View Full Version : Where is Backlash????
xandertheill
11-11-2005, 09:59 PM
Just wondering where backlash is. he was my Favorite character back in the original Stormwatch days but once we lost the original stormwatch team I lost him, with the exception of his solo series (or was it kindred with him and grifter) & the Crossover with spiderman i lost track. what's happening with him now? anyone know what i should be reading?
Sean Whitmore
11-12-2005, 12:07 AM
He led a new team called in the series Wildcore for awhile, until it was cancelled. Wildcore made an appearance later in the fourth issue of Gen-Active, where most of the team was killed during a breakout at a super-prison. Backlash himself lost a leg, I believe.
But that was quite a few years ago, and he may very well have made appearances since then.
SEAN
Jake V
11-12-2005, 01:05 AM
Last I saw, he was operating without a costume as an agent of IO in Sleeper.
Expletive Deleted
11-12-2005, 09:17 AM
Yeah, he played a pretty big role in POINT BLANK and SLEEPER. He basically ran IO when Lynch was in a coma.
Mo S.
11-12-2005, 09:35 AM
He'll be in TEAM ZERO, the Chuck Dixon book on WildStorm, out early next year some time.
Sean Whitmore
11-12-2005, 10:03 AM
He'll be in TEAM ZERO, the Chuck Dixon book on WildStorm, out early next year some time.
Cool, I hadn't heard of this. Is it all old Team 7 members, or just a random mix of heroes?
SEAN
Mo S.
11-12-2005, 10:41 AM
Cool, I hadn't heard of this. Is it all old Team 7 members, or just a random mix of heroes?
First issue is due out Decmber 7th (rather fitting)
Combination of solicits for the first two issues:
Acclaimed writer Chuck Dixon (NIGHTWING, ROBIN) revisits the Team he
helped create and enlists super-star artists Doug Mahnke (BATMAN, JLA) & Sandra Hope (INFINITE CRISIS covers, DANGER GIRL) for a 6-issue tale of heroism and bloodshed.
The year is 1945. In the twilight of World War II, a clash of ideologies leads to a colder, more sinister conflict. And the first battle of this new World War will be fought on the eastern frontier of Germany by a band of seven American commandos. In the epic tradition of the original Team Seven and such films as The Dirty Dozen and Saving Private Ryan comes a blood-and-guts tale set in the waning days of World War II.
Codename Deathblow has been assigned a mission of dire importance to the future of American national security: reach German test labs in Peenemunde, Germany before the Soviets can, and evacuate all personnel.
Deathblow gathers his team of seven for their deadly mission into Germany. Meet Backlash, Grifter, and the whole unit as they prepare for what could be a suicide mission! It's hardcore World War II action in the vein of Band of Brothers!
Dizzy D
11-12-2005, 04:19 PM
1945? So this is some kind of Elseworlds story? Or a previous version of the team that uses the codenames that Team7 ends up using?
It does sound like a great story though, so I'm picking it up.
1945? So this is some kind of Elseworlds story? Or a previous version of the team that uses the codenames that Team7 ends up using?
It does sound like a great story though, so I'm picking it up.
seeing that grifter is supposed to be much older then he actually looks, and backlash is immortal i'm pretty sure this is the normal universe where talking about
Stellar
11-13-2005, 08:15 AM
yeah, but that Deathblow is probably James Cray, Mike's father. he was after all an admiral.
edit: as for Backlash, last time i saw him was in Point Blank with a bionic leg. losing the gen-factor probably took his healing powers which leaves him only with misting.
xandertheill
11-13-2005, 09:49 PM
wow i've missed a lot thanks for the listing.... i'll be on the look out for those
Strannik
11-14-2005, 07:58 PM
seeing that grifter is supposed to be much older then he actually looks, and backlash is immortal i'm pretty sure this is the normal universe where talking about
In an interview at Newsarama, Chuck Dixon, the writer of Team 0 (as well as the first two Team 7 minis) specifically stated that the Grifter in Team 0 was not Cole Cash. Backlash, on the other hand, is the original one, by the virtue of his immortality.
Sean Whitmore
11-14-2005, 08:06 PM
In an interview at Newsarama, Chuck Dixon, the writer of Team 0 (as well as the first two Team 7 minis) specifically stated that the Grifter in Team 0 was not Cole Cash.
Cole and Max's pappy, perhaps? De we know anything about him?
SEAN
Dizzy D
11-15-2005, 05:09 AM
Cole and Max's pappy, perhaps? De we know anything about him?
