Thursday, August 6, 2009

DC Spotlight, late once again.


Don't kill me!!!!

I've always been interested in the lore focused on Terra. She's interesting, what can I say? From the first incarnation being involved with Deathstroke, the second one from the future but secretly the real Terra, to the third incarnation, who is the subject of today's spotlight, I have read and been awed (okay, maybe not, but that's not the point).

Her name is Atlee, and she's from underground. Seriously. She's from an alien race of underworld ecologists who protect the Earth, like we don't have several heroes doing that already (Geo Force, Poison Ivy, Black Orchid, even the Blue Beetle's Scarab won't hurt nature).

So, she was given Tara Markov's powers. She hit the streets of New York and was first seen by Supergirl, whom she helped out. Still didn't have a name though.

So, she swooshed around the world helping people out until she met Power Girl, who brought her back to JSA Headquarters, where it was discovered that she was a genetic match to the "original" Terra (so, yes, Tara Markov, the international geokinetic love slave to a pedophile).

Atlee was pissed and took off, heading to Markovia, the home of Tara Markov and Geo-Force, She fought some evil bad dude with Geo-Force, but he was hurt and so she took him back to her underground home world, where, in the end, she got his blessing and his mind was wiped.

Well, wasn't that nice?

She worked with Geo-Force and Power Girl several times, and also the Teen Titans, being forced to participate in the Dark Side Club, which was bad. Very bad.

Try looking up the other incarnations of Terra here and here.

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