The Wild Storm

A troubled woman, barred by her employer from continuing her research, walks miserably through New York City. It takes her a moment to notice that everybody else is looking up. A man has been thrown from the upper floor of the Halo skyscraper. And that woman—Angela Spica, sick from the transhuman implants she’s buried in her own body—is the only person who can save him. What she doesn’t know is that the act of saving that one man will tip over a vast and secret house of cards that encloses the entire world, if not the inner solar system. This is how the Wild Storm begins, and it may destroy covert power structures, secret space programs and even all of human history. New York Times best-selling writer Warren Ellis (TRANSMETROPOLITAN, RED, THE AUTHORITY) returns to DC to curate Jim Lee’s WildStorm world, with this debut issue resetting the WildStorm universe with new iterations of Grifter, Voodoo, the Engineer, Jenny Sparks and others. List of covers and their creators: Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location Reg Regular Cover Jon Davis-Hunt 1 Var Variant Cover Tula Lotay 2 Var Variant Cover Jim Lee, Scott Williams & Alex Sinclair 3 Var Variant Cover Jim Lee 4

All Angela Spica did was save someone’s life. And now hers is over. The rogue engineer lies bleeding in a place she hopes nobody will find - but she’s wrong. The people embedded in the secret power structures of the world are tracking her. Skywatch. Halo. International Operations. A covert operative called Grifter. If only she hadn’t unknowingly foiled an assassination planned by her boss. If only her boss wasn’t the one person more interested in the Engineer’s transhuman implants than in her life. It’s all going very wrong, very quickly. There’s going to be more blood. List of covers and their creators: Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location Reg Regular Cover Jon Davis-Hunt 1 Var Variant Cover Afua Richardson 2 Var Variant Cover Jim Lee, Scott Williams & Alex Sinclair 3

Angela Spica is wounded, alone and hiding from black-ops killers sent by her own benefactor, the man she thought responsible for her well-being—the mastermind behind an assassination attempt the Engineer just foiled. But, unknown to her, she might yet have a chance to survive this terrible day. The Grifter has a plan. A storm is building. And through it all, a mysterious woman crackles though the electrical devices that inhabit our lives, slipping among the invisible networks of the world. There’s something new in the world. List of covers and their creators: Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location Reg Regular Cover Jon Davis-Hunt 1 Var Variant Cover Jamie McKelvie 2 Var Variant Cover Jim Lee, Scott Williams & Alex Sinclair 3

There’s a covert action team out in the wild, and I.O. has proof of it for the first time. This changes everything. The woman who tipped the first domino in this cascade of secrets and lies is on the run. And the other great power of the hidden world is on the scene. Henry Bendix is noticing things from on high, and that doesn’t bode well for I.O., Angela Spica or the planet. The storm is building. List of covers and their creators: Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location Reg Regular Cover Jon Davis-Hunt 1 Var Variant Cover Jason Howard 2 Var Variant Cover Jim Lee, Scott Williams & Alex Sinclair 3

Michael Cray is dying. This doesn't stop IO from giving him one final job, to fix the world he’s spent years killing for. Michael Cray, the best assassin in the world, is sent out to kill Angela Spica, the engineer who saved Jacob Marlowe’s life and exposed the secret state she worked for. Lucy Blaze, investigating the chaos caused at Camp Hero by IO and a wild CAT, meets an old enemy—and realizes an ancient war may be entering a new phase, at the worst possible time. List of covers and their creators: Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location Reg Regular Cover Jon Davis-Hunt 1 Var Variant Cover Jim Lee, Scott Williams & Alex Sinclair 2 Var Variant Cover Declan Shalvey & Jordie Bellaire 3

