I was twenty years old when I stopped aging. Earth stopped making sense about the same time. One minute we had the special theory of relativity, and the next, someone rewrote the laws of physics. England was very quietly touched by the strange. I was there to see the shiftships when the Door appeared. I was a girl. I threw myself into the trouble that followed the Door, fought the king of nails from Sliding Albion and slept with beautiful blue-skinned princes...The twenties were an age of scientific romance. I loved it. 
Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
- StormWatch
- Battalion
- Jenny Sparks (Flashback and main story)
Supporting Characters:
- Saul Baxter (Only in flashback)
Adversaries:
- Firesign (Matt) (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Sliding Albion (First appearance) (Only in flashback)
- Boss Moseley (Only in flashback)
Other Characters:
- Abel Eternity (First appearance; dies) (Only in flashback) (Only in flashback)
- Bill (Only in flashback)
- Inspector Bulstrode (Only in flashback)
- Clarence Cornwall (Appears in flashback and main story)
Locations:
- Wildstorm Universe
- United Kingdom (Only in flashback)
- United States of America (Only in flashback)
- Skywatch II
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for 1st story
Battalion and Jenny Sparks have another training session. In lieu of Battalion attempting to "train" a superbeing older than he is, they discuss Jenny's past.
Born on January 1, 1900, she stopped aging in 1920. At the same time, most of the paranormal and superbeing-related events started to become apparent to the mundane world instead of being hidden in the shadows. In the 1920s, Sparks fought an invasion of England by the Britain of a parallel Earth dubbed Sliding Albion. In the thirties, she moved to America where she was a populist figure fighting organized crime and the worst excesses of capitalism. In the forties, she was a film-noir style detective. She returned to England in the fifties and worked with the British Space Force which was actually a conspiracy to cover up contacts with Sliding Albion. The conspiracy ended in tragedy as Albion used an inter-reality "shiftdoor" to divert a massive biological attack from their reality to Jenny's. The attack resulted in many mutations similar to the Comet Effect although it was confined to England.
In the sixties, Jenny attempted to write a book about her experiences but wound up forming a super-team of her own dedicated to assisting and defending the counter-culture movements of the time. Sadly, one of her teammates, Abel Eternity, overdosed on drugs and went berserk at a rock concert. Jenny was forced to kill him, and the group disbanded shortly afterwards. In the eighties, Jenny tried again, forming a group from those changed by Sliding Albion's biological attack. This effort also ended badly when the group aided and covered up a series of child murders committed by member Firesign. After that, Jenny retired until Bendix recruited her for Stormwatch.
Battalion tries to cheer Jenny up, saying that times have changed and, "you can still see the stars, Jenny."
Notes
- This issue is reprinted in:
- StormWatch: Lightning Strikes trade paperback (2000);
- StormWatch Volume One hardcover (2012).
Trivia
- The art in the flashbacks homages classic comic artists like Joe Shuster, Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, Dave Gibbons, and others.