Fire

Justice League: Generation Lost #9

Issue Credits

Writer: Judd Winick
Penciller: Fernando Dagnino
Inker: Raul Fernandez
Colourist: Hi-Fi
Letterer: Swands
Editor: Rex Ogle and Brian Cunningham

Cover Artist: Cliff Chiang

Variant Cover Colourist: Hi-Fi
Variant Cover Artist: Kevin Maguire

Quotes

Booster Gold: What is it, Max?! What is this all about?!
Maxwell Lord: You think I’m going to tell you?! Go find some moustache-twirling black hat tying a chick to rail road tracks for crap like that! Or y’know the Ultra-Humanite!

Synopsis "Just Stopping By"

Maxwell Lord, the former director of Checkmate and the JLI, has forced his old JLI teammates to reform after he ostracised them from their employers and allies. Under Booster Gold’s leadership the JLI broke into Checkmate Castle following a lead on Max’s location, but they failed to find him. Their identity was discovered and they were forced to flee to an old decommissioned JLI Embassy in Potsdam, Germany. Fire leaves the others to check on their computers and runs straight into the missing Max.

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Justice League: Generation Lost #5

Issue Credits

Plotter: Judd Winick and Keith Giffen
Scripter: Judd Winick
Breakdowns: Keith Giffen
Penciller: Aaron Lopresti
Inker: Matt Ryan
Colourist: Hi-Fi
Letterer: Swands
Editor: Rex Ogle and Michael Siglain

Cover Artist: Tony Harris
Cover Colourist: J.D. Mettler

Variant Cover Colourist: Hi-Fi
Variant Cover Artist: Kevin Maguire

Quotes:

Fire: “Don’t ‘thank’ the psychopathic madman.”

Maxwell Lord: “I’ve got to tell you, kid, to most people, this would sound like eighty-five tons of of steaming b.s. But, me, I’m different. Ol’ Max Lord smells b.s., he grabs some hip waders and a shovel sees how to get get to work.”

Synopsis "The Gang's All Here"

The former members of the Justice League International – Captain Atom, Booster Gold, Fire and Ice – are the only people alive who remember that Maxwell Lord (the League’s old director) ever existed. Their friends believe they are going insane and their employers have dismissed them. The only people who believe with them are Jamie Reyes (the new Blue Beetle) and Gavril Ivanovich (a renegade from the Rocket Red Brigade). Both of the new comers appears to have been brought to them by chance, but Booster is suspicious and believes that Max is behind his as well. Max is eavesdropping on Boosters accusation and radios him to ask “Okay, Booster… what would you like to know?”

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Who is Maxwell Lord? – Part IV: The Super Buddies

And now dear reader, we enter the strange twilight world of the Super Buddies! Whence last we encountered him, our plucky hero – to wit: Maxwell Lord IV – had been turned into a digital consciousness by the nefarious activities of the Kilg%re. Yet, Max had managed to divest himself of his overlord and the equally shadowy Arcana.

In Part One: Background, Details, and Biography (Early Life).
In Part Two: Taking over the JLI, Fall of the Kilg%re, Max’s telepathic talent, and Shenanigans, JLI Style.
In Part Three: Loss of control: Superman, Heimlich & Dreamslayer, and the First Death of Maxwell Lord,

Biography (cont.)

The Super-Buddies – or- Formerly known as a good idea

Max had been absent from the Chronicles for some time when he resurfaced with a brand new enterprise. The Justice League International had been about helping people world-wide, but this time Max was going to organise a group that could help people on a neighbourhood level. His new dream was of accessible heroes who were free from corporate or political interests and were instead backed by a not for-profit organisation based in a strip mall in the New York suburbs. Max needed help to realise this dream so he rescued L-Ron, Manga Khan’s former lackey, from his dead-end burger-flipping job and set about recruiting their old JLI friends to his new cause.

