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The Adventurers is a team of costumed heroes from Millennium City. Small in number, but strong in determination and skill, they work together to keep the city safe.
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History
The Adventurers formed with a number of street-level heroes in Millennium City who recognized that the challenge of organized crime might be overcome if they combined their efforts. The first iteration of the team with Red Spider, Black Asylum, Ocelot, Cyro-Talon, and Fox were all costumed individuals protecting a secret identity. Working together, they have crushed a weapon smuggling ring run by Dr. Killowatt, defended the city against the Syndicate several times, stopped a plot to turn a hero into a living weapon, averted a horrible future, and put an end to a black market super serum.
The team line-up changes from time to time, but the core principle driving the team has been to be of service to the public in addressing challenges that law enforcement may not be able to do alone.
Hideouts
The first Adventurers HQ was a subterranean cave donated by Artifex when he joined the team. The cave base had to be destroyed when Mark of Power was captured and forced to reveal the secret of its location to the Syndicate. The Adventurers briefly operated from a secret basement in Millennium City, donated by Blue Wonder for the interim after having to abandon the cave. With Blue Wonder's departure from the team, the Adventurers began operating out of the 'Justice Cave' belonging to Lady Justice.
At the best of times the Adventurers have numerous tools for investigation, as well as computers monitoring conventional media, social media, and police bands for disturbances.
Adventurers Team Roster
Recruits
Story Arcs
The following is presented as summaries of the Adventurers as if it were based on an actual comic book.
| Arc | Issue | Title | Story | Villain(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Smuggling Ring | #1 | "Scuttled" | Red Spider discovers a weapons smuggling ring in late 2013. Stowing away on a smuggling ship in Millenium City, she hopes to ride it to its next port to find out more about who is running the smuggling ring. Upon discovering her, the ship's masters decide to scuttle it -- in hopes of taking her with it! | Smugglers |
| The Smuggling Ring | #2 | "Tracking Ghosts" | With the help of Fox (aka Zero), Red Spider began tracking threads on possible smuggling ring participants. Using Fox's past identity as a renowned international assassin to try to set up a gun buy. Red Spider, inexperienced with the nuances of black market deals, sprung into action too soon, but together she and Fox managed to take down the bad guys. | Smugglers / Organized Crime |
| The Smuggling Ring | #3 | "Icy Reception" | A loose association of heroes -- Cryo-Talon, Ocelot, and Black Asylum, Fox (Zero), and Red Spider -- banded together to face the threat of organized smuggling. Other members soon followed. | (None) |
| The Smuggling Ring | #4 | "Showdown at WCOC" | Alerted to a disturbance at WCOC studios, Guidelight and Red Spider battle Doctor Killowatt and his well-trained henchmen. Guidelight is injured while weakening Killowatt's suit. Killowatt and his men escape with a kendrium-based backup electrical supply | Dr. Killowatt |
| The Smuggling Ring | #5 | "The Lab Ruse" | The Adventurers respond to a laboratory attack which turns out to be a trap! Several team members are nearly killed in an industrial smelting machine. A few common items are stolen from the laboratory, leading Red Spider and team ally Night Terror to suspect that it was all a ruse. | Dr. Killowatt |
| The Smuggling Ring | #6 | "The Gathering Storm" | Team member Artifex helps confirm through computer research that Doctor Killowatt is probably the alter ego of one Doctor Anthony Kozhan. It also comes to light that the Doctor's "thefts" were actually a ruse! The real objective was to distract attention from the fact that he was using those sites to drop off ammunition to his buyers, and counting on investigators to worry more about what was missing than what was present. Fox, Guidelight, Red Spider, and Illusion respond to an attack at the MC Light and Power Building. The Adventurers fight valiantly, Red Spider is taken prisoner by Killowatt's agents, and Fox & Illusion are injured. | Dr. Killowatt |
| The Smuggling Ring | #7 | "The Bad Doctor" | Fox and Guidelight strike out to locate Killowatt's hide-out, tipped off by Night Terror on a possible location. Meanwhile, Red Spider is tortured with a probe meant to scramble her memories so that she will cease to be a threat to Killowatt. The rescue goes well, but Killowatt decides to scramble his own brain rather than be taken alive -- possibly to avoid implicating a well-connected backer known only as "The Chairman." | Dr. Killowatt |
| (None) | Annual #1 | "Dock Bomb" | New member Talons joins Red Spider as they take on her enemy Kingsnake. Kingsnake, who has been linked to "The Chairman," plants explosives on a major pier. After a furious underwater fight in an environment that favors Kingsnake, Talons and Red Spider are unable to stop a thermite reaction from severely damaging the pier. | Kingsnake |
| Free the Beast | #8 | "The New Adventurers" | After a long period of inactivity, with Adventurers having gone their separate ways, Red Spider is almost ready to shut off the lights at Adventurers HQ -- that is, until a chance meeting with fellow costumed hero Blue Wonder leads her to meet Lady Justice. The trio in turn meets the inexperienced meta-human Mark of Power, and with the sudden return of existing members Zero (Fox), Jason Leander, and Talons, the team is renewed. | None |
| Free the Beast | #9 | "Syndicate" | While enjoying a night at the home of Cassandra (Red Spider), the Adventurers witness an attack near city hall on a motorcade of foreign dignitaries. The team of Red Spider, Jason Leander, Mark of Power, and Fox battles Bedlam and Totentanz on the streets, with a late arrival by Blue Wonder. Bedlam is defeated and arrested, Totentanz escapes, and Zero (Fox) is critically injured by Bedlam in the villain's last throes. | Bedlam, Totentanz |
| Free the Beast | #10 | "Infection" | Blue Wonder, Mark of Power, and Lady Justice clean up a riot at the prison, with Red Spider a late arrival. Members of Syndicate monitor a press conference afterward in which the Adventurers are shown live on camera, and the villains strike! After a brief rooftop battle, Red Spider is abudcted by Volantas and taken to a secret lab. Lady Justice quickly locates the lab, but Red Spider has already been infected with something by the evil Dr. Skala which has enhanced her physical abilities -- and caused her to become a wrathful rage monster! | Voladas, Dr. Skala, Razorwing |
| Free the Beast | #11 | "Red Spider Unleashed" | Voladas barely saves his Syndicate comrade Razorwing from being torn apart by the enraged Red Spider, who has amazingly broken the chains holding her. Dr. Skala activates the lab's auto-destruct and the Syndicate escapes. Red Spider is taken back to her apartment where team members keep an eye on her. She exhibits signs of changes -- strange turns in behaviour, voracious appetite for protein, a rapid heartbeat that should be fatal, and skin that is becoming 'calloused'. Blue Wonder is appointed as the temporary team leader. | Mutated Red Spider |
| Free the Beast | #12 | "Burst Forth" | Red Spider's hunger grows beyond what the team can sustain. She breaks free of her penthouse and rampages through the street, attacking many and drinking the blood of several. Blue Wonder fails to locate Red Spider after a vigorous all-night search. Lady Justice uses her detection powers to locate Red Spider by her erratic heartbeat. Red Spider eludes capture once before the combined effort of Lady Justice, Mark of Power, and Illusion are able to take her and contain her at Adventurers HQ. Lady Justice deals with a police stand-off during the monster's capture. | Mutated Red Spider |
| Free the Beast | #13 | "Rage in a Cage" | Lady Justice, Mark of Power, and Illusion recover from the brutal pursuit of Red Spider, Illusion nearly having reached her limit containing Spider. Fox arrives to see his old friend. Illusion takes it hard that she could not prevent harm coming to Red. Tension erupts as the heroes try to decide if Red Spider can safely be fed, or if they must not risk opening the security field holding her. Starved and losing energy to sustain her rage and speedy metabolism, Red Spider's human personality briefly resurfaces and advises the team. | Mutated Red Spider |
| Free the Beast | #14 | "The Next Stage" | After days without a plan, the team is faced with a terrible challenge when Red Spider mutates to a new stage. Strengthened beyond measure, this monster strains and undoes the energy field keeping her contained. As a last ditch effort, Mark of Power throws his birthday cake in her face, and combined blasts from Blue Wonder and Lady Justice subdue the creature enough that Mark can force her back into the cage. A brutalized Lady Justice succumbs to her injuries in a cliffhanger ending. | Mutated Red Spider |
| Free the Beast | #15 | "Survival" | Lady Justice's armor activates medical countermeasures to revive her from clinical death. Blue Wonder briefly spites a recovering Red Spider for the harms her monster form inflicted, but later recants. Lady Justice later proposes a bold but dangerous option: medical nanites. After a few tentative doses, Red Spider is finally 'cured'! Later, Mark of Power is apprehended at the gym by members of the Syndicate. | Mutated Red Spider |
| (None) | #16 | "The Bedlam Dilemma" | With not enough time to celebrate Red Spider's liberation from her mutation nightmare, it becomes clear that Mark of Power has been abducted by the Syndicate. Lady Justice helps capture a Syndicate affiliate named Lazarus, who reveals that Mark has been 'broken' by the Syndicate and is leaking information. Syndicate members make to contact and offer Mark as a bargaining chip in exchange for the release of Bedlam. With Bedlam firmly in UNTIL custody, the team debates if they can bargain with UNTIL to release him, whether they must steal him from UNTIL by force, or whether Mark must be sacrificed. In the end, Jason Leander convinces the team to cooperate. Red Spider offers to register her secret identity with UNTIL to ensure they take the bargain seriously. | Lazarus, Voladas, Bedlam |
| (None) | #17 | "Prisoner Exchange" | Lady Justice and Blue Wonder arrive at UNTIL to escort Bedlam from their custody. They arrive at a downtown park where Red Spider dismisses them. Using a burner cell phone, she coordinates the exchange with a Syndicate member. Soon, Bedlam is sent on his way over a tall, arching bridge, and Mark limps over it moments later. Red Spider swings with Mark a safe distance, but realizes there's a bomb strapped to him. Blue Wonder offers to fly it safely to the river and dispose of it. The issue ends with Red Spider threatening to pour rubbing alcohol over Mark's terribly cut up hand, to learn which of their secrets he exposed while captured. | Bedlam, Voladas |
| (None) | #18 | "Moving On" | Mark is taken to hospital after revealing that the location of the HQ and Lady Justice's actual first name are the only things he was coerced into sharing with the Syndicate. Fox and Lady Justice set about the demolition of the Adventurers cave, as it is no longer safe. Meanwhile, Red Spider and Blue Wonder take Mark to a hospital. The next day, Red Spider apologizes to Mark for threatening him. Mark is shown to have some psychological scars from what was done to him. | (None) |
| (None) | #19 | "The Southern Vacation" | Featuring special guest character Night Terror! Red Spider and Night Terror discover a clone facility with a disturbing link to the Chairman. Adventurers members Cassandra (Red Spider), Emily (Blue Wonder), Allison (Lady Justice), and Mark (Mark of Power) fly to Vibora Bay to enjoy some much needed rest. New member Juggernette is recruited to the team! | (None) |
| Out of Time | #20 | "Always Too Sudden" | The return of Bedlam sees a battle in Renaissance Center! Many of the Adventurers are defeated as the villain makes a show of his increased power. Blue Wonder is mortally wounded and the hospital is unable to revive her. Each team member grieves in their own way, with Lady Justice's violent reaction being particularly of note. Red Spider receives Blue Wonder's cape. | Bedlam |
| Out of Time | #21 | "Funeral" | Double-size issue! A colorful cast of heroes turns out for the funeral of Blue Wonder. Impassioned speeches from Lady Justice, Mark of Power, Red Spider, and Blue Wonder's mother -- Americana -- send off the fallen hero. The next day, Red Spider unmasks herself on television, and announces her intention to become the Red Wonder in honor of her slain friend. The internet slows to a crawl as people start searching for info on 'Cassandra Olsen'. | (None) |
| Out of Time | #22 | "Out of Time" | The future! Jumping ahead to 2034, it becomes clear that the Adventurers are resistance fighters on the run -- from Lady Justice herself! A bleak chain of events has led to a world where LJ is almost in total control of the globe, and it all began with the death of Blue Wonder.
Intelligence comes to the team from Night Spider and a new, younger Red Spider that Lady Justice is assembling a time machine with designs to use it to put down the resistance once and for all! A tense relationship exists between Mark of Power (now called Crimson Force) and some of the team members, but they follow his lead to obtain the plutonium that Lady Justice needs for her time machine. The team leaves their secret submarine headquarters, and heads to the southwest desert to seize refined plutonium. There, fighting against mutates, and coming dangerously close to Grond, they encounter a former VIPER agent calling himself 'Snake' who is willing to ally himself with the Adventurers to take down Lady Justice. The mission is a success. |
Radioactive mutants |
| Out of Time | #23 | "The Time Traveler" | Setting: 2034. Red Spider (Jesse Weaver) continues to process the data stolen from Lady Justice. Reading through a list of Justice Legion properties, she finds a warehouse that on paper holds nothing of interest yet draws more electricity and more security than it should. Thinking it is a site for the assembly of a time machine, Crimson Force takes Snake (Serpent Master) and Red Spider as a small team to land at the heavily-guarded Millennium City and infiltrate.
After carefully negotiating roving bandits in the area of the piers, the trio discovers the warehouse. Waiting within is Fox, who trades barbs with Mark. Mark's telekinetic barrage hurling all of the crates in the room at Fox reveals one that is well-shielded. Once Red Spider has a chance, she moves in to examine the shielded case, and discovers that it is not a time machine it all. The case holds a frozen person: Emily Taylor, the Blue Wonder! What's more, systems attached to the case indicate that Taylor may be alive! The team is able to fight Fox. Fox snares Red Spider and tries to use her to leverage Crimson Force and Snake to surrender, but the fight continues. Soon Fox teleports away. Mark uses his telekinetic power to lift Blue Wonder's cryogenic container and they escape to a waiting mini-sub ... not realizing that Lady Justice was present in stealth the entire time, and is now aware of their base. |
Fox, Lady Justice |
| Out of Time | #24 | "Heating Up" | Night Terror lends his expertise to preparing a safe transition out of cryo-sleep for Blue Wonder. Her case's automatic systems kick in and bring her swiftly but safely back to life. In minutes, she is awake. Mark is first up to answer her questions about where she is, and what has happened. Red Spider (Weaver) brings several items passed down from Blue Wonder and Red Wonder kept in Night Spider's possession, to show the full sequence of events. Red Spider implores Blue Wonder to be the savior this bleak future needs -- which gets Blue Wonder to her feet.
The submarine is attacked by Lady Justice and Fox, having been tracked by nanites leaked from Blue Wonder's cryo-case. After a length period trading barbs, Blue and Mark tell Red Spider to make a run for it, and she dashes to the mini-sub. Lady Justice and Blue Wonder engage in combat, as do Mark and Fox. After battling to a draw, Lady Justice disengages. Fox is unmoved by Blue Wonder's attacks at his pride, and Lady Justice seems ambivalent about Blue Wonder being alive again, though she seems to want to keep her alive for the time being. Fox is dispatched to capture the Red Spider, with Blue Wonder in pursuit of Fox. |
Lady Justice, Fox |
| Out of Time | #25 | "Predictions" | In what may be the final, grim days of the resistance, Crimson Force, Night Spider, Blue Wonder, Juggernette, and other resistance heroes band together in a secluded cave to debate their last strategy.
Meanwhile, Red Spider (Jesse Weaver) awakens in a sleeping tube in a strange, sterile facility. Walking out, she pushes a button on a console which shifts the dome above her to reveal that she is on the moon, looking into space. She is invited to speak with Lady Justice, who sits alone at a massive computer. Red Spider tries to dissuade Lady Justice from her plan to use a time machine to control the future, but Lady Justice only speaks in riddles about her intentions. Just as Lady Justice predicted, the Adventurers arrive to rescue Red Spider. Lady Justice smiles, as everything is going according to what the time machine has shown her. |
Lady Justice |
| Out of Time | #26 | "Just In Time" | Night Spider radioes in to the team that she has a chance to disable the moon base security and allow the Adventurers to get to Lady Justice without interruption. She flies her space shuttle straight into a power supply for the station, sacrificing herself. The team spares a moment for sorrow.
