Gen-Active is a
comic bookanthology-series from
Wildstorm. It was published quarterly from
2000 to
2001 and ran for six issues. In the comic book series, Gen-Actives are
superhuman beings who possess the Gen-Factor.
Gen-Active, the comic
Gen-Active featured several ongoing storylines, usually starring Gen-Active superheroes and villains in each issue. Many of the stories dealt with the former members of
DV8.
Though often converging, there were three main storylines, each with their own writer:
Writer
Ben Raab with the help of various artists revealed what happened to
Evo and
Bliss after they left DV8. The two join up and go to New York, where Bliss tries to form her own crime-syndicate. Bliss sacrifices Evo, who is arrested by the police and sent to Purgatory Max, a special prison. A group of
Nazi supervillains break into the prison and cause a riot and superhero-group
Wildcore is sent to end the riot. This mission would mean the end for most of Wildcore, but Evo redeems himself by saving Wildcore-leader
Backlash. Bliss meanwhile increases her power within New York. (Issues #1-4 and 6)
Writer
Jay Faeber with the help of various artists told various stories about Frostbite,
Copycat and
Sublime, former members of DV8. They meet and fight with their old enemies
Gen13, mostly due to misunderstandings. At the end of issue 2 the two groups sit down, talk and decide that they no longer have any reasons to be enemies. In issue #3 Faeber interrupts DV8's storyline for a story about
Deathblow, but this story connects to DV8 by revealing that Deathblow is Sublime's father. In the following 3 issues, Sublime finds out about her father, meets with
Genevieve Cray and with the help of Genevieve Cray the group fights
Trance. (Issues #1-6)
Dan Abnett and
Andy Lanning (writers) and
Dustin Nguyen (artist) told two solo-stories about
Jet in issues #1 and 2. In issue #6 Jet goes to avenge her father, Backlash, by trying to arrest all the escaped Purgatory Max criminals (with a little help of the
Midnighter). This storyline followed up on Ben Raab's story about the Purgatory Max riot.
There also were a few short stories:
In issue #3,
Eric DeSantis and
Brian Stelfreeze told what happened to
Freestyle after the end of DV8: she went back to Las Vegas where she ran into
Threshold who was building his own army of Gen-Actives.
Eric DeSantis and Trevor Scott connected Ben Raab's storyline about the Purgatory Max prison break to Jay Faeber's DV8 storyline by having the criminal
Trance escape from Purgatory Max and rebuild his group of Freaks in issue #5.
Gen-Active is a
comic bookanthology-series from
Wildstorm. It was published quarterly from
2000 to
2001 and ran for six issues. In the comic book series, Gen-Actives are
superhuman beings who possess the Gen-Factor.
Gen-Active, the comic
Gen-Active featured several ongoing storylines, usually starring Gen-Active superheroes and villains in each issue. Many of the stories dealt with the former members of
DV8.
Though often converging, there were three main storylines, each with their own writer:
Writer
Ben Raab with the help of various artists revealed what happened to
Evo and
Bliss after they left DV8. The two join up and go to New York, where Bliss tries to form her own crime-syndicate. Bliss sacrifices Evo, who is arrested by the police and sent to Purgatory Max, a special prison. A group of
Nazi supervillains break into the prison and cause a riot and superhero-group
Wildcore is sent to end the riot. This mission would mean the end for most of Wildcore, but Evo redeems himself by saving Wildcore-leader
Backlash. Bliss meanwhile increases her power within New York. (Issues #1-4 and 6)
Writer
Jay Faeber with the help of various artists told various stories about Frostbite,
Copycat and
Sublime, former members of DV8. They meet and fight with their old enemies
Gen13, mostly due to misunderstandings. At the end of issue 2 the two groups sit down, talk and decide that they no longer have any reasons to be enemies. In issue #3 Faeber interrupts DV8's storyline for a story about
Deathblow, but this story connects to DV8 by revealing that Deathblow is Sublime's father. In the following 3 issues, Sublime finds out about her father, meets with
Genevieve Cray and with the help of Genevieve Cray the group fights
Trance. (Issues #1-6)
Dan Abnett and
Andy Lanning (writers) and
Dustin Nguyen (artist) told two solo-stories about
Jet in issues #1 and 2. In issue #6 Jet goes to avenge her father, Backlash, by trying to arrest all the escaped Purgatory Max criminals (with a little help of the
Midnighter). This storyline followed up on Ben Raab's story about the Purgatory Max riot.
There also were a few short stories:
In issue #3,
Eric DeSantis and
Brian Stelfreeze told what happened to
Freestyle after the end of DV8: she went back to Las Vegas where she ran into
Threshold who was building his own army of Gen-Actives.
Eric DeSantis and Trevor Scott connected Ben Raab's storyline about the Purgatory Max prison break to Jay Faeber's DV8 storyline by having the criminal
Trance escape from Purgatory Max and rebuild his group of Freaks in issue #5.