction to the absence of Powerman, who the world considered to be missing, despite his Myspace blog posts stating otherwise.
Even Jessica's roommate Holly donned costume to become the newest hero called Justice.
Eventually, the campus became the primary headquarters of a new group of heroes called the Heroes of the People, whose adventures often involved Jessica and Jonathon.
Recently, on one of their usual adventures, Jessica and Jonathon found themselves captured by the bad guys aboard a helicopter, bound and gagged. Jessica was thrown from the helicopter, with Jonathon thrown just after. Just at that moment, Powerman's year was up, and his powers returned. Jonathon transformed (without any eyes on him) into Powerman, saved Jessica, and captured the bad guys. He then told Jessica that he also saved Jonathon he he was a down the road, and flew off, to transform...down the road.
However, a few days later, Jonathon/Chris/Powerman gathered the courage to reveal his identity to Jessica and tell her the whole story of his heroic and often tragic life.
She told him that she would keep his secret, and her love for him didn't change.
The two are currently in their second year of college.
Comments:
Jessica is clearly inspired by the love of my life. Though I made changes for dramatic purposes, her personality is very similar. Jessica remains a principle character in Powerman, and now can be seen in other titles in which Powerman is involved, such as Powerkid.
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
Real Name: Jessica Warner
Current Occupation: College Student, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Parents: Unrevealed
Siblings: None
Spouse: None
Children: None
Group Affiliation: None
Place of Birth: Unknown
Current Place of Residence: Amherst
First Appearance: Powerman # 263, September 2009
Biography:
Jessica Warner is a psychology major at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. At the start of her freshman year she first met Jonathon Stanford, also a freshman who was majoring in Legal Studies. What Jessica didn't know was that Jonathon was actually Powerman, who had chosen to give up his powers for a year and had taken this new identity to live a normal life, starting over.
Shortly after they met, Jessica and Jonathon found themselves compelled to help in the investigation of the theft of a painting from the campus art museum, which they solved successfully. This seemed to be the beginning of a string of campus and Amherst mysteries that the two inevitably found themselves investigating.
It wasn't long before Jessica and Jonathon were in love, and dating, and solving crimes. Things got weirder as wannabe super-heroes and villains began populating the campus and the town, as a reaction to the absence of Powerman, who the world considered to be missing, despite his Myspace blog posts stating otherwise.
Even Jessica's roommate Holly donned costume to become the newest hero called Justice.
Eventually, the campus became the primary headquarters of a new group of heroes called the Heroes of the People, whose adventures often involved Jessica and Jonathon.
Recently, on one of their usual adventures, Jessica and Jonathon found themselves captured by the bad guys aboard a helicopter, bound and gagged. Jessica was thrown from the helicopter, with Jonathon thrown just after. Just at that moment, Powerman's year was up, and his powers returned. Jonathon transformed (without any eyes on him) into Powerman, saved Jessica, and captured the bad guys. He then told Jessica that he also saved Jonathon he he was a down the road, and flew off, to transform...down the road.
However, a few days later, Jonathon/Chris/Powerman gathered the courage to reveal his identity to Jessica and tell her the whole story of his heroic and often tragic life.
She told him that she would keep his secret, and her love for him didn't change.
The two are currently in their second year of college.
Comments:
Jessica is clearly inspired by the love of my life. Though I made changes for dramatic purposes, her personality is very similar. Jessica remains a principle character in Powerman, and now can be seen in other titles in which Powerman is involved, such as Powerkid.
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.
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
Robert "Rob" E. Wronski, Jr. (November 18, 1972 – ), who also used pseudonyms including Jim Wright, Bobby Wronski, and Bob Wronski, was the American creator of Powerman, the first of the great comic book superheroes of Super Comics and one of the most recognizable of the 20th century.
| Robert E. Wronski, Jr. | |
|---|---|
 Robert E. Wronski, Jr. in 2011 | |
| Born | Robert Edward Wronski Junior November 18, 1972 Worcester, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Area(s) | Writer |
| Pseudonym(s) | Jim Wright, Bobby Wronski, Bob Wronski |
| Notable works | Powerman, Super Comics # 1 |
| Fiance | Jessica Wierzbowski |
Early life
The son of a factory worker and a waitress, Wronski was the oldest of two children. His father Bob Wronski was a factory worker and encouraged his son's artistic inclinations. Wronski's parents divorced when he was eight. Wronski was a fan of movies, comic strips, and especially science fiction. He became active in what would become known as fandom, corresponding with other science fiction fans, including the young future author Phil Sheridan. In 1978, Wronski published what might have been the first SF fanzine associated with Super Comics, Adventures of Other Worlds, which he produced handwritten with a notebook and advertised by word of mouth. He published several other issues over the next few months.
Siegel attended Mahar Regional Junior-Senior High School in Orange, Masachusetts and worked for its weekly student newspaper, The Red and Blue Revue. He was a shy, not particularly popular student, but he achieved a bit of fame among his peers for his popular character, "Ratman." At about age 7, while at Dexter Park Elementary School, he befriended his later collaborator, Phil Sheridan. Wronski described his friendship with the more charismatic Sheridan:
| “ | We immediately became partners in crime. | ” |
The writer broke into comics with his own landmark Super Comics, debuting with Super-Bob, Little Bobby, Animal Town U.S.A., Waterman, and Bobby the Kid (Nov. 1979).
