Aleea Strange
2 years ago - 2-year-old Aleea Strange is separated from her father Adam Strange while Rann is phased out of sync from normal space to protect it from the Starbreaker. They are eventually reunited.
now - 4-year-old Aleea Strange stays with her grandfather Sardath while Adam & Alanna Strange assemble a new Omega Men.
You'd be forgiven for thinking that Adam & Alanna strange have been parents for MUCH longer. It's so normal in those Silver Age stories for the characters to develop little nuclear families around themselves, I just assumed they did to. But no, their daughter Aleea is a much more recent character. She really becomes the focus for their stories, and she's absolutely a character who will someday play a part in the future of our timeline.
Aleea Strange's Comic HistoryWhile Aleea has basically made appearances in practically every comic Adam Strange has guest starred in from the 90s forward, from Green Lantern to JLA to R.E.B.E.L.S. to the Rann/Thanagar War, her biggest appearances just happen to be in the two stories that arguably do the most damage to Adam Strange as a character. She showed up for the first time in 1990 in the three-issue miniseries Adam Strange: A Man of Two Worlds by Richard Bruning with art by the Kubert Brothers. She's actually born here, and we're led to believe that Alanna died in childbirth. This is a really gorgeous book (the Kuberts are good at what they do) but Adam in this series is so wildly out of character he reads like some sort of sociopath.
Likewise, by far the book where we see the most growth and development for Aleea, where she actually gets to grow into a little girl, is in 2020's Strange Adventures by Tom King. A great comic, but... lord, nobody makes it out of that one looking good. Still, we get a lot of Aleea in it! |
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Aleea's Story & Possible FutureSince her birth in 1990, the Adam Strange stories Aleea has been a part of have largely been about disrupting the status quo of their world, with giant alien invasions or even with them losing their whole planet. Aleea didn't get to be part of the classic, vintage adventure serial storytelling of Silver Age Rann, and I think that really has to be the core of her story. It's practically a trope for the heroes of those stories to have kids that eventually grow up to become adventurers themselves.
Of course, as she grows up, could you imagine a world where Aleea DOESN'T eventually come to Earth and become a hero in her own right, alongside characters like Mareena, Shilo Free, Lian Harper, and Jon Kent? She might just be a little four-year-old girl growing up on an alien planet right now, but she's absolutely a child of two worlds, and I think we all know exactly what that's going to look like. |