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Dv8
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| First Appearance: Gen 13 Vol 2 #6 |
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Overview:
The same top-secret operation Ivana Baiul manipulated to create Gen 13 also produced the Deviants, a team of teen superhumans. Baiul hoped to achieve her goal of creating puppet superheroes and took refuge on Caballito Island, where the Deviants trained to eliminate John Lynch.
Publishing History:
The premise is similar to Gen¹³, also published by Wildstorm and most of the characters made their debut in Gen¹³. It revolves around the lives of a group of Gen-Active people (Called DV8, or referred to as "The Deviants"), initially living in New York under the supervision of Ivana Baiul, who sends them on life-threatening black ops assignments.
Rather than saving the world, they use their powers for other demoralizing reasons: to please themselves and indulge in any fancy that comes their way, uncaring about anybody else, just to forget that they are all just pawns to Ivana, expendable to her needs and desires. The members don't like each other, but are soon banding together for survival. This is what stands this book apart from most other superhero teams: they aren't heroes, they are not nice people, don't even like each other and can't even save themselves, let alone the world.
Later on in the series, Baiul becomes director of International Operations and the team become agents of I.O. as well, at this point some of the members start to develop a conscience about their actions, especially Frostbite.
Unlike Gen¹³, the overall nature of the comic was often very violent and extreme (even more so in the first few issues), with sexual themes, graphic violence, mild language and dialogue (especially between the team members), and general recklessness. Especially the character Sideways Bob brought a dark, over the top sense of humor to the series. The series lasted 32 issues, and was a best seller, until later issues in the second half lagged in sales.
Because of this, Wildstorm cancelled DV8, but allowed the creative team to bring a proper end to the comic, instead of ending the comic and leaving many questions unanswered. The story of most DV8 members continued in the pages of Gen-Active, an anthology-series featuring various Wildstorm characters. Gen-Active lasted 6 issues.
In light of the Worldstorm relaunch, which preserved some aspects of original history while rewriting the others, often creating apparent contradictions, the status of DV8 in Wildstorm continuity is uncertain.
World's End
Several Dv8 members were listed amongst the inmates of the I.O. "cold storage" prison seen in The New Dynamix. A gang of superpowered criminals, working for Tao, had apparently seized control of this prison. One of the gang members, Trance, was ordered by Tao to hypnotize the superpowered inmates of the prison, programming them to serve Tao following the World's End.
Dv8: Gods and Monsters
In July of 2009 it was announced that writer Brian Wood and artist Rebekah Isaacs would created an 8-issue miniseries called Gods and Monsters, set for release in Spring 2010.
Commentary:
- "Based on concepts created by Jim Lee, Brandon Choi and J Scott Campbell, I produced the first eight isues of this popular Wildstorm book with artist Humberto Ramos. To answer a FAQ, myself, Mike Heisler and Jim Lee has previously agreed that I'd only do eight issues. In fact, my exact words at the time were, "I only have eight good ideas for this book, take 'em or leave 'em..." My style and Humberto's exuberant manga stylings didn't mesh too well (Michael Lopez did a luxuriant fill-in, #3, which I thought fit my style of writing much better), but we did some fun stuff nonetheless. I wrote the first six issues -- the sixth issue badly rewritten by an editor who soon left the company and whom I will never work with again -- and provided notes on the last two. By the time I went, it was time to go, if you know what I mean, but it was fun.." - Warren Ellis.
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