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Gen¹³
''Gen¹³'' is a superhero team and comic book series originally written by Jim Lee and Brandon Choi and illustrated by J. Scott Campbell. It was published by WildStorm under the Image Comics banner, which went on to become an imprint (trade name), imprint for DC Comics, who continued publishing the ''Gen¹³'' title. The comic features a loosely organized team of super-powered beings composed of five adolescence, teens and their mentor. Publication history The series takes place in Jim Lee's Wildstorm Universe, and ''Gen¹³''s stories and history intertwine with those from his own works, such as ''Wildcats (comics), Wildcats'' and ''Team 7'' (in fact, each of the main characters in ''Gen¹³'' is the child of a Team 7 member). The setup of the series is that a group of teens are invited to take part in a government project, which is in actuality a prison-like testing ground on "gen-active" teens. The teens make their escape, but not before they manifest superhuman powers, and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Team 7
''Team 7'' is a comic book superhero team that appeared in titles published by Wildstorm Productions. The team has appeared in 3 self-titled miniseries: ''Team 7'', ''Team 7: Objective Hell'' and ''Team 7: Dead Reckoning''. The first 5-issue Gen¹³ Limited series (comics), limited series also involved members of Team 7. The team's members have played a major role throughout the Wildstorm Comics, Wildstorm Universe. In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity, bringing in Wildstorm characters, including Team 7. Publication history Team 7 debuted in a self-titled four-issue limited series, published in 1994–95. Writer Brandon Choi remarked on this mini-series that "I really enjoyed [writer] Chuck Dixon's portrayal of the team members, especially Grifter (comics), Cole. He really wove Cole's background into the whole Team 7 story in a very believable fashion." The team was featured in the series ''Wetworks (comics), Wetworks''. A new ongoing series about the group wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WildStorm
Wildstorm Productions, (stylized as WildStorm), is an American comic book imprint. Originally founded as an independent company established by Jim Lee under the name "Aegis Entertainment" and expanded in subsequent years by other creators, Wildstorm became a publishing imprint of DC Comics in 1999. Until it was shut down in 2010, the Wildstorm imprint remained editorially separate from DC Comics, with its main studio located in California. The imprint took its name from the combining of the titles of the Jim Lee comic series '' WildC.A.T.S.'' and '' Stormwatch''. Its main fictional universe, the Wildstorm Universe, featured costumed heroes. Wildstorm maintained a number of its core titles from its early period, and continued to publish material expanding its core universe. Its main titles included ''WildC.A.T.S'', ''Stormwatch'', ''Gen¹³'', ''Wetworks'', and '' The Authority''; it also produced single-character-oriented series like '' Deathblow'' and ''Midnighter'', and publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Frank (comics)
Gary Frank (born 1969) is a British comics artist, notable for pencilling on ''Midnight Nation'' and ''Supreme Power'', both written by J. Michael Straczynski. He has also worked with author Peter David on ''The Incredible Hulk (comic book), The Incredible Hulk'' and ''Supergirl (comic book), Supergirl''. He had a creator ownership, creator-owned series, ''Kin (comics), Kin'', which he wrote himself, published by Top Cow Productions in 2000. Writer Geoff Johns, who has collaborated with Frank, has opined that Frank's rendition of Superman is the best of his generation and that the only other artist in the same league with Frank in this regard is Curt Swan. Comics career 1990 Gary Frank began his professional career in 1991, illustrating covers and interior short stories for publications such as ''Doctor Who Magazine'' and ''Toxic!''. This led to a stint at Marvel UK in 1992 as regular series' artist on ''Motormouth (comics), Motormouth & Killpower''. It was on that series that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Lee
Jim Lee (Korean 이용철; born August 11, 1964) is a Korean American comic-book artist, writer, editor, and publisher. He is currently the Publisher and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics. In recognition of his work, Lee has received a Harvey Award, Inkpot Award and three Wizard Fan Awards. He entered the industry in 1987 as an artist for Marvel Comics, illustrating titles such as ''Alpha Flight'' and ''The Punisher War Journal'', before gaining popularity on ''The Uncanny X-Men''. ''X-Men'' #1, the 1991 spin-off series premiere that Lee penciled and co-wrote with Chris Claremont, remains the best-selling comic book of all time, according to ''Guinness World Records''. His style was later used for the designs of '' X-Men: The Animated Series''. In 1992, Lee and several other artists formed their own publishing company, Image Comics, to publish their creator-owned titles, with Lee publishing titles such as ''WildC.A.T.s'' and ''Gen¹³'' through his studio WildStorm Product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gen¹³/Monkeyman And O'Brien
''Gen¹³/Monkeyman and O'Brien'' is crossover between Art Adams's creator-owned ''Monkeyman and O'Brien'' and WildStorm's ''Gen¹³''. The story is a retelling of the well-known ''Star Trek ''Star Trek'' is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and quickly became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon. The franchise has expanded into vari ...'' episode " Mirror, Mirror" with different characters. References Gen¹³/Monkeyman and O'Brien @ comicbookdb WildStorm limited series Intercompany crossovers {{Image-Comics-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adam Warren (comics)
Adam Warren (born 1967) is an American comic book writer and artist who is most famous for his original graphic novel ''Empowered'', an adaptation of the characters known as ''Dirty Pair'' into an American comic book, and being one of the first American commercial illustrators to be influenced by the general manga style.Interview: Adam Warren at About.com He has also contributed to several '''' comics, worked as writer and character designer for the series '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Choi
