Engineer (comics)
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Engineer is a comic book character in the Wildstorm universe.
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[edit] The First Engineer
He was part of a group, lead by The High, that wanted to change the world by removing the structure of society itself. It would be no more laws, no authoritarian structures, no crime and no war. The Engineer's part on this plan was to seed nanotechnological oasis across the planet, that will be the "horns of plenty" for everybody. Stormwatch attacked their base to stop them and he was killed by a Hammerstrike Deep Sanction Missile, a biowar payload and tailored acid bomb that destroyed him and his nanotechnology (Change or Die Stormwatch graphic novel).
One of his nanotechnological oasis, the Garden of Nevada, came back to haunt Stormwatch. It was used to create weapons, before being destroyed by Apollo and Midnighter on behalf of Stormwatch (A finer world Stormwatch graphic novel).
[edit] Angela Spica
After the first Engineer was killed, Angela "Angie" Spica's home computer filled up with all his notes in nanotechnology and started linking it to her work in human-machine fusion. She had known him in real life, but she didn't know he was the Engineer until then. She distilled an incalculable number of intelligent devices into nine pints of liquid machinery and replaced her blood with it. This nanotechnology gives her vast mechanical abilities: the liquid metal covers her body at will, allows her to fly and to create anything she can imagine, like any kind of weapons or radiotelepathy bugs.
Jenny Sparks recruited her for The Authority. Unlike other groups, The Authority are ready to fight for a finer world, no matter what it takes.
During the Transfer of Power storyline, she was replaced by The Machine, a Japanese woman who got the nanotechnology extracted from the Engineer's body, while Angela's blood was temporarily replaced with that of an HIV Positive heroin addict. She was given memory implants and forced into the life of a minimum wage worker in a Seven-Eleven, with an abusive husband and six children (all of them actors paid by the Powers-That-Be). Swift rescued her after freeing herself.
Angie has an open on/off relationship with Jack Hawksmoor, but she also slept with The Doctor on one occasion.
Her powers had been growing up with the series. Now she's capable of creating several selves capable of doing individual jobs at same time.
[edit] Trivia
- The second Engineer is based on a previous creation of Warren Ellis: Steel Rain, a character Ellis created with artist Gary Erskine. Steel Rain's first and only appearance was in Marvel Comics' 2099 Unlimited #9 (July, 1995).
