The Power Company: Witchfire

[pyrotwilight.insanejournal.com]

What happens when singer, actor, stunt girl etc.... Witchfire and Wonder Woman meet at a concert?

A rather interesting meeting with a very powerful DC supervillain who is in no way *cough* connected to Blackest Night.

Just thought you all might enjoy this...

Short story....Rebecca Carstairs was an orphaned girl who grew living up with nuns, she was always ignored etc...one day she found a spell book and using the spells and magic's she learned she became a big DCU diva (she uses the speell's to augment her own physical abilities mostly). She's also very impatient since she likes getting what she wants when she wants especially now that she's big.

Wonder Woman apparently off panel promises to take a girl named Vanessa to one of Rebecca's shows. Nothing bad could happen right?

Well...sometimes's you're really not supposed to use speels you don't know the results of...








Interestingly, that line "Woman-shape" was put rather nicely and was later expanded on in the actual Power Company series.





Aww. Wondie's being a downer.



Pfft. Oh that Rebecca, always makes me smile.

And since I doubt I'd get any other chance to post it a bonus pin up / the making of Witchifre also in that issue.

Comments

[thandrak.insanejournal.com]

I'll bite. Womanshape? What, some kind of incarnate force thing?

[pyrotwilight.insanejournal.com]

Not quite.

Think Full Metal Alchemist.

[(Anonymous)]

It turned out the Witchfire in the series was a homunculus based on the real Rebecca Carstairs. Unfortunately, Power Company was canceled before that subplot reached any sort of resolution. Interesting bit of foreshadowing, though.

[daningram.insanejournal.com]

Did they actually say she was replaced? I have a few odd issues of Power Company, and I thought what happened was that after casting so many spells on herself, she literally became magic.

[distantantenna.insanejournal.com]

No, I don't believe they said that. It's one possible explanation, though. Rebecca got her arm cut off during a battle and it was revealed she was a construct - no bleeding, just energy.

[volksjager.insanejournal.com]

Nekron ? Hmm, I hate it when the exact nature of the underworld hierachy is so unclear. Where does he fit into the chain of command ? Neron , Lucifer ect , ect ?????

[shanejayell.insanejournal.com]

I don't think he was ever explained in that context, Nekron was mostly a Green Lantern villain and was kinda explained as a extra dimensional monster... kinda like LOvecraft's monsters.

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

Nekron is a demon, but not one in Hell. And his noticing us is, once again, the Oans' fault. (They never make anything better, do they? They just kick problems down the road) Wikipedia summarizes it thus, and this is how I remember it as well:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nekron

"Nekron is the ruler of a region adjoining Hell, and which also seems to border on Limbo and Purgatory. It is where the souls of the dead await passage to their final residences in either the Silver City, or the Hell. Nekron draws his power from the souls and spirits of all who have ever died.

When Krona's banished energy form somehow reached Nekron’s dimension--due to a paradox of an immortal now being in the Realm of the Dead--a rift opened between the dimensions, allowing Nekron to see the universe of the living. Desiring it, but being too large to pass through the gap, Nekron instead recreated Krona as an undead being of enormous power. Given an army of similarly-restored spirits, Nekron sent Krona to kill the Guardians of the Universe, so the rift would open more. Krona accepted because part of Nekron's plan involved collapsing the universe so as to recreate it according to his own desires, which would give Krona the chance to see a universe being born."

He was mainly the plot engine for the TALES OF THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS miniseries by Barr & Staton(which also introduced Arisia)--which was mostly a "secret origins" for the whole corps, with this as the thread--as well as Arisia being a rookie--that was providing a reason for all the explanations of the corps' history. Nekron's thing is pretty much as you see above: the absorbing of souls allows him to get into our world. (Wow, I'm amazed how much I can remember from when I was 11.)

So yes, there is now no doubt in my mind Blackest Night is the doing of Nekron, because the Black Lanterns do exactly what Nekron needs. And the particular animus against the Green Lanterns, who stopped him the last time(I forgot how) only strengthens that.

Interestingly, most of the risen Lanterns we've seen prominently fought Nekron.

