Gen13, issue #2
SO! Gen13 is of the awesome.
Here’s a brief summary of issue one:
Caitlin Fairchild is a redhead with glasses who is called teacher’s pet and picked on by all the other girls. Her powers are super-strength and shredding her clothes. Her parents (or the people she thought of as her parents) were shot in the head right in front of her when the Tabula Rasa people came to collect her.
Bobby Lane is a white boy with blond dreadlocks who gets beat up for “forgetting his race”. We only saw his foster mom once and she was telling him to run because the Tabula Rasa people were coming for him. He burst into flames and he’s not big on hugging.
Roxanne “Roxy” Spaulding has black hair with dyed pink bangs. She has control over gravity (in localized areas) and her mother told her that she wasn’t Roxy’s real mother and that “they” wanted her to be angry and defiant, which is why she (her mother) was so hard on Roxy. Her mother tried to shoot the collectors and told Roxy to run.
Sarah Rainmaker is Apache. She likes to read and is a political activist and is in the fluid area between lesbian and bisexual. She has control over the weather (convenient what with her name, huh?) and her parents committed suicide with rat poison right before the collectors showed up for her.
We didn’t get his name in the first issue, but his name is Percival Edmund Chang and he’s the one from Seattle. He’s also my favorite damn character out of the whole team. He’s a skateboarder and he apparently likes hugging, which is one of the things that makes him so awesome. He hasn’t manifested his powers yet, but you can look it up on Wikipedia or something if you really must.
This Gen13 is a reboot of an older comic, so we’re seeing where this goes. I’m loving it, personally.
Issue 2 starts with the bad guys at Tabula Rasa HQ. Megan the redheaded assistant goes to retrieve Dr. Fenton Cross, Facility Admin as it says on his door. He wanted to meet with a Dr. Patel.
He is also going to this meeting in pink footie pajamas with purple kitty heads on the feet. He is an amusing sort of fellow.
Dr. Patel shows up to talk about the Gen13 kids. All of their powers were activated with the exception of 13.5 - P. Edmund Chang. Again, I fucking LOVE this guy. Anyway, Eddie (as he is called by the other kids later in the issue) took his martial arts studies more seriously than the Tabula Rasa people thought and has put two of the guards in the hospital. And he hasn’t manifested his powers yet.
All of the kids have been fitted with power dampeners that will also produce an electric shock if they get too close to each other.
Roxy is worried about Eddie, but Sarah tells her to shut up since the Tabula Rasa people are listening in to everything they say. The doors open and in comes Eddie.
“Well. It’s official.” He says. “This place sucks a whole world of donkey ass.”
Eddie’s had the crap beaten out of him and Dr. Patel comes in right behind him, making like he’s a nice guy. Sarah doesn’t take kindly to the statement “Then we let you go. Honest Injun.”
Patel wants to take Caitlin next, but Eddie isn’t having it and tries to stop him and gets smacked around again. Bobby intercedes and Caitlin goes.
Eddie’s pissed off because Bobby saw what the Tabula Rasa people did to him and then just watched as they took Caitlin away. He lunges at Bobby and they both get zapped. Eddie keeps growling at Bobby and Bobby points out that this whole thing would take a whole lot of money. And that the only reason rich people would spend as much money as it would take to do this would only do so for one reason - to make them into soldiers.
Caitlin comes back unharmed, at least physically. Patel made her model all sorts of skimpy outfits which made her feel skeevy.
Then it’s Bobby’s turn. One of the guards seems sympathetic and assures the kids that Bobby will be fine.
Meanwhile, one of the buyers has backed out. He doesn’t want his Gen13 kid anymore.
Bobby comes back with his dreadlocks cut off. He’s pretty bummed out about it.
Since the buyer backed out, Dr. Cross orders the sympathetic guard to “shoot the little punk girl”. He’s clearly sorry about it, but he has his orders and he tells her to close her eyes.
Bobby lunges, though, and sympathetic!guard gets caught in the electric shock. Ha! Eddie jumps over the table and kicks the other guard in the face, breaking his nose and disarming him. Caitlin grabs the gun and demands that the restraints be removed.
