Solicitation[]
"Hero" begins here!
Wanted fugitive Livewire has been on the run for months from the authorities for shutting down the country's power in an effort to protect people gifted with powers.
Will a shocking offer to go public pull Livewire into a political spotlight?
Hero, Part 1[]
Appearances[]
Featured Characters:
Supporting Characters:
- John Wright (L.A. city council)
- Gwen Goodman (Campaign manager) (First appearance)
Villains:
- Jeffrey McCoy (Senator)
- Pentagon Force Protection (Security personnel; virtual)
Other Characters:
- Mr. Nolan (Photographer) (First appearance)
- PSEP (Mentioned only)
- Serena (In a photograph only)
- Psiots (Mentioned only)
- Secret Weapons (Amanda's "kids") (Mentioned only)
- Sarah Jones (Wright's relative) (Mentioned only)
- United States Government (Mentioned only)
- 44th POTUS (Quoted; fictionally)
- United States Military (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Asia
- Middle East (Mentioned only)
- North America
- United States of America
- Alabama (Mentioned only)
- Montgomery (Mentioned only)
- California
- Livewire's base
- Virginia
- Alabama (Mentioned only)
- United States of America
Items:
- LIVEWIRE (Fashion magazine; variant cover only)
- Buff Beauties: Destroying Double Standards
- "Every fire needs a spark." Amanda McKee in her own words
- Higher Faster Stronger: An insider's guide to Superhero Strength training
- Secret Weapons: Teamwork makes the dream work
- Search words used by Livewire
- Harbinger Foundation
- Hidden Child Psiot
- Toyo Harada
- The Willows
Vehicles:
Credits[]
- Writers: Vita Ayala
- Pencilers: Tana Ford
- Inker: Tana Ford
- Colorists: Kelly Fitzpatrick
- Letterers: Saida Temofonte
- Cover Artists: Stacey Lee (A), Raul Allen (B), Kris Anka (C), Jen Bartel (Pre-Order)
- Editors: David Menchel (associate), Heather Antos
- Senior Editorial Director: Robert Meyers
Synopsis[]
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Pre-Order Edition[]
The "Pre-Order Edition" of this issue contains the following exclusive material:
- Livewire #9 Cover Gallery (1 page)
- Textless Cover A
- Textless Cover B
- Textless Pre-Order Edition Cover
- Textless Fashion Variant Cover
- Page in Process (2 pages)
- Script, page layout, line art, and final for page 17
- Fighting Words - script excerpts and line art (2 pages)
- Last Glitch Effort
- Attack of the Clones
- Computer Meditation
- The Wright Way
- Screen Glare
- Political Power
- Hacking the System with series writer Vita Ayala (2 pages)
- incl. unlettered art for pages 1 and 7
- John Wright by Vita Ayala and Tana Ford (1 page)
- with Character Design by Tana Ford
Notes[]
- Election Poll: America's Biggest Concerns (taken from the index page)
- 46% - Psiot terrorists
- 21% - Climate change
- 18% - Alien threats
- 7% - Greenland flu
- 6% - Unethical science & technology
- 2% - Demonic possessions
- John Wright's for Senate (campaign slogans)
- "Truth. Unity. Growth"
- "Without transparency, there cannot be trust."
- "It is only together that we will achieve greatness."
- On the same page where the campaign slogans appear, Barack Obama is quoted with "John is one of the most hardworking, passionate, caring people I know. He'll do us all proud. --44th POTUS"
Quotes[]
Humanity has a history of fearing what it doesn't understand...then using it's fear to justify aggression.
- -- Livewire
- The government sanctioned open season on the kidnapping and murder of psiots--on kids. Your kids. Middle America loves a good family interest story, and this has the "big brother death squad" agnle, too.
- -- Gwen Goodman
Gallery[]
Cover Art[]
Cover A by Stacey Lee
Cover B by Raul Allen
Cover C by Kris Anka
Pre-Order Edition Cover by Jen Bartel
Textless Cover Art[]
Cover A Textless by Stacey Lee
Cover B Textless by Raul Allen
Cover C Textless by Kris Anka
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