Powerman
Wronski created a crazy alien hero named "Krazy-El," bent on understanding human nature. He appeared in the short story "Krazy-El" from Adventures on Other Worlds #1, a science fiction fanzine that Wronski published in 1978. The character was not successful. Tossing and turning in bed one night in 1979, he came upon the more familiar version of the character. Wronski then began to self-publish with co-publisher Deborah Skowronski. Titling it Super-Bob, Wronski chose it as the cover feature for Super Comics' Super Comics #1 (November 1979). The following year, Wronski initiated the syndicated Super-Bob comic strip. Wronski also created the humor strip characters of Little Bobby and Animal Town U.S.A., the western hero Bobby the Kid, and the aquatic character Waterman during this same period.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Heroes of Earth
Heroes of Earth
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
Members:
Allorin Vonski
Doctor Deadly
Unknown
Peter Lebane
Danny "Blacky" Falkner
Doctor Mystery
Wonder Dog
Powerkid/Powerman
Angela, Princess of Another World
Zap, Master of Power II
Luke Devlin
Speed Demon
John Barstaman
Justice I
Space Hero
Phil Kowalski
Kristen Sherman
Captain Hero
Shon Crest
Volt Man
Powerwoman
Starfire
Lady Shiva
Captain Zippy
Barbara Van Helsing
Powerkid II
Zap, Master of Power III
War Child
Icicle
Green Flame
Super Guy
Hell Child
Devil's Daughter
Mouse
Marvel
Justice III
First Appearance: Powerkid Police # 25, September 1984
Biography:
The team that has gone by the name Heroes of Earth has gone under a few different incarnations.
The first team actually began on an alternate world called Earth-5 by some. Allorin Vonski (one of the cosmic ones of Earth-B, the main Wronskiverse) knew of an upcoming Crisis that would threaten all of existence throughout the multliverse. He realized this other Earth needed it's own team of champions, much like Earth-B's Powerkid Police. Unlike Earth B, Earth-5 is a world without super-beings, but in their place are magical beings and nonpowered heroes.
The team Vonski chose consisted of Doctor Deadly, a hero whose mystical powers he used to protect the galaxy; the Unknown, a vigilante who operates in Worcester and was inspired by Vonki's brother the Great Unknown; Peter Lebane, a private investigator whose cases pit him against super criminals; Blacky Falkner, former sidekick of the Unknown and later parter of Lebane; Doctor Mystery, a very mysterious international adventurer; and Wonder Dog, a robotic dog who was a gift to Doctor Mystery from another vigilante who operated in a big city in the 1970s.
This team traveled to Earth-B to seek out the Powerkid Police, so they could join forces in the upcoming Crisis. The Heroes of Earth were part of the events of the Crisis on Infinite Earths. While they were on Earth-B with the Powerkid Police their world was destroyed by anti-matter. (Actually, that's not really true, but it was what they believed.)
They were present on the Monitor's satellite, and battled the Anti-Monitor on the moon of Qward.
And they then joined with Earth-B's heroes to stop Doctor Deadly (the bad one) from destroying all reality.
In the aftermath, the Heroes of Earth found themselves without a home, stranded on a world where they did not exist. In order to help their transition, he maxed his powers by altering reality so that these heroes had always existed on Earth-B.
Following this, the Heroes of Earth, who had only joined forces for the Crisis, disbanded.
Doctor Deadly retired, after having seen a world where his name is used for evil.
The Unknown had the hardest time adapting. Unlike the other heroes, the Unknown existed on both worlds. Thus, Earth-5's Unknown was a duplicate. He had no place. He later joined a team called the Mystery Men and tragically died on a mission.
Peter Lebane also had a duplicate, but Vonski's spell had actually merged the two together since their lives had been so close to being the same (whereas the two Unknowns had a lot of different adventures). Following this, Peter rejoined the police force.
Blacky also merged with his other universe version. When he reached adulthood, he would join the police force.
Doctor Mystery and Wonder Dog had no counterparts, so their lives and history were fully integrated, though Doctor Mystery and his partner seemed to disappear for many years, not returning until the rise of Adam.
Just over a year after the Crisis, a new version of the team would form, which would be the most well remembered.
In the fall of 1986, Doctor Deadly (the bad one) was at it again, with another attempt to conquer Earth. Several heroes gathered together to defeat him. Since the Powerkid Police had recently disbanded, Allorin Vonski proposed the forming of a new Heroes of Earth to fill the void. Not all heroes involved in that adventure joined, but those who did were Luke Devil, Angela (Princess of Booer), Powerkid, Zap, and Speed Demon. Shortly after, scientist John Barstaman was recruited, and then the new vigilante called Justice. Three Space Heroes from the late 21st century came back in time to join the team as well. The final addition to this version of the team was a new hero called Captain Hero.
The team moved into an underground section of the corporate headquarters of Allen Industries, owned by Matthew Allen, an alter ego of Allorin Vonski. It was based in Hadenville, OH, which Vonski claimed was a mystical nexus.
In late 1988, the team went through some major changes. Powerkid retired from heroing after hurting emotionally from the betrayal of society during the time when super heroes were banned in America. Zap had lost his powers for unknown reasons (which were later revealed to be due to the death of his father, Zeus.) Justice took a leave to focus on finding the headquarters of the New Power Organization. And the Space Heroes had to return to their own time to deal with a threat from some evil (fake robot) Time Lords.
And then betrayal. Captain Hero turned out to be an agent of Doctor Deadly, meant to infiltrate the team to steal the Universal Transponder, a device old as time that has the power to create or destroy. Captain Hero did steal the transponder, but not before attacking Barstaman, where he ripped out his tongue and pulled off his arms and legs, which where all later replaced with robotics.
While most of the team left to Death Planet to retrieve the device, Speed Demon remained behind to help Vonski, who was distracted by something he couldn't reveal (which was actually a matter involving the near destruction of his race.) That was when, Shon Crest the Speed Demon found himself face to face with Shon Crest the Speed Demon.
It turned out that the person who had been on team, was not Shon Crest, but really his clone, who had also been called Jamie Crest. Shon, who had been thought dead, was so outraged at the identity theft he killed his clone brother, who then just dematerialized, since he was a magical clone created by Vonski.
Crest then replaced his clone on the team.
In 1991, Powerman, Zap, and Volt Man were temporarily on the team, until Powerman "died" (he got better) and Zap and Volt Man lost their powers. Then with the break up of Justice League International, Vonski saw a void to fill, and got international UN status for his team, and the Heroes of Earth then gained bases all over the world, with their main headquarters in Canberra, Australia. They also gained a very large membership, as every hero on Earth was made a member of the team, so that any one can be called to service when needed.
But they still had a core team, which now had consisted of Allorin Vonski, Luke Devlin, Angela, and Barstaman. Crest had left to take on his personal mission against the evil Master.
