Issue #1 SYNOPSIS

Each character had been slowly come to terms with their new abilities, and adjusting to an altered life.

Gradually, each character began to feel a sense of foreboding, which ultimately culminated in visits from thugs made of darkness. Each character (with the exception of Vinnie Maritano, who has an affinity with darkness and was simply overwhelmed with his own power) was captured and awoke some time later in a glass box. There, they were pitted against other super-powered beings (a man with the ability to cause earthquake-like effects, a woman with banshee powers, and another man with some sort of super-powered gauntlet) at the behest of a man named Victor Lyons. Lyons, who famously runs a scientific foundation in his mundane life, had developed the power to create and manipulate the glass-like substance in which the characters were trapped.

As the fight began, Maritano was drawn from the darkness by a cry for help from a man who proved to be incommunicado when he was finally reached. Vinnie joined the fight, and after defeating the initial threat, the characters were set upon by a giant dark creature, not unlike the thugs that had captured them.

With a brief warning from Maritano (who appeared in his pajamas), the characters braced themselves for another fight...