There’s a joke somewhere out there about superhero origin stories. It’s from someone familiar the Justice League Unlimited show, and it’s either from the webcomic Shortpacked! or one my friends who watched the show after it was cancelled. But when it comes to trying to figure out Mister Terrific’s origin, the conclusion is that, “he was bitten by a radioactive ‘t’.” I’d say thus far Mister Terrific is probably the lesser known of the characters I’ve covered (with some exceptions in the JLI), with the exception of people who caught that last season of JLU.
Mister Terrific, or Michael Holt, is the modern Renaissance man. He doesn’t have any powers, but he doesn’t need it. He has an amazing intellect (touted as the 3rd smartest man in the world), he’s an Olympic decathlete, and is scientifically inclined in a number of technical fields. Those little globes? Those are T-spheres, each one having a variety of functions that run from research to defense to weaponry. And big T on his face? That’s actually an interface in which he controls each of those little T-spheres. Not only that, but it also can render him invisible to any tech that is not his own. Which is a pretty fantastic infiltration trick. What can one expect from a Mister Terrific series? That still needs to be seen. Terrific has been a long standing member in the pages of JSA/Justice Society for a number of years as one of its many legacy characters, going so far as to being chairman of the group.
Mister Terrific will be written by Eric Wallace with art by Roger Robinson. The cover is by J.G. Jones. Wallace has worked previously for DC working on conflicted villain turned hero the Tattooed Man in Final Crisis Aftermath: Ink with Fabrizio Fiorentino, and the two continued that story into the pages of Titans, as he is lead by Deathstroke along with a number of other reluctant, down on their luck former heroes and line-walkers. Prior to comics, Eric Wallace had worked on the SyFy original series Eureka.
Roger Robinson has worked most recently at Dark Horse with legendary writer Jim Shooter on his reworking of Doctor Solar: Man of the Atom. He’s has also worked in the past for DC on the series Eradicator and Azrael.
Being as Mister Terrific has never had a proper solo series, I’ve located some of my favorite JSA stories that featured him:
Justice Society of America: The Next Age
Checkmate vols. 1-3
Mister Terrific, or Michael Holt, is the modern Renaissance man. He doesn’t have any powers, but he doesn’t need it. He has an amazing intellect (touted as the 3rd smartest man in the world), he’s an Olympic decathlete, and is scientifically inclined in a number of technical fields. Those little globes? Those are T-spheres, each one having a variety of functions that run from research to defense to weaponry. And big T on his face? That’s actually an interface in which he controls each of those little T-spheres. Not only that, but it also can render him invisible to any tech that is not his own. Which is a pretty fantastic infiltration trick. What can one expect from a Mister Terrific series? That still needs to be seen. Terrific has been a long standing member in the pages of JSA/Justice Society for a number of years as one of its many legacy characters, going so far as to being chairman of the group.Mister Terrific will be written by Eric Wallace with art by Roger Robinson. The cover is by J.G. Jones. Wallace has worked previously for DC working on conflicted villain turned hero the Tattooed Man in Final Crisis Aftermath: Ink with Fabrizio Fiorentino, and the two continued that story into the pages of Titans, as he is lead by Deathstroke along with a number of other reluctant, down on their luck former heroes and line-walkers. Prior to comics, Eric Wallace had worked on the SyFy original series Eureka.
Roger Robinson has worked most recently at Dark Horse with legendary writer Jim Shooter on his reworking of Doctor Solar: Man of the Atom. He’s has also worked in the past for DC on the series Eradicator and Azrael.
Being as Mister Terrific has never had a proper solo series, I’ve located some of my favorite JSA stories that featured him:
Justice Society of America: The Next Age
Checkmate vols. 1-3
Tomorrow we get into Captain Atom, who most people are more familiar with as his Watchmen reworking, Doctor Manhattan!
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