But their core membership was added to by Starfire, former member of the Teen Titans, and the martial artist Lady Shiva. They were also joined by a new hero called Captain Zippy, who was a heroic vampire. Barstaman even helped him overcome his aversion to sunlight. Also joining the team was Barbara Van Helsing, a vampire hunter who was watching Zippy closely to see if he was truly reformed. And Powerwoman was a member of the Boor race who joined under the recommendation of Powerman.
In the summer of 1991, Maureen Wrigley went crazy and blew up the Canberra headquarters, and this led the UN to revoke the Heroes' international status. The team was forced to move into a new headquarters...the home of John Barstaman's parents and five siblings (which included his sister Rachel aka Marvel). It was crowded and chaotic to say the least.
Sadly, this new team was killed by the Powerkid Haters at the end of 1992.
Three years later, the mutant Adam rose to power and took over the world. He reinstituted the Heroes of Earth as his personal honor guard. The new team was the former members of the Champions, led by the new Powerkid and the new Zap. The team served the evil Adam against their will due to his powerful mind control. However, when Powerman returned from a self imposed exile, he was able to free the Heroes from Adam's control, and Adam was defeated. The team was disbanded.
Two years ago, the classic team was reformed. During the Crisis of the year before, the Cosmic Ones had to resurrect all deceased super-heroes. Thus, Vonski, Luke Devlin, Angela, Marvel, Captain Zippy, Barbara Van Helsing, and the new Justice (Michelle Wrigley, formerly Powerkid II) joined together with headquarters back in Allen Industries in Hadenville. Though Michelle has retired from heroics, the remainder of the team is still active today.
Comments:
When I first created the Heroes of Earth, this was my first ever two part story. (I had done stories that later had sequels and stories that hinted at things to come, but never one story in two parts.) Their first appearance in the Powerkid Police was an homage to the JLA/JSA crossovers. I had no idea of course that the Crisis on Infinite Earths was coming and that this would unintentionally serve as a prelude.
Earth-5, the world they came from, was made different from my super-hero world by being the world of non powered vigilantes, detectives, and magic users.
The next incarnation was inspired by Keith Giffen's Justice League, which came out of Legends. This heroes of earth came out of a four month crossover event called Heroes, which took place in Doctor Deadly Vs., Powerkid, Vonski Presents, Star Patrol, Super Spotlight, and Heroes. At the end, Heroes continued on as Heroes of Earth (after one issue in between titled Heroes of the People.)
This series lasted from 1986 to 1992. They went international in 1991, as a tribute to the JLI that was going through it's "Breakdowns" storyline, and an homage to the All-Star Squadron, in that I allowed every hero on Earth to be a member. It truly was the heroes of earth.
The destruction of their headquarters was actually part of a storyline going on at the time in Powerman, but for the Heroes, it had comical repercussions as a normal family had to share their home with a super-hero team. (Perhaps funnier to me, since the Barstamans were based on a very real family that I was very close to.)
In December 1992, the team was killed as part of an event called Death of the Super Universe, which had a huge death count, but it's comics, so almost everyone has returned.
The four issue mini-series Timeline in 1998 was the next use of the name, but the team was very different.
And recently, I took advantage of the aftermath of Crisis to revive the Heroes of Earth as part of the Super Explosion. And it's been a lot of fun to have the old gang back together again.
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
Members:
Allorin Vonski
Doctor Deadly
Unknown
Peter Lebane
Danny "Blacky" Falkner
Doctor Mystery
Wonder Dog
Powerkid/Powerman
Angela, Princess of Another World
Zap, Master of Power II
Luke Devlin
Speed Demon
John Barstaman
Justice I
Space Hero
Phil Kowalski
Kristen Sherman
Captain Hero
Shon Crest
Volt Man
Powerwoman
Starfire
Lady Shiva
| Animal Man Aquaman Atom Black Canary Black Lightning Blue Beetle Blue Devil Booster Gold Captain Atom Captain Marvel Elongated Man Doctor Fate (Eric Strauss) Firestorm Flash (Wally West) Green Arrow Green Lantern (Hal Jordan) Guy Gardner Hawkman (Hawkworld) John Stewart Martian Manhunter Metamorpho Plastic Man Power Girl Vixen Wonder Woman Zatanna
|
Captain Zippy
Barbara Van Helsing
Powerkid II
Zap, Master of Power III
War Child
Icicle
Green Flame
Super Guy
Hell Child
Devil's Daughter
Mouse
Marvel
Justice III
First Appearance: Powerkid Police # 25, September 1984
Biography:
The team that has gone by the name Heroes of Earth has gone under a few different incarnations.
The first team actually began on an alternate world called Earth-5 by some. Allorin Vonski (one of the cosmic ones of Earth-B, the main Wronskiverse) knew of an upcoming Crisis that would threaten all of existence throughout the multliverse. He realized this other Earth needed it's own team of champions, much like Earth-B's Powerkid Police. Unlike Earth B, Earth-5 is a world without super-beings, but in their place are magical beings and nonpowered heroes.
The team Vonski chose consisted of Doctor Deadly, a hero whose mystical powers he used to protect the galaxy; the Unknown, a vigilante who operates in Worcester and was inspired by Vonki's brother the Great Unknown; Peter Lebane, a private investigator whose cases pit him against super criminals; Blacky Falkner, former sidekick of the Unknown and later parter of Lebane; Doctor Mystery, a very mysterious international adventurer; and Wonder Dog, a robotic dog who was a gift to Doctor Mystery from another vigilante who operated in a big city in the 1970s.
This team traveled to Earth-B to seek out the Powerkid Police, so they could join forces in the upcoming Crisis. The Heroes of Earth were part of the events of the Crisis on Infinite Earths. While they were on Earth-B with the Powerkid Police their world was destroyed by anti-matter. (Actually, that's not really true, but it was what they believed.)
They were present on the Monitor's satellite, and battled the Anti-Monitor on the moon of Qward.
And they then joined with Earth-B's heroes to stop Doctor Deadly (the bad one) from destroying all reality.
In the aftermath, the Heroes of Earth found themselves without a home, stranded on a world where they did not exist. In order to help their transition, he maxed his powers by altering reality so that these heroes had always existed on Earth-B.
