Dv8


DV8 is a comic book published by American label Wildstorm. The series revolves around the lives of a group of Gen-Active people, initially living in New York City under the supervision of Ivana Baiul, who sends them on life-threatening black ops assignments.

Publication history

The series lasted 32 issues. The story including most DV8 members continued in the pages of Gen-Active, an anthology series featuring various Wildstorm characters. Gen-Active, lasted 6 issues.
Writer Micah Ian Wright pitched a relaunch to WildStorm in 2003, but it was not picked up by the publisher. The artist in the book would have been Mark Robinson.
The title returned in June 2010 as an eight-issue limited series called DV8: Gods and Monsters, written by Brian Wood with art by Rebekah Isaacs. The project is something Wood had been trying to get commissioned for years:

Fictional team history

Creative teams

  • Warren Ellis
  • Mike Heisler
  • Brian Wood
  • Humberto Ramos
  • Michael Lopez
  • Juvaun Kirby
  • Tom Raney
  • Jason Johnson
  • Al Rio
  • Trevor Scott
  • Rebekah Isaacs

    Characters

  • Ivana Baiul - Leader of the antihero group. She is not fully human because cybernetic technology was integrated into certain parts of her body. Generally, she is immoral and very evil. She was the head of International Operations - Field commander of the Deviants until he betrayed the team and went rogue. He has psionic powers and is very powerful and extremely psychotic. Until going rogue, he was Ivana's romance, then occasionally to Bliss, and later to a sex toy. He is also a half-brother of Sarah Rainmaker.
  • Sublime - Has the ability to alter the density of her body from intangible to rock-hard.
  • Bliss - Has the ability to stimulate human senses to the point of cardiac arrest and some psychic abilities. Generally, she is immoral and very capable of getting men to give her what she wants. She even was able to seduce her older brother, Threshold.
  • Frostbite - Has the ability to absorb heat from any source and leave it ice-cold. Generally, he is the least screwed-up member of the Deviants. After Threshold went rogue, Frostbite was appointed to the team leader, but he was banished by Ivana after losing his powers. Later he faked his death to get off Ivana's radar.
  • Powerhaus - Has the ability to convert emotional energy into raw power, which increases his strength as well. He was killed in "DV8 Slipstream Annual".
  • Copycat - Has the ability to take control of a person's mind and make them do whatever she wants. Due to an earlier incident, she has four split personalities in addition to her normal persona - Soldier, Nihilist, Spy, and Little Gemma. When ex-team-leader Threshold betrays the Deviants, he alters Gem's mind, leaving her body to be occupied by her other personalities.
  • Evo - Has the ability to change into forms similar to a wolf, bat, or amphibian. Generally, he is very insensitive and otherwise dark in demeanor.
  • Freestyle - Has the ability to affect probability by psionically choosing the most favorable course of action based on a number of timelines. She is also very acrobatic and flexible.She was originally frozen in a cryogenic tube for the first few issues. Generally, she is upbeat and not unstable like the others.
  • Sideways Bob''' - Guardian of the group. He has no powers and is psychotic and dangerous. He's missing an eye and lacks hair, and he carries around a disembodied mannequin head he calls Lucille. He told Sublime that she could be his "special awake friend". She didn't know if that was good or not.

    Collected editions

Some of the issues have been collected into a trade paperback: