This weekend’s escapist, light-hearted superhero post from Balladeer’s Blog looks at the character Lady Justice.
LADY JUSTICE Vol 1 #1 (Sep 1995)
Title: Hope & Dread
Writer: C.J. Henderson
Synopsis: The disembodied female epitome of blind justice is revealed to be capable of endowing superpowers on suffering women. Those ladies can then use their greater than normal strength, enhanced hearing and smell, plus their uncanny skill with enchanted swords and/or guns to avenge themselves on those who wronged them.
NOTE: The concept is like an exclusively female version of the 1989 creation the Crow, but in this case the people temporarily animated by Lady Justice are not dead. In this debut story Janine Farrell, a woman in a wheelchair, is inhabited by Lady Justice to get revenge for the murder of her two brothers.
LADY JUSTICE Vol 1 #2 (Oct 1995)
Title: Stepp’d in Blood
Writer: C.J. Henderson
Synopsis: The incorporeal Lady Justice urges her formerly crippled avatar to now pursue the criminal bosses above the men behind the killing of her brothers and the innocent bystanders who got caught in the crossfire.
After leaving a pile of dead bodies in her wake, the avatar of Lady Justice resolves to follow the predatory chain of command all the way to the top of the particular organization she is currently at war with. Continue reading
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