Gen13

Gen 13 is a series of Comic S created by Jim Lee and Brandon Choi with the scenario and J. Scott Campbell with the drawing. It was published in the the United States by the label Wildstorm of the editions Image Comics. The following authors included John Arcudi and Adam Warren. This Cartoon tells the adventures of a disorganized team of five teenagers (three girls and two boys) to the super-capacities and of their mentor.

History

The history of Gen 13 takes place in the universe Wildstorm and crosses sometimes the adventures of others bédés of Lee, like Wildcats and TEAM 7 (in fact, each main character of Gen 13 is the child of a member of the TEAM 7). The series profited from a bright graphics, quickly drawing the attention of readers who quickly became faithful.

The teenagers were at the origin simply to take part in a government project, but they learned that this project covered genetic tests in a quasi-prison environment. It is after having expressed their superhuman capacities that they escape and find themselves required like dangerous criminals. Their only hope is to manage to join their forces to fight their enemies and to discover their bonds with the TEAM 7.

After beginnings with success, the Co-creator and draftsman J. Scott Campbell pass the reins of the series to others (ED Buckets, Gary Frank, Lee Bermejo,…) to devote itself to its own successful series, Danger Girl.

The series will also give place to one-shots, mini-series, crossovers with other characters, special issues like with derived series like DV8 , darker counterpart, or Gen 13 Bootleg , which made it possible to artists to give their vision of the characters.

In spite of great reinforcements of bounces and the collaboration of multiple draftsmen, the popularity of the series declined until Wildstorm decides to explode all the team with a bomb of 6 megatons (number 76, July 2002).

The publication of the series was not stopped at this time there, beginning again simplment to 0 with new characters whose adventures were scénarisées by the veteran Chris Claremont. This version was not success and will stop at the end of 17 numbers.

The return of the original characters is envisaged in 2006 pennies the feather of Gail Simone and the pencils of Talent Caldwell.

Characters

The basic characters of Gen 13 were:

Caitlin Fairchild : An ordinary girl of which the density of the muscles spontaneously increased, conferring force to him, agility, speed and endurance superhuman. The demonstration of its statute " Gen-active" an increase in its muscular mass caused, reducing its clothing in crumbs. Fairchild is the member of the most intelligent group by far.
Bobby “ Burnout ” Lane: Wire of John Lynch (the mentor of Gen13), Bobby expressed the capacity to generate and handle coherent plasma of high energy, which explodes in exposure to oxygen. Later it develops the gift to fly, as well as telepathic capacities.
Roxanne “ Freefall ” Spaulding: “Roxy” is youngest of the teenagers Gen-credits, with the capacity to cancel the effect of gravity on itself. It is in love with Grunge and is jealous of the physique of Fairchild. It keeps Queelocke like “pet”. It is discovered later that it and Fairchild are half-sisters.
Sarah Rainmaker : Rainmaker can influence the weather, to handle the airstreams to enable him to steal and direct the water of a gesture. Amplifying bracelets enable him to project flashes. Rainmaker is a Apache and a Lesbienne.
Percival Edmund “ Grunge ” Chang: Able to copy the molecular structure of any material which it touches (and can partially extend this capacity to the others), Grunge likes surfing and the sleep. It is belt chestnut in five martial arts, and has a photographic memory which enabled him with the college to follow the same courses as Fairchild (with the great surprise of this one).
Anna : a androïde assassin heavily armed, programmed to serve as good to the members of Gen 13, and to like them like his/her own children.

Trivia

The original title of Gen X was changed into Gen 13 after Marvel threatened the studio of legal continuations for use of their trademark " X" , the more so as they wanted to launch a series derived from X-Men entitled Generation X . The fact that Jim Lee had just left Marvel where it ensured the success of X-Men did not arrange anything. The resentments were packed quickly since Lee worked again for Marvel thereafter on Iron Man and the Fantastic Four and that a cross-country race-over between Gen 13 and Generation X followed some time afterwards.

Publications

France

Gen 13 was published in kiosks by Semic in a review éponyme (until US episode 52, in number 30 of the review) then in the review Wildstorm (episodes 54 to 59 in numbers 1 to 6 of the review).

Gen 13 was published in bookstore by the Editions the USA.

Other media

In 1998, Kevin Altieri ( Batman - Mask off the Phantasm ) was the director of an animated series Gen 13 for Buena Vista Pictures, a subsidiary company of Disney. Unfortunately, the series was not seen by many people, since it was cancelled when Wildstorm was repurchased by cd. Comics, a company of Time Warner.

External bonds

Official site of Wildstorm Productions
Card IMDB of the animated series

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