Following this, the Heroes of Earth, who had only joined forces for the Crisis, disbanded.
Doctor Deadly retired, after having seen a world where his name is used for evil.
The Unknown had the hardest time adapting. Unlike the other heroes, the Unknown existed on both worlds. Thus, Earth-5's Unknown was a duplicate. He had no place. He later joined a team called the Mystery Men and tragically died on a mission.
Peter Lebane also had a duplicate, but Vonski's spell had actually merged the two together since their lives had been so close to being the same (whereas the two Unknowns had a lot of different adventures). Following this, Peter rejoined the police force.
Blacky also merged with his other universe version. When he reached adulthood, he would join the police force.
Doctor Mystery and Wonder Dog had no counterparts, so their lives and history were fully integrated, though Doctor Mystery and his partner seemed to disappear for many years, not returning until the rise of Adam.
Just over a year after the Crisis, a new version of the team would form, which would be the most well remembered.
In the fall of 1986, Doctor Deadly (the bad one) was at it again, with another attempt to conquer Earth. Several heroes gathered together to defeat him. Since the Powerkid Police had recently disbanded, Allorin Vonski proposed the forming of a new Heroes of Earth to fill the void. Not all heroes involved in that adventure joined, but those who did were Luke Devil, Angela (Princess of Booer), Powerkid, Zap, and Speed Demon. Shortly after, scientist John Barstaman was recruited, and then the new vigilante called Justice. Three Space Heroes from the late 21st century came back in time to join the team as well. The final addition to this version of the team was a new hero called Captain Hero.
The team moved into an underground section of the corporate headquarters of Allen Industries, owned by Matthew Allen, an alter ego of Allorin Vonski. It was based in Hadenville, OH, which Vonski claimed was a mystical nexus.
In late 1988, the team went through some major changes. Powerkid retired from heroing after hurting emotionally from the betrayal of society during the time when super heroes were banned in America. Zap had lost his powers for unknown reasons (which were later revealed to be due to the death of his father, Zeus.) Justice took a leave to focus on finding the headquarters of the New Power Organization. And the Space Heroes had to return to their own time to deal with a threat from some evil (fake robot) Time Lords.
And then betrayal. Captain Hero turned out to be an agent of Doctor Deadly, meant to infiltrate the team to steal the Universal Transponder, a device old as time that has the power to create or destroy. Captain Hero did steal the transponder, but not before attacking Barstaman, where he ripped out his tongue and pulled off his arms and legs, which where all later replaced with robotics.
While most of the team left to Death Planet to retrieve the device, Speed Demon remained behind to help Vonski, who was distracted by something he couldn't reveal (which was actually a matter involving the near destruction of his race.) That was when, Shon Crest the Speed Demon found himself face to face with Shon Crest the Speed Demon.
It turned out that the person who had been on team, was not Shon Crest, but really his clone, who had also been called Jamie Crest. Shon, who had been thought dead, was so outraged at the identity theft he killed his clone brother, who then just dematerialized, since he was a magical clone created by Vonski.
Crest then replaced his clone on the team.
In 1991, Powerman, Zap, and Volt Man were temporarily on the team, until Powerman "died" (he got better) and Zap and Volt Man lost their powers. Then with the break up of Justice League International, Vonski saw a void to fill, and got international UN status for his team, and the Heroes of Earth then gained bases all over the world, with their main headquarters in Canberra, Australia. They also gained a very large membership, as every hero on Earth was made a member of the team, so that any one can be called to service when needed.
But they still had a core team, which now had consisted of Allorin Vonski, Luke Devlin, Angela, and Barstaman. Crest had left to take on his personal mission against the evil Master.
But their core membership was added to by Starfire, former member of the Teen Titans, and the martial artist Lady Shiva. They were also joined by a new hero called Captain Zippy, who was a heroic vampire. Barstaman even helped him overcome his aversion to sunlight. Also joining the team was Barbara Van Helsing, a vampire hunter who was watching Zippy closely to see if he was truly reformed. And Powerwoman was a member of the Boor race who joined under the recommendation of Powerman.
In the summer of 1991, Maureen Wrigley went crazy and blew up the Canberra headquarters, and this led the UN to revoke the Heroes' international status. The team was forced to move into a new headquarters...the home of John Barstaman's parents and five siblings (which included his sister Rachel aka Marvel). It was crowded and chaotic to say the least.
Sadly, this new team was killed by the Powerkid Haters at the end of 1992.
Three years later, the mutant Adam rose to power and took over the world. He reinstituted the Heroes of Earth as his personal honor guard. The new team was the former members of the Champions, led by the new Powerkid and the new Zap. The team served the evil Adam against their will due to his powerful mind control. However, when Powerman returned from a self imposed exile, he was able to free the Heroes from Adam's control, and Adam was defeated. The team was disbanded.
Two years ago, the classic team was reformed. During the Crisis of the year before, the Cosmic Ones had to resurrect all deceased super-heroes. Thus, Vonski, Luke Devlin, Angela, Marvel, Captain Zippy, Barbara Van Helsing, and the new Justice (Michelle Wrigley, formerly Powerkid II) joined together with headquarters back in Allen Industries in Hadenville. Though Michelle has retired from heroics, the remainder of the team is still active today.
Comments:
When I first created the Heroes of Earth, this was my first ever two part story. (I had done stories that later had sequels and stories that hinted at things to come, but never one story in two parts.) Their first appearance in the Powerkid Police was an homage to the JLA/JSA crossovers. I had no idea of course that the Crisis on Infinite Earths was coming and that this would unintentionally serve as a prelude.
Earth-5, the world they came from, was made different from my super-hero world by being the world of non powered vigilantes, detectives, and magic users.
The next incarnation was inspired by Keith Giffen's Justice League, which came out of Legends. This heroes of earth came out of a four month crossover event called Heroes, which took place in Doctor Deadly Vs., Powerkid, Vonski Presents, Star Patrol, Super Spotlight, and Heroes. At the end, Heroes continued on as Heroes of Earth (after one issue in between titled Heroes of the People.)
