Necromancy for Dummies?

We all know that death is never permanent in comics. Or as someone funny once said: "Everyone comes back in comics, except for Bucky and Jason Todd...oops."

It could be debated as to whether or not this is a good thing, but as it's a fact of comics, it's probably not going to change.

But I'm curious, out of everyone dead (or in limbo) right now, who would you most want to bring back and how/why?

For me, it's a very tough choice honestly. I love Ted Kord very much, I think Kon-El brings a rarely explored dimension to Clark and Lex, and Katma Tui totally got gypped...

But weirdly, I think the first person I'd want to bring back is Jade. Because Jade to me is all about missed opportunities. She'd have glimmerings of being interesting, but she'd end up stuck in the same damn ill-suited role. She's the sort of character concept though, that really could be made something of. (I know I have my own ideas.)

She's the daughter of Alan Scott with Green powers. A normal girl who, one day, finds herself green, with magic, and the equivalent of a superheroic princess with a confused/messed-up twin brother. She was interesting from that perspective and I always thought it was such a mistake making her Kyle Rayner's exotic girlfriend or saddling her with the Corps concept. She's not a Corps character and not suited for it, she should be on Earth. But I digress.

In his JSA story arc for One Year Later, Paul Levitz did what I thought was impossible. He took Jade, as she was, without any sort of abrupt change in her character or plot-related growth, and made her likeable and appealing. I wasn't a huge fan of the rest of the storyarc, but I was intrigued by that Jade. I want to meet that Jade.

Heck, if Obsidian can be redeemed in my eyes (I'd initially NOT been terribly fond of the character in JSA, but now that he seems to have made the effort of getting therapy and finding happiness in Manhunter, I love him), then Jade definitely has a chance.

She's Alan's daughter with green magic powers! There is nothing about that that isn't cool.

As to how I'd bring her back. Well honestly, it'd be pretty easy. We already saw her interact before. And we've seen Kyle create constructs of split personalities. So really it seems like it'd be really simple. There'd just need to be a way to make a constructed body permanent. Magic maybe. Some talisman? I'm sure something cool could be used.

The one catch is that her powers are in Kyle now. But then the Pulse/Starheart magic is much more chaotic and "alive" seeming than Oan technology, so perhaps it could be explained like that. The power changes and grows, so that even though she gave most of her power to him, she had enough left to regenerate it back somehow. Or her dad's own nature helped with that somehow.

It's comics. It doesn't need a terribly comprehensible explanation. :-P

Anyway, it's weird. There are a lot of dead characters I like a lot more than Jade. I don't even like Jade very much. But ultimately, I think her fate offends my sense of fair play. I want to give her a fighting chance to be cool. I want to give her some sort of chance at all.

So yeah, Jade's my first choice. Second is Kreon, because Boudikka without Kreon is like peanut butter without jelly. It's okay on its own but really really works best together.

And he's hot. Yeah. I'm shallow.

Anyway. You know my choices, how about you?