Van Stone's Female Chiropractic Warrior Shadai Chiropractra: A New Action Comics Character In 2012

Van Stone's Female Chiropractic Warrior Shadai Chiropractra: A New Action Comics Character In 2012


Shadai Chiropractra, second at the top left, is
a chiropractic warrior in the Van Stone comics series
Heroes of the Last Q.

Shadai Chiropractra

Shadai Chiropractra is a fictional comic strip and paperback book character created by writer Van Stone. She first appeared in The World of Van Stone Heroes of the Last Q Comic Strip Issue March 24-30, (1994), and has since appeared in the paperback book Heroes of the Last Q 1994 by printer/publisher, company, UB & US Communications Systems, Inc. The issue and book was written by Van Stone and drawn by illustrators Chuck Gholsten and Darius Jones.

Shadai is a young woman of mixed Native American and Black American as well as Hispanic ancestry volunteered into a modern-day war between Black Indians of the infamous Grand Kaiser of the man made planet called Planet Hated. She is no ordinary female heroine. Shadai Chiropractra is a doctor in the health care profession of chiropractic medicine. planet Hated’s Kaiseron illness, spinal misalignment, where she adjusts the spine, help U7 defeats the Kaiserons mutant humans and restore all to good health. She also works to prevent the illness from spreading to other areas of planet earth. By the end of the attack of the Kaiserons she defeats the Kaiserons with the help of the Incredible U7.

As the story is deeply rooted in Black Indian and Hispanic, Biblical-Interest history, mythology, and spiritual inspiration, "Shadai" literally translates to Name by which/and or the name of God (Gen. 28:3, Gen 35:11, Gen. 49:25) or also, God was known; Almighty; destroyer, as one of the aspects of God; Guardian of the Doors of Israel and/or Eden on an inaccessible mountaintop; as well as God known as a woman in Hebrew, and her signature weapon is the activator device.

The series often touches on spiritual issues, especially as they pertain to Shadai’s dual background in the traditions of the Black American Indian/Hispanic Leaders, straight philosophy chiropractor doctors, and Mythology.

Shadia Chirapractra is a female protagonist of the Heroes of the Last Q social-science fiction action story series by Van Stone Downing. Introduced in the 1994 comic strip and paperback book Heroes of the Last Q (Quirinal: means government), Shadai is a youth Chiropractic doctor health care professional concerned with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disorders of the neuromuscloskeletal system and the effects of these disorders on general health. Her practice of chiropractic medicine involves a range of diagnostic methods including skeletal imaging, observational and tactile assessments, and orthopedic and neurological evaluation. Shadai does common patient management which involves spinal manipulation (SM) and other manual therapies to the joints and soft tissues, rehabilitative exercises, health promotion, electrical modalities, complementary procedures, and lifestyle counseling.

She is a Sonic Defenders Patrol Last Quirinal space soldier turned super chiropractor who has an activator device that is both a medical tool and weapon. Her activator device can be used as a weapon that includes beams and missiles. For most of her service Shadai has battled with mainstream medicine, sustained by pseudoscientific ideas such as subluxation, innate intelligence, and chiropractic spinal manipulative therapy. Because the Science Senate of the Last Q had once boycotted chiropractic medicine until losing its case against chiropractor Shadai and peers in court. Shadai often seriously considers declaring chiropractic a religion wherever she provides healing services, and when she does this at her own risk, she faces certain dangers and battles with those who disagree with her. Shade and other chiropractors face heavy opposition from organized medicine. Shade is one of the most wanted chiropractors hunted where ever she is out of the neutral zone for chiropractic care as thousands of chiropractors are prosecuted for practicing medicine, and she and very few other chiropractors are called upon as rescuers of fellow chiropractors who are unjustly jailed. She aligns herself with the common man against intellectuals and fanatics, among which they included the Science Senate of the Last Q. Her main chiropractic treatment technique involves manual therapy, including manipulation of the spine, other joints, and soft tissues.

Throughout the series, she and superhero Ace Powers, a.k.a. U7 executes missions given to them by the Sonic Defenders Patrol of the Last Q. Meanwhile she is hunting the antagonistic Mainstream Medicine Doctors and their leader, The Science Senate. Shadai has appeared in all Heroes of the Last Q comics and books. She is well known as one of the earliest female protagonists in paperback book history and remains a popular character over a decade after her first appearance.

Brief History

Shadai is a teenage woman named Shadai Chiropractra who comes from a family line of Chiropractic warrirors. Her father Salvino is a Black American and Native American Indian Chiropractic warrior and her mother Yolanda is a Hispanic American chiropractor doctor. As a child, Shadai witnessed the false imprisonment of both family medicine doctors and chiropractic medicine doctors at the hands of the supporters of the Science Senate of the Last Q. After this, she was trained to do both chiropractic medical procedures and battle with anyone who tried to jail chiropractic doctors. Shadai was trained by her mother Yolanda in the martial arts and spiritual inspiration which includes super spinal manipulations that can heal and produce force field shields for over the body. And it was her own father who taught her about the fine details that her name is the name of God Almighty. He also trained her to use a super enhanced chiropractic formula based on the D.D. Palmer theory of medicine. Using this formula she would therefore become a super heroine protector of those who believe in chiropractic medicine VS mainstream medicine.

Shadai would be both hunted by enemies of chiropractic health care and the hunter of beings who have jailed chiropractic supporters. She would join the Sonic Defenders Patrol as a special volunteer in the youth military service. Most of her service revolved around getting rid of ailments elements such as common illnesses and the mysterious illnesses not known to mainstream medical physicians, who can drain life suddenly and are frequently used as weapons of illnesses.

In order to support D.D. Palmer, the founder of chiropractic, established a practice based upon spine manipulations, she changed the super enhanced chiropractic formula to create her personal weapon the activator device. The activator device becomes powered to be both a weapon that includes beams, missiles, and super adjustments for healing. The activator device can scan objects such as the body to learn more about it.

Shadai’s life work is dedicated to live up the name”Shadai” (“Name by which/and or the name of God; “God known as a woman in Hebrew,” and “Destroyer, as one of the aspects of God”) for her belief in justice and medicine.

In Heroes of the Last Q Shadai is eventually able to assess the source of the planet Hated’s Kaiseron illness, spinal misalignment, where she adjusts the spine, help U7 defeats the Kaiserons mutant humans and restore all to good health. She also works to prevent the illness from spreading to other areas of planet earth. By the end of the attack of the Kaiserons she defeats the Kaiserons with the help of the Incredible U7.