Wetworks (comics)
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Wetworks is an American
The story is about a team of
Publication history
Originally intended as one of the core
A relaunch of the same title began in 2006 by writer
Wetworks reappeared as one of the one-shots in Wildstorm: Armageddon, but it was not one of the series restarted following the World's End events.
Plot
Wetworks is a covert operations team in the
A hidden sniper shot at one of the tubes when team member Clayton "Claymore" Maure was examining it. The tube broke and the golden fluid jumped on Claymore as if it were alive, covering his whole body. If that was not enough, they were attacked by some terrorists. The terrorists started shooting, but the bullets bounced off Claymore's gold-covered body. Time was ticking and Col. Dane decided the team should open the remaining tubes to use the golden symbiotes as protection against the detonation of the explosives
After the detonation, the enclave was destroyed, but Team 7 emerged from the fire unharmed. That was when I/O's cleaners (three aircraft) were ordered to enter the site to kill the surviving team members. The field leader of the cleaners, Mother One, double-crossed I/O and shot down two aircraft before destroying her own. Mother One also had a golden symbiote, although it was not shown how she acquired it.
Mother One explained to Team 7 they were double-crossed by Craven and I/O and asked them to accompany her to her boss, industrialist Armand Waering.
Col. Dane reluctantly accepted and they started to work for Armand Waering. Waering told them that he wanted to kill the Vampire Nation because they wanted to take over the world from the humans. What he did not tell the team was that he was actually the Jaquar, leader of the Werenation.
Two members of Wetworks died early in their battles with the undead – Flattop and Crossbones. Later Pilgrim's brother, Nathaniel Blackbird joined the squad, and they learned that both he and Pilgrim (unknown to her) were both werewolves. Several members of the squad died during a major mission some time later, including Dozer and Claymore, and Wetworks broke up. Recently Dane has reactivated the team to deal with breaks in reality caused by another superteam, which have been turned into portals for forces from another dimension.
World's End
After the massive destruction dealt to Earth in the Number of the Beast miniseries, Lynch, head of the former Team 7, tries to convince Dane and the Wetworks into rejoining the Team, in an attempt to reverse the devastation and restore Earth to its former state.
Dane refuses his proposal since he no longer believes in a simple solution, and prefers tasking the Wetworks of defending humanity from the vampires. This is further detailed in Stormwatch – PHD as that team is targeted by Eastern European vampires. [2]
Characters
Original series members
- Claymore (Clayton H. Maure)
- Crossbones (Nicholas A. Jones)
- Dane(Jackson Michael Dane), member of the original Team 7
- Dozer (Joseph H. Mendoza)
- Flattop (Jason C. Phillips)
- Grail (Salvador Joel Alonday)
- Jester (Cord Dexter Lemoyne)
- Mother-One (Rachel L. Rhodes)
- Pilgrim (Maritza Blackbird)
- Blackbird (Nathaniel Blackbird)
Second series members
- Dane (Jackson Michael Dane)
- Mother-One (Rachel L. Rhodes)
- Red (Persephone)
- Dustwalker (Ab-Death)
- Sebastian Ashe
Collected editions
One collection of the first series has been released:
- Wetworks: Rebirth (collects #1–3, 96 pages, Image Comics / WildStorm Productions, October 1996, ISBN 1-887279-33-4)
The new series has been collected in two trade paperbacks:
- Wetworks Book 1 (collects #1–5 plus two short stories, 136 pages, Wildstorm, October 2007, ISBN 978-1-4012-1375-6)
- Wetworks Book 2 (collects #6–9 and 13–15, 160 pages, Wildstorm, January 2008, ISBN 978-1-4012-1639-9)
In other media
Television
The Pilgrim appears in
Toys
Two waves of Wetworks action figures were produced by McFarlane Toys from 1995 to 1996.[3][4]
References
- ^ DC Comics
- ^ Stormwatch – PHD #20–21 (2009)
- ^ "Spawn.Com >> Toys >> Comics >> Wetworks Series 1". Archived from the original on 2008-08-02. Retrieved 2008-07-31.
- ^ "Spawn.Com >> Toys >> Comics >> Wetworks Series 2". Archived from the original on 2008-08-02. Retrieved 2008-07-31.