Psi-Lords Vol 2 5

Solicitation[]

RISE UP! Can our space prisoners overthrow their alien captors?

The new story, “Conquest” starts here. But who will be conquered?

Prison riots, secrets revealed, brand-new baddies, and more await the brave who read this.

5: The God Virus[]

Appearances[]

Featured Characters:

Supporting Characters:

Clan Yossari
- Zelmax
- Youngling

Villains:

Scion (first name revealed to be Steve)
Starwatchers
- Doctor Patience (also "Jailer")
Widowers
- Vadim
- Q'url (Deceased) (Mentioned only)

Other Characters:

Green Dragon Lamas (Mentioned only)
Psi-Lords (Mentioned only)
- Ravenrok (Mentioned only)
Urth-Man (Mentioned only)
U.S. Army (Flash Forward only)

Locations:

Earth
- Asia
- Tibet (Mentioned only)
  - Ladakh (Mentioned only)
- North America
  - United States of America
    - Washington, D.C. (Flash Forward only)
Ephemeral Plane
Space
- Gorin (Mentioned only)
- Solar System
  - Gyre
    - Orbital tombs of the Psi-Lords
    - Palisade

Items:

The God Virus (Mentioned only)
Psi-Lords Sigil
- The Astro-Friends' brand (on Artisan's sleeve)
- Ravenrok's brand (retrieved from Gorin; see X-O Manowar (Volume 4) #10)

Vehicles:

Spaceship

Credits[]

Writers: Fred Van Lente
Pencilers: Renato Guedes
Inker: Renato Guedes
Colorists: Renato Guedes
Letterers: Dave Sharpe
Cover Artists: Julian Totino Tedesco (A), Al Barrionuevo (B), Raul Allen (C), Scott Forbes (Pre-Order)
Editors: Editors: Drew Baumgartner (assistant), David Menchel
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:

Psi-Lords #5 Cover Gallery (1 page)
- Textless Cover A
- Textless Cover B
- Textless Pre-Order Edition Cover
- Textless Cover C
Page in Process (2 pages)
- Script and lettered final for page 12
Psi-Words - script excerpts and unlettered art (2 pages)
- Clawstrophobia
- Smashing Succes
- Meower Power
- Coupé de Grâce
- Retro Rocket
- Face It, Tiger...
Behind the Scenes with writer Fred Van Lente (2 pages)
- Further explanations about Scion's past, the monoliths, and Valiant continuity (over pages 9 & 16).
Hiding in Plain Sight with writer Fred Van Lente (1 page)
- About what's not really hiding in plain sight on page 19 – Washington, D.C. on fire. Note: Van Lente does not reveal who the elder person could be (a future POTUS?).

Notes[]

Tank yells "Джеронuмо!" which isn't a Russian word. "Джеронимо" is!

Quotes[]

The first law of the Gyre, the only law that keeps our tenuous balance of power in place...is that branded must not kill another branded.

-- Widower Vadim

The Gyre is on a collision course with Earth, and our job is to divert it. How exactly are we going to do that if we're stuck in an orbital cat cafe waiting for the Space United Nations get their thumbs out of their butts!

-- Artisan

They're going to go bone, aren't they?

-- Hazard

Oh my god, I thought they were going to just rip off their clothes and do it right in front of us.

-- Tank

It's Doctor. I believe in your Urth tongue my cognomen would be "Doctor Patience". And I am sure you would like us to kill your enemies for you.

-- Doctor Patience of the Starwatchers

I worry not for myself, Doctor, but for you. We people of Earth...we destroyed or conquered every other species we ever came into contact with. If you give human beings a single foothold...well. On my homeworld I could introduce you to tens of thousands of extinct organisms who wished they hadn't.

-- Scion

When you call me "Jailer" you misunderstand the true nature of this facility. The Gyre itself is not just a prison. It is a pesthouse. Many millennia ago, we overthrew the Psi-Lords, trapped them here...but the psychic residue of their tyranny persisted. So we watch the stars for every last trace of them, and where we find such a trace, we destroy it.

-- Doctor Patience of the Starwatchers

The Gyre's sole purpose is to be a containment facility for the God Virus. And a graveyard for its artifacts. Should it, or the Psi-Lords, ever breach quarantine...well, the resulting annihilation would make the fates of your rain forests and dodo birds pale in comparison.