This series lasted from 1986 to 1992. They went international in 1991, as a tribute to the JLI that was going through it's "Breakdowns" storyline, and an homage to the All-Star Squadron, in that I allowed every hero on Earth to be a member. It truly was the heroes of earth.
The destruction of their headquarters was actually part of a storyline going on at the time in Powerman, but for the Heroes, it had comical repercussions as a normal family had to share their home with a super-hero team. (Perhaps funnier to me, since the Barstamans were based on a very real family that I was very close to.)
In December 1992, the team was killed as part of an event called Death of the Super Universe, which had a huge death count, but it's comics, so almost everyone has returned.
The four issue mini-series Timeline in 1998 was the next use of the name, but the team was very different.
And recently, I took advantage of the aftermath of Crisis to revive the Heroes of Earth as part of the Super Explosion. And it's been a lot of fun to have the old gang back together again.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
The Bad Guys
The Bad Guys
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
Members:
Michael Bossman
The Trapster
Karate Spears
Krusher
Man-Killer
Kitten Girl
First Appearance: The Bad Guys # 1 (May 2009)
During the Crisis of 2008 - 2009, many super-villains were resurrected by the New Power, though in the end, the New Power was defeated. But the many villains were free on Earth.
Michael Bossman, a former enemy of his son Chris Kowalski aka Powerman, recruited a team of Powerman's former foes, all of whom like him had reformed. This team became a covert team secretly funded by Bossman Enterprises, travelling the world helping people in need.
Recently, the Bad Guys found that their leader, Michael Bossman, was really a member of the inner council of the New Power, and had formed the Bad Guys in a ploy to make them his mind controlled minions, a plot that failed. Bossman went into hiding, and the team was left in a situation where they head to decide where to go now, with their formation a ruse, their leader a villain, and their funding in question.
The team decided that regardless of how they got together, the work they do is what matters, as they continue on the road to redemption. The Trapster, who had already been the field leader, took leadership of the team. Shortly after, their funding was resolved as Michelle Wrigley took control of Bossman Enterprises, learned of the Bad Guys, and decided to continue funding their missions.
Comments:
The Bad Guys was one of the Super Explosion titles following Crisis. All the members were former Powerkid/Powerman rogues who had previously reformed.
Michael Bossman first appeared in Super Bob stories in 1979 as a supporting character/sidekick. He became an enemy of the Unknown and Detective Lebane starting in 1982, then became a Powerkid foe starting in 1984. He reformed in 2007, though as I've mentioned, it was just a ruse.
The Trapster was an enemy of Powerkid, the Unknown, Detective Lebane, and Doctor Mystery starting in 1982. He reformed as revealed in 2008, and was given the job of head of security for Bossman Enterprises.
Karate Spears first appeared as a foe of Powerkid in 1982. However, when Powerkid saved his home world in 1985, the villain turned over a new leaf. This caused the people of his world to overthrow him, now that he was considered weak, and he was imprisoned for years, until 1994 when he escaped and came to Earth, operating as a super hero under the new identity of the Interstellar Ninja. But in 2008, he (and I) realized how stupid that name was and he returned to his original one (given to him by his creator, Chuck Spears).
The Krusher first became an enemy of Powerkid and the Powerkid Police in 1984. For years, the heroes would stop him by giving him amnesia, but eventually that stopped working. In 2001, though, Krusher finally gained power over his power madness, and reformed.
Man-Killer was the quickest to reform. She first became a foe of Powerkid in 1982, but a few months later, she repented and joined the Powerkid Police. She actually died in 1990, but was resurrected by the New Power during the Crisis.
Finally, Kitten Girl first became a foe of Super Bob in 1980, later becoming a foe of the Unknown and Detective Lebane. Eventually, she repented and joined the Powerkid Police. She was vaporized along with all of Orange City in 1992 by a team of villains. She was resurrected by the New Power during the Crisis as well.
The team's adventures are sort of inspired by the Suicide Squad and the A-Team. And it's fun to write because all of these characters bring me back to my childhood.
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.
Members:
Michael Bossman
The Trapster
Karate Spears
Krusher
Man-Killer
Kitten Girl
First Appearance: The Bad Guys # 1 (May 2009)
During the Crisis of 2008 - 2009, many super-villains were resurrected by the New Power, though in the end, the New Power was defeated. But the many villains were free on Earth.
Michael Bossman, a former enemy of his son Chris Kowalski aka Powerman, recruited a team of Powerman's former foes, all of whom like him had reformed. This team became a covert team secretly funded by Bossman Enterprises, travelling the world helping people in need.
Recently, the Bad Guys found that their leader, Michael Bossman, was really a member of the inner council of the New Power, and had formed the Bad Guys in a ploy to make them his mind controlled minions, a plot that failed. Bossman went into hiding, and the team was left in a situation where they head to decide where to go now, with their formation a ruse, their leader a villain, and their funding in question.
The team decided that regardless of how they got together, the work they do is what matters, as they continue on the road to redemption. The Trapster, who had already been the field leader, took leadership of the team. Shortly after, their funding was resolved as Michelle Wrigley took control of Bossman Enterprises, learned of the Bad Guys, and decided to continue funding their missions.
Comments:
The Bad Guys was one of the Super Explosion titles following Crisis. All the members were former Powerkid/Powerman rogues who had previously reformed.
Michael Bossman first appeared in Super Bob stories in 1979 as a supporting character/sidekick. He became an enemy of the Unknown and Detective Lebane starting in 1982, then became a Powerkid foe starting in 1984. He reformed in 2007, though as I've mentioned, it was just a ruse.
The Trapster was an enemy of Powerkid, the Unknown, Detective Lebane, and Doctor Mystery starting in 1982. He reformed as revealed in 2008, and was given the job of head of security for Bossman Enterprises.
Karate Spears first appeared as a foe of Powerkid in 1982. However, when Powerkid saved his home world in 1985, the villain turned over a new leaf. This caused the people of his world to overthrow him, now that he was considered weak, and he was imprisoned for years, until 1994 when he escaped and came to Earth, operating as a super hero under the new identity of the Interstellar Ninja. But in 2008, he (and I) realized how stupid that name was and he returned to his original one (given to him by his creator, Chuck Spears).
