Shortly after the original five-issue miniseries ended and that fateful Issue Zero came out, it was announced that Image Comics would be starting up a NEW Gen 13 series, and thru to its origins, this one was even MORE wacky than its predecessors (if that’s possible) with the Gen 13 group fighting evil Maurice Sendak characters, The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and even teaming up with the Archie Comics gang!
Fairchild and Roxy were the same characters we’d come to know and love from the miniseries, but if there was one character that really got fleshed out and more fully-developed in this mazi-series, it just HAD to be Sarah Rainmaker, Gen 13’s resident Native American babe/Superheroine! Unlike the very by-the-book Fairchild and the uber-nutty antics of Roxy, Sarah was inevitably the group’s calm and thoughtful voice, and I daresay she even turned out to be the group’s sultry resident sex-kitten!
I remember at the time there was a kind of online controversy regarding Native Americans being stereotyped as overly sexual, and while I haven’t particularly noticed it in other comics as a whole, I will admit that for a awhile there, Sarah was just about the most beautifully exotic woman in that strip regardless of her ethnicity, and one that I certainly looked forward to seeing each month!
Oh, and following in extremely clichéd comic rule regarding superheroes of Native American descent, Rainmaker’s costume of course has lots of fringe and tassles. All Native American comic super heroes have fringe and tassles. Go Figure.
Sarah Rainmaker
by
Brandon Choi, Jim Lee
and J. Scott Campbell
Gen 13