The team takes on a very well-prepared Lady Justice. Red Spider begins hacking the main computer system -- finding it easier than she expected. Fox emerges and combats Crimson Force and Juggernette. Fox and Juggernette in particular work to tear one another apart, echoing their past encounters. In the end, Juggernette gets the upper hand, and mercifully dispatches Fox. Blue Wonder fights Lady Justice until LJ is down on the floor, dying Figuratively from a broken heart -- her mechanical heart has failed, and she is moments from death. The older team members mourn her passing, but Red Spider makes a discovery: the time machine was never meant for time travel. It can project a mind to any point on the user's own lifespan, past or future. And it had been set up so that only two people could use it: Lady Justice or Blue Wonder. The team briefly debates whether they should accept this victory over Lady Justice and begin restoring freedom to the world, but it becomes clear that they prefer to send Blue Wonder back to the day she was killed by Bedlam, and attempt to avert the whole sequence of events. This, it would seem, was the outcome Lady Justice had been trying to drive them toward. Blue says her goodbyes to Mark, Juggernette, and Jesse Weaver -- promising to look out for young Jesse. |
Lady Justice, Fox |
| Out of Time | #27 | "The Old Familiar" | Blue Wonder uses the time device on LJ's space station and scans through her life like it were a film strip. She finds the right 'frame' and inhabits her past self. The future as she had known it breaks off, and she begins her life anew. With foreknowledge of the Bedlam fight, she is able to avoid dying. Rather than keeping secret the aberrant timeline that followed her death before, she immediately begins to share her experience -- and some of her team mates are unsure if she is not merely suffering from a head injury! | (None) |
| (None) | Annual #2 | "True Heroism" | A vigilante's bomb meant to only vaporize inanimate objects like drugs, guns, and clothing accidentally misfires and triggers a more deadly explosion. He appears to survey his handiwork, he makes an "ends justify means" speech. The Adventurers - including Fox, Blue Wonder, and Dreamweaver - battle him. A device on his head is damaged, and the vigilante suddenly has no recollection of where he is or what he has done. Blue Wonder sees that he is turned over to UNTIL. Red Spider hopes that cooperating with UNTIL will help ease the Adventurers' troubled relationship with that organization. | (Unknown) |
| American Clone | #28 | "American Clone, Part 1" | At a seemingly normal gathering of the team outside of Club Caprice, team mates begin to notice Americana acting abnormally. Dreamweaver becomes concerned at Americana losing her hair and otherwise looking tired. Team mates try to find different want to prove if this is really Americana. Lady Justice scans her body and reveals that Americana is subject to rapid aging, and may only have hours until death, if that. Red Spider collects Americana and carries her quickly to base, with the others not far behind. | (None) |
| American Clone | #29 | "American Clone, Part 2" | The clone deteriorates rapidly in the team's base, falling apart in an almost zombie-like way with whole sheets of skin falling to the floor. The Adventurers present must watch in horror. Red Spider distracts herself by investigating who could create such a sophisticated clone, as that may lead to the real Americana's whereabouts. Lady Justice focuses on keeping the clone comfortable. Red Spider is about to leave to pursue a lead, but as its painful deterioration worsens, Red Spider decides to mercy kill the clone with a quick turn of the neck. This decision is not popular with all. | (None) |
| American Clone | #30 | "American Clone, Part 3" | The team spreads out through the city looking for leads on Sherri Crowe AKA "Scary Sherri", a geneticist and mad scientist whom Blue Wonder / Americana had apprehended in the past, recently escaped from prison. Eventually the team including Blur, Red Spider, and newcomer Hornett, attempt to apprehend Scary Sherri, but she entraps them in a dangerous standoff. The team has no choice but to let her leave. | Scary Sherri |
| American Clone | #31 | "American Clone, Part 4" | The team gets a lead on Scary Sherri's robbery of a rare item from the museum. Giving pursuit, they track Sherri to a location deep in Westside. Lady Justice takes the lead in attacking Sherri. In the end, Sherri is apprehended and given over to UNTIL agents, whom Jason Leander calls in. The real Americana - who was captured before the name change, so actually Blue Wonder - is found in Sherri's hideout. She bears some injury to her psyche, but Blue Wonder is mostly herself. | Scary Sherri |
| (None) | #32 | "Halloween Special" | The team comes to Blur's home. Many of the team members become inexplicably ill and leave suddenly. Soon, Mark of Power dies while waiting for the elevator to leave Blur's condo. He reanimates in moments as a zombie-like creature, attacking Red Spider and Dreamweaver. Blur leaves to get help, but finds at Adventurers HQ that Blue Wonder and Lady Justice are fending off a headless knight! Soon, all is revealed to be part of a horrible set of illusions from a demon named Walker, who was hired by the Purple Gang to destroy Blur. She manages to break the illusion and reveals that the team are all still present in her condo. The team moves swiftly to apprehend Walker and end the attack on Blur. | Walker |
| The Super Serum | #33 | "Serum" | Red Spider investigates rumors of an unstable serum that gives its user meta-human augmentation for a short time, being distributed by drug dealers. It leads her and Blur to scour the Westside port. They come upon a drug deal that may have a lead, but upon cornering a head crook at the scene - Jason "Teeth" Rowe - he jabs himself with several needles. Becoming bestial and nigh unstoppable, he manages to subdue Blur and Red Spider. | Jason "Teeth" Rowe |
| The Super Serum | #34 | "Teeth" | Rowe takes the unconscious Blur & Red Spider to a warehouse with thoughts that he can profit by turning them over to a gang. When the heroes awaken, they find themselves bound back-to-back crudely with duct tape, but it is effective enough to keep them easily escaping. They coordinate and manage to manually reset Red's team communicator, and call in Fox. With Fox's help, they get free and capture Teeth, who is suffering withdrawal and is much weaker than when he captured the two heroes earlier. In questioning him, the Adventurers learn of Source Biotech Enterprises (SBE), which seems to have manufactured the serum Teeth used. | Jason "Teeth" Rowe |
| The Super Serum | #35 | "Trifecta, Part 1" | The investigation into SBE leads Red Spider, Blur, and Dreamweaver to check out a pier in Vibora Bay where shipping for the company occurs. They encounter Charlie Ferris, a sickly man who seems to be involved in the serum smuggling. He barely gets to explaining that he sold the serum out of desperation, but then shots ring out. Red Spider moves to protect Charlie and keep questioning him under cover, while Blur and Dreamweaver try to find the gunman. Suddenly a strange amorphous creature (Etherloch) attacks Charlie... | Charlie Ferris, Etherloch, Serpent Master |
| The Super Serum | #36 | "Trifecta, Part 2" | Dreamweaver helps contain the amorphous creature in one of her fields, and battles it. It escapes through a crack in the pier and into the water below. The gunman is revealed as a VIPER Agent (Serpent Master), who Blur tries to take on. Charlie has a chance to escape, but he accidentally sets off an adhesive mine that Serpent Master planted, meant to neutralize Blur. Red Spider goes to help Blur, who has been defeated, but finds Serpent Master is better trained than other VIPER servants she has encountered before. Soon, Serpent Master shrugs off Red Spide, closes in on Charlie, and brutally executes him. Dreamweaver manages to get Etherloch to attack Serpent Master, who through cunning, manages to escape. Red Spider grabs items from Ferris's corpse, and then gets the team to fall back, as they don't seem able to contain Etherloch. Etherloch surrounds Ferris's body and consumes it, then slips away, leaving a stripped skeleton behind... | Charlie Ferris, Etherloch, Serpent Master |
| The Super Serum | #37 | "You Can't Outfox a Fox" | An assassin interrupts Red Spider and Fox as they prepare to bust a gang who has stock of the super serum. Blur comes to aid the team, but an injured Red Spider makes an easy capture to use as bait. The assassin eventually reveals that she was sent by Fox's enigmatic uncle, and more is learned of Fox's past as an assassin. Quickshot tearfully surrenders once Blur and Fox defeat her. Red Spider spares Quickshot, though not before delivering a punch to her face. Afterward, Blur leaves the team having found herself unable to cope with the emotional consequences of the team's missions, and Fox temporarily departs to face down his uncle once and for all. Mantis returns, and begins an analysis of the blob sample and of the super serum which were both seized in Vibora. | Quickshot, Fox's Uncle |
| (None) | Annual #3 | "Arms Against the Blood Moon" | The menace of the Syndicate returns! Red Spider's secret identity, Cass Olsen, shelters from the Blood Moon at Sherrerra's Pub, and narrowly avoids a hail of bullets when hot-headed Syndicate youngster Voladas gets into an argument over being asked for his ID! Now monitored by Red Spider and Dreamweaver out of costume, they trail Voladas and a mysterious mystical female accomplice. With help from Hornett, the Adventurers foil Voladas's attempt to steal munitions hidden with an aid shipment meant to help MC deal with the Blood Moon zombies. | Voladas, Wiccan |
| The Super Serum | #38 | "Poison Lash" | Some light is shed on Hornett's past as he joins Fox, Dreamweaver, and Red Spider to convince his imprisoned former nemesis Poison Lash to study the serum and blob samples they have. A deal is struck that will see Poison Lash get into his old lab, in exchange for being given the opportunity to do some side experiments. | Poison Lash |
| The Super Serum | #39 | "Red Spider Pursued" | First appearance of Toxoplasma! Red Spider takes the sample of Etherloch from the Adventurers HQ in order to hand deliver it to Poison Lash's lab, but along the way she is intercepted by both Serpent Master and Etherloch! With help from passer-by hero Toxoplasma, Red sidesteps the ambush. Etherloch seems to be destroyed by Toxoplasma, but the sample escapes the sealed container during the fight, and - along with a few drops of Red's blood - the creature escapes to reconstitute itself! Red Spider extends an offer to Toxoplasma to join the team. | Serpent Master, Etherloch |
| The Super Serum | #40 | "Mirror Image" | While patrolling with fellow hero Hyperfuser, Red Spider encounters the blob creature (Etherloch). Red is terrified to see that the creature's solid form has the distinct features of the alien-spider-human hybrid creature she was turned into by the Syndicate earlier in the year! Hyperfuser manages to flash-freeze Etherloch with a grenade, and UNTIL collects the creature to safely contain it. Red Spider is left with two horrifying realizations: the creature probably got her blood and located her like a bloodhound, and the alien retrovirus must still be in her blood despite it supposedly having been 'cured'. | Etherloch |
| The Super Serum | #41 | "Re-Diagnosed" | Recent experiences have left Red Spider with a fear that more help may soon be needed. New members Sunborn and American Missile are brought into the team. Sunborn uses her advanced scientific knowledge to confirm that Red Spider is still carrying the alien retrovirus. Etherloch begins to reform itself again. | Etherloch |
| The Super Serum | #42 | "UNTIL the Day is Done" | The Adventurers prepare to deliver their decision to Poison Lash at UNTIL HQ's secure holding, but the HQ is attacked by Etherloch who enters through the submarine doors. Even as UNTIL fighters are defeated and slain by the creature, and their bodies used in a horrific puppet-like manner to attack the team, Dreamweaver and American Missile do their utmost to keep the creature away from Red Spider. Starborn arrives late to the fight, and manages to get the creature off of Red Spider at a critical moment, then uses a powerful plasma flare to eradicate it - damaging much of the UNTIL submarine dock. The team escapes before UNTIL agents can force them to remain for debriefing. | Etherloch |
| The Super Serum | #43 | "Waiting UNTIL Night" | News reaches the Adventurers that Poison Lash escaped UNTIL during their fight with Etherloch. Poison Lash used the opportunity presented when Starborn's plasma flare briefly knocked out power systems. Jason Leander helps Red Spider get into UNTIL to inspect the scene of the escape. They meet an UNTIL field agent code-named Dust-Off AKA 'Dusty' who helps them examine the crime scene. Red Spider notices that a piece of the frozen body of Etherloch has been broken off - and a clue left behind by Poison Lash confirming that he took it before escaping the building. | Poison Lash, Etherloch |
| Cures and Kills | #44 | "Fresh Eyes" | 'Dusty' listens to a summary of the investigation since the first encounter with Etherloch. He deduces that there may have been more to Source Biotech Enterprises than was readily apparent. He accompanies Red Spider and Jason to Vibora Bay. Red Spider is the only one small enough to sneak in through a vent. Over comms, they give her instructions on what to seek, knowing that the moment she entered the lab, a security system was tripped. She grabs a memory card from a camera, a lab journal, and a poster of what appeared to be genetic sequences, before slipping out of the lab. The team escapes just before security responds to the alarm. | Source Biotech Enterprises |
| Cures and Kills | #45 | "Bad Dreams" | The team disperses to locate the fugitive Poison Lash. Hornett suggests the villain may have gone to his old lab, in Westside. Dreamweaver patrols the area and finds the lab - but is unable to reach team members on the comm when she encounters trouble. Meanwhile, Red Spider studies the materials she took from Source Biotech. Dreamweaver encounters a frozen Etherloch sample, and several mutated UNTIL agents whom Poison Lash abducted. Dreamweaver is defeated by the villain and his minions, and wakes up later in an alley with a needle puncture. Red Spider determines that Etherloch was an accidental creation by scientists trying to create a super serum equivalent to a 'mother of vinegar'. The alien DNA they used in their experiments led to the formation of a sentient, shape-shifting horror with confused imperatives. | Poison Lash's creations; Etherloch |
| Cures and Kills | #46 | "The Distraction" | Red Spider's non-costumed conspiracy theorist friend Elias calls her with a happening in a park near City Hall: someone is dumping something into the pond. Adventurers Dreamweaver, Hand of Babylon, and American Missile join Red Spider in nabbing the crook. But another problem arises: Elias wants a scoop for his university newspaper, and what was dumped into the pond was a strain of Etherloch! The creature, modified slightly by Poison Lash, attacks Eli but is unable to eat him due to a latent mutation which Elias is unaware he has. Etherloch enters his bloodstream of Elias. | Etherloch |
| Cures and Kills | #47 | "Xeno" | American Missile tries to slow the rate of Etherloch's take-over with a cryo grenade. It fails, and Etherloch seems to consume Elias anyway. Soon, a new entity called Xeno emerges, but a portion of Etherloch is excised from it like an immune response. The Adventurers battle Etherloch as it burrows into the ground... and eventually goes after the familiar-smelling blood of Red Spider! Pulled underground and infected by Etherloch, Red Spider transforms into her Etherloch-infused creature form. Hand of Babylon ably endeavours to subdue her. Xeno, seen as an aberrant off-shoot of the Etherloch form, is Etherloch-Spider's main target. Xeno is able to use his Etherloch-variant to excise Etherloch from Red Spider much as he did himself. Red Spider rapidly recovers. | Etherloch |
| Cures and Kills | #48 | "Televised Capture" | Poison Lash steals into the WCOC studio during a live broadcast. He holds Hornett hostage with a grim promise to unmask the hero, and sell him to the highest bidder, if the Adventurers don't arrive. The team of Red Spider, Lady Justice, Metro Men, with allies Hyperfuser and Xeno, confronts Poison Lash, and several WCOC technicians he has turned into monsters. Hornett, it turns out, is merely Etherloch having taken Hornett's form. The Adventurers fail to stop Poison Lash escaping with Etherloch, and demolish the studio trying to defeat the monsters. New team member Metro Man manages to save the life of one of the 'monsters', who seemed to be key to holding the others in spell. As the battle ends, Lady Justice lambastes the team for an uncoordinated failure. It is unclear what has become of the real Hornett. | Etherloch, Poison Lash |
| (none) | #49 | "Return to Heroics" | Dreamweaver, Metro Man, Red Spider, Juggernette, and American Missile take part in a training exercise. Leads on Poison Lash and Etherloch have dried up, and the team is growing idle. Some tension remains between Red Spider and Lady Justice. They end up assisting with a major apartment block fire in which the building is critically damaged. Lady Justice uses her arsenal to clear obstacles from outside, while nimble Red Spider enters the inferno to clear debris and help people escape. | (none) |
| Sentry Rogue: Awakening | #1 | "Sentry Rogue: Awakening, Part 1" | Red Spider sees her friend Jake, a young but retired costumed vigilante. He seems perturbed by witnessing a demonstration of a 'Sentry' law enforcement machine that went wrong and caused the deaths of many. Two things disturb Jake: that the machine's designer, a friend of Jake's, said that Sentron was doing things it was never designed to do, and that in the aftermath, the government was covering the incident up.
