Appearing in 1st story
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- International Operations
- Barnes
- Crenshaw
- Zaijian Shinsheng
Antagonists:
- Regiment (appears in both flashback and main story) (Origin)
- Miles Craven (Main story and flashback)
- Daemonites (Main story and flashback)
Other Characters:
- Confucius
- Team One (Main story and flashback)
- Towa Tei (Main story and flashback)
- Chiko
Locations:
- Wildstorm Universe
- Tokyo, Japan
- Taipei, Taiwan
- United States of America (Main story and flashback)
- New York
- Camp Williams, North Dakota
Items:
Vehicles:
Synopsis for 1st story
Cash gets armed and dressed while Regiment continues his rampage in the streets. Grifter shoots him to no effect and then climbs aboard an IO helicopter. Crenshaw agrees to help Cash in exchange for stopping Regiment and uses a virtual reality helmet to brief Regiment’s history: a convicted murderer, he was recruited by Miles Craven for the Team 0 protocols in exchange for a commuted sentence; given superhuman strength—the equivalent of a regiment of men, hence his codename—he joined Team One and stopped the Daemonite detonation of a nuclear bomb; left highly radioactive afterward, he was sold by IO to Dr. Towa’s company in Japan. In addition to a passport, Grifter negotiates for $100,000 and a special VAD cannon to stop Regiment. He then leaps back into battle, fighting Regiment in the streets until Zaijian and agents of Confucius arrive to help. Throughout, Regiment repeatedly screams Craven’s name. IO finally arrives with the cannon, and Grifter blasts Regiment with it three times to knock him out. IO takes Regiment into custody, and Cash returns with Zaijian to Taipei where he visits Chiko, a woman he accidentally injured in the battle with Diabolik.
Notes
- This issue includes a pin-up of Grifter by Ryan Benjamin and Tom McWeeney.