Tag: Gen 13

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 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 are labelled dangerous fugitives. They rely on each other to fight their foes and unveil the personal secrets that linked them to Team 7 and International Operations.

After a very successful run ending with issue #20, co-creator and illustrator J. Scott Campbell handed the reins of Gen¹³ over to other creative teams, saying that leaving freed him up to work on both the Gen¹³/Batman crossover and his own new series (Danger Girl).

Gen 13 (Volume 2) was an ongoing series, published by WildStorm Productions. It ran from 1995 until 2002. Despite outrageous story arcs and many artist collaborations, the popularity of the book dwindled to the point where Wildstorm decided to blow up the entire team with a 6-megaton bomb (Gen¹³ vol. 2, #76, June 2002). This served as the catalyst to revamp the series with a new first issue written by Chris Claremont with pencils by Ale Garza.

The relative calm for Fairchild of a trip to Princeton is broken up by Mr. Lynch’s emergency pick-up of the whole team in “Desolation Row.” Mr. Lynch explains the origins of the terrifying metamorph creature that’s consuming everything in its path in “The Love You Take…” Appearance by Hammersquad leader Rebecca Hawkins. Story & pencils by Adam Hughes. Inks by Mark Farmer.