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  Mourning becomes electric - Authority - Jenny Sparks - Epinions.com
Backed by both brains and brawn, Jenny Sparks was an indomitable spirit whose exploits and sacrifices made her one of the greatest heroes of the 20th century.
Jenny Sparks was the heart and soul of the Authority, a team of superheroes who genuinely wanted to make the world a better place, and weren't afraid to kick a few heads in to reach their goal.
Jenny stopped physically aging in her late teens or early twenties, and the figure's physique reflects that--she's got the lean build of an athletic college student, rather than the humoungous knockers one (stereo)typically expects of comicbook heroines.
www.epinions.com /content_74123808388   (412 words)

  
  Jenny Sparks - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jenny Sparks, also known as "The Spirit of the 20th century", is a fictional character in the Wildstorm comic book universe created by Warren Ellis during his 1997 revamp of the dwindling Stormwatch series.
Jenny is one of the characters Ellis created to protect humanity, present a facet of the coming age and do something specific for it in a given century.
Jenny was the one most tied with the century itself, always being in the centre of things, while her state of mind mirrored the spirit of the particular age.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jenny_Sparks   (1664 words)

  
 Jenny - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The spinning jenny was a device used in the textile industry (where jenny is possibly a corruption of engine).
Jenny Sparks is the Spirit of the 20th Century in The Authority comic books.
Jenny Quantum is the Spirit of the 21st Century, successor to Jenny Sparks in The Authority comic books.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jenny   (225 words)

  
 Jenny Sparks   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jenny is fond of white suits and various undershirts with anarchist or archaic symbols.
Compared to her companions, Jenny is the least resistant to damage and is the least in shape.
Jenny fought in a number of small skirmishes against various governments, but nothing to draw the public's eye to her.
www.ugrad.cs.jhu.edu /~raj/GURPS/HEROES/Jenny.html   (611 words)

  
 Jenny Sparks
Jenny walked in on the wife after she had completed her "perfect baby" which was made up of the sewn together pieces of most of the kidnapped children.
Jenny and the surviving members of Stormwatch Black recruited some new allies they had met during their time with the U.N. agency, and formed the Authority.
Jenny gave her life to end this threat, exhausting her energies in one massive blast; she died exactly one hundred years after her birth, as the new century began.
www.internationalhero.co.uk /j/jsparks.htm   (960 words)

  
 The Authority - Psychology Central   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Also, Jenny Sparks' successor, Jenny Quantum, was adopted by a now-married Apollo and Midnighter, and the Doctor overcame his drug addiction after feeling guilty for not being around for one of the Authority's biggest challenges after suffering an overdose of heroin.
Jenny takes the Engineer and Swift with her, and surprises them by presenting him as her first husband, though they were only married for 15 minutes.
Jenny decides to take advantage of Apollo's ability to quickly recovery in direct sunlight and uses him to neutralize the attack on Europe while she takes the Carrier and the rest of the Authority to Sliding Albion.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/The_Authority   (4604 words)

  
 Gay League - The Authority: Relentless
Jenny Sparks manages to piece her team together in time to confront the madman and battle his army of powerful youths which are actually clones.
Ellis has some subplots he plans on exploring in the future, mainly the history of Jenny Sparks and the mysterious duo of Apollo and The Midnighter (are they or arent' they?).
He has revealed the outcome of the Apollo and Midnighter question and the history of Jenny Sparks is currently explored (by Mark Millar in a mini-series).
www.gayleague.com /forums/display.php?id=1   (510 words)

  
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Jenny Sparks tried to light her cigarette, and scowled at the rain as it soaked the butt in seconds.
Jenny lit her cigarette and smiled, a flicker of electricity crackling in her blue eyes.
Sparks thumbed a light to her cigarette and paused at the sound of smashing glass outside the pub.
solo.abac.com /lubakmetyk/others/dex/LastCall.txt   (4445 words)

  
 Printer Friendly: Jenny Sparks #4 Review - Silver Bullet Comics   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jenny is accused of being a top allied spy who has infiltrated the Nazi Eagle's Nest and stolen the Tibetan egg known as the Egg of Dhammpada.
Jenny was the direct cause of this young Adolf going from penniless starving artist to the world's greatest dictator by making fun of his artwork and telling him to go into politics.
Jenny was very fortunate to have treated the young Hitler with kindness when he was down on his luck in Vienna.
www.silverbulletcomicbooks.com /reviews/97094096694161,print.htm   (454 words)

  
 www.myspace.com/supermom
Jenny can alter the settings of an xbox and insert and play a DVD with her toes.
Jenny is teaching me how to throw stones, and I like to make her cry.
Jenny is like the part in your favorite song, the note that makes you take a deep breath followed by a slow sigh, the note that makes you Laugh and cry at the same time, the note that reminds you everything will be alright.
www.myspace.com /supermom   (911 words)