Brandon Choi is an American comic book writer best known as one of the co-creators of the series Gen¹³ which enjoyed high popularity in the middle and late 1990s. He also wrote several other titles for WildStorm. Choi was born in Seoul, Korea, and came to the U.S. when he was two years old. Choi formed a boyhood friendship with future comic book collaborator Jim Lee, and began creating comics together when they were both in the sixth grade. Their 1986 comic ''Wild Boys'' landed Lee his first job at Marvel Comics. Choi studied entertainment law after high school, but changed careers after graduation. While making plans to attend graduate school to study screenwriting, Lee contacted Choi with an offer to work at Homage Studios, which later became Wildstorm Productions. Choi co-created the ''WildC.A.T.s'' series with Lee in 1992, which included the character Grifter who was later incorporated into the DC Comics universe. Bibliography Image * ''Darker Image'' #1 (1993) * '' Death ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Talent Caldwell
Talent Caldwell is a comic book artist best known for his work on the Top Cow Productions character Fathom. He has also drawn for DC Comics' Superman and Marvel Comics' Spider-Man characters. Career Talent Caldwell came to the attention of artist Michael Turner of Top Cow Productions and was signed to work with that comic book company. He made his professional debut drawing backgrounds on Turner's ''Fathom''. Caldwell went on to draw the ''Fathom'' mini-series ''Killian's Tide''. When Turner and some other Top Cow employees broke off to form Aspen Comics, Talent joined them. After a lawsuit between Aspen and Top Cow, Talent's ''Fathom: Dawn of War'' miniseries, which he co-wrote and drew, was released in 2004. Talent then left Aspen and began doing freelance work for DC Comics and Marvel Comics. In the mid-2000s, he drew Wildstorm's ''Gen¹³'' series. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wildcats (comics)
Wildcats, sometimes rendered WildCats or WildC.A.T.s, is a superhero team created by the American comic book artist Jim Lee and writer Brandon Choi. Publication history The team first appeared in August 1992 in the first issue of their eponymous comic book ''WildC.A.T.s: Covert Action Teams'', published by Image Comics. It was Image founding partner Jim Lee's first work published by the newly launched company, and his first creator-owned project. The Wildcats were the starting point for Lee's menagerie of interconnected superhero creations which became the foundation of the Wildstorm Universe. The Wildcats launched at the apex of a speculator-fueled comics sales boom and was wildly popular at its inception, with wholesale sales to comic book stores above one million copies for early issues. This first series ran for 50 issues, and in addition to Lee, featured work by comics creators such as Travis Charest, Chris Claremont, James Robinson and Alan Moore. This popularity saw th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scott Lobdell
Scott Lobdell (; born 1960) is an American comic book writer and screenwriter known for his work on numerous ''X-Men'' series for Marvel Comics in the 1990s, various work for DC Comics in the 2010s, namely ''Red Hood and the Outlaws, Teen Titans,'' and ''Superman'', and comics for other publishers including the ''Hardy Boys: Undercover Brothers'' series by Papercutz or '' Fathom'' by Aspen MLT. He also wrote the script to the 2017 slasher film ''Happy Death Day''. Career Early career Lobdell did not begin to read comics until he was 17 years old, while lying in bed after lung surgery. Later, he went to college to study psychology, but quit two years later when he began to write. While in college, he wrote for the college newspaper and interviewed Marvel editor Al Milgrom. Lobdell started submitting various stories to Marvel, but was systematically rejected by various editors, including Tom DeFalco. Later, DeFalco started editing Marvel Comics Presents (a bi-weekly book) requiri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Superhero
A superhero or superheroine is a stock character that typically possesses ''superpowers'', abilities beyond those of ordinary people, and fits the role of the hero, typically using his or her powers to help the world become a better place, or dedicating themselves to protecting the public and fighting crime. Superhero fiction is the genre of fiction that is centered on such characters, especially, since the 1930s, in American comic books (and later in Hollywood films, film serials, television and video games), as well as in Japanese media (including kamishibai, tokusatsu, manga, anime and video games). Superheroes come from a wide array of different backgrounds and origins. Some superheroes (for example, Batman and Iron Man) derive their status from advanced technology they create and use, while others (such as Superman and Spider-Man) possess non-human or superhuman biology or study and practice magic to achieve their abilities (such as Zatanna and Doctor Strange ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Maxx
''The Maxx'' is an American comic book series created by Sam Kieth in 1993 and originally published monthly until 1998 by Image Comics for 35 issues, before being collected in trade paperback by DC Comics' Wildstorm imprint. The first appearance of the character was in ''Darker Image'' #1 by Image Comics in March 1993. The comic book, starring an eponymous purple-skinned hero, spawned a 13-episode animated series on MTV that originally aired April–June 1995. Starting in November 2013 and ending in September 2016, the original series has been republished by IDW as ''The Maxx: Maxximized'' with new colors and improved scans of the original artwork by Sam Kieth and Jim Sinclair. In 2018, the Maxx featured in a five-issue crossover series with Batman, published by IDW. The series follows the adventures of the titular hero in two worlds: the real world and an alternate reality referred to as the Outback (presumably named metaphorically after the real Australian outback). In the rea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