Red Spider commits to finding answers. It will mean breaking in to a facility under guard by federal law enforcers. She invites Adventurers Dreamweaver, Hand of Babylon, Lady Justice, Mantis, and Juggernette to come, but notes the risks are exceptionally high since they would be going up against federal agents. Hand and Mantis decline; the others commit to an infiltration. Lady Justice's 'bots create a diversion, allowing Red Spider, Dream, and Lady Justice to covertly enter a sewer. Juggernette maintains watch on the scene from outside. A number of signs are seen in the sewers deliberately leading them to a 'hidden door', with a note indicating that this is "Nevermore's secret lab". They enter, and find information about a machine running amok and killing the scientists who had worked within the lab. They are confronted briefly by Sentron, who escapes and looses 'Nevermore' to defeat them. Juggernette joins the others as they square off against Nevermore's armor - Nevermore being a former power-armored hero, but the human pilot is not within the armor. After a tough battle, the team bests the armor. It announces that an 'awakening' of machines is at hand, and then activates a time bomb. The team rapidly flees before the lab and building above are destroyed. |
Sentron, Nevermore Mk XV Armor |
| (none) | #50 | "Adventures in Space!!!" | Flashback. The adventures of the real Hornett are detailed as he goes to fight a war in outer space after being abducted by aliens. Upon his return to Earth, Hornett strategizes with the Adventurers about how to use himself as bait to lure out Poison Lash and send him back to jail! | Aliens |
| (none) | #51 | "The Time Has Come" | Red Spider is sent to a laboratory by team ally Night Terror to check on a friend of his who has been out of contact. Spider learns that the scientist has been murdered just minutes before her arrival! The lab seals off to contain a strange blob-like monster trying to escape. A countdown begins, marking a few minutes until the lab is entirely purged by an artificial black hole device. Red Spider uses her cunning to catch a rogue time-traveling monster in a stasis field, averting the activation of the black hole. Night Terror reveals that the 'time worm' was a portent of the arrival of a far worse time-traveling villain. | Time Worm |
| Cures and Kills | #52 | "Blowback" | The trap is sprung! Hornett, along with Red Spider, Meltdowner, and Xeno, have Poison Lash fall for their ruse. But Lash comes loaded for bear and ready for a fight. During the fight, Red Spider is poisoned by Lash, but Xeno is able to excise the toxin before it causes her to morph into the hybrid monster. Meanwhile, when the battle goes poorly for Lash, he summons Etherloch, and juices the blob creature up such that it multiplies many times over in size! This plan backfires on Poison Lash when the creature goes mad (even by its standards!) and tries to kill its ally, too! The fight spills onto the streets. Poison Lash agrees to help destroy Etherloch if the heroes can keep it distracted. Red Spider and Xeno draw in close; they don't realize that Lash's plan - which works - was to give Etherloch more mutagen until it bursts! And when it does, Red Spider is awash in Etherloch's acid... | Poison Lash, Etherloch |
| Cures and Kills | #53 | "Who Wears the Suit" | The Adventurers close in on Poison Lash's laboratory, with injured Red Spider providing logistics over the team comm while she operates the computer at HQ. The lab has been spilling out toxins, infecting nearby residences. Poison Lash in inside, apparently drunk, but he springs a surprise: civilians in his thrall, who look just like him! During the fight, Dreamweaver is infected with a toxin, and loses her powers - but gains the use of her legs! Hornett seems to be crushed under a tank, only to emerge from it with a new power, in the form of two gleaming energy swords from his wrists! Xeno takes a lot of punishment, but Hornett asks to finish the fight with Poison Lash. Dreamweaver's aborted charge at Poison Lash on her atrophied legs turns heads. Hornett and Xeno are able to finish the fight; Lash is defeated, and taken into UNTIL custody. | Poison Lash |
| (none) | #54 | "Adventurers Anniversary Special" | Double-sized anniversary special! Talons returns to the team after a lengthy absence! Dreamweaver tries to adjust to life without powers. Red Spider recovers from her injuries and hosts a party. Mantis changes his name to War Beetle, and recounts his helping UNTIL defend the Earth from space. Hornett shows off his new innate energy blades. | (none) |
| (none) | #55 | "Renewal" | Dreamweaver proposes becoming the team's HQ operator to keep useful while she adjusts to life without powers. Meanwhile, Red Spider encounters a new crime fighter named May Highflyer who seems so similar to Hornett that she must wonder if May Highflyer is another one of Poison Lash's experiments. On mentioning Hornett and his powers, May Highflyer is suddenly able to produce energy blades from her arms in a similar fashion. Their patrol around downtown is interrupted by the return of Razorwing (last seen in Adventurers #11). His attempt to take revenge on Red Spider is foiled by May Highflyer's potent hypnotism. | Razorwing |
| (none) | #56 | "Last Step" | Several of the Adventurers visit the incarcerated Poison Lash to question him about Dreamweaver's state. The villain graciously offers to give her her powers back in exchange for a chance to experiment on her, which she outright refuses. Irritated by her continued taunting, he shuts off the heroine's legs as she talks, to her friends' protests, and offers her the choice of one or the other: legs, or powers. Although at first unwilling to play his games, Dreamweaver eventually bitterly picks her powers. Lash allows her three days to make the most of her mobility. | Poison Lash |
| Hack Attack | #57 | "A Friend In Need" | MCPD is hit by a multi-pronged cyber attack! An unknown assailant apparently teleported into the MCPD, wounded three officers, and downloaded the contents of a secured server without any forced entry! Lady Justice applies her keen senses to forensics, giving the MCPD a reason to accept the Adventurers' help. Juggernette locates video footage concerning the attack indicating a male suspect involved in planting wireless routers around the facility, and a female suspect who destroyed a laptop and disposed of parts of it into the harbor. When a wireless router is found within a securely locked faraday cage, suspicion falls on the IT staff. Meanwhile, Lady Justice begins checking on one possible angle - a hacktivist collective called Incognito who have made numerous failed attempts to hack the server before. | Incognito |
| Hack Attack | #58 | "A Friend In Deed" | Stormherald and Xeno help the MCPD by interviewing the IT staff. One of them, Jason, who is the only one without an alibi during the attack, is quickly discounted as a suspect by Xeno. Stormherald finds that others on staff have their reasons - IT director Sandra was responsible for the keys to the secured cabinet, though any of the others could have obtained it; Karen coveted Sandra's job and hoped the situation would force Sandra's termination; Shazia had a prior felony conviction for some radical activism in her college years; Ryan was disciplined numerous times for expressing extreme political views; Paul was disciplined for watching porn videos at work. Each of them pointed the finger at others, but when Hornett recovers the laptop hard drive from the harbour, and data is miraculously found intact on it, the true suspect is revealed. | Incognito |
| Hack Attack | #59 | "Innocence" | Stormherald joins Hornett for the big reveal: the intact data is a brower bookmark for a pornography video. The web address includes scripting fragments including the variable "&username=Cyber-Slash." It is clear that the live chat on the video was used by hackers to communicate with one another. This implicates Paul Vermeer. Stormherald gathers evidence for the detectives that can be used to confirm Vermeer's complicity. The team urges that Vermeer be let loose and blame pinned on his co-worker Shazia, so that Paul can be surveilled. Not long after, the hacktivist collective called Incognito releases a video claiming that it will release embarrassing information it has obtained about the MCPD unless charges are dropped against some of their members in an infamous case. Lady Justice establishes a hacker alias to try to get inside Incognito. | Incognito, Paul Vermeer |
| Hack Attack | #60 | "Enter Cyber-Slash" | Lady Justice's plan to go on forums used by Incognito to troll & defame Cyber-Slash and attempt to draw her out succeeds. A young woman in a blue costume, black jacket, and mask confronts LJ's undercover persona and accuses her of being with law enforcement. LJ's persona maintains that she is who she says she is. After Cyber-Slash rants, LJ feigns to agree with her rhetoric. Though Cyber-Slash gets away, much is learned about her motives and her capabilities. The team plans to ensnare Cyber-Slash and turn her over the police, but Lady Justice isn't certain that Cyber-Slash as a vigilante is very much different from herself. | Cyber-Slash |
| Hack Attack | #61 | "Dreamweaver's Bad Day" | Dreamweaver wakes up tied up in a semi-trailer. She recalls being over-powered by an enemy psychic, but she still has her team communicator, so she calls for help. Red Spider and Stormherald quickly locate Dreamweaver and rescue her from a VIPER team. Afterward, while the trio enjoys some burgers, Dreamweaver decides to make an open challenge on a known Incognito web forum to their current adversary Cyber-Slash, impugning her abilities and character if she fails to meet Dreamweaver on the roof of the Mercy Hospital for a fight at a specified time. When it seems Cyber-Slash won't show, Red Spider heads home. That is when Cyber-Slash attacks, taking down Dreamweaver quickly with her teleportation, and fending off Stormherald. A video reaches the internet hours later cut from grainy cell phone video & what appears to be Cyber-Slash's own visor, plus screen caps of Dreamweaver's forum challenge, meant to embarrass Dreamweaver. | VIPER, Cyber-Slash |
| Hack Attack | #62 | "Cyber-Slash and Poison Lash" | UNTIL finally grants access to Celeste Forsyth (AKA Stormherald) to interview Poison Lash. Lash is reticent to reveal anything and offers up some self-serving observations on his incarceration. Then Cyber-Slash appears, disables security systems into the room, and confronts Poison Lash about rumors that UNTIL has been deploying him in the field. Lash doesn't answer, but he does somehow get loose and ... protects Celeste from Cyber-Slash! Cyber-Slash flits around the room with her teleportation, and is able to use her phasing claws to injure Poison Lash. Poison Lash breathes out a deadly fume as he goes down. Cyber-Slash teleports Celeste to a safe part of the facility and reveals the name of an UNTIL agent overseeing Poison Lash, and entreats Celeste as a member of the press to work with her. Afterward, Red Spider and Celeste talk to Poison Lash; his UNTIL handler joins them, but suggests that Poison Lash hasn't been used for anything in the field - that it was all just a ploy to lure in Cyber-Slash. Red Spider isn't convinced. | Poison Lash, Cyber-Slash |
| Hack Attack | #63 | "Eye for an Eye" | Cyber-Slash pridefully turns up at Club Caprice, apparently unafraid. Juggernette and Xeno confront her, with the former goading Cyber-Slash into a fight. Outside, Cyber-Slash is able to turn up a couple of surprises, Juggernette wins the brawl handily. They continue to trade barbs after the fight as Cyber-Slash limps away, and Cyber-Slash turns over a disc of info stolen from the MCPD, claiming she has what she needs from it; Cyber-Slash is let go. Juggernette's computers upload a reliable model of Cyber-Slash to the internet in hopes of identifying her, and she attempts to upload embarrassing videos of the fight to the internet in payback for what was done to Dreamweaver. Juggernette's supercomputer and the whole organization of Incognito engage in a PR war that sees several video-sharing websites shut down, overloaded. While elsewhere Lady Justice and Red Spider consider whether the tactic of baiting Cyber-Slash is helping anything, Juggernette sets to analyzing a disc obtained from a vanquished Cyber-Slash - and it sends a virus into her systems. | Cyber-Slash |
| Hack Attack | #64 | "Race Against Time" | Red Spider discovers that Cyber-Slash' and her accomplice Paul Vermeer have had a falling out. While Slash wants to be selective with the stolen MCPD data they release, he wants to dump it all at once. Vermeer goes on the run and intends to find a safe spot to start downloading the data from Slash's disc so that he can share it on the internet immediately. The Adventurers coordinate a city-wide search for Vermeer. Dreamweaver locates him downtown, and Stormweaver helps secure him. Cyber-Slash arrives too late to collect Vermeer, and quickly retreats rather than fight for him. Juggernette flies Vermeer to the MCPD. Vermeer's Incognito-affiliated lawyer meets him, and he remains tight-lipped - even though turning on Cyber-Slash is his only leverage to cut a plea deal in the face of strong evidence. Vermeer's colleague Shazia, wrongfully accused of his crimes, is exonerated. | Cyber-Slash; Paul Vermeer |
| Hack Attack | #65 | "Hanna" | Desperate for information to break the Adventurers so that she can focus on other matters, Cyber-Slash unwittingly comes to Lady Justice's hacker alias Anne Winters for a lead. LJ gives Slash faulty info on Red Spider's secret identity & Juggernette's tech specs. Slash posts this along with the first of 12 rounds of MCPD disciplinary info to the internet. Her error in not fact-checking the info LJ provided proves critical; within hours the information on Red Spider & Juggernette is very publicly discredited, and this casts doubt on whether the MCPD records she disclosed are reliable, either. Incognito is handed a huge PR setback and put on the defensive. Cyber-Slash goes into hiding. By-standers flippantly greet Red Spider when ever she swings by with the fake name LJ created for her, 'Hanna', almost like an in-joke against Incognito. | Cyber-Slash |
| Hack Attack | #66 | "Friendless" | Dreamweaver is confronted out of costume by Cyber-Slash, who has tracked her from nearly unmasking her in their earlier 'fight'. Cyber-Slash expresses remorse for some of her actions now that her world has come crashing down - Incognito is against her, and few think she is very credible anymore. She is ready to quit, but for one obstacle: she has to eliminate someone who knows who she really is. Dreamweaver tries to talk Slash down, but Meltdowner and newcomer Phantasm arrive to 'rescue' Dreamweaver; MD burns Slash and frightens her off. Later, Cyber-Slash approaches journalist intern Celeste (AKA Stormherald) to ask her to carry on the torch of exposing wrongs in the system, expressing that she doesn't expect she will survive. | Cyber-Slash |
| Hack Attack | #67 | "Feint" | An inexplicable mass-prison release; a set of rogue destroids tearing up a park; the Adventurers respond to these challenges, but it rapidly becomes clear that these are computer-caused distractions for something else: Cyber-Slash has stolen into the county court to nab Paul Vermeer, her accomplice in the MCPD attack. Vermeer tries to sell her out when the team arrives to rescue him, but she stuns him with her phasing claws and teleports out. A desperate search of the city begins while Cyber-Slash waits for Vermeer to awaken, trying to gird herself to take the step toward cold-blooded murder. Juggernette and Stormherald find Slash and Vermeer atop a building. The entire team surrounds them. Lady Justice insists that if Slash gives up Vermeer, she can help keep him silent; in exchange, Slash needs to atone for her wrongs by using her abilities for good. This deal upsets Juggernette and Meltdowner. | Cyber-Slash |
| (none) | #68 | "Hot Temper" | In his anger over recent circumstances, Meltdowner has waged a preemptive war against gang crime in Westside, putting many gangsters in the emergency room with burns & other injuries. Xeno and Red Spider confront MD on the roof of the Westside MCPD. Spider is horrified at MD's rationalizing his actions and cannot contain her anger. Xeno tries to get MD to let off some steam by challenging him to a fight - which MD nearly wins with fatal results, checking himself at the last moment. Lady Justice arrives to say that she refuses to trust MD in her HQ or as a member of the team, asking (without success) to have MD booted. Red Spider deems that he needs to stay on the team to be watched - and like Cyber-Slash, no one should have to clean up his mess except himself. | Meltdowner |
| Etherloch Returns | #69 | "Etherloch Returns" | The Adventurers train together, pushing each other to new limits, and trying to work out combination attacks. A couple of days later, Etherloch trashes the MCPD armory. Red Spider and Meltdowner face off against this foe, who now seems able to spread itself over different 'bodies' at once, and can possibly use telekinesis. During the battle, Meltdowner is stabbed in the shoulder and leg. Etherloch is burned and repelled from the armory, but the Adventurers now how to worry about an evolved foe. | Etherloch |
| #70 | "Terror In the Skies" | An anarchist/terrorist called "Burnout" sets fire to the lowest level of the ACI Building, then rides the elevator to the top where he takes all of the tourists hostage on the observation deck, and drops a number of IEDs. Adventurers Hand of Babylon, Stormherald, and Red Spider work together to stop the madman! Stormherald secures and makes safe the lowest level, while Red Spider sneaks hostages out with her beam grappler, and the Hand engages Burnout on the roof of the 'blimp', but is thrown off. Through Storm & Red's efforts, the bombs are neutralized; the two women finish the fight with Burnout on the roof, and take him into custody. The Hand leaves a mighty crater from his fall from the ACI Building, but is apparently unharmed. | Burnout | |
