Superman II

Superman II

Created by Robert Bernstein and George Papp; Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster; Don Cameron; Vernon E. Clark and Whitney Ellsworth

Real Name:  Mon-El

Alias:  Bob Kent, Superboy I

Current Occupation:  Construction Worker

Parents:  Jor-El and Lara (natural; deceased); Jonathon and Martha Kent (Adoptive; deceased)

Siblings:  None

Spouse:  Lucy Lane Kent

Children:  An unnamed child.

Group Affiliation:  Justice League of America

Place of Birth:  Daxam

Current Place of Residence:  Metropolis

First Appearance:  The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure, 1966

Biography:

When Krypton exploded, it's effects created environmental damage to neighboring Daxam, which led scientist Jor-El to send his son Mon-El to Earth before Daxam met its end.

Mon-El landed on Earth, in Smallville, much later than Kal-L of Krypton.  Coincidentally, as Kal-L was and adopted by Ebin Kent, Mon-El was found by Ebin's cousin, Jonathon.  Mon-El was named Bob Kent.  Clark and Bob were adopted cousins who for many years were unaware that each other were both heroes named Superman.

Unlike Clark, Bob operated as a hero named Superboy in his youth, and transitioned to becoming Superman and moving to Metropolis as an adult.  As Superman, Bob was a member of the Justice League of America for many years.

Following his time with the League, he disappeared.  There have been many contradictory accounts of how Superman's career ended.  However, when Powerman was once asked by Powerkid whatever happened to the man of tomorrow, Powerman, who is probably the most connected in the super-hero community, mentioned that around the same time the Powerkid Police disbanded, shortly after the Great Crisis of 1985, the Super Powers Team had disbanded, having stopped Darkseid, or so they thought.  Superman had also thought his mission was over, but that was when all of his greatest enemies came at him at once.  In this great battle, there were losses on both sides, but in the end, it seemed the hero won, but at a cost.  He seemed to disappear from the world.  Powerman paused, then added that the funny thing was that just soon after, Lucy Lane, the woman Superman loved but would never marry because of his mission, married a construction worker who she had just met.  They had a baby in 1987, named Conner.  He'd be an adult now.  I heard he'd become a journalist in Metropolis now.

Comments:

As I've stated in a few of my blogs, in the Wronskiverse, there were three Superman, one for each of the comic book ages.  The silver age Superman is that represented in Super Friends.  In order to explain the two versions (golden age vs. silver age), I used Mon-El as the silver age version.  Since the silver age comics aren't in the Wronskiverse, but only the animated Super Friends, this actually works out well.  Note that Lar Gand is also part of the Wronskiverse because of the incorporation of DCU continuity for 1986 to 1992.  Lar Gand and Mon-El are separate people in the Wronskiverse.

Ken Maxwell

Ken Maxwell (March 1973 – ), born Kenneth Earl Maxwell, was an American comic book writer and editor. Growing up in Orange, Maxwell entered the comics industry in the 1980s. In 1984, Maxwell and writers Robert E. Wronski, Jr. and Phil Sheridan created the highly successful supervillain character Krusher for Super Comics. During the 1980s, Maxwell would create a number of stories for various publishers, often teaming with Wronski.

After high school, Maxwell returned to comics and worked in a variety of genres. He contributed to a number of publishers, including Super Comics. In the 1990s, Maxwell co-created many of Super Comics' major characters, including the Dragon, and the New Power Organization, along with writer-editor Robert E. Wronski, Jr. Despite the success of the Wronski-Maxwell titles, Maxwell left the company in 1995.

Ken Maxwell
Born	Kenneth Earl Maxwell March 1973 Massachusetts, United States
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer, Editor
Pseudonym(s)	Mad Dog Maxwell
Notable works	Powerman, Justice, Heroes of Earth, Powerkid, Powerkid Police

Krusher I

Krusher I

Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr, Phil Sheridan, and Ken Maxwell

Real Name:  Ken Madison

Alias:  Mad Dog Madison (his high school nick name)

Current Occupation:  Mercenary

Parents:  Unnamed

Siblings:  None

Spouse:  None

Children:  Olive Madison

Group Affiliation:  Powerkid Haters, Seven Deadly Sins, Bad Guys

Place of Birth:  Orange City

Current Place of Residence:  Orange City

First Appearance:  Powerkid # 25, September 1984

Biography:

Ken Madison enlisted into the Marines in 1984 at the age of 18 immediately after graduation.  After Boot Camp, he ended up being assigned to an installation in Greenfield, where he had the misfortune of walking in on Colonel Peterson murdering a man.  Peterson arranged for Private Madison to be framed for the murder, but then offered his charges to be erased if he took part in an experiment.  The experiment was part of Project:  Franklin, which was a super-soldier program.

