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*ok, a long time ago 2 aliens races arrive *on earth, kherans and daemonites, in the *middle of a galctic struggle, they continue *fighting through the ages, Zealot, later of *wildcats fame, somewhere along the way *creates the Coda assasins.
Since I am a geek and have a bizarre fondness for the Wildstorm U at times, let me help out here as well.
in post vietnam (or pre, it gets kinda wolverineish here) the US govt makes the TEAMs presumably starting with 1 but the one that concerns us is 7, which had members like Grifter, Deathblow and Fairchild from Gen13s dad.
Actually Team 1 is of equal concern. Team 1 went on one mission before it got shut down because of the disasterous end of the mission. It was started by Lord Emp (that dwarf from WildCATS who was until recently also an immortal alien like Zealot) and various government angecies. It featured:
Jackson King's Father.
Young Hank Bendix.
Zealot in an Emma Peel kind of phase.
John Colt, also an immortal alien, also the man the Spartan robot in WildCATS was designed to emulate.
Majestic, also an imortal alien, this one with superman level powers.
And a few others that I don't recall right now.
There were several other Teams until Team 7 was formed. The original Team 7 was the result of an experiment by International Operations (the generic shadow CIA baddies in the Wildstorm U) which resulted in half of them dying and the other half getting godlike powers.
This team featured:
Deathblow (whose powers didn't manifest for years)
Grifter (currently a Wildcat)
Backlash (also an alien half-breed)
Dane (leader of Wetworks)
Lynch (Father Figure to Gen13)
Fairchild (Catlin Fairchild's Dad)
Chang (Grunge's Dad)
and a few others I'm forgetting.
They all go rogue and stop working for the government except for (due to convoluted reasons) Lynch who works for IO and Dane who leads the 2nd Team 7.
The 2nd Team 7 is sent on another suicide run by IO, this time contaminating them with alien symbiotes and involving them in a war with Werewolves and Vampires. They went rogue and became the WETWORKS. However, no one ever read that book anyway...
Backlash became a founding member of Stormwatch which was founded after Jackson King's Dad and 2 others went insane after a comet seeded the earth with strange radiation giving certian people latent powers.
They were put down and Stormwatch was formed. It was made up mostly of people who were "seedlings". Seedlings had potential power granted them by "The Comet Effect" but generally needed to be "activated" by someone else with very specific powers. Synergy from Stormwatch, now of the Monarchy, is an Activator. Wish who was in the Changers was also an Activator.
Some Seedlings who are still active include:
Jackson King and Christine "Synergy" King from THE MONARCHY and Swift of the AUTHORITY.
Oh, and speaking of the Monarchy, it's one of my Favourite Damn books each month. It can't seem to get a fair shake. People bitch that it's "an AUTHORITY clone" and then bitch when there are no massive scenes of uberviolence and generic superhero action. While I like how the series has been kicking off, I do think Rev Young needs to state some basic tenets of the series plainly in order to clear up some confusion.
It's like Starman meets Doom Patrol meets Stormwatch. |
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