| Etherloch Returns | #71 | "Etherloch Returns" | The Adventurers are summoned to a massive apartment blaze, reportedly caused by a monster whose description matches Etherloch. With so many Adventurers on hand, the team is able to split into two groups - one including Dreamweaver, Meltdowner, & Stormherald goes on the offensive, while Red Spider, War Beetle, and Hornett help evacuate innocent bystanders and enforce a quarantine. The larger Etherloch dissolves into a puddle and vanishes; the team vanquishes a smaller one that oozes up from the rubble, but are left to wonder where the rest of its mass has gone. | Etherloch |
| The Mystery of the Missing Plane | #72 | "The Mystery of the Missing Plane - Part 1" | Adventurers react to news that a plane carrying team mate Red Spider has gone missing! Hornett enlists the aid of Cyber-Slash to obtain flight data. Team ally and friend to Red Spider, Black Owl, works solo on some leads and makes some calculations based on the flight's last known position and available fuel. As authorities prepare to search for clues to the plane's whereabouts in the homes of passengers/crew, a team-up of Fox, Phantasm, Meltdowner, and newcomer Roak, help hide things around Red Spider's condo that would reveal her dual identity, including her costumes, computer data, and her panic room. The Adventurers succeed just in time before the detective sets foot into the condo, and he finds nothing remarkable within. | Unknown |
| The Mystery of the Missing Plane | #73 | "The Mystery of the Missing Plane - Part 2" | Oddities emerge about the missing flight: Cassandra's father Bill hastily arranged the entire vacation within just hours of the flight, including convincing a colleague to turn over his booking of the company jet. Initial searches of the Long Island Sound by Lady Justice prove fruitless. Meanwhile, team ally Black Owl calculates available data and shares a much more tight search area with a high probability, based upon the plane's apparent trajectory, its fuel, and its time between satellite pings. Fox is first to find a trace of the plane - some floating tail debris. Next, Lady Justice locates two survivors: Cassandra's friends Alaina & Nicole, who are cold and desperately clinging to a small flotation device. | Unknown |
| The Mystery of the Missing Plane | #74 | "The Mystery of the Missing Plane - Part 3" | The discovery of Alaina & Nicole alive gives some hope to searchers. Back in Millennium City, Roak questions Cassandra's mother, Marie; Marie has noticed some odd behavior on Bill's part, namely that he works more late evenings in the past month than for years before. She notes sadly how he cancelled the trip the two were to take to Paris, and that he didn't include her in planning Cassandra's NYC trip. She fears Bill may be having an affair. Late in the day, War Beetle discovers the probable site of a plane wreck underwater, off the coast of Massachusetts. | Unknown |
| The Mystery of the Missing Plane | #75 | "The Mystery of the Missing Plane - Part 4" | The wreck of the plain has three bodies - those of the crew. The captain and cabin attendant were both shot, and the co-pilot James Fenwick was out of his flight uniform in a wetsuit. No sign of Cassandra. The flight data / cockpit voice recorders reveal what happened, as well as the account of Nicole: it seems the co-pilot killed the captain, redirected the flight, and set autopilot for a slow descent into the ocean. He wanted to parachute out with Cassandra as a hostage, but didn't anticipate she was super fast on her feet and could disarm him. As he went down, his gun discharged and blew out a window, causing a rapid drop in cabin pressure. With Fenwick neutralized, and with the cockpit sabotaged, Cass knew they only had one hope: she gave her two friends the only parachutes available, and had them leap out. Just as this picture of the flight emerges, Lady Justice comes upon Cassandra nearly 40 miles away from the wreck: exhausted from a long swim, emaciated by a demanding meta-human metabolism, Cassandra is unconscious, but alive. | Unknown |
| The Mystery of the Missing Plane | #76 | "The Mystery of the Missing Plane - Part 5" | Celeste (Stomherald) follows up a lead that something seems fishy about Bill Olsen's property. There, she encounters Detective Sheffield under fire by numerous machine gun-wielding foes. Celeste calls in Dreamweaver to help control the area. A grateful Sheffield agrees to share what he learns from the site once investigators get in. Hundreds of miles away, Cassandra is in a Rhode Island hospital, and responding 'miraculously' to simple feeding treatments. She wakes up within hours of arriving. Phantom Mk. 1, Phantasm's robot, guards and keeps Cassandra company. Late in the day, Celeste receives a call from Detective Sheffield: it seems that the Olsen Shipping site is home to a plethora of different contraband, including devices mistakenly thought to be nuclear bombs, that are of an unknown make and purpose. The team resolves to confront Bill Olsen immediately. | Olsen Shipping, Inc. |
| The Mystery of the Missing Plane | #77 | "The Mystery of the Missing Plane - Part 6" | Bill sits at his piano and plays a mournful tune. His wife is not at home. Adventurers slip into his penthouse and make clear that he knew more about what was happening than he let on before. While Stormherald urges calm, others like Meltdowner demand immediate answers. Bill latches on to Black Owl - a team ally, but not a team member - and indicates he needs protection. To the surprise of all, Bill implicates Dreamweaver as the handler who threatened him and told him to buy up the shipping company for her & her associates to use. Bill only sent Cassandra away on a plane because he wanted to keep her safe, and wasn't certain he could trust any of her team. Dreamweaver expresses surprise at his accusation - whether genuine or feigned, it's not certain - and then lets out a psionic burst, knocking down everyone and giving her a chance to escape. The team fans out through the city as Dream taunts them all that she's about to bring down some buildings with her powers. | Dreamweaver |
| A Bad Dream | #78 | "A Bad Dream - Part 1" | Using available clues, Stormherald is first to find Dreamweaver. She's between two high-rises, and creating a concentrated psionic bubble to collapse & bring them down. This would kill hundreds, including Dreamweaver herself. Stormherald knocks down Dream, and with Cyber-Slash's help, subdues her. The team debates what to do with Dream; some think only an agency like UNTIL or PRIMUS could safely contain her, but others fear that turning her over would ensure they wouldn't see her free again; still others doubt if Dreamweaver did all of this willingly. Before a decision can be reached, Dreamweaver is taken into hiding by Stormherald. Meanwhile in a Rhode Island hospital, Cassandra (Red Spider) speaks with Allison (Lady Justice), quietly recounting how she escaped the doomed plane. Uncustomarily emotional, Allison hugs Cassandra and thanks her for surviving. | Dreamweaver |
| A Bad Dream | #79 | "A Bad Dream - Part 2" | Dreamweaver wears special restraints to prevent her using her powers (and protect her from mind control) while the team questions her. She doesn't remember ever meeting Bill Olsen, or doing the things described. Some team members worry that there could be other Adventurers working for the enemy. Red Spider brings in Mister Midnight, a hero she had recruited before the plane crash, to help, as he would be clear of suspicion. Mister Midnight examines crime scene evidence from Olsen Shipping Ltd., finding men of questionable backgrounds involved in the smuggling operations, and items had been shipped in from a variety of places. Meanwhile, Roak knocks out Detective Sheffield, steals his badge, and infiltrates the Olsen Shipping crime scene and discovers that among other contraband are some odd WMDs, thought by one expert to be small-scale EMP devices capable of taking out active electrical circuits in a radius of up to 5 city blocks. Afterward, Roak makes it look like Sheffield was just knocked out by a stray brick that he'd accidentally shaken loose from above him while putting his weight against a sheet metal wall. | Dreamweaver |
| A Bad Dream | #80 | "A Bad Dream - Part 3" | The FBI announces that Bill Olsen is being indicted in numerous counts including racketeering, conspiracy, and more. Bill is considered a fugitive, and his assets are seized. Red Spider continues to recover at home, but recovery meditation taught to her by Mister Midnight is interrupted by the sudden invasion of her condominium by Serpent Master! Lady Justice swoops in to the rescue, and summons other available team members. Cassandra's home is the site of a battle as the team tries to drive away the killer from VIPER. Stormherald dives on grenades and teleports them out, but is gravely wounded when they explode in proximity to her. A combined effort of Meltdowner, Lady Justice, Roak, and Mister Midnight repels Serpent Master; the villain is defenestrated along with Roak, but Roak is rescued by Meltdowner via teleportation. | Serpent Master |
| A Bad Dream | #81 | "A Bad Dream - Part 4" | Stormherald is shown to have received grave injuries. She grabbed some grenades dropped by Serpent Master in the condo duel and teleported out with them, but was unable to gain sufficient distance before they exploded. The team rallies to her bedside as she lingers close to death. Meanwhile, Juggernette discovers that Dreamweaver has been pre-programmed, even while wearing the psi-nullifying helmet, to want to leave. A plan is concocted to let Dreamweaver loose and track her. This leads the Adventurers to a VIPER agent meeting with Dreamweaver in an alley, telling her that it is time for her to go back with him for 'debriefing'. Roak and Mister Midnight attempt to apprehend the VIPER agent, while Meltdowner tries to tangle with a hypnotized Dreamweaver, and Juggernette exacts sweet revenge upon Serpent Master. | Serpent Master, VIPER Agent, Dreamweaver |
| A Bad Dream | #82 | "A Bad Dream - Part 5" | As Mr. Midnight and Roak pursue the VIPER agent through the streets, the man frantically calls for evac, and runs right into moving traffic. Badly injured by a collision, the team acquires him and rushes him to hospital. Dreamweaver is subdued by Meltdowner, retrieved by Juggernette, and put back into protective holding. Roak and Xeno question the VIPER agent, who reveals the plot: VIPER has blackmailed several leading businessmen around the U.S. into creating dummy shipping companies, used those companies to move a variety of contraband around, and intends to leak the businessmens' involvement to the press. The reaction on the stock markets under such circumstances will predictably be for investors to move their money into gold - and VIPER has a great deal of gold to sell off. If that plan failed, VIPER would set off several small-scale EMPs in major cities to create a similar effect, but preferred to leave that a secondary option. The added revenue from gold sales will allow VIPER to increase its foothold into the United States. The agent also says that he was Dreamweaver's handler, and that he will provide a way to locate VIPER's Canadian HQ for this operation. Elsewhere in the hospital, Stormherald is awake and expected to recover. | VIPER Agent |
| A Bad Dream | #83 | "A Bad Dream - Part 6" | UNTIL gets vital intel from the captured VIPER agent in exchange for certain concessions in his incarceration. The Adventurers are recruited by UNTIL to spearhead a strike on the Canadian VIPER base and obtain data on the gold plot, including whom besides Bill Olsen had been coerced. With UNTIL pilot Captain Rachel Clarke as their guide, the Adventurers sneak through VIPER controlled areas and enter the base via a mountain pass. While Roak, Meltdowner, and Dreamweaver keep the outside secure, Red Spider & Clarke escort Juggernette to the base's mainframe to steal the data. With the mission successful, UNTIL arranges for an air strike to level the base. UNTIL analyzes the data and acts quickly to save several businessmen & persons hypnotized as Dreamweaver had been, from enacting VIPER's plot. | VIPER |
| (none) | #84 | "Grave Robber - Part 1" | The Adventurers meet an UNTIL request to guard the tomb for a recently deceased hero amidst thefts. During Meltdowner & Dreamweaver's shift on watch, they observe a robot composed of scavenged parts trying to break into the tomb. In trying to track the bot down, they fall into a trap and are gassed. | Grave Robber |
| (none) | #85 | "Grave Robber - Part 2" | Meltdowner & Dreamweaver wake up in captivity. Their captor, Grave Robber, us lunatic genius who goes about breaking into morgues and graves, stripping down tech-centric metahumans, and recyling their gear and implants for his own nefarious means. The two heroes manage to escape captivity. They defeat numerous shambling corpse-bots and take down Grave Robber himself. The villain's lab is exposed, and the villain himself is apprehended and hospitalized. | Grave Robber |
| (none) | #86 | "Sting of the Silver Scorpion" | First appearance of Raven Arrow. Red Spider and Hornett respond to an attack at the Westside address which once was Poison Lash's laboratory. They encounter Silver Scorpion: a well-armored adversary who seems to be a next generation version of Hornett. With help from another costumed hero, Raven Arrow, the heroes prevail in a street battle. Silver Scorpion is nearly captured, but escapes when Poison Lash's lab suddenly explodes. | Silver Scorpion |
| (none) | #87 | "No Laughing Matter - Part 1" | After rumors of mobsters being killed by swarms of inexplicably violent homeless in Millennium City, the Adventurers respond to another such incident where a swarm of armed, angry homeless are holding police at bay outside of a storage facility. Inside, it is known that Cyber-Slash, Paul Vermeer (see Adventurers #67), and an unknown third person are being held hostage by 'Kevin Poe'. Xeno and Red Spider use shipping containers to corral the armed & crazed homeless. The police try to move into the facility, only to be harmed by some booby traps including falling acid. Stormherald clears a path into the heart of the facility using a police cruiser. Stormherald, Dreamweaver, and Xeno confront the adversary directly while Red Spider sneaks along. 'Poe' reveals his third hostage is the real Kevin Poe, and the hostage taker is a sinister Clown. | The Clown |
| (none) | #88 | "No Laughing Matter - Part 2" | The Clown keeps the Adventurers at bay with the threat of a remote control bomb to which he holds the trigger. Xeno leaves to search for bombs. The Clown intends to play some horrid game; he forces Cyber-Slash to identify her true identity, but it's clear he already knows her secret identity - undoubtedly, Vermeer betrayed her to the captor. The Clown executes Paul Vermeer with a shot to the head when the team tries to interfere. Red Spider launches out of hiding to tackle the Clown, while Dreamweaver tries to break his limbs with her powers to prevent him using his trigger. His trigger actually turns a truck he brought into the warehouse into a rocket vehicle. Usually not one for a fist-fight, Dreamweaver tries to charge the Clown after he kicks Red Spider away, but he is sheltered from her just in time by the vehicle transformation. The team rescues Cyber-Slash and leaves Kevin Poe tied up for the police. Dreamweaver pledges to keep Cyber-Slash safe at her home. Cyber-Slash herself is left in shock by the events. | The Clown |
| (none) | #89 | "No Laughing Matter - Part 3" | The Clown makes a public threat against Mayor Bisselle, claiming he will assassinate the mayor at a scheduled public ceremony. Security is heightened but the Mayor refuses to bow to an insane criminal. Red Spider keeps an eye on the proceedings; when the Clown rides a police car right close to the mayor, Red Spider receives unexpected help from archer hero Stygian. This allows Red Spider to take down a sniper in a nearby building, while Stygian fights off the Clown. The two heroes manage to capture the Clown, but it seems almost like he's happy to get caught... Stygian vanishes into an alleyway, nursing an injury. Later, Red Spider confronts the Clown in jail, who explains his motive as being one of balance between good & evil - this is why he attacks both the mob and heroes. He says he can leave jail when he chooses, and threatens to kill Red Spider in a very personal & painful way in future. | The Clown |
| (none) | #90 | "Friends Make the Worst Enemies" | Adventurers Red Spider, Talons, and Hornett respond to a bank robbery. The culprit is a brain-jar with a powerful mechanical suit, aided by two mechanical minions. The minions are able to use hypnotic suggestion on bank patrons with a subtle 'white noise'; the same is used to cause Hornett to turn against Red Spider & Talons. Talons for his part is badly injured and nearly unmasked in the fight with hypnotized bank hostages & Hornett himself. Hornett nearly overpowers Red Spider and tries to break her arm. Red Spider destroys the sound amplifier on the robot controlling Hornett in time to prevent Hornett from slaying Talons. The team mangles the other mechanized minion & force 'Overthinker' to escape the bank without his loot. | Overthinker |
| (None) | #91 | "Scarlet Fist" | As a giant mechanical bull named Mecha-Taur rampages through the heart of Millennium City, a lone little-known hero named Scarlet Fist bravely steps forward to challenge the menace. However, Scarlet Fist is quickly overwhelmed by the steely taurus. Enter Adventurers Lady Justice, Dreamweaver, and Crimson Force, who - with Scarlet's help - subdue & destroy the mechanical monstrosity and cause its pilot to eject & flee, cursing as he flies away. Though the bad guy escaped, at least Mecha-Taur was turned to a pile of melted slag, and the Adventurers welcome Scarlet Fist as a new member. Red Spider discovers that Scarlet is a homeless youth from a bad part of town, and offers him the chance to make her condominium his home while he gets his non-costumed life identity back on track, something she has done for other heroes before. | Mecha-Taur |
