Poet is the
alias of John Simon, a character in
J. Michael Straczynski's comic
Rising Stars, published by
Top Cow Productions.
He is the last survivor of the so-called
Specials, and he is the
narrator of the
Rising Stars story.
John Simon was the last of the Specials to be conceived. As a child he was very quiet and serious. He has written several books and poems, some of which got published, but which weren't very popular. He has the ability to manipulate electric energy, which allows him to control electronic devices. What makes him more dangerous to the other Specials is that he has control over the power that grants all the other Specials special powers, which he uses to protect the world from other Specials, when they get out of control.