Origins of The Spark!

Dave,

Here's "The Spark", otherwise known as Sparky Anderson. He had an accident as a kid and fell into a pool of PCBs up at the GE plant in Hudson Falls. Then, when he was in high school, he got struck by lightning when he was playing golf. Turned him into a human capacitor.

Sparky spends most of his time at his day job, a systems programmer for Gigantocorp. He's generally considered to be the best in his field, but very, VERY few know that it's because when he encounters a tough problem with a computer, he touches the USB port and sucks himself inside the machine to twiddle bits manually, a la "Tron".

When he's fighting arch-villians, he's in true form. He tends to taunt them as he zips by, giving them gigawatt jolts of juice through a punch that they would otherwise laugh off. He's hard to corner, because escape is as close as the nearest electrical outlet, and he tends to pop up behind his opponents more often than not. He's also hard to hide from: he can find most anybody by taking a stroll (literally) though computers on the net, and once he finds them, he's there in a heartbeat ("Hello, operator? Give me San Fancisco." ZAP!).

Can you tell I played a bit too much Champions in College? :)

-packy