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Alex Flores

First appearance: Wonder Man 2

Team affiliation: The mother of a teenage daughter and a struggling screen-writer, Alex first crossed paths with Simon Williams, AKA Wonder Man, when the Enchantress had her dumped off a movie script during one of Amora's not-infrequent attempts at bedazzling Williams. Later, Alex interrupted the Hollywood assassin Splice's nearly-successful attempt on Simon's life. Although lacking super-powers herself at the time, Alex was still able to down the super-villain by shorting him out, earning the gratitude of the most powerful ionic being on the planet.

Wait, you're leaving something out. Am not.

Favorite quote: "She's twelve. That's how she's doing." (Wonder Man 12. Alex, who had her child when but a teenager herself, puts the kibosh on her own daughter engaging in any premature... er, fraternization ... by slamming the door of opportunity on a potential beau.)

No, really; you left something out under "team affiliation." Did not.

Favorite story line: Alex was a strong-willed, mature woman who didn't waste time losing her wits even when she was terrified. Not many super-powered heroines could have handled the lethal Splice with such aplomb, although his defeat at the hands of an unemployed writer rankled the super-assassin so much he went out of his way in Wonder Man 20 to try and do in both Alex and Jamie.

Ah, ha! If you know about Splice, you know you left something out!













... All right, all right! If you must know, Alex was a founding member of the -- the -- the Crazy 8. Yes, that's right; the Crazy 8. A group of -- count 'em, eight -- too-hip-to-live Hollywood wannabees bombarded with ionic particles after Wonder Man lost control of his powers, each of whom developed astonishingly trivial super-abilities as a result of the ion bath. Alex, for example, could form mental pictures and project them; her daughter Jamie could cast an astral image, but only when she was sleeping. Fortunately she was one of those rare teenagers who could promptly doze off in an emergency. The Crazy 8 was the lamest "super-hero" team ever conceived by the House of Ideas (yes, worse than the Great Lake Avengers! Worse than Force Works! Worse than the Legion of Losers, who at least were supposed to be funny! And at least on a par with the West Coast Avengers during the dark, dark days when 20 years of Avengers continuity became meaningless...)

Least favorite story line: I think you can figure that one out for yourself now, smarty.
Future for the character: When last seen, Alex had just accepted big bucks to do a screen play based on an out-of-control Wonder Man's rampage through Los Angeles, putting any future relationship with Simon in extreme jeopardy. In fact, Wonder Man's "death" in Force Works 1 leaves all the supporting cast in his canceled book, flames and villains alike, hanging on in the Marvel Universe by the thinnest of threads.