  
 The Comics Get Serious--Review of Jenny Sparks
This is a series of short stories illustrating the life of one of modern comics' most prickly superheroines: electrical, British Jenny Sparks, "the spirit of the twentieth century." Born on January 1, 1900, she lived exactly 100 years, with her final seconds being spent on destroying a massive alien threat to the Earth.
It was with the latter that she killed the alien and then died, only to be reborn as Jenny Quantum in Singapore--but that's a different book for a later review.
While reading the spectacular Planetary, I was intrigued by Elijah Snow's comments about Jenny Sparks, and I was curious to see what she was all about.
www.rationalmagic.com /Comics/JennySparks.html   (506 words)

  
 The Authority - PopMatters Comic Book Review
The Authority hardly took any prisoners — in one chilling incident Jenny Sparks (who had the ability to control electricity) electrocuted several villains to death in the River Thames in London.
But 'sparks' start to fly when they discover that Jenny Sparks may not be dead.
In the ensuing battle, Singapore is almost destroyed, Apollo is apparently raped and the Americans kidnap Jenny Quantum.
www.popmatters.com /comics/authority.shtml   (1101 words)

  
 S p o i l e r s
Enter Jenny Sparks, reluctant leader of The Authority, now based on a trans dimensional craft known as the Carrier.
Asking for help she doesn't need, Jenny ensures that, "when all bloody hell breaks loose -- and it's going to -- we will need them to convince the powers that be to stay out of our way." The chapter closes with Gamorra's army descending on London.
Jenny has a chat with her hubby, a blue, who tells her that the man responsible for the invasions is Regis.
www.fortunecity.com /tatooine/spielberg/97/spoiler.html   (850 words)

  
 Jenny Sparks
Oddly enough, Jenny Sparks has recently accepted the role of the Head of Security for Dynamo City, and thus has a large amount of sway in the local politic s and international affairs.
Jenny assumed command of the fina l metahuman push that acted to save the British Isles, and turned the tide of the war.
Her current assignment is to guard the Universe and GC from Jenny Sparks, a difficult task indeed.
www.ugrad.cs.jhu.edu /~raj/GURPS/CI/Update2000.html   (2068 words)

  
 THE AUTHORITY REVIEW
That's when Jenny Sparks, the oldest member of the team(you have to read STORMWATCH to understand that one) arrives, promising that she and the Stormwatch fl team members, currently in hiding, won't let what happened in Moscow ever happen again.
Jenny Sparks sends Jack Hawksmoor to scope out Moscow, who discovers that not only is the place pretty much wiped, but there is a load of residual radiation about the place.
We discover, via Jenny Sparks who has encountered this before(don't forget, she is 100 years old), the history between our world and sliding Albion and we also get to meet Lorenzo-Jenny's first husband.
members.aol.com /PODIUM1/authority.html   (1039 words)

  
 Warren Ellis: StormWatch Vol. 2: Lighting Strikes - Bøger   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The title of the second volume of collected StormWatch issues, StormWatch: Lightning Strikes, is a reference to the electrical powers of Jenny Sparks, one of the members that Warren Ellis created upon his assumption of the writing chores on this book.
Jenny's smart, funny, beautiful and wise, and, while she's too old to come off as anything but a hardened cynic, the very reason she's joined StormWatch contradicts that outward shell: she wants to make a better world (That, and she's one of the few characters in comics history allowed a dignified ending--- see Authority #12).
Jenny's life story is illustrated in the styles of comics from each respective era she describes.
www.totaltiorden.dk /shop/dvd_details.php/1563896508|dvd   (1622 words)

  
 The Continuity Pages: The Authority > Mark Millar The Authority Era (2000-2002)
Millar took Jenny Sparks' notion of changing the world for the better, rather than fighting super-villains simply to restore the status quo, to the logical extreme: #13 opens with the Authority interveneing in world politics, overthrowing a corrupt regime.
It was to feature an 18-page Jenny Sparks and Jenny Quantum story with writing and art by Bryan Hitch, the original artist on the title, not to mention a wraparound cover by Hitch and Andrew Currie.
While Jenny Sparks, The Engineer and The Doctor put their heads together to solve the problem, the rest of the team were shown searching for survivors and injured amongst the devastation.
www.sequart.com /authorityMILLAR1.htm   (5555 words)

  
 Subreality Cafe: The Case Of The Comatose Writer
Jenny Sparks looked irritably at the CD player in the corner and waved her fingers at it.
Jenny Sparks stood at the end of "BlackSword's" bed, smoke curling around her head from her cigarette despite Scully's disapproval, the sound of the respirator no longer registering.
Sparks hadn't told Garibaldi this was the ace she was hoping to pull later, once the truth got out, why it was so important that it not be covered up.
www.subreality.com /sc/fics/tcotcw.htm   (9995 words)