The Krusher first became an enemy of Powerkid and the Powerkid Police in 1984. For years, the heroes would stop him by giving him amnesia, but eventually that stopped working. In 2001, though, Krusher finally gained power over his power madness, and reformed.
Man-Killer was the quickest to reform. She first became a foe of Powerkid in 1982, but a few months later, she repented and joined the Powerkid Police. She actually died in 1990, but was resurrected by the New Power during the Crisis.
Finally, Kitten Girl first became a foe of Super Bob in 1980, later becoming a foe of the Unknown and Detective Lebane. Eventually, she repented and joined the Powerkid Police. She was vaporized along with all of Orange City in 1992 by a team of villains. She was resurrected by the New Power during the Crisis as well.
The team's adventures are sort of inspired by the Suicide Squad and the A-Team. And it's fun to write because all of these characters bring me back to my childhood.
Monday, May 2, 2011
Michelle Wrigley
Michelle Wrigley
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr. and Walter Wright
Real Name: Michelle Denise Wrigley
Aliases: Super Baby, Powerkid II, Powerman III, Justice III
Current Occupation: President, chairman of the board of Bossman Enterprises
Parents: Walter and Maureen (Hasser) Wrigley (both deceased)
Siblings: Christopher Kowalsky (aka Powerman II; adopted brother)
Spouse: None
Children: None
Group Affiliation: Heroes of Earth; also will be a member of the Power Police in the future
Place of Birth: Orange City
Current Place of Residence: Orange City
First Appearance: Powerkid # 23 (July 1984)
Biography:
When Christopher Kowalsky, the hero who was known as Powerkid at the time and is now known as Powerman, was 11, he gained a little sister, Michelle Wrigley. They thought they were half-siblings, with different fathers. Years later, they would learn that their mother was not actually Chris' mother.
When Michelle was just a month old, the family was camping, and Michelle accidentally rolled into a pond. As it turned out, the pond has been irradiated with the same energy that gave Chris his powers. This has been no accident, but intentional on the part of the Great Unknown. Chris immediately dove in after his sister, but the pond had given Michelle the same powers as Powerkid, including the advanced intelligence. However, her powers were only activated in time of need. When there was a danger that Powerkid couldn't handle alone, Michelle would turn into Super Baby.
As Super Baby, Michelle operated whenever needed, including during the Crisis on Infinite Earths where she helped maintain order during the unpredictable weather and merging of space and time. Shortly after the Crisis, when she was just over a year old, her powers faded away.
When Michelle was two, she possessed by Satan, and Powerkid had to rely on the help of the Monster Squad to drive him out of her.
In 1991, when Michelle was seven, her brother was thought to be killed by Doctor Deadly. Allorin Vonski found a way to transfer his powers to Michelle, but chose to transform her into a duplicate of Powerman (yes, turning her into an adult male) and wiping her memories. Michelle operated as Powerman for a few months until Chris showed up alive and reclaimed his powers and title. Michelle was reverted back to normal with no memories of her time as Powerman.
However, while Chris was thought dead, and Michelle was amnesiac, their mother lost her mind from the stress and hated super-heroes. She went to Australia and blew up Heroes of Earth headquarters there. She was found insane and committed to a mental hospital.
Shortly after this, Chris went off to college, and Michelle was left to be raised alone by her father. Eventually, Walter fought a long and hard legal battle to have Maureen released into his custody.
A year after all this, Doctor Deadly met Doctor Doom, a villain from an alternate universe. The two worked together to hatch a spell that banished all super-heroes to limbo. Now a world without heroes, the super-villains were able to wreak havok. Allorin Vonski used his powers to grant powers to several of Chris' friends, as well as Michelle, who regained her old powers, now permanently, and became Powerkid.
Eventually, the heroes managed to get back home and restore order, and Michelle continued to operate as Powerkid. It should be noted that just like with Chris, when Michelle transformed into Powerkid, she aged physically, intellectually, and emotionally by some years.
Thus in 1994, though only 10 years old as Michelle, she was 15 as Powerkid, and started dating 18 year old super hero Zap, Master of Power. Though at this time Powerman's identity was public, Michelle managed to keep hers secret, and chose not to tell Zap. As Powerkid, she had feelings for Zap, and did not want him to know she was just a 10 year old kid.
Later in 1994, a being called the Nameless One came to Earth and did battle with Powerman, and both seemed to vaporize each other, but in reality they has both been teleported to opposite sides of the universe. During his absence, Powerkid and NighTrain worked together to protect Orange City and deal with three fakers claiming to be the real Powerman. Eventually Powerman returned, but so did the Nameless one, who kidnapped Chris and Michelle's parents. Powerman left to rescue them, instructing Michelle that it was up to her to be Earth's champion in his absence.
A year later, Powerman decided to leave Earth behind forever, and Powerkid officially became Earth's champion. Shortly after, the mutant called Adam used his psychic powers to take over the Earth, establishing a new world order where mutants and metahumans ruled over normal humans. He made the Heroes of Earth and Champions as his royal guard, and Powerkid and Zap were his personal bodyguards. For three years, Powerkid served Adam, all the while trying to muster the willpower to send a psychic message of her own to Powerman, which finally reached him out in space. He returned to Earth, and helped the heroes regain control and overthrow Adam, who Powerman had to kill. Meanwhile, Adam's brother had gained the power of time travel, and was going back in time to kill every metahuman before they gained their powers. Powerkid joined with the other heroes to stop him, and she was able to stop Timeline before he tried to kill Maureen Wrigley in 1984 while she was still pregnant with Michelle in the womb. Timeline, too, was killed.
Following this, Allorin Vonski created a spell that removed all super powers from all super beings on Earth, except for a few who chose to leave Earth. Michelle willingly gave up her powers.
Now Michelle was 14, and the now powerless Zap, Keith Sheridan, was 20. They tried to maintain their relationship, but the age difference strained things, as well another factor. Michelle was fine living a normal life. She began devoting herself to athletics and her studies. But Keith began to resent having lost his powers, when for three years he was one of the most powerful men on the planet. Now he was at college, and doing poorly. Without the super heroics, Michelle and Keith found they had nothing in common, and eventually ended their relationship.