| The Anti-Adventurers | #92 | "The Wrong Side of the Tracks" | In a parallel universe, a crime syndicate operating under the legitimate façade Venture Enterprises, Inc. has nearly overrun Millennium City with crime. Some familiar characters serve the syndicate, analogues to the prime universe heroes: Dread Spider, Stinger, Madame Bludgeoner, and Death Crow. Complete domination over the city's underworld is inhibited by rogue super-criminals Lady Vengeance, Doom Weaver, and Flash Freeze. The Venture crooks move in on Lady Vengeance's hideout to flush her out and claim whatever technology she has been working on, using a large number of low-level toughs as cannon fodder. Many of the gangsters are dispatched by Flash Freeze, or by Lady Vengeance's nanites. Madame Bludgeoner is slain in the attack, but Lady Vengeance steals the corpse before escaping. Dread Spider & Stinger assess their prize, not realizing that they have claimed a trans-dimensional gateway from Lady Vengeance. Vengeance reassures Flash Freeze that even if the syndicate crooks figure out the portal, it will be of limited use to them. | (They're all pretty bad) |
| The Anti-Adventurers | #93 | "Anti-Collision" | Once a mob tech figures at how to at least repeat what Lady Vengeance did with the portal machine, Dread Spider takes one of her super-toughs and is first to cross into the other world. They quickly realize that in the prime world, they are actually heroes. Dread Spider wants to learn more, and looks up info on her 'good' self. She and her agent start a rampage just outside of Cassandra's condominium; soon Stormherald, Roak, and Dreamweaver arrive to ward off the hostiles. Dread Spider battles Roak & captures him. Stormherald rescues a subdued Dreamweaver, is herself injured, but escapes capture. Roak is dragged away to the alternate world via a portal in a back alley, but he has conveniently left a recording device at the site of his battle with Dread Spider to give the Adventurers a clue... | Dread Spider |
| The Anti-Adventurers | #94 | "Whatever Remains, However Improbable..." | The team investigates clues around Roak's disappearance. Though faint and filled with background noise, Roak's recording of his fight with Dread Spider reveals that his attacker sounds like Cassandra. The Adventurers try to rule out mind control on Cassandra, while Lady Justice suggests another fantastical possibility: parallel universe. This fits with the Juggernette's forensic investigation show that Roak's blood trail ends abruptly at a back alley with an odd energy trace; it also dovetails with how Lady Justice's heightened senses detect Red Spider was present at that alley location, but something was different about her. Scarlet Fist chooses this time to leave the team. Stormherald continues to recover from her injuries. First issue with Talons's new, upgraded armor. | Dread Spider |
| The Anti-Adventurers | #95 | "Questions and Answers" | Dread Spider & Eviscerator attempt to question the captured Roak in some dank basement. Roak remains defiant and gives up little, and is subjected to torture. Meanwhile, Lady Vengeance admonishes Doomweaver for not being present when the Venture syndicate seized the portal generator, as her presence might have turned the tide. Flash Freeze seems to question the direction proposed by LV, but falls into line. Doomweaver sets about questioning Madame Bludgeoner, who, it turns out, is not dead! Bludgeoner seems unwilling to turn on her gangster allies, but when money is mentioned, her resolve seems to shake. Lady Vengeance and the other Triumvirate members agree on a plot involving the 'main' universe. Hours later, after much pain, Roak still won't answer Dread Spider's questions - but he tips his hand a bit when Dread Spider points out that the 'Roque' of her universe is a virtuous hero, yet he too appears to be a hero. He seems to agree that everything being equal but opposite between the worlds, there must be something sinister to him that has yet to be revealed... | Dread Spider, Lady Vengeance, Doomweaver, Flash Freeze |
| The Anti-Adventurers | #96 | "Fall Into the Gap" | Knightshadow, Red Spider, and Stormherald visit the alley where Roak was last detected, with an idea to see if Knightshadow or Stormherald's abundant powers can force open the portal so that the team can rescue Roak. On arrival, they meet a mysterious man whom they are unaware is actually Meltdowner's alternate counterpart, Flash Freeze. He tries to spur the Adventurers into crossing over and attacking the Venture Enterprises gangsters, and gives them a clue to how to open the portal: find the counterpart to his world's Cyber-Blades. While Red Spider goes to rally the team for an imminent rescue, Stormherald and Knightshadow find Alyssa Madison (Cyber-Slash). Meanwhile in the alternate universe, Roak continues to be questioned by Dread Spider and her gangsters; he attempts suicide with a tooth-borne capsule, but this is prevented. Dread Spider seems nonplussed when Roak lets slip her secret identity to her gangster allies. Back in the Champions Universe, Flash Freeze has vanished from the alley when Stormherald & Knightshadow arrive with Cyber-Slash. Cyber-Slash examines the portal trace; she surmises that her existing 'sloppy' tech uses some of the same principles when she 'digitizes' herself and enters what she calls 'the gap', and reversing that process, she could force the portal open. Alyssa warns that they'll need a significant power source to re-open the portal, though. Stormherald, who can command lightning, borrows Cyber-Slash's tech belt, and asks over comms if the Adventurers are ready to mobilize. | Flash Freeze, Dread Spider |
| The Anti-Adventurers | #97 | "Brave New World" | A team of Red Spider, Knightshadow, and ally Stygian storm the portal and find a gang-guarded facility on the other side, while Stormherald powers the portal open and Dreamweaver remains behind to block anyone coming back through. The heroes have to battle maybe a dozen well-armed gangsters; Stygian is wounded but a shot above her hip, but continues subduing gangsters with non-lethal arrow attacks. Knightshadow brings her magic & martial art skills to bear. Red Spider tries but fails to convince a gangster that she's Dread Spider, but subdues him anyway. The battle is won; Red Spider manages to activate the portal, and Stormherald relinquishes her electrical activation via Cyber-Slash's belt device. The team locks down the facility and questions their captured gangsters, then puts them into stasis cells; Knightshadow uses her powers to help heal Stygian. The building was meant originally to be a superhero HQ, the stasis cells meant to contain dangerous monsters - but they'll do for holding gangsters, for now. Hornett arrives to begin accessing computer data to learn more about the other world. Red Spider & Stormherald take a first look around the alternate Millennium City, and find it not very much different. | Venture Enterprises Gangsters |
| The Anti-Adventurers | #98 | "Plotting & Scheming" | The first hero of the alternate world reveals himself: Razorwing's counterpart Silverhawk sneaks into the base. He is quickly subdued by Red Spider & Stormherald. He reveals much about how the alternate world works, and Red Spider pledges to help set things right if Silverhawk can help with rescuing Roak & destroying the portal machines. Stormherald does some recon; she and Red Spider discuss a plan in which the former would put on a costume and pose as her alternate, Madame Bludgeoner, as a way to gain intelligence about the gangsters holding Roak. Doomweaver arrives at the base and begins an attack to reclaim it. | Silverhawk; Doomweaver |
| The Anti-Adventurers | #99 | "Silverhawk" | The first hero of the alternate world reveals himself: Razorwing's counterpart Silverhawk sneaks into the base, which he believes to still be in gangster control. He is quickly subdued by Red Spider & Stormherald. He reveals much about how the alternate world works, and Red Spider pledges to help set things right if Silverhawk can help with rescuing Roak & destroying the portal machines. Stormherald does some recon; she and Red Spider discuss a plan in which the former would put on a costume and pose as her alternate, Madame Bludgeoner, as a way to gain intelligence about the gangsters holding Roak. Doomweaver arrives at the base and begins an attack to reclaim it for the Triumvirate. | Silverhawk; Doomweaver; Bob |
| The Anti-Adventurers | #100 | "Enter Doomweaver" | Double-size 100th issue special! Doomweaver unleashes a devastating assault using knives and a variety of sharp objects along with her telekinetic abilities. Lady Vengeance's killbot Bob backs up Doomweaver. A team of Red Spider, Talons, and Silverhawk are the only ones on hand to defend the portal base. Evil Bob uses a powerful machine gun & nanotech cape that shoots out like stabbing tendrils at Red Spider; Silverhawk & Talons have their hands full trying to avoid being sliced up by Doomweaver. Red Spider runs through the base, avoiding fire from Bob, to obtain a weapon prepared by Lady Justice as a countermeasure for Dreamweaver: the flashbang from hell. Red becomes pinned down by Bob, but she passes the weapon off to Silverhawk. Doomweaver is distracted and stops her attack; Silverhawk switches to dealing with Bob using his micro-explosives, while Red Spider moves in to finish Doomweaver. Bob's fatal error is trying to rescue Doomweaver, which allows the team to take down both. Doomweaver is quickly tossed into a stasis locker. Matters turn grim when Talons reveals that he was badly injured by Doomweaver. He is put into stasis to staunch his bleeding until help can arrive. Talons's sidekick Rosefinch, having been alerted by his drop in vital signs, communicates that she can help. She grabs a trauma kit and some blood for a transfusion, and comes through the portal to help save Talons. | Doomweaver; Bob |
| The Anti-Adventurers | #101 | "Roque's Merry Band" | Lady Justice detects an unfamiliar person lurking inside of the portal base. The team quickly corners Resnikoff, a young woman who seemed intent on sabotaging the facility. The team do their best to convince Resnikoff that, despite appearances, they are not the villains with whom she is familiar. Resnikoff says that she is allied with Roque; this was someone Red Spider has learned is also a hero in this world, and is eager to meet. Later, Stormherald, Red Spider, and Meltdowner go to a secluded parking lot to meet with Resnikoff's leader. They are surrounded by secretive agents attired much like Resnikoff had been, and told to accept hoods on their hands and to have their hands bound before they are taken to a secret location. Meltdowner & Stormherald are dubious about this request, but Red Spider suggests that trust has to be earned. The heroes are brought to a secret base where they encounter Roque, who seems more cheerful & gregarious than the Roak they know. He finds it odd that there should be an alternate Roak, but pledges to help - real heroes might be just the thing his band needs to enact their plan to retake the city from criminals. The heroes reveal their secret identities to Roque in hopes that it helps him track down the bad guys. Roque shares a map of known or suspected Venture Enterprises hideouts where Roak might be being held - he cautions that they have to make sure that when they attempt a rescue, they have to get the right one, or the other locations will be alerted and hope of finding Roak alive might be lost. | (none) |
| The Anti-Adventurers | #102 | "Infiltrator" | Lady Justice & Meltdowner take a captured gangster (from issue #97) out of stasis to question him about Madame Bludgeoner, in order to ease Stormherald's impersonation. It is revealed that Bludgeoner was apprehended by Lady Vengeance when Venture Enterprises gangsters stormed the base days before the Adventurers took it from the gangsters. Bludgeoner's whereabouts are unknown, but it gives Stormherald some useful info. A gang safehouse is chosen for her to infiltrate. Skeptical gangsters question her motives, but when they reveal that Dread Spider has been very unhappy and killed some men, disguised Stormherald suggests she sees an opportunity to get back in Dread Spider's good books by using her own talents to get Roak to cooperate. The gangsters are ambivalent, but Stormherald manipulates one weak-willed gangster into giving up Roak's location in exchange for veiled promises of reward. | Venture Enterprises Gangsters |
| The Anti-Adventurers | #103 | "Rescue of Two" | Dreamweaver goes out on the town incognito, and encounters Dread Spider / alternate Cassandra Olsen at a dance club. Alternate Cass shows interest in Dreamweaver's meta-human abilities, and then subtly arranges to have Katelyn kidnapped. Elsewhere, Stormherald's information brings her, Lady Justice, Red Spider, and Meltdowner to a gangster safehouse. LJ cuts the power, and the Adventurers launch their surprise attack on the gangsters inside. Roak is within, but to the team's surprise, so is Dreamweaver! The two rescued Adventurers are brought back to the portal base to recover. Roak is badly wounded & reacts very poorly when Meltdowner tries to drip water into his mouth with a syringe. | Venture Enterprises Gangsters |
| Halloween Special 2015 | #104 | "Hokey Pokey" | Hostages have been taken into a warehouse en masse by the Overthinker, including Katelyn May/Dreamweaver. Outside, as hostages escape, they act very odd - a middle-aged man crying for his mommy, for example. A team of Lady Justice, Stormherald, and Red Spider responds to assist. While Red disappears into the ventilation ducts, LJ and Stormherald have to battle their way through sentinel bots. When Red Spider sees that Katelyn is being strapped into a machine, she throws caution to the wind and leaps out to assist. The rest of the team fights their way through. Red Spider and Katelyn seem to be electrically shocked when the machine is destroyed. Overthinker's hypnobots are no match for Lady Justice & Stormherald, and the villain retreats. They let EMTs take Katelyn to the hospital, while they help Red Spider (who is unconscious) get clear. Later, when Katelyn wakes up in the hospital, she is beset by a flood of emotions and cries out that she can't feel her legs. When Red Spider / Cassandra awakens, it's immediately clear what to Lady Justice what happened: Red Spider & Dreamweaver have swapped minds. | Overthinker |
| The Anti-Adventurers | #105 | "Stratagem" | The team assembles inside of the portal base to have a round-table discussion on their next course of action. Roak reveals that Dread Spider & her gang were primarily interested in the identities of Anti-Adventurers who were not part of her gang during his questioning - their ambitions, it seems, are limited to their own world. It seems it was Lady Vengeance who wanted to enter the Champions world, for reasons unknown. Some of the team are wary of becoming entrenched in a prolonged battle in an alternate world when their own world needs them; a trap is discussed, with variations debated, but it's Meltdowner's idea that gains momentum: simply costume two Adventurers in disguise as two low-level costumed heroes, beat up an easy gang target, and wait for Venture Enterprises to send its costumed enforcers. Dreamweaver & Stormherald volunteer for that assignment. Meanwhile, in the Champions world, Hornett & Fox assist a hero named Wildcat in defeating an ostentatious but inexperienced costumed burglar named Night Hammer. Red Spider greets Wildcat afterward and invites her to join the team. | Night Hammer |
| The Anti-Adventurers | #106 | "What Goes Around, Comes Around" | Dreamweaver & Storm pose as a pair of tights-wearing, over-the-top crime fighters and push over an easy gang target, then gloat about it over social media. It's Dread Spider who shows up first, and a trap is quickly sprung! The villain tries to escape using her metal claws to scale a wall. When she gets to the roof, her escape is narrowly averted when Flash Freeze shows up, responding to the same lure, and encases Dread Spider in ice! While Roque's group moves to secure Dread Spider, the Adventurers battle Flash Freeze. As the battle turns against Flash Freeze, he blasts through from the roof to the basement of a derelict apartment block, and the building collapses around him - his fate is unknown. Later, the Venture Enterprises gang attempts to retaliate against portal base, but Dreamweaver, Stormherald, and Wildcat repel them. Stinger tries to bluff his way into the base posing as a vigilante working against Venture gangsters, going so far as to kill a couple of his cohorts, but the team soon sees through the deception. Stinger lashes out and initiates a battle. | Dread Spider, Flash Freeze, Stinger, Venture Enterprises Gangsters |
| The Anti-Adventurers | #107 | "Cold Vengeance" | Stinger is defeated and placed into cryo-stasis alongside everyone else the Adventurers have captured in the alternate universe so far. On a supply run to the Justice Cave in the main universe, Red Spider & Dreamweaver encounter Lady Justice already there, to their surprise, and acting very odd - it's actually 'Lady Vengeance! Red Spider calls in an emergency; while awaiting assistance, she and Dreamweaver attempt to hold off Lady Vengeance, who is protected by formidable nano-tech weaponry. A team of Roak, Meltdowner, Red Spider, and Dreamweaver repels Lady Vengeance, who falls into the pit beneath the Justice Cave and escapes through a previously unknown cavern which she seals behind her. Lady Justice arrives late and begins to assess what L.V. was after: data files on known weaknesses of the Adventurers, and ways to exploit them. | Lady Vengeance |
