#Freefall gen 13 series#

The penultimate two issues of Warren's run feature an over-the top hedonistic party night complete with skinny dipping and hook-ups between the team and their other Gen-active friends.

Alcohol-Induced Bisexuality: In an early issue, Sarah Rainmaker, already established as a lesbian, wakes up after getting drunk only to find that she and Bobby had done it the night before.Claremont's entire run became this, cut short to sixteen issues and its last arc being about resurrecting the original team.Notably, Adam Warren had planned a lengthy character arc for the oft-overlooked Sarah Rainmaker, only to have the book cancelled after only one issue of said arc was completed. Aborted Arc: Numerous throughout the comic's various incarnations.See also Team 7, where Lynch as well the fathers of various of this team came from. There is a little known direct-to-video animated film that was released overseas, titled Gen¹³: The Movie.

#Freefall gen 13 series#

The series had been Retooled yet again, along with the rest of the Wildstorm universe, as part of the World's End Crisis Crossover.Īfter that, it seems to have been folded into the DC Universe along with the rest of Wildstorm as a result of Flashpoint there are no plans to revive the book, but some Gen¹³ characters have shown up in the 'DCnU' notably, Fairchild got connected to Superboy's new origin story, as part of Project N.O.W.H.E.R.E. This version was cancelled after sixteen issues, ending with the resurrection of the original team.įinally, Gail Simone launched a Continuity Reboot of the original team in 2006, which was also critically well-received but couldn't last. Set in an alternate universe, the story featured a strangely alive Fairchild mentoring an all-new team. In an unexpected twist, the entire cast were Killed Off for Real by a nuclear weapon.įollowing this, Chris Claremont was brought in to write an all-new, all-different Gen¹³, but the new version was poorly received. Adam ' Empowered' Warren did two well-received parody miniseries (' Grunge: The Movie' and ' Magical Drama Queen Roxy') and was the writer for what turned out to be the final issues of the original series. Warren Ellis wrote the first eight issues of DV8, a book starring the titular Psycho Rangers and series Arch-Nemesis Ivana Baiul. Scott Campbell famous before Danger Girl. To start with, this is the book that made J. Gen¹³ and its spinoffs have also tended to gather a wide variety of talent. While the book was derivative of the millions of other books focusing on ridiculously attractive teens or teams with superpowers, it occasionally took it upon itself to hang a lampshade on the very conventions of the genre, including the constant Clothing Damage, the rambling villains, and more, which allowed it to cater to its audience, yet give them a wink as well. Lynch freed them and acted as Team Dad for this Secret Project Refugee Family. Their mentor was John Lynch, a gruff and grizzled former soldier and ex-agent for the conspiracy that gathered them, who was basically, for lack of a better term, the hybrid love child of Clint Eastwood and Wolverine. Rainmaker, a weather-controlling Native American lesbian. Robert 'Burnout' Lane, the angst-ridden musician who can Play With Fire.Percival 'Grunge' Chang, a diminutive perverted slacker, and resident ditz, with the power to absorb the properties of any material he touches.Roxanne 'Freefall' Spaulding, the smart-mouthed smart ass spunky chick, with gravity manipulation powers.Fairchild, redheaded Shrinking Violet geek girl turned Amazonian Beauty & team leader. It focused on the exploits of five teens who were invited to participate in a government research project, but who all later discovered it was nothing more than a prison used to locate children with 'Gen-Active' genes that the government would later attempt to experiment on and use as weapons, of course. It sold well enough for the introduction of an ongoing series in 1995. The characters were introduced in Deathmate Black (September, 1993). Scott Campbell, and any familiarity with those three should already give an idea of what the book was going to entail. The book was created by Brandon Choi, Jim Lee and artist J. DC gave it no less than three different reboots. This was a WildStorm universe based comic series that used to be owned by Image until Jim Lee sold the imprint to DC Comics. So many genres and incarnations, so little time.

In some issues, they were completely naked.