Four years later, Michelle turned 18 and went off to Worcester State College. Now living in one of the most crime ridden cities in the world, Michelle got the hero itch again. When she turned 21, she adopted the abandoned identity of Justice, and began patrolling the streets as a vigilante, becoming the only costumed hero of the time.
The next year, however, her brother returned to active duty as Powerman, and his son Connor became Powerkid. This sparked the beginning of a new heroic age.
Early on in Michelle's new vigilante career, she encountered investigative journalist George Banner, who was trying to uncover Justice's identity. Eventually, Michelle and George began dating, and he learned, but kept, her secret. He even took up the costumed business himself, calling himself Truth.
In 2008, Michelle learned that her mother had terminal cancer. She moved back to Orange City to live with and care for her mother. This created a strain in her relationship with George.
Then the new Crisis hit, and Michelle as Justice had to participate. At one point, she and Truth had to travel back in time to 1991, where they encountered Peter and Michelle Falkner, the Justice and Truth of that time.
After the Crisis, Justice served with the newly reformed Heroes of Earths very briefly.
At the end of 2008, Maureen Wrigley died, and Michelle could no longer operate at Justice. But she was forced to don the costume one last time when her and several other heroes were brought against their will to a "battleworld" where they had to combat their greatest enemies. Truth was killed during this great battle. When the heroes finally returned, Michelle gave up heroics.
Michelle chose to stay in Orange City, in her childhood home, which she now owned. Shortly after, her brother's father, billionaire Michael Bossman returned to a life of crime (he had been a reformed super villain). There was a strange clause that left his company, Bossman Enterprises, and his entire fortune, property, and assets for Chris and Connor Kowalsky, Michelle Wrigley, and Connor's mother Yana Oo. Connor was too young to control a company, and Chris was in hiding at the time (due to having killed President Bush while under mind control), and thus Michelle and Yana were suddenly in control of a multi-billion dollar company.
Now Michelle has abandoned heroics and runs Bossman Enterprises, though she does fund the operations of NighTforce and the Bad Guys, both heroic teams.
In the year 2019, Michelle will again be operating as Justice, and will become a member of the Power Police.
Comments:
Michelle Wrigley was inspired by my sister, Michelle Wright. The character was created by my step-father, Walter Wright, though he really just came up with the name (that had been previously used in silver age Superman stories.) Walter was the Bob Kane to my Bill Finger, in that he came up with the name, and I came up with everything else since then.
Michelle/Super Baby was a supporting character in Powerkid from 1984 - 1988, and also appeared in the Crisis Within.
She continued to be a supporting character in Powerman from 1988 to 1991. Briefly, she became the feature character in Powerman during the summer of 1991, but reverted by to supporting status.
In 1991 to 1992, Michelle Wrigley was seen in the futuristic series Power Police 2019/2020. This was the first time we learn that Michelle will become Justice at age 21 and will continue to operate as Justice in the years 2019 and 2020.
In 1994, Powerkid volume 2 was launched, featuring Michelle Wrigley, which ran until May 1995. She next appeared in the four issue Timeline mini-series in 1998.
In 2005, Justice volume 2 was launched, again featuring Michelle Wrigley. Though this series is still ongoing, Michelle stopped being the feature character in August 2010, when she passed the torch over to the new Justice, Holly Frost.
Michelle remains a supporting cast member in Powerman, Powerkid, Justice, NighTforce, and the Bad Guys.
Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr. and Walter Wright
Real Name: Michelle Denise Wrigley
Aliases: Super Baby, Powerkid II, Powerman III, Justice III
Current Occupation: President, chairman of the board of Bossman Enterprises
Parents: Walter and Maureen (Hasser) Wrigley (both deceased)
Siblings: Christopher Kowalsky (aka Powerman II; adopted brother)
Spouse: None
Children: None
Group Affiliation: Heroes of Earth; also will be a member of the Power Police in the future
Place of Birth: Orange City
Current Place of Residence: Orange City
First Appearance: Powerkid # 23 (July 1984)
Biography:
When Christopher Kowalsky, the hero who was known as Powerkid at the time and is now known as Powerman, was 11, he gained a little sister, Michelle Wrigley. They thought they were half-siblings, with different fathers. Years later, they would learn that their mother was not actually Chris' mother.
When Michelle was just a month old, the family was camping, and Michelle accidentally rolled into a pond. As it turned out, the pond has been irradiated with the same energy that gave Chris his powers. This has been no accident, but intentional on the part of the Great Unknown. Chris immediately dove in after his sister, but the pond had given Michelle the same powers as Powerkid, including the advanced intelligence. However, her powers were only activated in time of need. When there was a danger that Powerkid couldn't handle alone, Michelle would turn into Super Baby.
As Super Baby, Michelle operated whenever needed, including during the Crisis on Infinite Earths where she helped maintain order during the unpredictable weather and merging of space and time. Shortly after the Crisis, when she was just over a year old, her powers faded away.
When Michelle was two, she possessed by Satan, and Powerkid had to rely on the help of the Monster Squad to drive him out of her.
In 1991, when Michelle was seven, her brother was thought to be killed by Doctor Deadly. Allorin Vonski found a way to transfer his powers to Michelle, but chose to transform her into a duplicate of Powerman (yes, turning her into an adult male) and wiping her memories. Michelle operated as Powerman for a few months until Chris showed up alive and reclaimed his powers and title. Michelle was reverted back to normal with no memories of her time as Powerman.
However, while Chris was thought dead, and Michelle was amnesiac, their mother lost her mind from the stress and hated super-heroes. She went to Australia and blew up Heroes of Earth headquarters there. She was found insane and committed to a mental hospital.
Shortly after this, Chris went off to college, and Michelle was left to be raised alone by her father. Eventually, Walter fought a long and hard legal battle to have Maureen released into his custody.