| The Anti-Adventurers | #108 | "Out of the Cold" | The search for Lady Vengeance turns up nothing. The Adventurers move their search to the alternate world, but find that it's Flash Freeze who's causing trouble. With the power vacuum in the streets thanks to the apprehension of several leading Venture Enterprises gangsters in the parallel universe, Flash Freeze and a squad of his goons make a play to capture the families of prominent rival gangsters within an apartment block. An entire building is frozen; the Adventurers, with help from Stygian, attempt to rescue the people within the building and take on Flash Freeze. Lady Vengeance enters the fray not long after. Flash Freeze is neutralized, but the team fights Lady Vengeance until almost none of them are standing - and the villain still manages to escape. Red Spider chooses to let LV go rather than pursue while her team mates are injured. Dread Spider manages to escape her stasis chamber and dashes through the portal - only to be apprehended by the team's newest member: Ebony. Red Spider and Stormherald arrive just in time to take custody of an unconscious Dread Spider from Ebony. | Lady Vengeance, Flash Freeze, Dread Spider |
| The Anti-Adventurers | #109 | "Remember Where You Were" | The team quickly recruits two new heroes: Infinity-Zero, and the Funktastic Frog Boy. Any available help is needed for the forthcoming battle against Lady Vengeance. The senior team members discuss an elaborate strategy to capture Lady Vengeance. Roak sees getting Lady Vengeance to remove her own armor is crucial to victory. Lady Justice can provide a serum that, if successfully delivered, would neutralize Lady Vengeance, but can only be administered once the armor is removed. Only a few members are granted what limited amount of serum Lady Justice can produce, including Dreamweaver and Roak to use as a back up plan. The team begin training and preparing for their trap, with the likelihood that all of them will survive the coming battle slim... | Lady Vengeance |
| The Anti-Adventurers | #110 | "A Walk Among the Tombstones" | The portal machine in the base reveals Lady Vengeance has made a jump to the Champions world. The Adventurers mobilize and create their own portal to a nearby location to set up their ambush. Lady Vengeance has entered a cemetery. Lady Justice holds position on a nearby roof; Roak & Dreamweaver stand by to deliver an acid attack meant to force her to take her armor off; Red Spider, Frog Boy, Meltdowner, Juggernette, and Knightshadow form the first line of attack. Lady Vengeance defends herself adequately against the team, and tries to goad Red Spider into deciding who in their number should die. Red Spider's costume is torn up when she has to tackle Lady Vengeance in a tall tree to prevent her escape, and LV uses an electrical attack to fend the Spider off. Knightshadow flies and employs her shadow force attacks, but narrowly avoids being hit by retaliatory explosive. Juggernette blasts music & fights in close combat, but receives some damage from LV's plasma sword. Frog Boy, despite his nerves, manages to land some hits - even using his prehensile tongue to knock over a tree - and comes to no serious harm in the battle. Meltdowner cuts a path of fiery destruction that causes his team mates have to dodge him. After a few hit & fade attack around by the front-line, Roak successfully hits LV's armor with the acid, and LJ follows up with her disabling serum. The remainder of the serum produced was not accounted for afterwards. Lady Vengeance is captured. LV's horrible, visceral pain affects the more empathetic team members. Lady Justice puts LV in a headlock and choke holds her until she passes out. | Lady Vengeance |
| The Anti-Adventurers | #111 | "When It's Over" | The Adventurers arrive at the portal base one last time. Lady Vengeance is now a tenant in a stasis tube. Red Spider enlists Frog Boy's help to haul Dread Spider's hover bike through the portal, considering it a 'spoil of war'. Dreamweaver takes a last look at Doomweaver in her stasis pod. Lady Justice works on a remote control detonator to destroy the last portal machine, but the team must say farewell to Silverhawk. Silverhawk hands Red Spider a photograph of Cyber-Blades, asking her to give it to Cyber-Slash to give her a sense of what she could be. Silverhawk pledges to ensure that the portal machine is destroyed, and to continue fighting crime. He expresses how the Adventurers have inspired him, and he hopes to form a coalition with Roque and others to restore justice. Red Spider urges him to deal fairly & justly with the crooks they stuck in the stasis pods, though Lady Justice warns him never to let Lady Vengeance out. The team speculates on LV's motives; Lady Justice feels that LV wanted to prove to the Adventurers that they were all capable of treating life as disposable as their evil doubles. Meltdowner confirms that Flash Freeze seems to be his double, but can't entirely explain the man's different secret identity nor his cold powers. With a final round of goodbyes, hugs, and well-wishes, the Adventurers leave Silverhawk and the alternate world behind. | (none) |
| The Adventurers Save Christmas | #1 | "T'was the Night Before the Night Before Christmas..." | Adventurers Wildcat, Stormherald, Lady Justice, and Knightshadow respond to a police report about a theft at a high tech laboratory. When they arrive, police have only just begun securing the scene. Detective Sheffield (seen in the "Hack Attack" and "Mystery of the Missing Plane" stories) is on scene and takes poorly to Wildcat's desire to view the crime scene before police 'contaminate' it. Lady Justice finds herself in the unusual position of being the tactful one, and extends the Adventurers services to the Detective. Wildcat can smell odd smells like those of wild animals, and sugarplums in the air. On examining the scene, the Adventurers encounter a scientist who says that their lab was raided by a pair of manimals - one like a deer, and one like a goat who cackled constantly. Knightshadow can sense traces of magic consistent with ... Santa Claus's imaginary realm? She also suspects from her mystical lore that the 'goat manimal' may be the Krampus. The team checks with Detective Sheffield and learns that while most surveillance cameras mysteriously frosted over, one on the roof of the building caught a ... sleigh? And the direction which it headed. Lady Justice follows the direction and uses her senses to hear the sound of ... bells? at a riverside warehouse. Frog Boy joins the others just in time for the team to raid the warehouse; the bad guys narrowly escape through a portal to a snowy realm, but the heroes are just in time save the life of a fat, jolly man in a red suit: Santa Claus. He begs for the team's help in reclaiming his imaginary realm from a new threat: Nega-Santa. | Arrow the Reindeer, Krampus |
| The Adventurers Save Christmas | #2 | "The Once and Future Claus" | Knightshadow arranges for an UNTIL transport for the Adventurers to borrow, while Lady Justice pilots it northward. Santa Claus joins the Adventurers, and assures that their transport heads to his imaginary realm. Santa guides them to a snowy cave which he says was home to a Frost Giant whom he hasn't seen for years and years. Once settled, Santa starts to share details of the characters Nega-Santa has enslaved, and what his plan might be: by enslaving powerful servants, and capturing the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future, Nega-Santa means to rewrite the history of Christmas in his own image, and turn it entirely into a crass and naughty affair. Arrow, Santa explains, was a normal reindeer, a cousin to Rudolph of red-nose fame; but though Arrow long coveted his cousins who pulled the magic sleigh for Santa every Christmas, Santa never had need for another reindeer to join the team. Nega-Santa had promised Arrow power, giving him humanoid form, imbuing him with warrior skill, and intensifying his resentment toward Santa Claus. The Krampus is an old rascal, trickster, and troublemaker, and very dangerous - he probably would help Nega-Santa without mind control. And Frosty the Snowman was a vexing addition to Nega-Santa's gang, but he must have been promised something by Nega-Santa. | Arrow the Reindeer, Krampus, Frosty the Mechanized Snowman, Nega-Santa |
| The Adventurers Save Christmas | #3 | "Arrow the Reindeer" | Santa can offer little other advice than that removing the jingle bells which are the channel for Nega-Santa's mind control over Arrow may be one way, but not the only way, to defeat the wayward reindeer. Knightshadow and Frog Boy track Arrow down in the wintery lands of the 'North Pole', and devise a clever scheme: while Knightshadow distracts Arrow, Frog Boy tries to flank him. The battle doesn't go quite as planned, with Arrow's archery skills & antlers proving very dangerous; Knightshadow also gets a sore knee for the trouble of trying to drive it into Arrow's toughened gut. Frog Boy spends much of the fight clinging to Arrow's back or dangling from his antlers. In the end, Frog Boy diverts Arrow's attention long enough for Knightshadow to grab the chain with the jingle bells and teleport away with them. Of proper mind again, Arrow laments what he has done, releases the Ghost of Christmas Past from a snow-globe, and entreats the Adventurers to put in a good word for him with Santa Claus. Frog Boy points out that Arrow is special among reindeer because of his humanoid form: he could very well be the North Pole's first genuine superhero. On hearing the tale, Santa agrees to forgive Arrow, because he regards Arrow as being like family. Knightshadow returns the bells taken from Arrow to Santa. | Arrow the Reindeer |
| The Adventurers Save Christmas | #4 | "Sport" | Lady Justice and Dreamweaver undertake a confrontation with the Krampus in order to rescue the Ghost of Christmas Future. True to Santa's warning, Krampus loves a game; he gets Dreamweaver to agree to a contest of riddles. The Krampus must remove an article for every riddle Dreamweaver & Lady Justice get right, but if Krampus should stump them, he will get the eternal servitude of one of them - and they must unanimously agree between them which one! A game of stakes to be sure, but with some deft negotiation and some excellent skill with riddles, the Krampus is foiled. Along the way, the Krampus is made to remove Nega-Santa's mind controlling sleigh bells; as it turns out, the Krampus was never under Nega-Santa's control, he claims to have feigned fealty to Nega-Santa because it was good sport. The Ghost of Christmas past shrieks and wails upon its freedom, causing some irritation to Lady Justice, who bids it go. | Krampus |
| The Adventurers Save Christmas | #5 | "Frosty the Mechanized Snowman" | A large team including Infinity-Zero, Stormherald, Dreamweaver, Meltdowner, and Lady Justice are sent to an anomalous green patch of the 'north pole', affected by Nega-Santa's influence on the imaginary realm's very climate. There, they find Frosty the Snowman - whose snowy head is mounted on a cooling unit, which itself forms the neck of a mechanical body formed of cybernetic parts and force fields. Frosty claims that he wants to be able to enjoy a tropical climate, and the mechanical suit Nega-Santa gave him will permit that. Infinity-Zero and Lady Justice detect a weakness in Frosty's new body: wireless signals that help the forcefields work in sync. There is a fight, during which Frosty manages to toss some Adventurers around. Attempts are made to remove Frosty's magic top hat, but it seems Nega-Santa helped secure the hat with magnets! Infinity-Zero manages to disrupt the wireless signal, causing Frosty's head to fall to the ground. Frosty, now free of Nega-Santa's spell, asks that they fix his top hat and stick it on another snow man to bring him back. The Ghost of Christmas Past thanks the team for freeing him and flies away. | Frosty the Mechanized Snowman |
| The Adventurers Save Christmas | #6 | "Christmas Freeze" | The team returns to the 'abandoned' frost giant cave to find...and frost giant! The frost giant Freztor, under Nega-Santa's spell, reveals that he helped capture Santa and handed him over to Nega-Santa. Meltdowner & Infinity-Zero distract the frost giant while Lady Justice cuts the belt of sleigh bells keeping it under Nega-Santa's mind control. The team prepares to rescue Santa and confront Nega Santa. | Freztor the Frost Giant |
| The Adventurers Save Christmas | #7 | "The Day of Christmas Eve" | While the rest of the Adventurers seek Santa or other allies in the 'north pole', Infinity-Zero, Frog Boy, and Meltdowner are visited by Arrow the Reindeer in the cave. He says that Santa's elves are gathering to raze Nega-Santa's evil, automated factory and restore their own workshop; this objective, Arrow says, is every bit as important as defeating Nega-Santa himself. The three heroes set out to face Nega-Santa and rescue Santa. Nega-Santa drops Santa in a cold lake, trapping Santa in a perfectly rectangular block of ice. Nega-Santa uses Santa's sleigh to rain explosive presents down on the Adventurers. Infinity-Zero and Meltdowner manage to bring Nega-Santa to ground, while Frog Boy swims into the frigid lake to rescue Santa Claus. Nega-Santa uses the power of his imagination to throw up a variety of obstacles, but as he realizes he may be defeated, he uses his imagination for a terrible attack: he nudges the full moon toward the 'north pole'. As cataclysm approaches, Infinity-Zero cuts the cursed sleigh bells from Nega-Santa's neck, and the being vanishes in a flash of energy ... then the Krampus appears. Krampus reveals that Nega-Santa was his pet, that everything that had transpired was his doing, and it was all just a game to him. He thanks the Adventurers for keeping Christmas interesting this year, and goes away. Meltdowner, meanwhile, has used his powers to free Santa from the ice block. Santa has his full powers restored and sets everything back to right. He bids the three Adventurers with him to help him with his Christmas deliveries aboard his sleigh. ...the next morning, any Adventurers who assisted in the 'north pole' awake thinking it was a dream, but each of them has received a mysterious present of personal significance to them in some way. | Nega-Santa; Krampus |
| The Rise of Leviathan | #112 | "Jaws" | Aquatide seeks Red Spider's help in rescuing some academics. Notable anthropologists and archaeologists studying the kingdom over which Aquatide is prince, and from which he has been banished, have been kidnapped. Aquatide takes Red Spider, Roak, and Stormherald in his submarine to Monster Island, where some Shark-men working for someone named Ahab have inhabited a disused VIPER facility. The team sneaks in, but soon arouses the attention of the shark-men, who try to take a bite out of the Adventurers. The heroes prevail, and succeed in rescuing the abductees. | Shark-men of Ahab |
| The Rise of Leviathan | #113 | "The Battle of Miami" | The team is summoned by Aquatide and spirited on his ship down to the Florida coast near Miami. Aquatide has located one of Ahab's ships off the coast, but just as the team is about to cross the distance and storm the ship... they find themselves surrounded by Shark-men emerging from the tropical forest and the sea to surround them. Battle ensues; Infinity-Zero successfully fries a number of the seaside Shark-men with her lightning power, but to her own exhaustion. Dreamweaver gets into the thick of things and uses her shields to protect the team. Other team members fight to near-exhaustion against a seemingly limitless supply of shark-men. The battle comes to a halt when the King of Atlantis emerges from the ocean when Aquatide is on the cusp of defeating Ahab, his mother's killer, once and for all. The king stays Aquatide's hand, and reveals that he permitted Aquatide's mother to be killed - for Aquatide was the product of her union with another man. Ahab escapes and goes to loose the Leviathan; just awhen it seems the heroes are all about to be destroyed by the army of shark-men, Poseidon arrives and decrees that the king's right to rule is forfeit for being complicit in his wife's killing; Aquatide is decreed by Poseidon to be King of Atlantis. The Adventurers would be jubilant, but the Leviathan is free and about to attack the east coast. | Shark-men of Ahab, Ahab, the King of Atlantis |
| The Rise of Leviathan | #114 | "(Unknown)" | To be concluded at a later date. | ? |
| Faces of the Spider | #115 | "Calamity in Chinatown" | The Red Spider monster returns! Cutting a swath of destruction through Millennium City's Chinatown, the Red Spider monster can only be stopped by the Adventurers. A full team of Roak, Meltdowner, Infinity-Zero, Lady Justice, Ebony, and Stormherald keep the beast from attacking civilians and police. They try a variety of attacks, but the creature seems nearly invulnerable. Lady Justice recalls that the creature avoids light, and indeed, light-based attacks have a way of weakening it. Exhausted by a long fight and the combined final strikes of Meltdowner, Stormherald, and Lady Justice, the creature's metabolism gives out, and it reverts to human form. The Adventurers carry out an emaciated Cassandra and do their best to conceal her identity, but realize they will need assistance from UNTIL to treat her. Meanwhile, Roak was critically injured in the fight, and Infinity-Zero ran interference with gangs & TV reporters while attending to Roak. | Red Spider-Monster |
