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Wetworks.

Shrug

16:47 / 26.07.03

The Eye of The Storm Annual #1 signals the return of Wetworks. Its out on Wednesday in the U.S. Wetworks
I liked the preview pages but googling brings up naught about the team.
Anyone have any info?

First thread. (woo hoo).

Mister Six, whom all the girls

17:02 / 26.07.03

As I recall, Wetworks was the Image comic written and drawn by Wilce Portacio, then over the moon popular because of his work on the Punisher. It took months to come out and when it did, fizzled with fans on account of its idea. The basic pitch was that they were all cyborgs who fought werewolves, vampires and frankenstine's monster-type-guys.

Kind of like the Silver Hawks cartoon... only... not.

Definitely check my info, but that's my memory of the story.

The Falcon

14:28 / 27.07.03

Whilce drew Uncanny X-Men in the #280's. I'm pretty sure that's where his popularity stems from.

He was always my favourite of the Image founding seven.

Our Lady of The Two Towers

15:59 / 27.07.03

He was on X-Factor for the last ten issues or so of the original team, then when they decided to move back to Xavier Mansion because, fuck it, would you rather live in a grotty office block or in a mansion run by a multimillionaire bristling with technology centuries ahead of Earths?, transferred to Uncanny for about a year. Then, like a lot of other Marvel artists at the time got ideas above his station, decided to jump ship for Image. This was about the time I lost interest in comics so I might be wrong, but wasn't the first issue a year late or something, then there were two more issues on a scale that made Planetary look like a model of correct publishing standards? Whatever did happen to that guy? Was there some sort of crisis that messed everything up? Because his X-Factor art, especially Archangel with his huge metallic wingspan were amazing.

The Falcon

16:02 / 27.07.03

His sister died, I believe.

sleazenation

21:51 / 27.07.03

yep the general gist thus far presented is pretty accurate - portacio was one of the founding seven of image but took a bit of a back seat after his sister died - this also affected the timing and and to a certain extent the popularity of his image title, wetworks, which by all accounts was never much more than a comic with splattergore- its name was meant to connote the idea that wetworks oprtatives did the work that got them wet (in other people's blood).

Not particularly interesting concept and never written particularly well.

bio k9

23:21 / 27.07.03

Just like all the other early Image titles.

IIRC his sister didn't just get hit by a bus or something, she had a prolonged illness and he left to be with her/his family. By the time he returned to comics the whole Image thing had lost some steam. I think the Wetworks people were supposed to be a Special Ops group that happened upon (or were sent to) some sort of liquid metal that bonded itself to their skin and gave them special powers or something. The book was probably supposed to tie into the Spawn/Al Simmons/Skullfaced Youngblood character/Wildcats/Stormwatch/Team 7 nexus of the early Image universe. But maybe not. And yeah, I think they fought some werewolves.

But maybe not. Maybe I made all that up. I hope so. What a waste of brain space.

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