I should address something: we never get Rita's story. Of the five main characters in the series (I'm including Beast Boy), we get flashback stories for all but Rita. I've always felt that to be quite unfair, and I'm glad that the television series has attempted to rectify this error. Well, hopefully it will. Again, we've seen flashbacks for all of the characters thus far, except for Rita. And the revelation that prompts her blob attack in the first episode offers an intriguing glimpse at her story. Hopefully they'll do her justice in a way that she never really was in the comic.
But that's the thing about Rita's powers in the comic - I've never really understood how it keeps her from being a film star. I suppose the idea that her first transformation happens in front of an entire crew could be her reasoning for feeling outcast. And we see, in Larry's back story, that no one wants to hire him for him, but rather for his powers. The same would have been likely with Rita, and being a Hollywood starlet, she probably understood this better than most. By adding the complication that maintaining a human form is difficult for her, we start to understand her power as damaging rather than empowering. (I do hope they have her stretch or become giant at some point in the series.)
This is a terribly dated comic. The nuclear mutants (why does radiation always give these guys powers, rather than horrible, horrible burns?) attempt to destroy the Earth by telekinetically flying Halley's comet into it. A comet that is a burning ball of flame. And the U.S. government just decides to fire scores of atomic missiles at it. It amazes me that in a scant 52 years our understanding of the world around us increased so immensely. Today's comic reminds me more of the old EC science fiction comics and all of the things they got wrong.
Oh, and one more thing. In the back up story, a Nazi scientist tries to restart the Reich by making gorillas into Nazis.
Yep.
"Then it was raining -- pouring -- gorillas!"
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