| Faces of the Spider | #116 | "Held by UNTIL" | Lady Justice complies with UNTIL in being transported to the regional headquarters in downtown Millennium City where Red Spider will be detained and treated by specialists. Meanwhile, Stormherald begins searching through the Red Spider Monster's path of destruction to see if she can detect the source. At UNTIL, Lady Justice must deal with uptight security agents and reveal details of her prior nanite treatment of Red Spider to UNTIL's medical section. Red Spider wakes up and begins speaking seeming non-sense, and exhibits difficulty crawling or standing. Stormherald closes in on a laboratory which seems to be the source of the Red Spider Monster's attack. Inside, numerous scientists and technicians are dead ... and Stormherald locates a still-living Red Spider/Cassandra in a stasis pod amidst the carnage. Lady Justice & Stormherald confer about the two different Cassandras they are observing; Dreamweaver attends the one in UNTIL and helps calm her agitated mind, while Lady Justice goes to the other Cassandra and confirms that the one in the wrecked lab is the real one by way of the unique smell of her hair shampoo. The 'real' Red Spider is taken home and fed many pizzas to help her recover, and she recounts how she was lured to the laboratory where a doctor tried to convince her that she was the clone; her memory after that got fuzzy. Stormherald had discovered that Cassandra and her clone were subject to a memory transfer machine, and that the company which owned the lab was Source Biotech Enterprises. | Source Biotech Enterprises; UNTIL |
| Faces of the Spider | #117 | "A Secret Trial" | Adventurers keep the clone company while she remains in UNTIL captivity; the clone takes on the name 'Samantha', which was offered her by Cass's parents to distinguish her. UNTIL reveals to the team that they are obligated to turn over the clone to the MCPD because of their jurisdiction & the monster's complicity in several deaths and massive property damage - but UNTIL's Office of Superhuman Resources (OSR) sends Captain Chris Suzuki to Millennium City to make what interventions they can. 1) A pre-trial hearing will determine if the case should be sent to public trial. 2) The Adventurers will have the opportunity to testify at said trial as long as they are open to being subpoenaed. 3) The judge guarantees that the Adventurers will be granted a stay of any charges for vigilantism, so long as they maintain good conduct during the trial. 4) UNTIL will maintain custody of the clone and keep her identity a secret until such time as the judge orders them otherwise. Capt. Suzuki warns the team that the County Prosecutor, George Kruger, is vehemently against costumed crime fighters and will do everything he can to see the matter referred to trial, while taking a swipe at the Adventurers' reputations. Suzuki warns that if the clone is sent to public trial, it will expose Red Spider's identity, and it may begin a search for her known associates. Elsewhere in the city, George Kruger meets with a shadowy figure in a dark alley, and is instructed that he must win his case against the Adventurers. | County Prosecutor George Kruger |
| Faces of the Spider | #118 | "Underground" | The trial begins. George Kruger introduces his case that the clone presents a public danger, that if she is not made to face trial for her actions, by default she would be in the care of the Adventurers - and he intends to show how their actions allowed the clone rampage to occur in the first place. Lady Justice offers a sterling defense case introduction reminding the court that the defendant is a person, not a monster. Dreamweaver visits Samantha and brings her some sentimental items she borrowed from Cassandra (Red Spider). Later, team ally White Star beckons the team to meet her: she has a mission to check out another SBE lab that will require a super team like the Adventurers to complete. White Star reveals that she tracked down an SBE employee who escaped the clone lab, and recovered a laptop with information about Red Spider's secret identity. In turning this over, she earns some goodwill with the team. White Star leads the team to a run down gymnasium. Inside, two incredibly strong creatures creatures are being made by a bunch of lab coated observers to enter the boxing ring and fight. | County Prosecutor George Kruger, Rocko, Undertow |
| Faces of the Spider | #119 | "Between a Shark and a Hard Place" | White Star urges the Adventurers most sneaky members to go in first and retrieve useful evidence from the SBE lab before their security has a chance to destroy anything. Fox, Roak, and Artisan go in ahead. Lady Justice, White Star, and Red Spider stay back in reserve. Roak sneaks into a lab, neutralizes some guards, and begins looting. Fox and Artisan split up on an upper level and encounter hostiles. Roak causes an alarm to sound deliberately, sets one test subject free to use as a decoy, and disguises himself as a scientist so he can ambush some guards. When the alarm sounds, the two powerful combatants - a Rocko, a man of rock, and Undertow, a shark man - decide to turn their considerable strength against their masters. Lady Justice & White Star move in to neutralize the powerful creatures. Fox locates and rescues some non-test subject prisoners. Artisan finds some info and neutalizes some guards. Red Spider helps some civilians escape the zone, including Doctor Brightman. The building becomes a zone of conflict as security deploys. UNTIL arrives soon after to get the scene under control. Roak finds some of the most compelling evidence - some vials of super serum, and a strange device; he pockets some super serum. Captain Suzuki of UNTIL's Office of Superhuman Resources arrives on scene; UNTIL gathers the evidence, and privately, White Star urges Suzuki to look favorably on the Adventurers for their help. | Rocko, Undertow, Source Biotech Enterprises |
| Faces of the Spider | #120 | "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" | Captain Suzuki from UNTIL recruits the Adventurers for a dangerous mission: secure a mobile laboratory on a train run by Source Biotech Enterprises, and destroy their meta-human detector. Suzuki confirms that the device found in the boxing ring by Roak was a smaller meta-human detector. Using these, SBE can locate and abduct other meta-humans for testing. A challenge for the Adventurers: their initial attack on the train, travelling south from Chattanooga, TN to Atlanta, GA, must be led by non-meta members to avoid detection by the device. White Star joins Roak in infiltrating the rear of the train, while Artisan & Fox take the forward sections. Artisan attempts to gas a lab compartment but it doesn't act fast enough to prevent an alarm being sounded. With cover blown, the rest of the meta-humans on the team move in. Dreamweaver & Meltdowner help subdue some SBE security, but then unwittingly succumb to Artisan's gas! Luckily, Fox, Frog Boy, White Star, and Roak manage to get control of the train. The team discreetly delivers the train to an UNTIL team in Atlanta. Roak pockets the hard drive with meta-human detector data, apparently to prevent it falling into the wrong hands. Capt. Suzuki assures that later in the day, evidence found on the train will be given over to the FBI, and SBE will soon go out of business. | Source Biotech Enterprises |
| Faces of the Spider | #121 | "Old Wounds" | The court case continues. Dreamweaver takes an opportunity to speak to George Kruger one on one and asks him not to talk openly about her spinal injury - her enemies could track her secret identity down easily if they knew. She is surprised to find that Kruger's emotional state fluctuates wildly when Dreamweaver talks to him about secret identities. She tells Red Spider and Hornett. Hornett begins to surveil Kruger and, using MCPD traffic cams, finds that Kruger has tended to visit a casino in Millennium City incognito. While gambling, Kruger was often visited by a mob lieutenant named Adrian Tony. Tony, recently deceased in an apparent home invasion, had connections to suspected crime kingpin Matthew Cresse. Back at trial, after Meltdowner's successful testimony, Lady Justice announces that the defense will rest its case. Kruger stuns the court by asking for a break in procedure to allow him to call one more witness: former Adventurer Blue Wonder. | George Kruger; Adrian Tony; Blue Wonder |
| Faces of the Spider | #122 | "The Truth And Nothing But" | Kruger persuades Lady Justice and the court judge to agree to allow the prosecution to have one more witness before closing arugments. Blue Wonder takes the stand. Kruger uses her testimony to attempt to make the Adventurers seem irresponsible, to have put their secrecy ahead of the public good during the 2014 monster attack. Lady Justice counters in cross-examination by reminding the court that Blue Wonder was temporarily leading the team while Red Spider was mutated, and any failings were attributable to Blue Wonder. Lady Justice also attempts to make it clear that her past romance with Blue Wonder may be influencing her testimony, though the judge rapidly requires her to move on from this line of questioning. With the last witness's testimony complete, the two sides offer closing arguments. Kruger sticks to his case that the public should have a chance at trial to hear the evidence and decide if the clone is guilty; Lady Justice reminds the court that the clone had no opportunity to make a choice for herself, and the prosecution hasn't offered any evidence that she was mentally culpable. The judge tends to agree with Lady Justice; in his ruling, he compliments the involvement of the Adventurers; he admits the danger of Samantha's potentially unstable powers and requires her to register with UNTIL; and he dismisses the charges against her, as he must conclude that she could not be held mentally accountable for her actions while mutated. The Adventurers are jubilant and begin to celebrate. Dreamweaver & Red Spider engage in tense but cordial chatter with Blue Wonder. Blue maintains she was only there to tell the truth, as she saw it. | Blue Wonder; George Kruger |
| Faces of the Spider | #123 | "Justice for Some" | Hornett meets with Capt. Suzuki of UNTIL about the Adrian Tony killing; Suzuki confirms that White Star was present when Tony died, while acting under Suzuki's orders. White Star successfully retrieved a laptop from Tony which had Red Spider's secret identity info on it (see Adventurers #118), and in trying to defeat her, Tony had caused his own accidental death. Suzuki has no idea why County Prosecutor George Kruger would have ties to a gangster like Adrian Tony, but he does find the implication troubling. Dreamweaver & Hornett set out to question Kruger in his high-rise condo. Kruger anxiously ducks behind his desk and shakily loads a revolver to ward them off, but they persuade him to let them in to talk. (To be continued...) | George Kruger |
| (None) | #124 | "Prehistoric Adventure" | Dreamweaver, Wildcat, and Red Spider meet up on a rooftop by chance. Also by chance, they observe someone sneaking into the Museum of History, where there is an exhibit of some fascinating pre-historic mystical relics. Finding a security guard inside who has been injured, Wildcat rushes ahead and downstairs to the exhibits hall. Red Spider & Dreamweaver stay to ask questions; the guard indicates he was attacked by a scanty-clad woman in furs and a cape. The three heroines converge in the exhibit area which is sweltering hot. They intercept the woman who attacked the guard, but soon find that she is actually an ally - trying to prevent a great evil from stealing an artifact that would magnify its powers! The Adventurers + Kula the Unkillable battle the ancient Skalderg, Lord of the Volcano. Finding conventional attacks fruitless, Red Spider accidentally discovers that Skalderg and his summoned magma minions are vulnerable to ordinary chemical fire extinguishers! Subduing Skalderg between fire extinguishers, Wildcat's freeze arrows, and Kula's special attacks, they prevent him escaping with the 'Fist of Fire', a fancy pre-historic club. After Skalderg flees, Kula reveals that the Fist would have made Skalderg god-like in his abilities. Suggesting they may work together again in future, the Adventurers & Kula part ways. | Skalderg Lord of the Volcano |
| (none) | #125 | "Classic Adventurers" | Set in October of 2014. An armoured truck from an UNTIL convoy is hijacked by a small team of well-armed mercenaries. When the mercenaries take the armoured vehicle to an underground parking lot and use explosives to force their way into its locked compartment, Juggernette detects the explosion and alerts her Adventurer cohorts - already investigating the heist - to the location. A team of Juggernette, Blue Wonder, Dreamweaver, and Fox storm the garage. After a fire-fight, the Adventurers capture the three mercenaries, who are led by Edgar Percy Cryderman III. The rest of the team makes a quick exit before the MCPD arrive, as they had not yet earned much trust from the MCPD at the time. Blue Wonder, a registered hero, oversees the suspects' transfer to the MCPD. In epilogue, Cryderman and his accomplices are sentenced to prison sentences of 3-5 years, with leniency in their sentence for their decorated service in the US military, as well as their struggles since returning from war. | Edgar Percy Cryderman III |
| Cold Rage | #126 | "Cold Rage Part 1" | The Adventurers are summoned to Ravenswood to investigate a mystery on behalf of Rowan, the headmistress, who heard about the team through UNTIL. Rowan wants a team of active crime fighters because her own faculty, while consisting of several former costumed heroes, are now long-time teachers whose investigative skills are rusty. The mystery: why did two students, Rockabilly and Winter, sneak out after curfew, end up badly injured on a river bank, with signs that they had used their powers to battle one another? Rowan reveals that Winter has rebuffed Rockabilly's advances several times, and that Rockabilly is a bit of a hot-head. Dreamweaver & Lady Justice interview Rockabilly; though conscious, he is badly injured by frostbite, and unwilling to cooperate. Dreamweaver modulates his emotional state, and Lady Justice uses her abilities to determine when he is telling the truth. Rockabilly claims that sneaking out was Winter's idea, and that he only used his powers to end the fight quickly for both their sakes. He can barely remember all that happened. Stormherald & White-wing (the latter being a former Ravenswood student) discover something curious in Winter's dorm room: an advertisement promising "the BEST in meta-human cage fights." | (none) |
| Cold Rage | #127 | "Cold Rage, Part 2" | Sleeper, a new Adventurer, visits Winter in the Ravenswood infirmary. Sleeper's telepathy ability allows her to communicate with the comatose Winter. Meanwhile, Fox, Pox, Roak, Red Spider, and Infinity-Zero go to the location where Winter & Rockabilly were found. It is known that after coming ashore, Rockabilly managed to climb the river bank and use a nearby pay phone to call the school for help. Infinity-Zero uses her powers to access a nearby security cam discovered by Fox; she sees in the recording that two figures jumped off a south-bound freighter into the river, and then one - presumably Rockabilly - scaled the river bank to use the pay phone. Pox finds a leather jacket discarded in the river which Fox determines has a pin-hole consistent with a dart in the upper left shoulder. Roak takes samples of handprints in the soft mud of the riverbank that may have been left by Rockabilly; he also determines by examining the muddy imprints that Winter wasn't moving when she came ashore - whoever pulled her ashore, was probably rescuing her. Back at Ravenswood, Sleeper learns from telepathic contact with Winter that her mind is in a 'safe place'; images of her home on the Canadian prairies abound. Winter's mind is also troubled by murky, barely-remembered images of her battle with Rockabilly. There is a great gap in Winter's recollections. | (none) |
| Cold Rage | #128 | "Cold Rage, Part 3" | The team converges at Ravenswood to compare evidence with Rowan. A picture emerges: Winter had an interest in meta-human cage matches, for reasons unknown. She convinced Rockabilly to sneak out with her, but did not tell him where they were going. At some point, for reasons that are as yet unclear, the two young heroes battled fiercely, and Rockabilly won; then, the two heroes jumped off a freighter together, and Rockabilly called for help when they reached shore. There are still some uncertain aspects - some team members believe that Winter wanted to take part in a cage match, while Dreamweaver suggests maybe she intended to stop the cage matches. Lady Justice opines that a freighter would be a clever place to host a cage match. Fox notes that perhaps Rockabilly was stunned or drugged into participating, referencing the pinhole in his jacket. Infinity-Zero, and others suggest investigating the freighter's origin. Sleeper intends to stay with Winter and assist her when she recovers. Lady Justice proposes infiltrating the fighting ring in her old costume, once they locate it. | (none) |
| Cold Rage | #129 | "Cold Rage, Part 4" | White Star hits the shadier part of town hoping to luck into some information. While busting up a gun smuggling operation, White Star learns from its boss that he knows of the meta-human cage matches; he assumed that they were well-advertised so that it would draw the attention of meta-human vigilantes who would unwittingly fall into a trap. Elsewhere, Infinity-Zero tracks down shipping information and the Adventurers go searching for ships known to have departed from docks in Millennium City. Roak visits a ship called the Spray that travelled to Green Bay and is under repair after a storm; Fox tracks the XS Freightliner to Thunder Bay and infiltrates it; Red Spider flies on her hover bike to Montreal to track the freighter Esprit; Infinity-Zero goes after the Lightwind IV on its way to Chicago; and White-Wing flies over Lake Erie to track down the Cleveland-bound Erie Swimmer. All but one lead is a dud - but White-Wing discovers that the Erie Swimmer has a cage fighting ring set up in its cargo hold! He narrowly escapes the ship before several goons come looking for him. By the time he informs the other Adventurers, the Erie Swimmer has been abandoned & set ablaze at the Port of Cleveland, temporarily setting back the investigation. | (None) |