Madison was irradiated with some mysterious energy (which may have been of alien origin).  The result was that Madison gained the ability to absorb power and energy, making him stronger and invulnerable.  In some cases, he could even absorb super-powers, draining the super-powered being and being able to temporarily use those powers himself. Unfortunately, the more power Madison contained, the more his mind degraded to a savage state of being.

Madison broke free and began rampaging through Greenfield on his way back to Orange City. It was in Orange City where it took the combination of Powerkid, Zap, and Speed Demon to stop Krusher, as Madison was calling himself.

However, the Super-Trio didn't use their physical powers to stop him, as that was impossible.  Any powers they used were just absorbed and used against them.  Powerkid, Zap, and Speed Demon had to combine their mental powers to give Madison amnesia.  The government, wishing to not be linked to this, left the amnesiac alone, and Madison got a job working as a janitor at Mahar High School, where Powerkid could keep an eye on him.

A few months later, however, Ken's memories were restored by Doctor Deadly, who was putting a team together of Powerkid's greatest foes, in a plot to destroy Powerkid.  The team was defeated, and Madison's mental blocks were put back in place.

In 1991, the blocks wore off, and Powerman (formerly Powerkid), Zap, and Volt-Man attempted to stop Krusher again, now rampaging in the Nevada desert.  The three knew that their power wasn't effective, and even hypnotism wouldn't work any longer.  Scientific genius John Barstaman devised the only solution, by creating a portal to some unknown other dimension, in which the three heroes lured the crazed villain and trapped him in.

What the heroes didn't know was this unknown dimension was actually the dark dimension of Doctor Deadly.  Deadly once again recruited Krusher for a new team to capture Powerman for him.

A year later, it appeared that Krusher had been killed by Powerman, after he and his former teammates completely destroyed Orange City, killing the millions of inhabitants.  However, in 2001, it was revealed the Krusher had indeed survived, due to his power, and even though in 1998 Allorin Vonski had taken away his powers and memories, they came back over time.

But in 2001, Madison had somehow managed to control his power, and his sanity, and retired.  A few years later, he had a daughter, whose mother died shortly after a very slow and painful death.

In 2009, Krusher was recruited by Michael Bossman to join a team of reformed villains called the Bad Guys to perform missions around the globe where governments are unable to.

Even though Bossman himself turned out to be less than reformed, the team continued on without him.

In the year 2019, Ken's daughter Olive Madison will have inherited her father's powers to become Krusher II, a founding member of the Power Police.

Comments:

Krusher was a character co-created by myself, Phil Sheridan, and Ken Madison (who is also the inspiration) in 1984 on the playground of Butterfield School.

Despite the fact that he was considered one of Powerkid's greatest foes, he only appeared in two story arcs in 1984 then only appeared briefly in cameo in scenes at Mahar where he was an amnesiac janitor.  Occasionally Chris Kowalski would worry about what would happen if Madison's memories were restored.

And indeed in 1991 when I made a major revision of the Super Universe, one of the first things I did was see what would happen if his memories returned.  But again he only appeared in three major story arcs from 1991 - 1992.

He resurfaced for one story arc in 2001 which was about Chris' class reunion, bringing back many characters from the high school era including Krusher, and showing that Orange City was being rebuilt.

Since 2009, Krusher has appeared monthly as a member of the Bad Guys.

His daughter Olive Madison was first introduced in 1991 in Justice League 2019 and again in Power Police 2020 the next year.

And Kenny has been very upset that I turned his villain into a good guy.  All I can say is to be patient.  The future isn't what it used to be.  I have plans in the works.  There are alternate realities and not all of them turned out the same way.  Somewhere out there, there's a really, really, really scary version of Krusher whose story has yet to be told, but is coming soon.

Superman I

Superman I

Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.

Real Name:  Kal-L

Alias:  Clark Kent

Current Occupation:  Adventurer

Parents:  Jor-L and Lora (natural parents, deceased); Ebin and Sarah Clark Kent (adoptive parents, deceased)

Siblings:  None

Spouse:  Lois Lane Kent (deceased)

Children:  Joel Kent

Group Affiliation:  League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Justice Society of America, All-Star Squadron, Club of Heroes

Place of Birth:  Krypton

Current Place of Residence:  A space craft which serves as a mobile "Fortress of Solitude"

First Appearance:  Action Comics # 1, June 1938

Biography:

When he was just an infant, Kal-L was rocketed to Earth from the doomed planet Krypton by his scientist father Jor-L.  On Earth, Kal-L grew was adopted by the Kents and named Clark.  As he grew older, he found that he had powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men.