And the kids are out. And they aren’t happy to hear that the guards are going to shoot them.
Bobby (with his fire) wants to know that Sarah (with her lightning) isn’t going to kill anyone. Sarah says that she isn’t a murderer, but that this is war and the rules are different.
Meanwhile, the Tabula Rasa people are assuring their buyers that they won’t be sending the “damaged” kids off and that they’ll get them NEW kids. Dr. Cross tells a man named Mr. Lynch to “make them all go away”.
Sarah’s pissed that they killed her parents. The guards backpedal going “they weren’t your real family” to which Sarah responds “They raised me. That makes them parents.” Bobby steps in to make sure that she doesn’t kill anyone. Caitlin looks up from the guy she’s pummeling.
“Oh, look.” She says. “They have a tank.” And then she punches it and breaks it.
Eddie’s jealous. “No claws or webs or power rings or nothin’, dammit!” There’s a guard coming up behind him that he doesn’t see. Not that THAT makes any difference to P. Edmund Chang: “Give me that, you dork. You might hurt someone.” 'Bye, sneaky guard!
Eddie snags Caitlin, calling her Beautiful and pointing out that she’s got ‘em - and got him too. He plants a smooch on her.
Roxy, meanwhile, is demanding a cigarette and a way out from the guard that she is floating upside down. The way out that the guards use can be overridden and he doesn’t smoke. But he DOES have a suggestion.
Caitlin peels Eddie off, pointing out that he doesn’t know her. He points out that he likes what he DOES know and Caitlin responds that if he knew the real her, he wouldn’t even look twice. “The real you isn’t you? We’re not even dating and I’m already ten points behind.”
Oh Eddie, I love you.
Roxy leads them to the transport prototype that the guard told her about. It looks like a radioactive green globe. Lynch shoots Roxy in the back and Sarah takes out Lynch’s left eyeball with a lightning bolt.
The kids are transported to the middle of a city somewhere. And Roxy isn’t responding.
DUUNNNNNNNNNNNN!
Tune in next month for the next issue! :D
Here’s a brief summary of issue one:
Caitlin Fairchild is a redhead with glasses who is called teacher’s pet and picked on by all the other girls. Her powers are super-strength and shredding her clothes. Her parents (or the people she thought of as her parents) were shot in the head right in front of her when the Tabula Rasa people came to collect her.
Bobby Lane is a white boy with blond dreadlocks who gets beat up for “forgetting his race”. We only saw his foster mom once and she was telling him to run because the Tabula Rasa people were coming for him. He burst into flames and he’s not big on hugging.
Roxanne “Roxy” Spaulding has black hair with dyed pink bangs. She has control over gravity (in localized areas) and her mother told her that she wasn’t Roxy’s real mother and that “they” wanted her to be angry and defiant, which is why she (her mother) was so hard on Roxy. Her mother tried to shoot the collectors and told Roxy to run.
Sarah Rainmaker is Apache. She likes to read and is a political activist and is in the fluid area between lesbian and bisexual. She has control over the weather (convenient what with her name, huh?) and her parents committed suicide with rat poison right before the collectors showed up for her.
We didn’t get his name in the first issue, but his name is Percival Edmund Chang and he’s the one from Seattle. He’s also my favorite damn character out of the whole team. He’s a skateboarder and he apparently likes hugging, which is one of the things that makes him so awesome. He hasn’t manifested his powers yet, but you can look it up on Wikipedia or something if you really must.
This Gen13 is a reboot of an older comic, so we’re seeing where this goes. I’m loving it, personally.
Issue 2 starts with the bad guys at Tabula Rasa HQ. Megan the redheaded assistant goes to retrieve Dr. Fenton Cross, Facility Admin as it says on his door. He wanted to meet with a Dr. Patel.
He is also going to this meeting in pink footie pajamas with purple kitty heads on the feet. He is an amusing sort of fellow.