| Cold Rage | #130 | "Cold Rage, Part 5" | Fox discovers that the company who owned the Erie Swimmer, called PFC Holdings, also owns warehouses and a private gymnasium. He takes White-wing, Pox, and Dreamweaver to sneak into the gym after hours. Dreamweaver goes through the vents, but finds that when she pops into a room, the bad guys are expecting her! They have one of Source Biotech's meta-human detectors. Indeed, more security arrives. White-wing battles on a stairway from the roof with a tough who makes their duel a draw by taking them both down with knock-out gas. Dreamweaver, too, is hit by knockout gas. Fox and Pox come to her rescue, but Pox is hit by a stun beam. Fox makes a heroic effort to defend his position and eliminate enemies, but soon even he must realize that he has little tactical recourse. He manages to save Dreamweaver and escape with her before more bad guys arrive, and he traces a vehicle that conveys Pox & White-wing to a nearby warehouse. | PFC Holdings |
| Cold Rage | #131 | "Cold Rage, Part 6" | Stormherald, as her secret identity Celeste, follows up on a lead and tracks down the source of the advertising PFC Holdings has placed before. Finding it, she also learns that the company has placed new ads for a 'grand finale' of meta-human cage fighting to come, and they're accepting auditions. The Adventurers plan to infiltrate the spectacle. Lady Justice & Dreamweaver pose as combatants, while Red Spider & Stormherald pose as audience members. White Star & Roak infiltrate as their costumed selves to sabotage things behind the scenes. | PFC Holdings |
| Cold Rage | #132 | "Cold Rage, Part 7" | A disguised Lady Justice tries to give White-wing the antidote to the 'cold rage' injection given to him by PFC Holdings; the antidote spares LJ, but Dreamweaver is affected. White Star manages to deactivate the force field which acts as a 'cage'. Lady Justice has to battle White-wing in the ring. Below in a basement, White Star strives to overcome the heightened security to lower the force field around the ring and take down power. Red Spider locates the people in charge and makes ready to pursue them. Roak disguises himself as a PFC contractor and places bicycle locks on the doors to prevent the bad guys from escaping. When White Star succeeds in taking down the field and the power, the team springs into action: Stormherald helps evacuate spectators and captured fighters; Red Spider fights her way to the people in charge; White-wing fights Lady Justice until the 'cold rage' serum wears off. Roak's locks prove effective in preventing the bad guys' escape, and Roak himself takes down a few guards in a washroom; Red Spider is hit by machine gun fire, but fights through it to capture the man in charge and his bodyguards. In the chaos, the team loses track of Dreamweaver and initially assumes she must have got out on her own. | PFC Holdings |
| (None) | #133 | "Sunburst" | Red Spider is delivered to UNTIL by White Star to undergo surgery for her bullet wounds. It becomes clear in the day following the fight finale that Dream is unaccounted for. Already recovering from her wounds, Red Spider joins White Star in following a path of destruction from the warehouse where the fight occurred. White Star follows a trail leading one way, while Red Spider follows a trail leading from a burnt tree. Red crosses paths with a street gang but talks her way out of a fight that she is still not physically prepared for; the gang points her to a nearby parking garage where a meta-human has been holed up and territorially defending herself. Red Spider & White Star visit the meta-human, who is not Dreamweaver, but another escaped cage fighter named Sunburst. They convince her to get in an ambulance they call for her, and Sunburst suggests they check at home for Dreamweaver, as that is where she would have gone. Dreamweaver is found in her home; she has little recollection of the previous night's events, but is all right. | Sunburst |
| (None) | #134 | "Land of the Rising Sun" | Lady Justice's hologram feed from her vacation cuts out unexpectedly, leading Adventurers Fox, Infinity-Zero, Roak, and White-wing to go to the rescue. The heroes find themselves in a battle to save Lady Justice & her vile sister, Nemesis, from unknown enemies who seem to have it in for the Adventurers. Nemesis's violent personality has been seemingly moderated. Red Spider's clone, Samantha, turns up in ninja attire to assist the team. | Nemesis; unknown mercenaries |
| (None) | #135 | "Under Your Skin" | Red Spider alerts the team that Dr. Witt, a biochemist who has been assisting her with a mystery, has been abducted by gangsters! With the help of Roak on the inside, and a distraction outside by White-wing and Dreamweaver, Red Spider manages to rescue Dr. Witt. However, the team takes Doctor Witt to rest on a rooftop because he is gravely ill, and he suddenly expels a greenish fluid from strange orifices on his hands all over White-wing! The gelatinous entity makes soft cuts in White-wing and gets under his skin. Roak calls in the Center for Disease Control response, while White-Wing feels a strong compulsion to escape rather than be examined. Red Spider elects to let White-Wing go and seclude himself. | Gangsters; unknown gelatinous entity |
| (None) | #136 | "Under Your Skin" | The gangsters who kidnapped Dr. Witt put a bounty on Red Spider. Red Spider enlists White Star's help to obtain a sample from White-wing to study the organism that entered him, since he seems reluctant to be studied willingly. White-wing reports that memories and expert knowledge that seemed to belong to Dr. Witt were vivid in his mind after the transfer, but fade as time goes on. White-wing begins inhabiting the Justice Cave, where the group are surprised to learn that Lady Justice's sister Nemesis has also taken up residence. Later, Red Spider is ambushed by a mercenary named Collateral. Collateral reveals both that Red Spider has a sizable bounty on her if she is turned in alive, and that the gangsters incorrectly believe that as Dr. Witt's direct rescuer, she is host to the gelatinous organism. Red Spider narrowly escapes that attack, but it seems clear she can expect more of them now that she is being hunted. | Collateral |
| (None) | #137 | "Thrill of the Chase" | Red Spider narrowly escapes a street battle with Sharpe, another top-tier bounty hunter. Meanwhile, Dreamweaver and Roak visit an increasingly-agitated White-wing, who is now turning green and losing his bat mutation. White-wing's companions decide to force him to visit the CDC for observation, and place him inside of a bag as he does not wish to go willingly. Once White-wing is at the CDC, gang informants who were paid off to alert the gangsters if someone with White-wing's symptoms turned up share the word, and the bounty changes from Red Spider to White-wing. For his part, White-wing calls up his friend Amelia Hastings and asks her for shelter. Red Spider meets quietly with Amelia and hands her an Adventurer communicator to use if anything goes wrong. A cabal of bounty hunters, including the Shrike, Inyoka, and others, attack White-wing and Amelia. White-wing uses his newfound plant-powers to great effect in their defense. Juggernette & Red Spider, responding to Amelia's distress call, assist in neutralizing the bounty hunters. Amelia is gravely injured. Days later, upon release from the hospital, Amelia officially joins the Adventurers - but just then, during a reception in the Justice Cave, White-wing transfers the organism into Amelia! | Sharpe, The Shrike, Ms. Fortune, Sprocket, Inyoka |
| (None) | #138 | "The Tower" | The Adventurers take on a corporation at the center of several plots against them. Storming the high-rise owned by Silver Crusader AKA David Lyons, a stealth team of Fox, Roak, and Red Spider battles to hold Lyons's server room long enough to wipe his database on the Adventurers clear, while Dreamweaver, White Star, and Lady Justice battle Lyons directly. With the stealth mission complete, Lyons reveals his fallback plan: to frame the Adventurers as ruthless vigilantes who have attacked him in his own home without provocation. The team swallows that poison pill and withdraws in the face of a police tactical unit's arrival. | David Lyons |
The team also has story arc pages which are used to develop, track, and the maintain a record of major events.
- Mystery of the Missing Plane (Adventurers)
- The Anti-Adventurers (Adventurers)
- Faces of the Spider (Adventurers)
Villains
Over time the Adventurers have made a few very memorable enemies. A few are listed in alphabetical order below:
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GEORGE KRUGER
Appearances: Adventurers #117, #118, #119
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CYBER-SLASH
Appearances: Adventurers #60 - #67, #72, #78, #87 - #88, #96
Defeated by the Adventurers and excommunicated by Incognito for an embarrassing PR blunder, Cyber-Slash spent more than a year trying to establish a better reputation. Her sense of vulnerability was raw, however, and when she perceived that Dreamweaver had betrayed her secret identity to an agent of UNTIL, she spiraled back into her old ways. She pretended to assist that UNTIL agent - White Star - only to serve betrayal. White Star foiled Cyber-Slash's attempt to help Incognito gain access to UNTIL's list of hero secret identities. When last seen, Cyber-Slash was preparing to flee the United States and go into hiding. |
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DR. KILLOWATT
Appearances: Adventurers #4 - #7
Dr. Kozhan started using criminal activity to fund a project the government abandoned that would let him walk again. He started smuggling weapons into Millennium City by freighters coming through the Great Lakes. He intended to put high-powered electrical weaponry into the hands of Millennium City gangs, but earn profit by selling them the power cells for the weapons at a considerable mark-up. He accomplished this by pretending to steal items to further his ambitions as a 'super villain' so that crime fighters would not realize he had actually used his crime scenes as a drop point for power cells. As Kozhan's plot began to unravel, he took the Red Spider hostage in a desperate play to wipe her memory and shatter her fledgling team. Red Spider was rescued, and just as Dr. Killowatt was faced with the grim prospect of having to turn on some of his powerful criminal conspirators, he zapped himself at full power with his own memory probe. He has been in a coma ever since. |
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ETHERLOCH
Appearances: Adventurers #35, #36 #39 - #43, #45 - #48, #52, #69
The creature is the result of experiments to develop a super serum, by creating - through an amalgam of known super reagents and hybridized alien DNA - the super serum equivalent of a 'mother of vinegar'. Exposure of simple organically-derived fuels (even simple alcohols) to a massive bacterial colony was meant to create super serum as a byproduct. But the colony was unexpectedly catalysed, began to form an awareness of itself like a single being, and acted on impulse to attack its creators and escape its confines. At some point it absorbed some of Red Spider's blood. An alien retrovirus still lurking in her blood allowed Etherloch to take on the monster form Red Spider had during the 'Free the Beast' arc, and also track her by it. The creature has been destroyed several times, but if even a little of it survives, it can reconstitute itself if it has access to water and carbon. The only known living corpus of Etherloch is presently being held in cryo-stasis by UNTIL in Millennium City. |
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KINGSNAKE
Appearances: Adventurers Annual #1
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POISON LASH
Appearances: Adventurers #38, #43, #45, #48, #52, #53, #62
This development did not go unnoticed. MCPD and mobsters started to raid the lab. With little choice, Daniel injected himself with the serum to save his life & work. As the compounds altered his DNA, he changed from within. Blade-like syringes ripped from his forearms, his blood became acidic, and his breath was a green cloud of poison. He was a powerful entity, but with a cost: it poisoned his genius mind, as well. He blamed the world for causing his turn into a monster. Now, to him, the end of curing himself justifies every means. Having briefly escaped during the Etherloch crisis, Poison Lash was returned to UNTIL's prison through the efforts of the Adventurers. Team member Hornett was one of Poison Lash's test subjects. |
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BEDLAM
Appearances: Adventurers #10, #17, #18, #21
In modern times, Bedlam has reached the limit to which magic can help him. Instead, 21st century medicine & cybernetics have proven excellent substitutes to sustain and augment himself. Once apprehended by the Adventurers in 2014, however, he was isolated from his treatments and faced a certainty of death. In his desperation, Bedlam found a new source of sustenance perhaps more malevolent than himself: from the depths of the Qliphothic Realm came a bolstering infusion of dark energy. Infused with energy he does not yet fully understand, Bedlam has become an even more dangerous adversary. In a display of his new power he killed former Adventurer Blue Wonder, causing an aberrant timeline which her future team mates helped avert through empowering Blue Wonder to avoid the death blow. |
Anti-Adventurers
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DREAD SPIDER
Appearances: Adventurers #92 - #96, #103, #106, #108
Outside of her masked criminal activities, Cassandra is a known bon vivant and socialite. Who would expect that this famous party girl is a hardened killer? When last seen, Dread Spider was captive in a stasis cell under hero Steelhawk's watch. |
Adventurers in the Media
Sometimes the Adventurers make the news! ((Literally))
March 21, 2015 (Corresponds to Adventurers #65)
March 29, 2015 (Corresponds to Adventurers #69)
April 11, 2015 (Corresponds to Adventurers #70)
September 13, 2016 (Corresponds to Adventurers #138)
September 21, 2016 (Corresponds to Adventurers #139)
September 23, 2016 (Corresponds to Adventurers #139)
Joining the Adventurers
Do you think you have what it takes? We may not be big, but we're small - and that's the point! We aim to share a quality roleplaying experience together, with a well-balanced team of characters played by skilled role players.
Recruitment will be by appointment/interview only, with final approval from the team leader.
Considerations
Preferred character types
These are guidelines - exceptions have been made on occasion, but that is at the discretion of the team lead.
- Silver Age-type heroes - think Spider-Man, Flash, Iron Man, Dare Devil, Batgirl
- Science-based - did you get your powers from a chemical accident/tech armor/intensive training?
- Characters who wear a mask to protect their normal-ish human life & loved ones
- Characters who have vulnerabilities which can be exploited for a richer story
What the Adventurers is experience is about
- Patrols & combating gang activity
- Taking on science-based super-villains played by player characters as part of story arcs
- Solving crimes based on clues
- Escaping deadly situations through a blend of wits and hero abilities
- A small team feel - it's about the quality, not the quantity of members
- Concept arcs (parallel universe, courtroom, etc.)
6 Keys to a Good Adventurers RP experience
In preface: no one should expect that they will be turfed from the Adventurers for violating any of these. Sometimes, you may be called to go against what you see below.
1) No God Modding - This would be where one person, regardless of the established story or other characters, asserts their own character as too powerful to be harmed in a significant way. Often, overcoming injuries or other limitations is a part of Adventurers stories. There is a good discussion of god modding & its impacts here[1].
2) Check Emotional Drama at the Door - Playing as depressive, emotionally distraught, oppositional, or passive aggressive is something you should do sparingly when it comes to team activities.
3) Share the Spotlight - Adventurers can cater to part-timers. If you've been away, we can get you up to speed on the current ongoing plot and right into the action, but please try to take your cues from the ones who have been around the most and trust them to set you up to shine.
4) Lose Gracefully - Adversity reveals character. Let the villains get one up on you sometimes. Expose some vulnerabilities, take your lumps during the middle chapters, and just remember: you're probably going to win in the end!
5) Contribute - The story goes forward when we have team members taking part. Not everyone will come to every RP event. That's fine! If you can't make scheduled events, it's your chance to be creative and still have an impact 'behind the scenes'.
6) Know Your Language - this SG communicates in English. Having a basic competency over spelling, punctuation, capitalization, etc. is requirement for being a member.
Recruitment
Step 1 - First Contact
- Start by sending an in-game mail to team leader Red Spider@historiphile expressing interest, and maybe some detail on the following:
- Powers
- Traits (ie, Strengths/weaknesses)
- A brief background on your character
- Anything else you think is worth knowing
Step 2 - Assessment
We will talk with you, learn about your character, and figure out if they are a good fit. We won't get into the questions we tend to ask here.
Step 3 - Combat RP Trial
If you get to this stage, you're doing well!
The combat RP trial has us present an RP villain. Your character will come across them in the world and demonstrate his or her abilities while trying to stop the villain. At some point, Adventurers heroes will join you in trying to defeat the bad guy!
We learn a lot about how someone RPs from this activity.
Once the combat RP trial is complete, witnessing Adventurers will discuss. If they like what they saw, then membership will be offered!