His parents asked that he keep his powers a secret.  As a teen, Clark was visited by a boy from the future called Superboy, who helped train him to use his powers.

After his parents died, he moved to Metropolis, where he became a reporter, pretending to be a weak and timid coward while operating secretly as the urban legend that would be dubbed by fellow reporter Lois Lane as "the Superman".

Clark did remain a secret to the world, though his appearances did get enough attention for rumors to abound of his existence and even for comics, movies, radio dramas and the like to be made based on these stories.  The government became aware of "the Superman" in reality and recruited him to join three different top secret teams.  First he served in the 1930s with the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.  Then became a reserve member of the Justice Society of America, and finally during World War II he was recruited to join the All-Star Squadron.

After the war, Clark went into semi-retirement.  After a spell by the evil Wizard made him forget he was Superman, he grew braver as Clark, and proposed to Lois.  It was her then that learned his secret and helped him restore his memory.

The couple married and had a son named Joel.  Because Lex Luthor exposed Lois to gold kryptonite while she was pregnant, her child was born with no super-powers, something he came to resent once he learned his father was Superman.  Eventually he came to terms with this.

Though Clark was retired, occasionally he would resurface to aid other heroes such as Spider-Man, or to take on threats like the Hulk.

He eventually found that he was needed less and less as his legacy was being continued.

A Daxamite named Mon-El came to Earth and became Superman II.  Clark's cousin Kara Zor-L came to Earth and began operating as Power Girl.

Then, in 1982, super-heroes were revealed to the world with the debut of Powerkid, which caused a "Super Explosion".  This plus the loss of Lois to cancer were the catalysts that caused Clark to make the decision to leave Earth behind and seek adventure in the stars.

Not long after Clark's departure, his grandson Sam took on the role as the third Superman, though Sam  would only operate a few years before being killed by Doomsday.

In the mid 21st century, a Superman will appear as a member of Justice League Unlimited.  It could be that this is Mon-El, but very likely it is confirmation of rumors that following Sam's death, a clone had been created.

Comments:

There are three versions of Superman in the Wronskiverse which can be confusing since they contradict each other, unless someone like me can be creative enough.

The first Superman to be brought in was the Super Friends version, via the 1984 He-Man/Super Friends crossover in Super-Heroes that featured the Sword of Power.  Thus all his Super Friends and 1960s animated stories were in.

Then following the Crisis on Infinite Earths, the post-crisis DCU was incorporated into the Wronskiverse, which brought that Superman in, up until December 1992 when I phased them out.

Then in 2004, I incorporated Win Scott Eckert's Crossover Chronology, which brought in the golden age Superman.

So with the golden age Superman, the canon is all stories published up to December 1945, and post-golden age stories that occur in the 1930s and 1940s up to the end of the war.  And then also any appearances in Crossovers.  This of course also includes his appearances in Powerman and Mystery Men.

The silver age version (Mon-El/Bob Kent) is the New Adventures of Superman and all incarnations of Super Friends.

Then the modern version (Sam Kent) is all post-crisis stories published from Man of Steel to Death of Superman.

Note that in the Wronskiverse, the first two Supermen operated in secret, and the third was actually considered a second stringer, as Powerman had the honor of being considered Earth's primary protector.  (This is a concept my son laughs at.)  From 1979 to 1985, many of the stories that were in DC attributed to Superman actually happened to Super-Bob/Powerkid instead.

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.)

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.

Power Police

Power Police

Created by Robert E. Wronski, Jr.

First Appearance:  Justice League 2019 # 1, January 1991

Members:

Powerman

Zap, Master of Power

Flash/Speedster

Krusher

Justice

Wanderer

Biography:

In the year 2019, the next generation of heroes will form to become the Justice League, though shortly after, they would change their name to honor the more important group, the Powerkid Police, by calling themselves the Power Police.

Comments:

This group appeared as Justice League 2019 for a year, then became Power Police 2020 the next year.

They haven't appeared since, but stay tuned.  This team will be the main focus of the entire Super Comics line in the coming year.  Thus why the theme is "Countdown to the Future".

And for the record, this Powerman is Connor Kowalski (currently Powerkid), this Zap is Tara Sherman, this Flash/Speedster is Alison Swift, this Krusher is Olive Madison, this Justice is Michelle Wrigley, and this Wanderer is the same character from our present.