Jack B Quick
18 years ago (dream realm memory) - Chemist Johnny Chambers first discovers his Speed Formula, which allows him to manufacturer the drug Velocity 9. He becomes heavily addicted, using the superhero name Jack B Quick.
16 years ago (dream realm memory) - Jack B Quick, Power Ring, Scream Queen, Sea King and Martian Maneater come together as the Crime Syndicate to defeat the formation of the Justice Underground.
12 years ago - The Justice League are attacked in their dreams by Doctor Destiny. They follow him back into the Dream Dome defeating him and disabling his technology. The Dream Dome builds a dream reflection of the world and populates it with nightmare mirrors of the Justice League. They remember their own history, coming together as the Crime Syndicate and dominating their world.
9 years ago - Morpheus returns to the Dreaming. While reclaiming his realm, he disabled the Dream Dome, the technology built by Garrett Sanford while lost in the Dreaming. The dream reflection of the world that is home to the Crime Syndicate, no longer protected by the Dome, is set adrift in its own corner of the Dreaming.
7 years ago - The Crime Syndicate confirms that their world is in fact merely a dream reflection of the real world. They escape, and attack the Justice League to take their place. The League is defeated, and has to regroup. They are assisted in finally defeating the Crime Syndicate by Owlman.
The Crime Syndicate is really one collective storytelling entity. While Grant Morrison's take on these characters did give them a little more backstory, the point has never really been for any of them to have a lot of story of their own, so making character specific timelines becomes kind of beside the point.
Because of the way we did this, with the Syndicate being dream reflections of the League, the timelines of these characters are deliberately pretty esoteric. These characters remember a past, and that past is a sort of mirror universe mélange of the histories of the characters they are reflections of, but none of those histories actually happened, so we they're not going to link out to the timeline at large. They only exist on these pages.
Because of the way we did this, with the Syndicate being dream reflections of the League, the timelines of these characters are deliberately pretty esoteric. These characters remember a past, and that past is a sort of mirror universe mélange of the histories of the characters they are reflections of, but none of those histories actually happened, so we they're not going to link out to the timeline at large. They only exist on these pages.
|
Jack B Quick's StoryJohnny Quick is of course the name of an incredibly prolific Golden Age speedster character with over 100 appearances in Adventure comics under his belt, but at the time the Crime Syndicate debuted, he hadn't been seen in almost a decade. (He actually would show up again only a few years later in the pages of the Flash)
The Earth 3 Johnny Quick actually gets the most panel time in the original Justice League story, with several long, elaborate fight scenes. Later, when Grant Morrison was inventing more complex backstories with their version of the Anti-Matter Syndicate, Johnny had his powers tied to Velocity 9, the drug used by Edward Claris. He's depicted as a strung out addict. We combined Johnny Quick's speed formula with the invention of Velocity 9, but the bigger change here was that we wanted to give him his own name so we don't have two characters running around with the same name. (I know that's a thing modern comics do a lot, but it's always bad.). Jack B Quick isn't a name I would give a character who's mean to continually appear, but in this case it works just fine. |
Related Characters
|