Spider Girl
2980 - Sussa Paka is born on Earth, part of a matriarchal spider-cult
2993 - 13-year-old Sussa Paka begins undergoing genetic modification using archived metagene data to become an operative of her cult.
2995 - 15-year-old Sussa Paka auditions for the Legion of Super-Heroes. She successfully hides her purpose from Imra Ardeen and successfully joins the Legion. .
2996 - 16-year-old Sussa Paka joins the Legion of Super-Heroes espionage team, but is discovered as a double agent during the Earth War. She fights the Legion but is captured.
2999 - 19-year-old Sussa Paka escapes from prison and returns to Earth. Her cult has been overtaken in a coup, and she begins to retake control, becoming its new leader.
3001 - 21-year-old Sussa Paka's cult attempts to exert control on Earth, but are regularly stopped by Chuck Foster
3007 - 27-year-old Sussa Paka and Justice League of Earth go public and stage a coup to control Earth's population. They fight Legion of Super-Heroes.
Spider Girl's Comic HistorySpider-Girl is probably the most prolific character to be added to the JLE. She appeared WAY back in Adventure Comics #323 in 1964, notably only two years after Marvel's Spider-Man, but a year before Marvel's Medusa. It was only a one-off appearance, but she would later appear again as a member of the Legion of Super-Villains, looking for revenge on the Legion for rejecting her (admittedly, Saturn Girl was kind of a jerk about it).
Spider-Girl actually started to appear more after the 5-year-jump in the Legion storylines in the early eighties, now operating as more of a thief and loner, but would regularly interact with the Legion itself. This more sympathetic characterization actually carried over into the first Post-Crisis Reboot timeline, where she was a member of the spinoff team Workforce and was actually a love interest for Ultra Boy. The creation of the Justice League of Earth was part of what was called the "Retroboot", the latest reinvention of the Legion status quo, this time restoring them back to their original Pre-Crisis status, so it does sort of make sense that the retroboot version of Spider-Girl would ignore the more heroic versions that showed up later on and focus on the version of the character that joined the Legion of Super-Villains. |
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Our Spider Girl StoryThis is maybe the one time we hesitated before including one of the canon members of the Justice League of Earth. Not because she doesn't fit, she's actually a great inclusion (and artist Gary Frank draws her like a sexualized lunatic, which is kind of awesome), but because she is a really interesting character in the stories that showed her pseudo-reforming.
We tried to bridge the gap, by actually making Spider-Girl the only future member of the JLE to actually successfully make her way onto the Legion. She's doing so as a double agent, working for the cult that gave her her powers, and is eventually found out, but we like the idea that she is at least temporarily on the team. As cool as her 5 Years Later and Reboot costumes are, we imagine she would probably be wearing her original costume. We also took advantage of the fact that her spider-cult would be on Earth during the years when the Legion is disolved to establish her as a known enemy of Bouncing Boy while he becomes the premier superhero of his home planet. She just fits the role really well. |