Brother Power The Geek - Later Appearances

Later Appearances

The character was revived briefly in the 1990s, first in a short story by Neil Gaiman in Swamp Thing Annual #5 (reprinted in Neil Gaiman's Midnight Days), and then a Vertigo one-shot by Rachel Pollack and Mike Allred titled Corruption of the Innocent or "Homelands of the Dolls".

In Gaiman's story, Brother Power is revealed to be an imperfect elemental, similar to the Swamp Thing, and he is connected to all human simulacra such as dolls, dummies, statues, etc. The story resumes with the rocket's return to earth, guided into Tampa Bay by Firestorm after an unsuccessful attempt to destroy it. His newfound ability to change his size at will led to a call to Batman, who deferred to Abigail Cable. Ultimately, a former hippie named Chester was able to calm him down. Pollack's story featured a brief return of Brother Power's adversary, Lord Sliderule, now in a business suit, and depicted Brother Power being forced to perform as a circus geek, eating live animals for the first time. Eventually, after more misadventures with the establishment, he is reunited with Cindy, now a prostitute, and is destroyed saving her life, but survives by possessing one of her dolls.

In one issue of the crossover miniseries Legends, a marquee in the background reads "Brother Power the Geek: The Movie".

He is among the superheroes briefly summoned by Snapper Carr in the Blasters Special.

In Grant Morrison's Animal Man, Brother Power is mentioned several times as someone who escaped from comic book limbo, in spite of other limbo dwellers' expectations, and his name appears in graffiti.

He appeared briefly in Tom Peyer's Totems, as a guest at John Constantine's 1999 New Year's Eve party.

Brother Power made a return appearance in The Brave and The Bold #29 (November, 2009). This issue presented Cindy as having been a doctor at a free clinic, but after some tragedy, opening a toy store that was burned before the story began. The story also cast doubts over Brother Power's true origin, as it was explained that conflicting urban legends stated that Brother Power was both a reanimated dummy and an elemental. In addition, it is also established that the events of the original series had taken place in Gotham City (they had previously been explicitly set in San Francisco with "the governor" clearly drawn as Reagan). After awakening in 2009, Brother Power wanders aimlessly through the streets of Gotham, until he stumbles upon a burning building where several innocent people have been left tied up and gagged inside. Though Batman tries to convince Power to abandon the building and let him take care of the victims, he refuses, remarking that he does not belong in the modern world. The issue ends with the dazed and badly-injured Brother Power staggering through the sewers, where he eventually collapses. In the closing narraration, Batman finds comfort in the idea that Brother Power will one day reawaken in a time closer to his own.

Although more open to the topic for the first two decades after the book's cancellation, Joe Simon was reluctant to discuss Brother Power in later years. His official website has no mention of the book, and his son Jim Simon responds to all queries about his father and Brother Power that "Joe prefers not to discuss that particular work". He has also refused to comment on the two Vertigo revivals.