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.

Sorry for the Delay...

Time for the DC Comics Spotlight!

This week, it is time for...drumroll please...Komand'r!

Also known as Blackfire and featured on the Teen Titans animated tv show (which I used to love).

She's Starfire's older sister and the first in line for the throne. The day she was born, the evil Citadel attacked and killed a whole bunch of people in her name, and, even though it wasn't her fault, people still kinda blamed her for it.

To make it even worse, she couldn't fly like every other Tamaranian. This made her ineligible for the throne, and pretty much the entire population hated her. So, everything went to her younger sister, Koriand'r, whom she began to hate with a firey, burning passion.

She gave secret defense plans to the Citadel, who captured Tamaran easily. Part of the surrender agreement involved giving Koriand'r to the Citadel, which her parents did. Koriand'r was tortured by her sister and when Komand'r was about to kill her, they were captured by the science-loving Psions. They captured the two girls and performed horrific experiments on them, trying to see how much solar energy their bodies could absorb before they were killed. They were about to die, but Koriand'r escaped and let her sister free. Her sister knocked her down and had her taken away for execution, but Koriand'r escaped.

She has come back several times, attempting to murder her sister. She has been thwarted every time, thanks to Starfire and other heroes of the planet Earth.

Komand'r was seen during the Thanagarian/Rann War.