WildC.ATs

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WildC.ATs
Original title WildC.ATs: Covert Action Teams
genre Action, superheroes
Comic
author Brandon Choi
Illustrator Jim Lee
publishing company Image comics
First publication 1992-1998
expenditure 50
Television broadcast
Country of production United States
original language English
year 1994
length 25 minutes
Episodes 13
music Ray Parker, Tom Szczesniak
First broadcast October 1, 1994 - January 21, 1995 on CBS
synchronization

WildC.ATs (also Wildcats or WildCats ; at Splitter Verlag WildC.ATS ) is a superhero team with its own comic series , created by the American comic artist Jim Lee and author Brandon Choi . The series about the team now comprises more than 1000 pages, has been translated into several languages ​​and adapted as an animated series , among other things .

Release history

The team first appeared in 1992 in the first eponymous issue of the WildC.ATs: Covert Action Teams series and was published by Image Comics . It was the first publication of the newly founded publisher and co-founder Jim Lee, as well as Jim Lee's first authoring project, so he kept all rights. The first series consisted of 50 issues and contained, in addition to the work of Lee, content from artists such as Travis Charest , Chris Claremont , James Robinson and Alan Moore . This was followed by productions in other media areas, such as an animated series about comics that started on CBS in 1994 and a range of toys from Playmates Toys .

In 1998 the rights to the WildC.ATs were sold to DC Comics when DC bought Lee's company Wildstorm Productions . A new embodiment of the team was soon released under the name Wildcats . The focus was now on the former members of the now defunct team and a more realistic style across these 28 issues. The third series, Wildcats version 3.0 , was essentially about the "HALO Corporation", its managing director Jack Marlowe (a merger of the original team members Spartan and Void), Grifter and a gallery of new characters who undermined company policy to achieve their goal of one to get closer to a better world. This series appeared in 24 issues and was replaced by a nine-part limited series entitled Wildcats: Nemesis .

At the end of 2006 a fourth series was started as part of the Worldstorm publications. For this series, Jim Lee returned as a regular artist, while Grant Morrison wrote the series. Only one issue was published, other issues were withheld. A fifth series of Wildcats started in mid-2008 and was embedded in the World's End - Crossover .

26 issues of the series were published from February 1997 to May 1999 by Splitter Verlag in German. There are also translations into Spanish, French and Italian.

Characters of the series

The first team consisted of four members:

  • Spartan : Originally designed as a sophisticated cyborg, he could die and easily be transferred to a new body, Spartan's figure has been reworked several times. Spartan is the somewhat stiff leader, but has "human feelings" for Voodoo. He is the rebirth of a long-dead hero, John Colt or the Kherubim Lord Yohn Kohl. He later absorbed the powers of Void, making him one of the most powerful beings in the Wildstorm universe. He turned away from the superhero role and tried to make the world a better place in the role of Jack Marlowe, General Manager of the Halo Company, by introducing sophisticated alien technology into human society.
  • Zealot : Zannah, a Kherubim and a Coda warrior. Zealot is the former majestrix (leader) of the Coda. She is many thousands of years old and has had many relationships with humans and aliens. After breaking the rules of the coda that she had issued, she left her clan and has been hunted by her former sisters ever since. She was a member of Team One under the name Lucy Blaze. Zealot is close friends with Grifter and equally fond of her sister Savant, who is actually her own daughter. Team Stormwatch Winter is possibly Zealot's son. Zealot left the WildC.ATs, joined the Dept. for a period. PSI and led WildCORE together with Backlash, a half-Kherubim and former member of Team 7. In the following years, Zealot turned against their former allies of the Coda with the accusation that they had degenerated into mere contract killers who had betrayed their real purpose. Since then, she has single-handedly killed most of the codas.
  • Voodoo : Priscilla Kitaen is a telepathic human-Kherubim hybrid with demonite ancestors. Voodoo has the ability to see daemonites who have taken over human bodies and separate them from the possessed bodies. She was an exotic dancer before being saved from the Daemonites by the WildC.A.Ts. She was later trained in combat by Zealot and developed a relationship with Spartan. Her demon parentage was only revealed after she was shot and fell into a coma. Void entered her mind through a computer and learned that one of her ancestors, a kherubim, was possessed by a demonite. Disappointed with her life as a superhero, she left the WildC.ATs and studied the arts of voodoo magic. After leaving the WildC.ATs, Voodoo was attacked by a serial killer named Samuel Smith. As a result of this attack, she lost both legs. An old daemonite appeared to her and taught her to use her hidden powers of regeneration and time manipulation. She was able to regenerate her legs and began an affair with her former teammate Maul.
  • Grifter : As a former government agent and a member of Team 7, Cole Cash is the only man who has ever been trained by a coda. Grifter is the group's loner, although he seemed very fond of his team partner, Zealot. He was the only team member who did not use active superhuman powers, even though he did, as his superhuman genes were still active after the breakup of Team 7. His disagreements with Jacob Marlowe and the arrival of the second WildC.ATs team led him to leave the team. He returned to the WildC.ATs after the death of his brother Max, but left again after the apparent death of Zealot. Emp persuaded him to return to the team to tackle the Kenyan threat. After Kenyan's death, Cole started working for Jack Marlowe, paralyzing his legs and being confined to a wheelchair for a long time. Grifter even had to use Ladytron's robot body as a remote controlled replacement. Grifter's latent powers recently healed his legs.

Adaptations

Television series

In 1994 Nelvana and WildStorm produced a 13-part animated series based on the comic, the script of which was written by David Wise. The music was composed by Ray Parker and Tom Szczesniak . CBS aired the series from October 1, 1994 to January 21, 1995 in the United States. Funimation Entertainment released the series on DVD in 2005.

synchronization
role English speaker
Dockwell Denis Akiyama
Mouth Paul Mota
Zealot Roscoe Handford
Void Janet-Laine Green
voodoo Ruth Marshall

Spin-offs

For multiple characters, e.g. B. Voodoo , there was its own comic series. Grifter received its own series in the course of the new DC universe (see The New 52 ) in 2011, which was discontinued after 16 issues.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see e.g. B. WildC.ATS # 3, Splitter Verlag, Munich 1997