Wildstorm Rising

"Wildstorm Rising"
Cover of Wildstorm Rising  (1996), trade paperback collected edition.Art by Barry Windsor-Smith.
Publisher	Wildstorm Comics
Publication date	May – Jun 1995
Genre	Superhero Crossover
Title(s) Backlash #8 Deathblow #16 Gen¹³ vol. 2, #2 Grifter #1 Stormwatch vol. 1, #22 Team 7: Objective: Hell #1 Union #4 Wetworks #8 WildC.A.T.s vol. 1, #20 Wildstorm Rising #1-2

Wildstorm Rising was a crossover event published by Image Comics/WildStorm that involved the entire line of titles published by WildStorm in 1995.

Publication history

The 10-part crossover was published as a two-issue comic book limited series Wildstorm Rising that served as bookends of the story arc (cover dated May 1995-June 1995) while also running through these specific WildStorm titles:

• WildC.A.T.s #20
• Union #4
• Grifter #1
• Gen¹³ #2
• Deathblow #16
• Wetworks #8
• Backlash #8
• Stormwatch #22.

Creators

Various comic book writers and artists who worked on this crossover event included: Jim Lee, Travis Charest, Ron Marz, Kevin Maguire and Barry Windsor-Smith (who co-wrote & illustrated Wildstorm Rising # 1, and illustrated all of the covers to tie-in issues).

Plot

Stormwatch and WILDC.A.T.S end up at odds but have to stop fighting long enough to stop Helspont and Defile from collecting all the keys to unlock the Daemonite ship which could destroy Earth.

Collections

This crossover was later collected as a trade paperback:

• Wildstorm Rising (272 pages, Image Comics, December 1998, ISBN 1-887279-23-7, WildStorm, June 1996, ISBN 1563895889)

References

• Wildstorm Rising at the Comic Book DB