Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- StormWatch
- Cannon
- StormWatch One
- Weatherman One (Henry Bendix)
Villains:
- Sh'rrrnn (First Appearance) (also disguised as Black Anvil)
Other Characters:
- Hurlbert Wainright (First Appearance)
- Merrily Wainright (First Appearance)
- Dennis
- Kincaid
Locations:
- Top Cow Universe/Wildstorm Universe
- Atlantic Ocean
- Nepal
- United States of America
- New York
- The Hamptons, Long Island
- New York
- Skywatch
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for 1st story
Stormwatch One returns to Skywatch disgruntled by their shuttle pilot’s flying. Weatherman One debriefs the pilot as they walk to his quarters. Once inside, the pilot transforms into a grotesque alien and attacks. It briefly mimics Weatherman’s form before fleeing. To flush out this infiltrator, Bendix seeks help from Stryker, now operating from the submarine recovered from Death’s Angel. In the Hamptons, Black Anvil has just dropped in—literally—to his younger sister’s birthday party when he gets Stryker’s signal that the team has a new mission. Along with Bloodbow and Tempest, they fly to Nepal to collect Killrazor who has been meditating on a Himalayan mountaintop. Stryke Force then takes a shuttle to Skywatch. Upon their arrival, Weatherman introduces them as the newly activated Stormwatch Five. The shapeshifter sees this, retreats to the room where it keeps the humans it mimics, and decides it must eliminate Stryke Force. In the Stormwatch rec room, Cannon mocks Black Anvil, nearly starting a fight, but their teammates separate them. Later, Black Anvil sucker punches Cannon in a corridor then runs off. Meanwhile, Black Anvil answers the door to his quarters only to be punched in the face by his duplicate.
Trivia
- The cover of this issue is an homage to the cover of StormWatch vol. 1 #1.