Comic Book Girlfriend: Number One In A Series.
She was born in England January 1, 1900 and died in orbit on New Years Eve 1999 after saving the planet. Her family perished on the Titanic and she moved in with her godfather, Albert Einstein. While in Zurich, she told a young Adolf Hitler to drop that whole art thing and look into politics. Soon after, she discovered she had complete control over electricity and in 1919 she stopped aging entirely.
Jenny Sparks traveled to a Sliding Albion, a parallel world where first contact happened during the Renaissance, married their prince, left after realizing what a monster he was, and came back to our world to become a pulp hero in America before operating against the Nazis during the second World War. After a postwar stint as a private eye, she had joined the clandestine British Space Group, an organization responsible for keeping the peace between the various alien races and alternate dimensions. It was while under their employ that she witnessed Sliding Albion's intentional shunting of a bacterial attack on their territory into our own. The pathogens, when pushed through The Bleed, became the catalyst for a new generation of British superheroes.
These heroes, inspired by their American counterparts, banded together in the 1960s under Sparks's leadership. However, an unfortunate turn of events forced her to kill one of her own during an open air music festival. After electrocuting the overdosing Abel Eternity, Sparks sank into an alcohol-driven depression that she wallowed in until the 1990s.
It was in the middle of the decade that Henry Bendix convinced her to join Stormwatch, a United Nations superhero organization dedicated to peacekeeping. There, she found yet another group of superpowered people foisted off on her as she unwillingly took command of Stormwatch Black, a covert urban action team. The missions her team went through caused her to re-evaluate her methodology.
After Stormwatch disbanded, Sparks embraced her new vision of what people with extraordinary abilities could and should do, gathering the remains of her Black team and adding a few new players to create The Authority. After fighting cloned superbeings and another attack from Sliding Albion before saving the planet from Earth's original inhabitants, Jenny Sparks died in the arms of her teammates as the planet moved into a new century.
Her last words to the assembled group:
Save the world. They deserve it.She smoked a lot, drank too much, and had a hell of a temper. She was the Spirit of the Twentieth Century. That's why she's Comic Book Girlfriend #1.
Be better. Or I'll come back and kick your heads in.