Michael Cray, the world’s best professional killer, is going to get himself killed for refusing to assassinate an innocent. Angela Spica, whose only mistake was saving someone’s life, is discovering that her life is over forever, and that the people in this strange new world she’s forced to survive in...may not be people at all. Treaties have been breached. Secrets are being told. There’s a war coming. THE WILD STORM will skip shipping in August and return in September! List of covers and their creators: Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location Reg Regular Cover Jon Davis-Hunt 1 Var Variant Cover Jim Lee, Scott Williams & Alex Sinclair 2 Var Variant Cover Jason Masters & Guy Major 3

Jackie King, chief analyst at I.O., tries to make sense of all the pieces scattered across the board since Angela Spica saved Jacob Marlowe’s life. Angela Spica wakes up at Jacob Marlowe’s safe house and starts to realize how far from real life she’s been thrown since then. But life is not slowing down, and Marlowe’s wild covert action team have to extract the last member of their number from an I.O. black site. Meet John Colt—moments before he’s either rescued or murdered or dissected to reveal a secret kept for thousands of years. List of covers and their creators: Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location Reg Regular Cover Jon Davis-Hunt 1 Var Variant Cover Bryan Hitch & Alex Sinclair Missing Var Variant Cover Jim Lee, Scott Williams & Alex Sinclair 2

Jacob Marlowe told Angie Spica that he isn’t from around here. He is, in fact, from a long way away. And the story of how he and his friends got here is probably the oldest secret on Earth. The Wild Storm cosmology begins here. Also, nobody has stopped trying to kill Angie Spica, and I.O. Chief Analyst Jacklyn King just had the worst and most brilliant idea of her life. List of covers and their creators: Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location Reg Regular Cover Jon Davis-Hunt 1 Var Variant Cover Bryan Hitch & Alex Sinclair 2 Var Variant Cover Jim Lee, Scott Williams & Alex Sinclair 3

Angie Spica is given access to Jacob Marlowe’s secret lab, and discovers a treasure trove of technologies and sciences strange, ancient and alien. In this underground hold, she begins the process of fixing herself—and, perhaps, even evolving herself. In another hidden room, Jackie King and her team at IO begin planning a covert cyberwar attack against Skywatch—something even her own boss doesn’t know she’s doing. List of covers and their creators: Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location Reg Regular Cover Jon Davis-Hunt 1 Var Variant Cover Jim Lee & Alex Sinclair 2 Var Variant Cover Bryan Hitch & Alex Sinclair 3

The WildCAT and Jackie King at IO are planning elaborate heists. One heist could save the world. One could end it. And there’s no guarantee that either the CAT or Jackie and her team will get out of their respective capers alive. And IO director Miles Craven is distracted by many troubles and questions, including: What was Project Thunderbook? List of covers and their creators: Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location Reg Regular Cover Jon Davis-Hunt 1 Var Variant Cover Jim Lee, Scott Williams & Alex Sinclair 2 Var Variant Cover Bryan Hitch & Alex Sinclair 3 Note : Zealot only appears on the cover.

The Wild CAT must reinfiltrate the Hightower site in order to prevent their own exposure—and also the roll out of a new global surveillance tool that will cement I.O.’s dominance over the planet. But if you’re a bunch of aliens and an ex-spook who faked his own death, you can probably be forgiven for thinking about your own weird skin first. Jackie King and the I.O. analysis team could take a leaf out of their book, because they’re about to undertake a cyber-attack on Skywatch, the managers of outer space, that could easily get them killed... List of covers and their creators: Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location Reg Regular Cover Jon Davis-Hunt 1 Var Variant Cover Jim Lee, Scott Williams & Alex Sinclair 2 Var Variant Cover Bryan Hitch & Alex Sinclair 3

Angela Spica, retooling her drysuit in Marlowe’s hidden lab, has made many discoveries. But she’s still her, which means she’s also stolen stuff. Is she going to lose the only safe haven she has? The Wild CAT is in jeopardy, IO and Skywatch are inches from a hot war, and somebody, somewhere, has noticed that Jackie King has been doing things she shouldn’t have. The stakes in the world of The Wild Storm have never been higher—and Project Thunderbook is going to make things much, much worse. List of covers and their creators: Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location Reg Regular Cover Jon Davis-Hunt 1 Var Variant Cover Jim Lee & Alex Sinclair 2 Var Variant Cover Bryan Hitch & Alex Sinclair 3

