- Well now. My colleague doesn't like your guns. That means he doesn't like you. But he's polite. A mild-mannered man. That's as angry as he gets. I, on the other hand, hate you.
StormWatch (Volume 2) #4 is an issue of the series StormWatch (Volume 2) with a cover date of February, 1998. It was published on February 11, 1998.
Synopsis for "A Finer World (Part 1 of 3)"
Weatherman Jackson King learns from Christine that she found from Henry Bendix's Memory Tower are two fully-trained StormWatch field operatives whom StormWatch know nothing about. She explains that years ago Bendix ran a secret training program to create a team that is more secretive than StormWatch Black. Five years ago, Bendix sent this team on a spook mission in which only five out seven of its members were found dead. The remaining two were left unaccounted. Bendix made an entry two years later, following an anomalous reading from a Skywatch sensor sweep in which he believes are the two operatives who are alive and operating alone, in which he considered them to have gone rogue. Christine strongly suspects these superhuman operatives are not comet-effect Seedlings, nor alien/human hybrids like the Wildcats, but were built by Bendix. Jackson is left concerned that these rogue superhumans might pose a threat to the public and he orders all StormWatch field officers to apprehend them.
Five years ago, Henry Bendix assembled his secretive team known as StormWatch Zero, which consists of Impetus, Amaze, Lamplight, Stalker, Crow Jane, Apollo, and the Midnighter. Bendix considered them the best of the best in which he sent them on a proving mission.
After failing to contact Hellstrike and Fahrenheit to assemble with the team, Jackson breaks into Fahrenheit's suite and catches them in an intimate moment. He then sternly demands them to be in his office.
An illegal exotic arms sale is raided by the Midnighter and Apollo. After they subdued the thugs and destroyed the weapons, Midnighter interrogates an arms dealer into divulging where the weapons came from in which it is the "Nevada Garden." The man cannot explain more about the Nevada Garden and only keeps begging to die because, according to Midnighter, whatever is behind the Garden badly frightens the arms dealer in which speaking its name makes him want to die. Midnighter and Apollo are determined to find this Nevada Garden.
Appearing in "A Finer World (Part 1 of 3)"
Featured Characters:
- Apollo (First appearance)
- Midnighter (First appearance)
- StormWatch
Supporting Characters:
Antagonists:
- Henry Bendix (Flashback only)
Other Characters:
Locations:
Items:
Notes
- This issue marks the first appearance of Apollo and Midnighter.
- This issue also marks the first appearance of the rest of Henry Bendix's secret StormWatch Zero: Amaze, Lamplight, Stalker, Impetus, and Crow Jane.
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