The Box

The Box © Juke Box Productions AstroFacts Status: Continued existence in this timeline is unknown Origin: Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.2 #11 Personal Data InfoDump Appearances (in Publication Order): Kurt Busiek's Astro City Vol.2 #11, 12 Event Timeline The Box The Box is a derivative son of Zachary Johnson (Jack-in-the-Box) from a possible future timeline. In that timeline, Zachary Johnson dies in the line of duty. The Box tried to follow in his father's crime-fighting footsteps to an obsessive level. He even replaces parts of his body with cybernetic extensions. He became a psychotic, extremely violent vigilante. Finding the forces of crime in his time period to be too powerful to defeat, he decided his father was guilty of negligence in his duties and traveled back in time to execute him. History After arriving in 1997, he attracts Zachary's attention by ruthlessly murdering a drug dealer in cold blood. Confronting his father and telling him his origin, The Box attempts to kill him for the wrongs he's committed for not being there to raise and help him, but is stopped by The Jackson, another son from another future. Eventually they decide to join forces and together they continue their goal to kill Jack-in-the-Box. In the end, both are defeated by their father. Later in police custody, they vanish out of the timeline, perhaps permanently. Equipment Much of the Box's body has been replaced by cybernetic weaponry. His legs below the knees, are a stilt-like armature, similar to Jack-in-the-Box's footapults but showing no evidence of a leaping ability. He is immune to electricity, which he absorbs to strengthen himself. His left arm is a robotic tentacle that culminates as a sinister clown puppet named 'Justice Jacky.' The puppet occasionally speaks, in a harsh, electronic voice. It also wields a number of torturous-like tools and weapons.