SEAN
Nothing really, some talk by Grifter about him in Point Blank and in the Eye of the Storm annual IIRC. But it was mostly how he interacted with Max and Cole and it was all text.
Strannik
11-16-2005, 08:14 PM
Cole and Max's pappy, perhaps?
Maybe. Who knows. Chuck Dixon only said that Team 0's Grifter will be someone who's better suited for the codename.
Stellar
11-17-2005, 03:57 PM
I doubt it was Cole's father. he spent most of his life as a conman in Chicago. hell, he even faked his own death. didn't even tell his sons.
but i'm curious as to who this grifter is.
nihil_domini
12-05-2005, 10:55 PM
Has it occured to anyone that Cole's Team 7 codename was in fact Deadeye and not Grifter? :confused:
Strannik
12-06-2005, 08:36 AM
Has it occured to anyone that Cole's Team 7 codename was in fact Deadeye and not Grifter? :confused:
Yep. But since the Grifter from Team 0 is a diffrent guy, it doesn't bother me too much.
Stellar
12-07-2005, 06:17 AM
yeah, but it's still a pretty big coincidence. that Deadeye goes on to become Grifter, which was the name of his predecessor.
and by the way, i thought Team One was the first blackbag unit.
but i guess Craven was able to keep Team 0 secret even from Saul Baxter a.k.a. Lord Emp
nihil_domini
12-08-2005, 10:13 AM
I'm kinda hoping that Craven is an operative with this team (Like Lynch with Team7), but then again he would've recognized Slayton during Team1.
In an interview at Newsarama, Chuck Dixon, the writer of Team 0 (as well as the first two Team 7 minis) specifically stated that the Grifter in Team 0 was not Cole Cash. Backlash, on the other hand, is the original one, by the virtue of his immortality.
wel at least i was partially right.
Strannik
12-08-2005, 01:39 PM
Well, the first issue of Team 0 came out yesterday. I won't be able to get to my LCS until tomorrow, but, if anyone has read it already, please feel free to share.
Stellar
12-12-2005, 07:53 AM
seems some dudes started a Team 0 topic
Avery Davis
12-13-2005, 05:28 AM
The first issue of Team Zero was pretty good, I'l be looking out for the second issue........
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Stellar
12-13-2005, 01:06 PM
the hell is C.H.E.S.S.
Erik Lehnsherr
12-13-2005, 04:30 PM
Were any of the Gen 13 kids Backlash's children??
Strannik
12-13-2005, 04:40 PM
Were any of the Gen 13 kids Backlash's children??
Nope, though he did had a Gen-Active daughter named Jodi. Her power is enhanced speed. She adventured (with her father's reluctant approval) under the alias of Crimson along with Backlash and later as part of Wildcore, a Department P.S.I-sponsored team. When her boyfriend was killed, she left the team and became a vigilente known as Jet. She was last seen attending college in California. Considering her age at the time (18), she probably graduated since her last apperance
Erik Lehnsherr
12-13-2005, 05:03 PM
Nope, though he did had a Gen-Active daughter named Jodi. Her power is enhanced speed. She adventured (with her father's reluctant approval) under the alias of Crimson along with Backlash and later as part of Wildcore, a Department P.S.I-sponsored team. When her boyfriend was killed, she left the team and became a vigilente known as Jet. She was last seen attending college in California. Considering her age at the time (18), she probably graduated since her last apperance
Thanks for the info..off topic but you wouldn't happen to know whatever happened to Battalion and his underrated father, Despot, in Stormwatch?
Stellar
12-14-2005, 09:10 AM
Despot got fried by Spartan somewhere after Wildstorm Rising. Spartan lured him into a powerplant where he zapped him with all the city's power. Spartan, of course, was destroyed along with Despot.
as for Battalion, last i saw he and Synergy were running a UN surveillance op.
Edit: Backlash also has a son named Ares. his body was artificially grown to resemble that of a 20 year old man when he was only 15, like his twin sister Jodi. haven't heard anything bout that mother since Fire from Heaven
Strannik
12-14-2005, 10:03 AM
Despot got fried by Spartan somewhere after Wildstorm Rising. Spartan lured him into a powerplant where he zapped him with all the city's power. Spartan, of course, was destroyed along with Despot.
as for Battalion, last i saw he and Synergy were running a UN surveillance op.
I should note that Spartan in question wasn't the one that eventually became Jack Marlowe. During Wildstorm Rising incident, one of Spartan's bodies got heavily damaged. His memories got copied into another body, which wound up traveling to Khera with the rest of the WildC.A.T.s. The other body was repaired by Stormwatch. So, affectively, they were two Spartains with more or less identical memories and personalities running around in WSU. Until, of course, the Stormwatch Spartian got killed.
