model whose mission was to bring the Amazon ideals of love, peace, and sexual equality to a world torn by the hatred of men". Known in her homeland as Diana of Themyscira, her powers include superhuman strength, flight (even though the original Wonder Woman did not have this ability), super-speed, super-stamina, and super-agility. She is highly proficient in hand-to-hand combat and in the art of tactical warfare. She also possesses animal-like cunning skills and a natural rapport with animals, which has been presented as an actual ability to communicate with the animal kingdom. She uses her Lasso of Truth, which forces those bound by it to tell the truth, a pair of indestructible bracelets, a tiara which serves as a projectile, and, in some stories, an invisible airplane. Martian Manhunter: Also known as J'onn J'onzz and John Jones, he is a superhero from the planet Mars and the last surviving member of his race. A martian holocaust killed his wife and daughter, nearly driving him mad, until he was brought to Earth in an accident caused by scientist Saul Erdel. His natural abilities include super-strength, super-speed, invulnerability, flight, shape-shifting, intangibility and telepathy. He has been a member of almost every incarnation of the Justice League of America. Although he holds great reverence for his home world, he has come to greatly respect his adopted world as well and protects it as his home. In his secret identity, to blend into humanity, he is a gritty hard-boiled police officer. Main creators Chuck Austen – Chuck Austen wrote comic books for several years during the early part of this new millennium. He wrote over forty issues of various X-Men titles, more than a dozen Superman stories, JLA: Pain of the Gods, Captain America, U.S. War Machine, and many, many others, including his own creation: Boys of Summer, a manga with Tokyopop. He left the industry to write some novels and screenplays. Chuck also co-created the animated television series Tripping the Rift, which won the Playboy Animation Festival Grand Prize. Boys of Summer was named one of the top ten manga for 2006 by Publishers Weekly, and Chuck is the only comic book writer ever to win the Genesis Award for Outstanding Artistic Achievement. Before that, he worked for many years on the popular, animated television series King of the Hill as well as the first two seasons of The Cleveland Show, for