They're a group modelled after the Seven Wonders of the 30th century, featured in the classic original Starfinger tale!
The members thus far:
REVERSE-WATERFALL LAD: A former laboratory assistant of Rann Antar (aka Kid Heavyfeathers), he swallowed a variant version of Antar's famous "feathers heavier than lead" formula, which gave him the ability to increase/decrease the affect of gravity on water! As he gain more control over his powers, he gains more ability to manipulate water!
SUN KID: After doing a favor for a 5th-dimensional imp, Sun Kid was granted one wish, and so he asked to be given the powers of Superboy! Unfortunately, this mischevious imp made his body a living solar battery, ala Superboy, but he required near-constant sunlight not only to empower him but for his very survival! More than a few hours away from sunlight could prove fatal for him!
STATUE KID: A mutant Zwenian born with the ability not only to turn to stone, but to change shape and increase his size when pertrifying! So, effectively, he can turn into a giant statue of anyone he chooses!
Yet to come, details on the girl wonders:
Powersphere Lass, Stratosphere Girl, Wind-Control Wendy, and Global Tunnel Girl!
Posted by Set on :
Powersphere Lass sounds awesome. Especially if she talks about her mighty spheres a lot.
Global Tunnel Girl reminds me that I always wanted to write up an old BITS character called 'Omniboy' who could 'travel in air, on the land or on or under the sea!' Instead of making Omniboy just have travel powers, I was thinking of making he a she, and giving her the power to transform her robotic-looking android body into any sort of vehicle, from a ground-speeder to an air-jet to a spaceship to a submarine or even a tunneling machine! She's the sister of the long-lost Fortress Lad, wondering what happened to her brother, who had a similar ability to transform into buildings.
Of course, I'd have to come up with a name for Vehicle Lass, since Interplanet Janet is already taken.
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Omniboy was actually adapted into the Omnibeast, one of Jungle King/Monster Master's Legion of Super-Monsters.
Posted by MLLASH on :
I tried to do an image of Sun Kid but he looked too Fire Lad/Wildfire's energy body circa late-80s Levitz. But I must Windows Paint the Seven Wonders!!!
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
STRATOSPHERE GIRL: A native of the planet Koobar, whose inhabitant evolved the ability to stretch their bodies to incredible lengths in order to escape predators or reach food or something, Stratosphere Girl was inspired by Legionnaire Matter-Eater Lad, who once saved their planet from an alien invasion, to come to Earth and become a super-hero! She planned to join the Legion of Super-Heroes, but inadvertantly became involved in the events that led to the formation of the Seven Wonders, taking the name Stratosphere Girl, inspired by the Stratosphere Laboratory!
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
GLOBAL-TUNNEL GIRL: GTL received her ability to create underground tunnels on any planet when she was exposed to the radiaton from a strange meteor! Her tunnels last only as long as she is in the vicinity! She is the *main* reason why Mordru never messes with the Seven Wonders!
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
Jeepers! I totes need to come up with profiles for Powersphere Lass and Wind-Control Wendy!
Posted by Invisible Brainiac on :
And Global-Tunnel Girl's being a human Mordru-repellent makes her arguably the most important team member!
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
POWERSPHERE LASS: Powersphere Lass's scientist mother was working on inventing miniature, portable fusion powerspheres when she was was preggers with PL! Unfortunately, her test model exploded, bathing her and her unborn child in radiation! Fortunately, both survived, but the child was turned into a living fusion powersphere! She could use the energy from the cold fusion reactions within her body to enhance her own physical attributes, making her temporarily faster, stronger, and more durable than an ordinary person, or she can release destructive energy bursts!
Posted by Eryk Davis Ester on :
WIND-CONTROL WENDY: Wendy Winston was a young girl on one of the first Earth colony vessels to be sent beyond the solar system. Unfortunately, her vessel was swallowed by a giant space-amoeba! Centuries later, when this space-amoeba was killed by the U.P. Spacefleet after menacing Rimbor, Wendy was discovered among the fragments of space-amoeba, still somehow surviving in a state of suspended animation. Somehow, she'd gain the ability to be permanently surrounded by her own breathable atmosphere, so that she could survive in space or hostile planets. With practice, she learned to project this atmosphere beyond herself in short bursts, as well as to use it to manipulate air currents in surrounding atmospheres!