As for Jackson King, he wound up leading the Monarchy. He was last seen leaving Wildstorm Universe along with the rest of the team.
Stellar
12-14-2005, 10:18 AM
yeah, i posted that little bit about the two spartans in the Majestic topic a while back.
then there was 'Choi's Spartan' as i refer to him, the one who had all of John Colt's memories. whatever happened to him. last time i saw him was in WildC.A.T.s #47, i think
Erik Lehnsherr
12-15-2005, 08:18 PM
Despot got fried by Spartan somewhere after Wildstorm Rising. Spartan lured him into a powerplant where he zapped him with all the city's power. Spartan, of course, was destroyed along with Despot.
as for Battalion, last i saw he and Synergy were running a UN surveillance op.
Edit: Backlash also has a son named Ares. his body was artificially grown to resemble that of a 20 year old man when he was only 15, like his twin sister Jodi. haven't heard anything bout that mother since Fire from Heaven
Despot is dead? Damn! Another great villian gone... :mad:
Stellar
12-16-2005, 08:37 AM
well, he was pretty bad-ass with psionics. Threshold from DV8 resembles him in a lot of ways, from powers right down to the outfit and the covered eye. still, i didn't like the fact that Isaiah King was reduced to a lunatic overlord. but on the other hand, it shows Wildstorm's ability to throw in a little realism: not too many happy endings.
Erik Lehnsherr
12-16-2005, 08:51 AM
well, he was pretty bad-ass with psionics. Threshold from DV8 resembles him in a lot of ways, from powers right down to the outfit and the covered eye. still, i didn't like the fact that Isaiah King was reduced to a lunatic overlord. but on the other hand, it shows Wildstorm's ability to throw in a little realism: not too many happy endings.
YES! He had that great purple cape, had a fascinating motivation, and seemed like he was big enough to be the centerpiece of top villiany in Wildstorm. Not to mention his extremely powerful psionic ability.
Stellar
12-16-2005, 09:24 AM
hey, now that you mention him being big, i recall him towering over everybody else. he had to be at least 8 feet tall. this guy really was BIG!
The Colonel
07-24-2007, 08:24 PM
I miss Backlash :(
DaveEB
07-24-2007, 10:04 PM
Despot is dead? Damn! Another great villian gone... :mad:
Whoah, I missed this thread...Despot was never dead...He got shot up by Grifter at the end of Wildstorm Rising and was virtually never heard from again(until the current Stormwatch: PHD series) but he escaped and was shown at least once after plotting but never resurfaced until recently...He's got a much different look now though.
And I just realized that that post was way back in 2005...ouch...
Gavin Higginbotham, BotF
07-25-2007, 04:38 AM
Whoah, I missed this thread...Despot was never dead...He got shot up by Grifter at the end of Wildstorm Rising and was virtually never heard from again(until the current Stormwatch: PHD series) but he escaped and was shown at least once after plotting but never resurfaced until recently...He's got a much different look now though.
And I just realized that that post was way back in 2005...ouch...
I think you're confusing Despot with Lord Defile.
DaveEB
07-25-2007, 08:27 AM
I think you're confusing Despot with Lord Defile.
Perhaps...
You must admit that's a pretty easy mistake...s'what I get for posting late at night though...
pendragon
07-25-2007, 08:54 AM
So don't like the fact that Jodi is now Backlash.
Gavin Higginbotham, BotF
07-25-2007, 11:30 AM
Nah, me either. I like Jodi's character fine but it wasn't that long ago that she was revamped from Crimson into Jet. It'd be fine for her to embrace her father's legacy as Backlash eventually, but I'd rather have the original still out there kicking ass. If he was to be killed off, it makes more sense that his daughter takes his place... not before.
The Colonel
07-31-2007, 05:56 PM
Wikipedia says Backlash is slated to return...but it is Wikipedia.....
well, he was pretty bad-ass with psionics.
I loved the idea and look of his 'whip', very cool idea. :)
Wikipedia says Backlash is slated to return...but it is Wikipedia.....
yeah, this is comics...technically, everyone is slated to return. ;)
Erik Lehnsherr
08-01-2007, 02:27 AM
Perhaps...
You must admit that's a pretty easy mistake...s'what I get for posting late at night though...
Well Despot was African American and bald while Lord Defile had horns like the Devil.
DaveEB
08-01-2007, 10:36 AM
Well Despot was African American and bald while Lord Defile had horns like the Devil.
I know who they are, I just got the names confused(which is an easy mistake).
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