John Lynch, once the director of IO, the secret deep-state agency that runs Earth, is on the road. His darkest project, Thunderbook, has been uncovered, and he needs to warn the principals, now scattered across America. Hiding. Because they were his most successful experiments. And none of them are completely human anymore. List of covers and their creators: Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location Reg Regular Cover Jon Davis-Hunt 1 Var Variant Cover Francesco Francavilla 2

John Lynch, ex-director of IO, is travelling to America to warn the subjects of his most secret program that the current heads of IO may know about them—what Lynch did to them in Project Thunderbook, how they changed and where they’re hiding. He may be a day too late to help Alexandra Fairchild, waiting in the middle of nowhere for people to come and kill her. List of covers and their creators: Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location Reg Regular Cover Jon Davis-Hunt 1 Var Variant Cover Vanesa Del Rey 2

Marc Slayton took his show on the road, as the thing inside him he called the Carer told him to. But whom is he hunting, and for what purpose? John Lynch is crisscrossing America to warn the other Thunderbook test subjects that IO might have discovered them, but IO might not be the only threat to their lives. The uneasy peace between IO and Skywatch has become a cold war—and there are plans for a hot war. List of covers and their creators: Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location Reg Regular Cover Jon Davis-Hunt 1 Var Variant Cover Valentine De Landro 2

What was Project Thunderbook? What did John Lynch do to the Thunderbook experimental subjects? Why did he shut it down and scatter them across America? Why isn’t Thunderbook subject Gloria Spaulding aging? Why do people act like she’s an alien? Well...alien is exactly what they made her at Thunderbook. List of covers and their creators: Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location Reg Regular Cover Jon Davis-Hunt 1 Var Variant Cover Sana Takeda 2

Stephen Rainmaker was the most dangerous man John Lynch knew even before he was inducted into the Thunderbook program. So much so that nobody could quite define how Thunderbook changed him. On his trip around America to warn his old team, Lynch left Rainmaker until last— for a reason. This is the visit that Lynch always knew could kill him. Meanwhile, Marc Slayton is discovering new things about America, IO and Skywatch. List of covers and their creators: Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location Reg Regular Cover Jon Davis-Hunt 1 Var Variant Cover James Harren 2

You can never go home again, but John Lynch needs to go somewhere to begin the last act of his life. Jack Hawksmoor never really had a home, especially since he became something other than human. As the war between IO and Skywatch gets hot, Marc Slayton has somewhere for Lynch to go, and Jenny Sparks may have a new home for Jack Hawksmoor...and Angela Spica. List of covers and their creators: Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location Reg Regular Cover Jon Davis-Hunt 1 Var Variant Cover Daniel Warren Johnson & Michael Spicer 2

Beginning the fourth story arc of THE WILD STORM. Jenny Mei Sparks has been around for over a century. She’s seen a lot of things. Enough bad stuff that she took 20 years off to get drunk. And now she’s back, and she has a plan. The problem is that other people have plans, too, and one of them is about reducing the population of Earth by around 90 percent. List of covers and their creators: Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location Reg Regular Cover Jon Davis-Hunt 1 Var Variant Cover Marley Zarcone & Tamra Bonvillain 2

Skywatch intensifies its preparation for war, increasing its attacks on the planet. For some of these conflict zones, Skywatch’s greatest threat is not IO or conventional forces, but the people who escaped from its own experimentation camps. And the four people in London whom it knows little about, but who are preparing to take steps to alter the balance of the world… List of covers and their creators: Cover Name Creator(s) Sidebar Location Reg Regular Cover Jon Davis-Hunt 1 Var Variant Cover Yasmine Putri 2