Also, a little of this may sound familiar:

"Kyle Rayner briefly encountered Nekron in Green Lantern Annual #7, in which Nekron nearly reentered our universe and briefly resurrected the entirety of the deceased Green Lantern Corps members with rings powered by death. Kyle was able to push Nekron back into his dimension and re-seal the rift."

"He has displayed the ability to raise the dead, kill with a touch, fire bolts of black lightning and grow without limit."

[volksjager.insanejournal.com]

Why , thank you for the info.

[crinosg.insanejournal.com]

Yeah, I think I was the first person to peg Nekron as the leader of the Black Lanterns, way back when it was first revealed all its members were dead guys.

It just doesn't make sense for it to be anyone else.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

Agreed, Nekron is a good choice, unless we find out that Gaiman's Death has a REALLY mean streak! :)

[menagerie.insanejournal.com]

Hey I'd be kind of annoyed with all the resurrected heroes and villains after awhile. "This isn't a revolving door people!" I still totally wish to see a conversation between Death and Donna Troy.

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

They're also souls Nekron had and then lost. He doesn't like that.

[jlroberson.insanejournal.com]

Even more about the actual story(your brothers didn't have this?) here:
http://diamondrock.blogspot.com/2009/02/school-of-night.html

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

a girl named Vanessa

Vanessa Kapatelis? You make her sound like some random girl.

. . . like WW routinely cruises for underanged girls to take to concerts, and fondle in the crowd.

Aaron "The Mad Whitaker" Bourque; that went to a weird place alarmingly quickly.

[pyrotwilight.insanejournal.com]

My Wonder-fu is near non existent. I assumed she was just a random girl that Diana has promised to go to a concert with. Because in my mind it's something she'd do when asked because she's so nice.

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

It is. The Embassy has a guy whose entire job is basically to stop her from doing that so that she can actually get stuff done.

What's weird here, though, is that I *think* Vanessa should be an adult, and also, incidentally, the Silver Swan by this point. Power Company were 02-03, right?

[pyrotwilight.insanejournal.com]

Sounds right, though a few of the stories were placed vaguely in the past so there's not a real problem with timeline's here.

[bluefall.insanejournal.com]

That would make sense, as this does definitely read like a very young, Perez-era Diana. I really need to get around to properly reading this series sometime.

[khamelea.insanejournal.com]

I like that costume design, with the fire trimming.

[icon_uk.insanejournal.com]

I rather liked Witchfire, Zatanna meets Pizzazz of the Misfits (Well, not THAT bad, but with a selfish and thrillseeking streak)

And there was something about the two word conjunction spell format which combined poetry with power rather concisely; Featherlight, Windswift, Stonestrong, Icepure.

[retro_nouveau.insanejournal.com]

Huh, I started hearing Bald Mountain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Ca_edg6RE)...

This Witchfire should be careful about messing with Diana or she might end up over Diana's knee...

[espanolbot.insanejournal.com]

Hm, weird if you consider the differences between her, Roger from BPRD and Ennis from Baccano!. :)

[(Anonymous)]

Was this story set in Boston? "Fleet Center" and "wicked!" have my Beantown sense tingling!

[aaron_bourque.insanejournal.com]

Wonder Woman lived in Boston after COIE.

[bariman1987.insanejournal.com]

"You are meddling in forces you don't understand!"
"Who cares? It's good for my career and it's hella fun!"

[pyrotwilight.insanejournal.com]

Good lord, she's Wonderella.

[bariman1987.insanejournal.com]

But can she jump hella high, and does she have a cape?

[(Anonymous)]

At the risk of offending some alternative religion or another, do the words Witchfire chants actually mean something, or is it just made-up lingo? And if it's the former, is the translation accurate? Just found it a little jarring she went from chanting esoteric-sounding invocations to sounding off Elfquest tribal names.

[halloweenjack.insanejournal.com]

This ain't rock and roll... this is... genocide! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ1Quz7H93Q&feature=PlayList&p=2E0EB7A4E7346592&index=0)

[(Anonymous)]

Do you have any Sapphire scans?

[pyrotwilight.insanejournal.com]

On hand no, sine I'm off in Greece but I could post the rest of the Power Company intro stories when I get back.