Crisis Weekly, seven down!

That's Sparx!  She makes her Crisis Weekly debut this week.  Donna Carol "D.C." Force debuted in the '90s, during an attempted new wave of superheroes, most of whom drifted comfortably into immediate obscurity, some of whom stuck around for a while.  Sparx stuck around for a while.  She ended up as a featured character in Superboy and the Ravers, one of the less-heralded of the many teenage superhero books that were in publication that decade (including Generation X, Gen 13, Young Justice, and of course several iterations of Teen Titans and Legion of Super-Heroes).

My favorite was Superboy and the Ravers.  This was a team composed of damaged individuals like Half-Life, half of whose body was literally exposed skeleton covered in ectoplasmic goo.  Take that, X-Men!  This was a dude oozing with angst!  There was also Hero, a rare gay superhero who also happened to have possession of a power vest and later the H-Dial (as in "Dial 'H' for Hero").  Then there was the Qwardian warrior Kaliber, who had a near breakout moment during the Genesis crossover event.  And Aura.  And Rex the Wonder Dog.  And the Flying Buttress! 

But mainly, I loved seeing Sparx get a chance, because she was a fun character, and unlike the rest of the Bloodlines generation, she seemed packaged for greatness, part of a whole family of superheroes but powerless until alien parasites attack her.  There was always a ton of potential in her, and so yeah, of course I was going to have to include Sparx, too, in this crazy adventure, even if she isn't immediately a featured player (time and space will tell).