Dr. Patel shows up to talk about the Gen13 kids. All of their powers were activated with the exception of 13.5 - P. Edmund Chang. Again, I fucking LOVE this guy. Anyway, Eddie (as he is called by the other kids later in the issue) took his martial arts studies more seriously than the Tabula Rasa people thought and has put two of the guards in the hospital. And he hasn’t manifested his powers yet.
All of the kids have been fitted with power dampeners that will also produce an electric shock if they get too close to each other.
Roxy is worried about Eddie, but Sarah tells her to shut up since the Tabula Rasa people are listening in to everything they say. The doors open and in comes Eddie.
“Well. It’s official.” He says. “This place sucks a whole world of donkey ass.”
Eddie’s had the crap beaten out of him and Dr. Patel comes in right behind him, making like he’s a nice guy. Sarah doesn’t take kindly to the statement “Then we let you go. Honest Injun.”
Patel wants to take Caitlin next, but Eddie isn’t having it and tries to stop him and gets smacked around again. Bobby intercedes and Caitlin goes.
Eddie’s pissed off because Bobby saw what the Tabula Rasa people did to him and then just watched as they took Caitlin away. He lunges at Bobby and they both get zapped. Eddie keeps growling at Bobby and Bobby points out that this whole thing would take a whole lot of money. And that the only reason rich people would spend as much money as it would take to do this would only do so for one reason - to make them into soldiers.
Caitlin comes back unharmed, at least physically. Patel made her model all sorts of skimpy outfits which made her feel skeevy.
Then it’s Bobby’s turn. One of the guards seems sympathetic and assures the kids that Bobby will be fine.
Meanwhile, one of the buyers has backed out. He doesn’t want his Gen13 kid anymore.
Bobby comes back with his dreadlocks cut off. He’s pretty bummed out about it.
Since the buyer backed out, Dr. Cross orders the sympathetic guard to “shoot the little punk girl”. He’s clearly sorry about it, but he has his orders and he tells her to close her eyes.
Bobby lunges, though, and sympathetic!guard gets caught in the electric shock. Ha! Eddie jumps over the table and kicks the other guard in the face, breaking his nose and disarming him. Caitlin grabs the gun and demands that the restraints be removed.
And the kids are out. And they aren’t happy to hear that the guards are going to shoot them.
Bobby (with his fire) wants to know that Sarah (with her lightning) isn’t going to kill anyone. Sarah says that she isn’t a murderer, but that this is war and the rules are different.
Meanwhile, the Tabula Rasa people are assuring their buyers that they won’t be sending the “damaged” kids off and that they’ll get them NEW kids. Dr. Cross tells a man named Mr. Lynch to “make them all go away”.
Sarah’s pissed that they killed her parents. The guards backpedal going “they weren’t your real family” to which Sarah responds “They raised me. That makes them parents.” Bobby steps in to make sure that she doesn’t kill anyone. Caitlin looks up from the guy she’s pummeling.
“Oh, look.” She says. “They have a tank.” And then she punches it and breaks it.
Eddie’s jealous. “No claws or webs or power rings or nothin’, dammit!” There’s a guard coming up behind him that he doesn’t see. Not that THAT makes any difference to P. Edmund Chang: “Give me that, you dork. You might hurt someone.” 'Bye, sneaky guard!
Eddie snags Caitlin, calling her Beautiful and pointing out that she’s got ‘em - and got him too. He plants a smooch on her.
Roxy, meanwhile, is demanding a cigarette and a way out from the guard that she is floating upside down. The way out that the guards use can be overridden and he doesn’t smoke. But he DOES have a suggestion.
Caitlin peels Eddie off, pointing out that he doesn’t know her. He points out that he likes what he DOES know and Caitlin responds that if he knew the real her, he wouldn’t even look twice. “The real you isn’t you? We’re not even dating and I’m already ten points behind.”
Oh Eddie, I love you.
Roxy leads them to the transport prototype that the guard told her about. It looks like a radioactive green globe. Lynch shoots Roxy in the back and Sarah takes out Lynch’s left eyeball with a lightning bolt.
The kids are transported to the middle of a city somewhere. And Roxy isn’t responding.
DUUNNNNNNNNNNNN!
Tune in next month for the next issue! :D