Engineer (Wildstorm)
The Engineer is a female comic superhero that features in Wildstorm and DC.
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Biography
Origin
Angela Spica was born to a blue collar family in Queens as the youngest sibling of six children. Her father was a bus driver and mother worked at a launderette with her five older sisters all being pregnant in high school. At school, she developed a passion for reading comic books leading to her desiring to become one whereas her class fellows wanted to be lawyers and orthodontists. She would express her desire to be a superhero to her careers officer but was told that she was out of her mind. However, the young Angela was able to build circuit boards and fixing televisions. In 1998, she would swap her blood for nine pints of liquid machinery allowing her to shape it to her needs. (Jenny Sparks: The Secret History of the Authority v1 #5)
Professor Angela Spica would be dispatched by the future Jenny Sparks to her past self in the 19th century to save her life after the incident with Sliding Albion. (Jenny Sparks: The Secret History of the Authority v1 #5).
WorldStorm
During one incident, a displaced Captain Atom arrived in her reality where the Authority observed his activities as he encountered Mr. Majestic and WildC.A.T.s. In a fight with the latter, Angie decided to intervene and had a Door open that sent Captain Atom to the Moon where she revealed herself to him. After introducing themselves, she took him to the Carrier where she introduced him to the rest of the Authority whilst claiming that she would return Captain Atom back to his home reality after it was discovered a reaction in his body would lead to him exploding and creating galactic scale destruction. With Jack Hawksmoor, they journeyed across multiple realities but failed to find his own before they took him to an Earth under Nazi rule in Earth-37C where they brutally killed the Nazi forces before executing Hitler. Captain Atom later was sent to Earth through the Door where Angie commented to her fellow Authority members on the dangers posed by Nathaniel Adams where they decided to keep a close eye on him in order to cure him or kill him. (Captain Atom: Armageddon v1 #5) The Engineer would keep Captain Atom company where the two struck a romantic relationship. (Captain Atom: Armageddon v1 #6)
The New 52
After the Flashpoint, Angela Spica was shown as a civilian who was badly wounded in a car accident when she was taken by the Shadow Lords. They began implanting the technology of the previous Engineer Archie Trundle and offered Spica the chance to join Stormwatch as his replacement. Her body was already partially transformed by this point so ultimately she had no choice in the matter whereupon she adopted the guise of the Engineer. (Stormwatch v3 #11)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Her desire to become a superhero stemmed from her time in reading comic books. (Jenny Sparks: The Secret History of the Authority v1 #5)
After the Flashpoint, Angie was initially quite uncomfortable about her cybernetic form with only her relationship with Harry Tanner making her comfortable with her transformed body. (Stormwatch v3 #11)
Powers and abilities
Spica was noted for her high intelligence which she had a young age when she constructed circuit boards and fixing televisions as a child. (Jenny Sparks: The Secret History of the Authority v1 #5)
The liquid machinery that coated her body was capable of being shaped into a variety of tools for any purpose. She was also able to shape her limbs into nano-utensils that could stitch a wound. (Jenny Sparks: The Secret History of the Authority v1 #5)
Notes
- The Engineer was created by Warren Ellis and Bryan Hitch where she made her first appearance in The Authority v1 #1.
Appearances
- The Authority v1 #1:
- Stormwatch v3:
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