I've read that the character of Power Girl in DC Comics once gave birth to a son, Equinox, who debuted in Zero Hour #0 and grew to maturity very quickly, before disappearing and never being seen or mentioned again. Does anyone have any ideas as to what became of him? Could he still be around somewhere?
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I had not heard of that before, but here's her Wikipedia entry; check out the biography section of the article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Girl
It pretty much seems to confirm what you heard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Girl
It pretty much seems to confirm what you heard.
Pretty sure it's safe to assume that Equinox has been retconned as of Infinite Crisis when it was revealed that Karen was the Kara Zor-El of Earth-2.
)He's probably palling around with Ian Troi someplace.
"The Child" is one of my favorite TNG episodes lol.
The real question is if this was before or after the Marcus incident with Ms. Marvel in Avengers (and easily answered, it was way after).
Anyway, it's interesting that the cites that the wiki page links to viz. Equinox are JLA 105-108, which have absolutely nothing to do with power girl, but feature the end of a Chuck Austen story involving some family getting superpowers from a meteorite and the beginning of some Kurt Busiek story about the Crime Syndicate of the Antimatter Earth, respectively. Also, the publishing dates are wrong.
Only note of interest, other than Austen managed to come up with an inoffensively okay plot, coupled with his inability to write authentic-sounding dialogue for most of the characters, is that on page 12 of 105, there's one of the most epic art fails I've ever seen, where John Stewart and Wally West are supposed to be playing a video game and Ron Garney rendered nothing on the world's largest irregularly-shaped CRT, and the colorist rendered not only nothing but a Photoshop-pointillized white field on top of it. Good work, guys! Maybe the panel's catching them between firings of the electron gun... yeah, that's the ticket.
Could it supposed to be Justice Society 105-108? I dunno and my concern is evaporating.
Anyway, Equinox isn't a very good name for a villain. It sounds like it should be cool, but, unpacked, "day when the center of the sun is in the same plane as the Earth's equator" isn't exactly, oh, "Dr. Doom," is it? Outside of a henchman working for the Calendar Man, it's quite terrible.
Anyway, it's interesting that the cites that the wiki page links to viz. Equinox are JLA 105-108, which have absolutely nothing to do with power girl, but feature the end of a Chuck Austen story involving some family getting superpowers from a meteorite and the beginning of some Kurt Busiek story about the Crime Syndicate of the Antimatter Earth, respectively. Also, the publishing dates are wrong.
Only note of interest, other than Austen managed to come up with an inoffensively okay plot, coupled with his inability to write authentic-sounding dialogue for most of the characters, is that on page 12 of 105, there's one of the most epic art fails I've ever seen, where John Stewart and Wally West are supposed to be playing a video game and Ron Garney rendered nothing on the world's largest irregularly-shaped CRT, and the colorist rendered not only nothing but a Photoshop-pointillized white field on top of it. Good work, guys! Maybe the panel's catching them between firings of the electron gun... yeah, that's the ticket.
Could it supposed to be Justice Society 105-108? I dunno and my concern is evaporating.
Anyway, Equinox isn't a very good name for a villain. It sounds like it should be cool, but, unpacked, "day when the center of the sun is in the same plane as the Earth's equator" isn't exactly, oh, "Dr. Doom," is it? Outside of a henchman working for the Calendar Man, it's quite terrible.
Not Troi, but Donna Troy's son was destined to become Lord Chaos, the evil future dictator of the Team Titan's future. (and you thought Equinox was a bad villain name!). Though Robert died with his father in the 90's.
Of course, if Equinox did just disappear to limbo he's probably hanging out with Lena Luthor (Lex's daughter) and Keith Robert, Perry White's adopted son.
Well, "Equinox" is from the Latin for "equal night" -- i.e. night is equal in length to the day. So you've got a night/darkness element in the name, which befits a villain. Also the "-nox" part suggests "noxious," which also adds to its villainous sound. So I think it works just fine.
Is this the same Equinox who's a villain in Batman: The Brave and the Bold? A guy with a fanatical obsession with balance between good and evil, and reality-bending superpowers with which to enforce that balance?
By the same logic, "Solstice" would have been a sweet name for the Sun-Eater in Final Night.
Edit: Well, actually that's not that bad.
Edit: Well, actually that's not that bad.
That's referencing Justice League America, not JLA. Justice League America was the series that immediately preceded JLA, which is why the dates seemed to be off.
That was actually a script idea that had been conceived for the 70s 'Phase II' series that got tossed aside when Paramount decided to skip doing a second series and instead greenlighted 'Star Trek - The Motion Picture'.
^As was "Devil's Due."
Lena hasn't been retconned as far as we know. Our Worlds at War still happened. Just that Sam Lane came back after reportedly "faking his death".
Lena hasn't been seen in years as far as I know. Seems less like she's been written out and more like the current writers don't even remember she existed.
She's not been seen because there's been no need to use her. As I said it's most likely that Geoff Johns and DC retconned her out since Lex's sister has been reincorporated back into the current continuity. Last time Lena/Brainiac was seen was near the end of Lex's Presidency.
OK, I'm a big ol' dummy.
For some reason, I thought JLA was published much earlier than it was, and JLoA had ended well before 105.
