Superwoman
12 years ago (dream realm memory) - Lois Lane, daughter of General Sam Lane, crashes her charter jet on Themyscera. The Amazons have a contest to see who can venture into man's world to return her. Lois poisons Princess Diana and takes her place, cheating to win the contest. She is granted the strength of the Amazons and returns to man's world, using it to become Superwoman. She joins the Crime Syndicate, and begins a relationship with Ultraman while also cheating on him with Owlman.
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.
Superwoman's StoryOf the original members of the Crime Syndicate, Superwoman might have been the most complete an idea; someone who could have stepped right out of that story and joined regular continuity. Her fights with Wonder Woman in this story were probably the best parts... really elaborate affairs involving three dimensional space that really need to be seen to be believed.
During Grant Morrison's Anti-Matter Syndicate, when he was creating more elaborate backstories for the core members, we discover that Superwoman is actually Lois Lane. This is really fun, because Lois had regularly become Superwoman in a wide variety of Silver Age Superman stories. She's also depicted as a bit of a philanderess, cheating on both Ultraman AND Owlman. Generally, even this version of Lois Lane's powers are somehow associated with Ultraman, although they never really get too deep into how they work. We wanted to still keep her somehow associated with the Amazons, so we created a story where Lois actually crashes on Themyscera, but she poisons Diana and rigs the tournament, claiming the strength of the Amazons for herself. That, and of course making sure we include the relationship drama, is the key to getting this character right. |
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