DC comics, the company that many years ago gave the world the first transgender super-villain in the form of the Ultra-Humanite when he stole Delores Winter’s body, has with it’s new project known as “The New 52” (what is it with them and that number lately?) has introduced another gender shifted character.
This one, known as Father Time, is found in the pages of Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E.
First appearing in 2006 as a shady white haired bearded gentleman, looking somewhat like Uncle Sam, who during a conflict with the Teen Titans has his skin melt, later he shows up again but in the form of a young African-American man, it being revealed that he has the ability to regenerate himself and, or so he says, has a habit of taking on a new form every ten years of so.
His latest regeneration however cut short when a revived Captain Marvel villain known as Black Adam pulls his face off apparently killing him.
Don’t bet on it, Father Time, though there is no guaranty that this is the same fellow, as all the series in the New 52 seem to be taking place in a different “Universe” from the one where those other shenanigans where going on, has returned in the pages of a new series titled Frankenstein, Agent of S.H.A.D.E., and this time in the form of a young Asian girl who is the leader of an organization called The Super Human Advanced Defense Executive or S.H.A.D.E. for short (shouldn’t that be T.S.H.A.D.E.?)
To cut to the chase here, basically it’s Hellboy and the Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense with Hellboy replaced by the Frankenstein Monster (who in the DC Universe is an adventurer slash superhero) the other characters replaced by post-modern versions of some of DC’s minor characters from the past such as the Freedom Fighters and the Creature Commandoes, and the old man in charge has taken the form of a girl in pig-tails and wearing a domino mask, talking tough and toting a .45 automatic.
Issue # 4 has just come out as I write this.
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