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Justice League: Generation Lost #3

Issue Credits

Scripter: Judd Winick
Breakdowns: Keith Giffen
Penciller: Fernando Dagnino
Inker: Bit and Raul Fernandez
Colourist: Hi-Fi
Letterer: Sal Cipriano
Assistant Editor: Rex Ogle
Editor: Michael Siglain

Cover Artist: Tony Harris
Cover Colourist: J.D. Mettler

Variant Cover Colourist: Hi-Fi
Variant Cover Artist: Kevin Maguire

Synopsis "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue"

Previously: Maxwell Lord has managed to hypnotize the world into thinking that he never existed. However, four of his former friends – Captain Atom, Booster Gold, Ice, and Fire – were immune to his power. He is now working from the shadows to discredit and humiliate them so nobody else will believe their stories.

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Justice League: Generation Lost #2

Issue Credits

Scripter: Judd Winick
Breakdowns: Keith Giffen
Penciller: Joe Bennett
Inker: Jack Jadson
Colourist: Hi-Fi
Letterer: Patrick Brosseau
Assistant Editor: Rex Ogle
Editor: Michael Siglain

Cover Artist: Tony Harris
Cover Colourist: J.D. Mettler

Variant Cover Colourist: Hi-Fi
Variant Cover Artist: Kevin Maguire

Synopsis "Max'ed Out"

Previously in Justice League: Generation Lost #1: The discovery that Maxwell Lord, the rogue ex-director of Checkmate and the Justice League International, is still alive has spawned a worldwide manhunt involving the Justice League, Checkmate, the UN, and the entire intelligence community. Booster Gold deduced that Lord had returned to the JLI’s New York Embassy. Max ambushed Booster and left him unconscious while he prepared to broadcast a massive telepathic suggestion to the entire world. Captain Atom, Fire, Ice, and Skeets answered Booster’s distress call, but they arrived just as Max was making his broadcast. It overwhelmed them and left them unconscious while Max escaped. Superman answered their signal, but he told them that he’d never heard of a person called Maxwell Lord.

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Justice League: Generation Lost #1

Issue Credits

Plotter: Judd Winick and Keith Giffen
Scripter: Judd Winick
Breakdowns: Keith Giffen
Penciller: Aaron Lopresti
Inker: Matt Ryan
Colourist: Hi-Fi
Letterer: Sal Cipriano
Assistant Editor: Rex Ogle
Editor: Michael Siglain

Cover Artist: Tony Harris
Cover Colourist: J.D. Mettler

Variant Cover Colourist: Hi-Fi
Variant Cover Artist: Kevin Maguire

Synopsis "Gone, But Not Forgotten"

Previously in Blackest Night #8: The appearance of the White Lantern and the defeat of Nekron heralded the resurrection of twelve seemingly random villains and heroes. One of those twelve was the former-Checkmate and JLI executive Maxwell Lord. He used his telepathic power to cloud Guy Gardner’s memory and slipped away before anybody else noticed his return.

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Adam Hughes’s Sketches for Fire’s costume

Adam Hughes’s preliminary design sketches (A and B) for Fire’s 1990s costume have been shared online by their owner Mike Frigon. Note the reference to Keith Giffen wanting a “Madonna look.”

Beatriz DaCosta, Fire (previously the Green Fury/Flame), was introduced in the comic book that accompanied the Super Friends cartoon. She was a Brazilian superhero who had the ability to breathe green fire and, while she was never seen in the cartoon, she was patterned after international/ethnic heroes like Samurai or Black Vulcan. Fire and her best friend Ice (Tora) were brought into the Justice League during the Keith Giffen and J.M. DeMatteis era.

The Invasion crossover was used to change her into Human Torch like living flame. At the same time JLA artist Adam Hughes updated Fire and Ice’s costumes. Fire’s original Super Friends costume was a full body yellow/green leotard, but when she came into the DCU she acquired a rather less conservative costume that was split down to her naval. Hughes updated that costume for a Madonna/Rock inspired ensemble. Since the end of the JLI era Fire has reverted to hero spy roots and has joined the Checkmate organisation as Black King’s Knight.