Jenkins

Jenkins
A.K.A.	“Mr See-Thru”
Character Information
Species	Human
Gender	Male
Residence	New York City, Reality Z-25 31-H
Occupation	Investment broker
Behind the Scenes
First seen in	COMIC: Journey Into Misery
Also seen in	See list
Copyright	Paul Hoppe (?)

Jenkins, later nicknamed “Mr See-Thru”, was originally a depressed New York City bank employee in Reality Z-25 31-H. However, after he and his tyrannical boss Kelly were abducted by aliens, they ended up getting superpowers, with the catch that they only worked when they were in close proximity to one another (something which greatly bothered both of them, as they couldn't stand each other's company).

Description

Physical appearance

Jenkins was a Caucasian man in his 30s woman with even features. He had large, worried eyes, strong eyebrows and short brown hair. (COMIC: Journey Into Misery)

Personality

Jenkins was a timid man struggling with depression and feelings of worthlessness, largely induced by Kelly's mistreatment of him. He had no interest in wealth and power, preferring a quiet, happy life. (COMIC: Journey Into Misery)

Powers & abilities

After Professor Xwumb'h experimented on him, Jenkins acquired superpowers, although they only worked proprotional to how close she was to Jenkins. They included a weak form of invulnerability and the ability to turn invisible at will. (COMIC: Journey Into Misery)

Biography

Gaining superpowers

By 2010, Jenkins was working for Kelly's investment brokerage company in New York City. He was struggling with serious depression and, in an effort to get Kelly to take him seriously, threatened suicide. However, she icily called his bluff and told him to go back to cleaning his desk. As they were arguing as a result of this, the building was rammed by a flying saucer. Though she tried to dodge out of its way, the two were captured and ended up onboard the ship, where they were confronted with K'orr'h, King of the Vanilla Puddings of Riegel 6. After introducing himself, K'orr'h attempted to eat them but proved unable to chew them. He spat them out, which Kelly couldn't help but make fun of.

Jenkins is experimented on. (COMIC: Journey Into Misery)

Angered at her mockery, K'orr'h ordered the two humans to be used as experimental test subjects by Professor Xwumb'h. The erratic mad scientist, seemingly not realising the inherent problem of logistics involved, performed experiments on them which, while painful, he surmised might give them superpowers; indeed they did, and, letting her anger loose, Kelly destroyed the ship and its crew in a blast of fire. She also tried to kill Jenkins in the melee, but it turned out that the superpowers he had gained included mild invulnerability. After calming down, Kelly had no choice but to take him back to Earth with her, as they were still handcuffed to each other by chains of alien metal that defied even her strength. (COMIC: Journey Into Misery)

Forming the Terrific Two

After spending some time trying to live a normal life in New York while handcuffed to Kelly, Jenkins developed a notion of the two of them becoming superheroes, under the name of “the Terrific Two”, although Kelly was not thrilled. Together, they travelled to the Mojave Desert to meet Kelly's old friend Professor Madison, a genius scientist, who managed to break the alien chains using a giant robot she'd been designing, the Rabbit.

Jenkins gets a taste of heroics fighting the Rabbit. (COMIC: Ghost in the Apparatus of the Spirit in the Shell of the Machine)

They stayed the night so that she could study their superpowers further, and the following day, the Terrific Two got their first case investigating the theft of Madison's experimental Deathray. The culprit turned out to be her assistant, Hank Richards, remote-controlling the Rabbit. Jenkins helped fend off the robot while Madison and her partner Rodney apprehended Richards himself. (COMIC: Ghost in the Apparatus of the Spirit in the Shell of the Machine)

An oasis of horrors!

Jenkins is gifted a new car by one of the strange people he just helped save. (COMIC: Oasis of Horror)

The two headed home by car, with Jenkins driving, but he managed to crash the vehicle into the one tree in the entire desert. Kelly used her flight to carry the two of them further, and they ended up finding an oasis. They bathed and rested there for a little while before being startled by a group of humanoid monsters. They took refuge in a house built near the oasis, whose seemingly human owner explained that he was being besieged by the monsters, and invited them to stay the night.

However, in the night, the "monsters" broke down one of the barricaded walls and abducted Jenkins. They explained to him that, although odd-looking, they were fairly normal and the actual owners of the house, while the farmer with the gun was the real villain. After he explained the same thing to Kelly, the two returned to the house; the villain had disappeared, living behind a bomb that Kelly disposed of. Thankful, the house's owners gave the Two their car with which to continue their journey home. (COMIC: Oasis of Horror)

Fleeing from the Bureau of Singularity

Jenkins finds a new calling as a New York performance artist while running from the Bureau of Singularity. (COMIC: Life… in the Heart of the City)

After the two returned to New York, Kelly officially decided to become a supervillain in order to fund her “expensive lifestyle”, despite Jenkins's weak protests. However, she had no time to put this into effect before the two were beset by agents of the Bureau of Singularity intent on erasing them from existence to correct a “temporal anomaly”; according to them, the two were meant to have died in space during their first adventure, and their ongoing existence was a breach of the laws of Time. Fleeing through New York, the two eventually found refuge among a community of amateur performance artists whose paradoxical eccentricity confused the Bureau's sensors, rendering the two harder to detect. (COMIC: Life… in the Heart of the City)