Sadie Nash

28 years ago - Sadie Nash is born, the daughter of Kyle Nimbus, who does not know about her.

21 years ago - 7-year-old Sadie Nash first meets her father Kyle Nimbus, and begins trying to earn his approval.

14 years ago - 14-year-old Sadie Nash's mother dies. she is taken in by her father Kyle Nimbus, and begins training her to take his place and continue his vendetta against Ted Knight.

6 years ago - 22-year-old Sadie Nash becomes the new Mist at the insistance of her father Kyle Nimbus, and begins a game of cat and mouse with the new Starman Jack Knight.

4 years ago - 24-year-old Sadie Nash's flirtation with Jack Knight becomes an affair. When she discovers that she is pregant, she chooses to reject her father Kyle Nimbus's vendetta to be with Jack.

3 years ago - 25-year-old Sadie Nash & Jack Knight's son David is born. Her father Kyle Nimbus discovers that his powers are fading and that he will die soon, and furious at what he percieves is the loss of his legacy, attempts to destroy all of Opal City. Ted Knight sacrifices himself to stop him, letting Sadie & Jack focus on keeping their son safe.

We aren't trying to duplicate the exact story told in the pages of James Robinson's Starman series. It's very good, but it's also very much it's own thing, and it also clearly a product of the time it was written. One of the main changes we're making is in his relationships, and perhaps the best example of that is with his love interest.

Sadie Nash is a combination of two seperate characters from the series, but we feel that by combining them into one person we manage to create a really wonder new spin on this story that is absolutely in keeping with the spirit of Robinson's Starman, but rather than trying to reproduce the particular tone of that series it is instead something new that we really like.

Sadie Falk's Comic History

Getting Sadie's first appearance right is a little tricky, because if we give you her ACTUAL first appearance, it gives away the twist. We saw he for the first time, we thought, in Starman #7 when Jack bumbed into a woman, apologized, and moved on without really noticing. He continued to bumb into her here and there, and eventually the two of them started to date. The series depicted their relationship gradually, showing most of their dialogue happening while they sat in restaraunts on dates. They finally confessed their love for each other several years in, when Sadie finally had to confess to him that she had actually used a false name when she introduced herself to him, and that her real name was Joyce Payton.

This means that her ACTUAL first appearance was back in Action Comics Weekly #622, an anthology comic that included a story setting up the new Starman series starring the new Starman Will Payton, where his sister Joyce was a core part of his supporting cast. This meant that the character we now now as Sadie was already an established part of the Starman legacy.

As the series went on, she eventually realized she was pregnant. A core part of the series had always been the danger and sacrifice inherent in the life of a hero, and Sadie found she was unable to bring up a child in that world. She left Opal City, but as the book ended, she wrote to Jack, revealing that she had his daughter, and asking him to choose to leave Starman behind and come be with her. He did just that, giving this great series a really unique and satisfying end.

Nash's Comic History

Meanwhile, the same series was also heavily themed around the relationship between parents and children, and the legacies they are ment to carry, with Jack's relationship with his father at the forefront of the book. His father's' nemesis, the Mist, had two children that were trying to carry his legacy; his son Kyle and daughter Nash. He hung all his hopes on Kyle, treating Nash like she was useless, but when Jack kills Kyle early in the series, Nash went on to be his absolute nemesis. Desperate for her father's approval which was forever withheld, Nash used her father's technology to replicate his powers and stage massive crimewaves across the city. In one particularly problematic story, she actually sexually assaults Jack, and we eventually discover that she gave birth to his son, planning to raise him to become the next generation nemesis to the next generation Starman.

During the publication run of the Starman series, Nash was a major baddie in DC as the new Mist, but eventually, when her father planned to kill everyone in the city, including her and her child, she finally confronted him, finally unable to go along with his plans. Her father responded by killing her.

As the series went on, Jack was now a father, raising his son Theo, named after his father. When he left for San Franciso to be with Sadie and his daughter, he made the trip with his son.

Our Sadie Nash Story

So why combine these characters? Well, we do like the idea of Jack Knight having a relationship that grows over time, and we really like that part of the reason he eventually retires as Starman was because he chose to instead have a child and focus on his family. Unfortunately, we would have to alter some details with either of the relationships depicted in the comics. For Sadie, we simply aren't including Will Payton in our timeline. We're giving his costume and powers to Jack's brother David. Meanwhile, Jack's relationship with Nash obviously has some really problematic elements that we'd just as soon not use. Obviously the sexual assault, but also just the fact that Nash was really an incredibly tragic character who was never able to grow past the influence of her abusive father.

So... what if our version of Sadie and Nash were the same person? If she starts out as the child of the Mist, and their relationship begins with her trying to be Jack's enemy, but the two of them were drawn to each other, and ultimately it becomes something more? Sadie would find herself in a position to choose between her father's vendetta, or to leave that behind and embrace something more hopeful, and more HERS? We feel like this new spin on the comic gives us a best of both worlds story. We're absolutely not suggesting this is BETTER than the story told in one of my favorite comic series, but we do think that this speaks for itself as a great alternate take that fits our timeline.

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