  
 The Wedding Page for Justin Costa and Jenny Siegfried   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jenny was born in Iowa and moved to Nevada by way of Oklahoma and Nebraska.
Jenny took interest in photography and acting as well as a strong interest in the sciences.
Jenny's interest in the outdoors and mining drew her to the Mackay Club as well.
users.intercomm.com /jennyls/wedding.html   (821 words)

  
 Authoity   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jenny sadly died battling the Outer God, leaving her team in the hands of Jack Hawksmoor.
Why Jenny Sparks chose this often kamakazi man to be a member of the Authorty is unknown.
Named for her Ms.Sparks, it would also appear the baby Jenny is also the new Jenny Quantum, born Jan 1st 2000.
www.bsu.edu /web/ajmoschell/authority.html   (1180 words)

  
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Jenny's not sure if she could pry him away from the Midnighter, and she doesn't particularly want to try.
And it would be bad for the team and all that, but Jenny knows herself, and knows she would have done something to fuck this team up eventually.
Jenny vaguely recalls that she should have a better answer to that question, one that includes more than just getting as drunk as she possibly can.
www.aliencorn.net /obscura/onlyconstant.html   (935 words)

  
 webGED: Sparks Family Tree Data Page   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Sparks, son of Garrett and Betsy (Boggs) Sparks, was bornabout 1840.
SQ pps 4470-71: Walter Scott Sparks was born on January 21, 1874, inLampasas County and was a fair-sized lad when his parents move d to thegeneral area where the present-day states of Nevada, Utah, a nd Idahomeet.
It is quite probable that William Sample Sparks, hiswife (whose name, we believe, was Rachael, although she was surely asecond or eve n third wife), and his younger children, lived near hisson, Matthew.
sparksfamilytree.net /family_tree/wga98.html   (10401 words)

  
 The Reading Room: Web Fiction
I turned to Jenny, who was holding her pole and smiling at me. I took Jenny downstream and showed her what to do, what kind of pools to look for, how to bait her hook, weight her line and cast across a pool.
It was just as Jenny turned to me, surely to demand an explanation, that we heard the cracking of wood, the rapid padding of heavy feet on the ground as of something running, and low growling directly in front of us.
It was Dara who spotted Jenny, face down in shallow water, her body half in and half out of the stream just on this side of the large boulder marking the pool where I had caught my fish.
www.house-of-pain.com /fictionarchives/2001/fiction1-02-01.html   (4644 words)

  
 21st Century Girl (PG-13) - Ex Isle Forums
“Jenny Sparks was a truly remarkable woman, and she did more to help people than we could ever hope to accomplish.” A mobile phone rang, “Dr Spica.
When Jenny had to leave we decided it was best if you didn’t know the truth: your mother was a unique woman, in more ways than one, and there were people who would have use you against her.
Jenny Sparks spent her entire life running hell-for-leather from one end of the last century to the other.
www.exisle.net /mb/index.php?showtopic=24043   (7226 words)

  
 Sparks Genealogy
The main focus will be on the Sparks surname, but we will also deal with other surnames of connecting lines.Nancy will be starting with the "Jayne Family", and I have included a section on "Families of Eastern Kentucky".
If your family line has a Sparks in it, or any other name which we may feature from time to time, mutual benefits may be incurred.
Any publication without the express consent of the author will be an infringement of the Copyright laws of the United States of America.
sparksgenealogy.net   (223 words)

  
 Amazon Shop - Stormwatch: Lightning Strikes (Stormwatch) - Book   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In particular, the Jenny Sparks story, where she describes her life is wonderful, with the artwork changing styles to in a homage to the comics of the decade being described.
However the Jenny Sparks life history and Bendix journal stories make this well worth the cost of purchase and certainly essential for fans.
Jenny Sparks tells Jackson King the story of her nearly 100-year life, with different decades drawn in the appropriate comic/cartoon art style.
www.uksprite.com /store/info-1563896508.html   (537 words)

  
 eBay - jenny sparks, Comics, Action Figures items on eBay.com   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Jenny Sparks - The Secret History Of The Authority GN
Jenny Sparks 1 2 3 4 5 Millar Hitch McCrea Authority
Jenny Sparks#1 of 5 (2000) Wildstorm Mark Millar McCrea
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 s h o t g u n r e v i e w s   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In early 1999, the three members of Stormwatch Black (Jenny Sparks, Swift, and Jack Hawksmoor), joined with two former Stormwatch agents (Apollo and Midnighter) and two new heroes (The Doctor and The Engineer) as The Authority.
The vest and khakis look is but one of the outfits Jenny wore in the series; the white pantsuit would make a GREAT variant in a second assortment.
Well-articulated and able to stand where several previous DC Direct women have had a problem, Jenny Sparks is an excellent representation of the character.
www.shotgunreviews.com /reviews/authorityfigures.html   (520 words)

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