pencil: Mike Deodato jr

story: Jim Lee & Brandon Choi

colors: Martin Jimenez & Wildstorm fx

Christine Blaze infiltrated the Coda on behalf of the IO, but was discovered.
Before the Codas manage to eliminate her, John Lynch intervenes and saves her.
Christine reveals to her friend that the Codas were hired by Ivana Baiul to find Team7's children.

pencil: Jim Lee & Scott Williams

story: Jim Lee

colors: Joe Chiodo, Martin Jimenez & Wildstorm fx

Christine Blaze, former IO agent, infiltrates the Vatican and steals important information.
The theft triggers panic in the secret circles of the Church, particularly in the secret sect of Avignon, with the Fallen summoned to recover the information.
These events are linked to the young and as yet unaware Max Faraday.

pencil: Tom Raney

story: Mike Heisler

inks: Randy Elliott

colors: Gina Going & Wildstorm fx

Ivana Baiul secretly attends a training section of her DV8 agents, assessing their danger.
At the end of the analysis it turns out that the most dangerous of all is her lover, Matthew Callahan, alias Threshold.

pencil: Oscar Jimenez

story: Warren Ellis

inks: Chuck Gibson

colors: Wildstorm fx

Jackson King, Stormwatch's new Weatherman, organizes a fake assault on French territory to secure funding.

pencil: Brett Booth

story: Sean Ruffner & Brett Booth

inks: Tom McWeeney

colors: Jessica Ruffner

A group of mercenaries steal a chip from a secret American base, but they are thwarted by the new Backlash team.
One of the mercenaries manages to escape with the chip, but Backlash discovers that the American government is behind the theft.

pencil: Ryan Benjamin

story: Sean Ruffner

inks: Ryan Benjamin & Saleem Crawford

colors: Wendy Fouts & Wildstorm fx

The story is set on Mars, in the near future.
The planet is at the center of a war between Earth corporations for control of a precious metal found only here.
Major Jonathan Grundle must assemble a team to deal with the problem.