#arcanna

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Arcanna Jones

Squadron Supreme Vol 1. Art: Paul Ryan, Sam de la Rosa, Keith Williams, Christie Scheele Words: Mark Gruenwald

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In issue 12#, the final issue of the Squadron Supreme limited series (cover date August, 1986), the group disbanded and the Utopia Project abandoned, but not till after a civil conflict brought about the deaths of Blue Eagle, Foxfire, Lamprey, Thermite, Black Archer, Nighthawk, and Pinball. It was not all death though, for the issue also saw the birth of Benjamin Thomas Jones. ("The Dregs of Victory", Squadron Supreme 12#, Comic, Event)

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Scarlet Witch vs Arcanna in Ultimate Power #6

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Original Art - Squadron Supreme #04 Pg 20 (1986) by Bob Hall, John Beatty And Sam De La Rosa

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For PINKTOBER’S “Magic” prompt, Arcanna Jones! Arcanna is a member of the Squadron Supreme, which is Marvel’s shoutout to DC’s Justice League, with each member being an obvious pastiche of a DC hero---Hyperion is Superman, Power Princess is Wonder Woman, Nighthawk is Batman, and Arcanna is Zatanna. I like Arcanna a lot, she’s kind of a hippie and doesn’t like guns, her patron deity is Gaea, and she specializes in wind, water, and wood elemental magics. She’s also really unusual in that she starts the story with a regular dude husband, remains happily married throughout the story, and is a mother of three (later four) children. It’s super rare for a hero to be married from the start, even rarer to remain so, and I don’t think I’ve EVER seen a superheroine who was also a mother (like, consistently a mother and actively raising her own children while being a heroine, instead of just having kids in one story and then the writers shuffling them elsewhere somehow) and her husband is, again, a regular human and that’s just fine. Like there is a definite THING in media where super-powered men often or usually have normal girlfriends, but super-powered women usually have to wind up with men who are their level or even more powerful, with Wonder Woman and Steve Trevor being the notable exception, and that’s...always bugged me, it seems really sexist. So I like that Arcanna is just a happily married asskicking superhero mom whose normie husband watches the kids and supports her, it’s so cool! And Arcanna herself is pretty cool too!

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Arcanna

-Real name: Arcanna Jones

-A.k.a.: Moonglow

-Publisher: Marvel

-Type:Sorceress

-Afilliations:Project PEGASUS, Regulators, Squadron Supreme

-Powers: Dimensional manipulation, earth manipulation, energy shield, fire control, flight, force field, illusion casting, intellect, levitation, light projection, magic, probability manipulation, reality manipulation, teleport, unarmed combat, water control, wind bursts