A year after all this, Doctor Deadly met Doctor Doom, a villain from an alternate universe. The two worked together to hatch a spell that banished all super-heroes to limbo. Now a world without heroes, the super-villains were able to wreak havok. Allorin Vonski used his powers to grant powers to several of Chris' friends, as well as Michelle, who regained her old powers, now permanently, and became Powerkid.
Eventually, the heroes managed to get back home and restore order, and Michelle continued to operate as Powerkid. It should be noted that just like with Chris, when Michelle transformed into Powerkid, she aged physically, intellectually, and emotionally by some years.
Thus in 1994, though only 10 years old as Michelle, she was 15 as Powerkid, and started dating 18 year old super hero Zap, Master of Power. Though at this time Powerman's identity was public, Michelle managed to keep hers secret, and chose not to tell Zap. As Powerkid, she had feelings for Zap, and did not want him to know she was just a 10 year old kid.
Later in 1994, a being called the Nameless One came to Earth and did battle with Powerman, and both seemed to vaporize each other, but in reality they has both been teleported to opposite sides of the universe. During his absence, Powerkid and NighTrain worked together to protect Orange City and deal with three fakers claiming to be the real Powerman. Eventually Powerman returned, but so did the Nameless one, who kidnapped Chris and Michelle's parents. Powerman left to rescue them, instructing Michelle that it was up to her to be Earth's champion in his absence.
A year later, Powerman decided to leave Earth behind forever, and Powerkid officially became Earth's champion. Shortly after, the mutant called Adam used his psychic powers to take over the Earth, establishing a new world order where mutants and metahumans ruled over normal humans. He made the Heroes of Earth and Champions as his royal guard, and Powerkid and Zap were his personal bodyguards. For three years, Powerkid served Adam, all the while trying to muster the willpower to send a psychic message of her own to Powerman, which finally reached him out in space. He returned to Earth, and helped the heroes regain control and overthrow Adam, who Powerman had to kill. Meanwhile, Adam's brother had gained the power of time travel, and was going back in time to kill every metahuman before they gained their powers. Powerkid joined with the other heroes to stop him, and she was able to stop Timeline before he tried to kill Maureen Wrigley in 1984 while she was still pregnant with Michelle in the womb. Timeline, too, was killed.
Following this, Allorin Vonski created a spell that removed all super powers from all super beings on Earth, except for a few who chose to leave Earth. Michelle willingly gave up her powers.
Now Michelle was 14, and the now powerless Zap, Keith Sheridan, was 20. They tried to maintain their relationship, but the age difference strained things, as well another factor. Michelle was fine living a normal life. She began devoting herself to athletics and her studies. But Keith began to resent having lost his powers, when for three years he was one of the most powerful men on the planet. Now he was at college, and doing poorly. Without the super heroics, Michelle and Keith found they had nothing in common, and eventually ended their relationship.
Four years later, Michelle turned 18 and went off to Worcester State College. Now living in one of the most crime ridden cities in the world, Michelle got the hero itch again. When she turned 21, she adopted the abandoned identity of Justice, and began patrolling the streets as a vigilante, becoming the only costumed hero of the time.
The next year, however, her brother returned to active duty as Powerman, and his son Connor became Powerkid. This sparked the beginning of a new heroic age.
Early on in Michelle's new vigilante career, she encountered investigative journalist George Banner, who was trying to uncover Justice's identity. Eventually, Michelle and George began dating, and he learned, but kept, her secret. He even took up the costumed business himself, calling himself Truth.
In 2008, Michelle learned that her mother had terminal cancer. She moved back to Orange City to live with and care for her mother. This created a strain in her relationship with George.
Then the new Crisis hit, and Michelle as Justice had to participate. At one point, she and Truth had to travel back in time to 1991, where they encountered Peter and Michelle Falkner, the Justice and Truth of that time.
After the Crisis, Justice served with the newly reformed Heroes of Earths very briefly.
At the end of 2008, Maureen Wrigley died, and Michelle could no longer operate at Justice. But she was forced to don the costume one last time when her and several other heroes were brought against their will to a "battleworld" where they had to combat their greatest enemies. Truth was killed during this great battle. When the heroes finally returned, Michelle gave up heroics.
Michelle chose to stay in Orange City, in her childhood home, which she now owned. Shortly after, her brother's father, billionaire Michael Bossman returned to a life of crime (he had been a reformed super villain). There was a strange clause that left his company, Bossman Enterprises, and his entire fortune, property, and assets for Chris and Connor Kowalsky, Michelle Wrigley, and Connor's mother Yana Oo. Connor was too young to control a company, and Chris was in hiding at the time (due to having killed President Bush while under mind control), and thus Michelle and Yana were suddenly in control of a multi-billion dollar company.
Now Michelle has abandoned heroics and runs Bossman Enterprises, though she does fund the operations of NighTforce and the Bad Guys, both heroic teams.
In the year 2019, Michelle will again be operating as Justice, and will become a member of the Power Police.
Comments:
Michelle Wrigley was inspired by my sister, Michelle Wright. The character was created by my step-father, Walter Wright, though he really just came up with the name (that had been previously used in silver age Superman stories.) Walter was the Bob Kane to my Bill Finger, in that he came up with the name, and I came up with everything else since then.
Michelle/Super Baby was a supporting character in Powerkid from 1984 - 1988, and also appeared in the Crisis Within.
She continued to be a supporting character in Powerman from 1988 to 1991. Briefly, she became the feature character in Powerman during the summer of 1991, but reverted by to supporting status.
In 1991 to 1992, Michelle Wrigley was seen in the futuristic series Power Police 2019/2020. This was the first time we learn that Michelle will become Justice at age 21 and will continue to operate as Justice in the years 2019 and 2020.
In 1994, Powerkid volume 2 was launched, featuring Michelle Wrigley, which ran until May 1995. She next appeared in the four issue Timeline mini-series in 1998.
In 2005, Justice volume 2 was launched, again featuring Michelle Wrigley. Though this series is still ongoing, Michelle stopped being the feature character in August 2010, when she passed the torch over to the new Justice, Holly Frost.
Michelle remains a supporting cast member in Powerman, Powerkid, Justice, NighTforce, and the Bad Guys.
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