Wildcats v2
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After the first series cancellation of WildC.A.T.S., WildStorm, now an imprint of DC Comics, resurrected the Wildcats under a whole different premise - Wildcats dealt with the lives of the original members after the team's breakup following a botched mission during which team-member Zealot apparently died. Scott Lobdell didn't stay past issue 7, and Joe Casey took over the series, dealing with Lord Emp's Ascension, and Spartan's subsequent fusion with Void and his vision of bettering the world through the corporate resources left to him by Lord Emp, thus paving the way for volume 3.
The cast members of the new series were Spartan, Grifter, Jacob Marlowe (Lord Emp), Void, Maul, Voodoo and Ladytron as well as new characters Noir, Agents Wax and Mohr of the National Park Service. Former members Zealot and Warblade were featured very briefly. A few new villains popped in the series, namely Kenyan, C.C. Rendozzo and Slaughterhouse Smith (a superhuman serial killer whose grandfather had appeared in Team One: WildC.A.T.s)
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[edit] Storylines
[edit] Street Smart
More of a series of stand-alone stories instead of a story arc, issues 1 to 7 were the ones written by Scott Lobdell
Balance of Terror
Grifter goes to Venice, planning to steal the money from an arms transaction. There, he sees his old teammate Spartan negotiating with the dealer, who goes by the name of Noir. After some fighting, the three of them are teletransported to the Halo Building. There, Grifter is surprised to see that Emp has been through some kind of transformation. Spartan reveals that Emp is doing this in order to become a Kherubim High Lord. They team up to stop the villain Kenyan from using Kherubim technology to his own purposes.
Second Skin
Voodoo and Maul have moved to California, where Jeremy has been studyng their DNA. They are kidnapped by underworld power-broker C.C. Rendozzo. She stole a lethal virus, and, now, she is infected. Rendozzo wants Jeremy to cure her and, to make him work faster, infects him too. They are cured, and Voodoo and Maul escape. A Daemonite starts stalking them.
Flavors
Noir joins the Wildcats. Their first mission is to infiltrate a school where the Director has a Daemonite artifact.
Firefight
Kenyan watches holographic scenes from the WildC.A.T.s last mission, which was invading a village in Ireland where there were superpowered terrorists possessing Daemonite technology. A mistake made by Emp apparently causes Zealot's death. The team disbands.
Coda-Fied
The Chase
In New York, Grifter fights Kenyan. Meanwhile, Spartan tries to stop a bomb from exploding. Kenyan escapes.
To Kill a Wildcat
The mercenary Pike is obsessed with killing a WildC.A.T. (he doesn't know that the team disbanded). He kills Warblade's girlfriend and, in revenge, Warblade pursues Pike to Sarajevo and kills him.
[edit] Vicious Circles
Covering issues 8 to 13, this period, as well as the next ones, was written by Joe Casey, and includes the first story arc of the title.
Ascension of Lord Emp
The Wildcats continue their search for Kenyan, and, now, Emp has disapered. Grifter persuades Noir to help. He follows the energy trace from the Kherubim weaponry that Kenyan has, and traces it to Las Vegas. Spartan discovers that Emp planed to meet Kenyan before disappearing. Meanwhile, Emp and Kenyan talk calmly. The Wildcats go to Vegas, where they find the Kherubim machinery at a safe full of uranium. Later, they meet Emp and Kenyan. Emp uses mind games to make his nemesis kill him. Instead, Kenyan kills himself. Spartan is, then, asked by Emp to kill him, and he does so.
Furious Engines
While Spartan views Emp's holographic will, Grifter is engaged by two foreigners who want him to find a historical artifact. He discovers that the artifact is Ladytron and that the foreigners are members of the church of Gort, a church for cybernetic people which Ladytron has left. After some fighting, Grifter brings Ladytron to Halo Inc (now owned by Spartan).
My Father's House
Thirteen
[edit] Serial Boxes
The second and last extended storyline of the series, lasting six issues (14 to 19).
A superpowered serial killer named Samuel Smith starts killing women last-named Marlowe. He is the grandson of Slautherhouse Smith, who was crippled by Saul Baxter (A.K.A Jacob Marlowe, A.K.A. Lord Emp). Meanwhile, the team starts adapting to Emp's Ascension and Spartan's subsequent assuming control of Halo Inc. Voodoo, who is using a Marlowe pseudonym, is tracked down by the killer. They meet and go to her house, where Samuel, using his eye laser beams, cuts off her two legs and almost cut her throat. Maul attacks Samuel, who shoots his laser beams at Maul's eyes, blinding him. Samuel escapes. Ladytron tracks Smith down, is seriously wounded by him, and is teleported back to Halo. Later, Spartan and Grifter prepare a trap for Smith, who is killed by Grifter.
It is during this storyline that Agent Wax makes his first appearance, investigating the killings with Agent Mohr.
[edit] Battery Park
The last storyline of the series. It is composed of minor story arcs that give closure to some dangling plot lines set by both Casey and Lobdell. This phase comprises issues 20 to 28.
Sodom and Modem
Unbearable Likeness
Turnaround
Tremor/Transformed
Hard Lies Vendetta
Battery Park
Idaho Falls
Door Prizes
