Still today, no one can deny [SPOILER] Should be a mainstay of Justice League

Warning: Spoilers for Jenny Sparks #3!One DC Comics hero has earned his place among the best of these Justice League. Although the League has been a staple of the DC Universe for 64 years, the group has been put on hiatus by DC since the conclusion of Dark Crisis on Infinite EarthsJust recently returned. like Justice League Unlimited approaches, the JLA is growing bigger than ever, Leaving room for one particular hero’s inclusion: Jenny Sparks.

Jenny Sparks #3 by Tom King, Jeff Spokes and Clayton Cowles sees the title character helping the League combat an ex-Liger turned villain, Captain Atom, who became evil after developing a god complex. However, Sparks is just as critical of the League itself, suggesting they don’t realize they are developing god complexes of their own.

However, Jenny Sparks isn’t so much condemning the Justice League as heroes as she is holding them accountable. She provides a voice of reason that is much needed in the league in the midst of their revival.

Who is Jenny Sparks in DC’s New Universe?

The leader of the authority, explained

To best understand Jenny Sparks’ potential role in the Justice League, readers must first understand Jenny’s role in the overall DC Universe. The character first debuted in 1996 in the panels of StormWatch #37 by Warren Ellis, Tom Raney, Randy Elliott, Gina Going, and Bill O’NeilWhich existed in the Wildstorm Universe before Flashpoint destroyed it. Before its more recent revival, Jenny Sparks and DC’s WildStorm imprint content existed only outside of the DC Universe. More recently, characters like Jenny have been incorporated into the main canon DC Universe.

This primed Jenny Sparks to be interconnected with the Justice League, even recontextualizing DC lore to make her a former lover of Superman. She does this with her own credentials, along with her origin story. She was born in 1900 era England to immense wealth, only to be left broke upon the death of her parents on the Titanic in 1912 and the subsequent theft of their fortunes left behind. Then she began to demonstrate powers, Allowing you to generate electricity from your fingertips. In addition, she stopped aging and acquired a life of a century.

Like the spirit of the 20th century, she died at the stroke of midnight on December 31, 1999, only to be miraculously resurrected on September 11, 2001.. Her resurrection is detailed in Jenny Sparks #2, where her own powers seem to have brought her back to life just moments after the Twin Towers were falling. Amidst all this, before her death, her time spent as a British Army Intelligence colonel saving the lives of heroes like Apollo and Midnighter earned her the opportunity to join StormWatch Black.

She would initially decline the opportunity, but after more convincing from its main figurehead, Henry Bendix, Jenny Sparks joins StormWatch. During this time, she ends up becoming the leader for the team. This eventually leads Jenny Sparks to become one of the founding members of the AuthorityA team that changed comics forever. When Jenny was declared one of the most powerful members of the Authority, she now stands side-by-side with some of the most prominent members of the Justice League, only she has a different perspective on the authority that comes with being a superhero. As the League might have.

Jenny Sparks

As a series, Jenny Sparks becomes concerned with an S-level superhuman threat in former Justice League member Captain Atom. As someone even more powerful than Superman, the ex-hero insinuates he wants to take siege of the city and its population for himself. He begins to take a horde of hostages in a bar, promising to release them on the condition that his three requirements are met: to become a god, his family returned to him from the past, and a ham sandwich.

Sparks teams up with the Justice League to stop Captain Atom and rescue the hostages. More specifically, she watches as the Justice League tries to think of a game plan and attempts a failed rescue mission with the Flash (someone Captain Atom doesn’t respect), all while Sparks begs someone to light her cigarette. As the JLA plan their attack on Atom, Jenny criticizes them for not focusing on helping someone. Further on, she points to A The Justice League is abusing their authority as superheroes by acting like gods, not unlike Captain Atom.

Our take on Jenny Sparks’ new role in the DC Universe

She grounds the Justice League like few others can

In contrast to the Justice League is a group that specializes in global and intergalactic threats, Jenny Sparks is something of a street hero. She’s not necessarily a street-level hero in that she specializes in local crime, but she’s a street hero in that she literally walks the streets. She walks among the people, smokes cigarettes, eats their food, as if she is not guarded by a watchman from above, like a god. Jenny Sparks is literally and figuratively grounded, and in her head, she exists to keep the Justice League grounded in the same sense.

in Jenny Sparks #1, she explains, “I’m not a superhero, I’m the ****** that keeps them in line.” She takes her determination a step further while fighting Captain Atom in the same issue, directly telling the former Justice League member that, “The powers that be have given me the pleasure of keeping you people from making @$@$ out of themselves.” Whether it is because of the responsibility of her powers or perhaps sense of her second chance at life through resurrection, Jenny Sparks makes it her duty to keep other heroes in line, namely the Justice League.

This contextualizes her conversation with the Justice League in a new context. By holding the Justice League responsible for their sense of hubris and lack of self-awareness about it, she tries to prevent them from becoming as monstrous as Captain AtomSomeone whose hubris is developed purely because of his lack of self-awareness. She criticizes them not to be bad, but to help them see the error of their ways before they make a similar mistake in judgment to Captain Atom.

It’s a unique role for a character like Jenny Sparks, especially one who doesn’t see herself as a superhero like her Justice League peers. This is all the more reason why she not only needs to continue with the Justice League, but why her presence with the team is so necessary. The Justice League is in the middle of a rebranding and a comeback right now, but it could all go haywire if they don’t recognize the flaws in how they approach people and missions. Jenny Sparks may be the glue that holds these together Justice League Together and stable.

Jenny Sparks #3 is now on sale from DC Comics