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106-506: Created by writer Judd Winick and artist Mike McKone , Exiles features a revolving team roster with new characters introduced and others replaced when they are killed or returned to their home reality. The series is notable for the number of characters who stay dead, in contrast to the frequent resurrections that occur in the main Marvel and DC continuities. It has featured familiar characters or settings from previous Marvel storylines, such as

212-465: A Brood -infected Mimic, she is replaced by the Exiles' former teammate Blink. During the next mission, the Exiles and Weapon X are forced to battle each other until only six remain alive. Magik is killed by King Hyperion when she attempts to switch sides and betray the Exiles. King Hyperion is eventually defeated by Blink, who teleports his own heat vision into his back, paralyzing him. Gambit (of Weapon X)

318-695: A Wendigo , and a brainwashed Citadel) to spread the Unity program and take down Alpha Flight. It is later revealed that Vindicator and Department H had actually fallen under the mental control of Master of the World . While at a beach in Ontario with Claire, Vindicator is visited by Wolverine who states that the people in the United States are starting to be concerned about the Unity Party's actions, and when he saw Vindicator call

424-564: A civil ceremony on August 26, 2001. Writer Armistead Maupin spoke at their ceremony. It marked the first time two cast members of The Real World married. As of September 2000, they lived in San Francisco's Upper Haight . As of 2024, they have two children, a son and a daughter, whom they work to keep out of the spotlight, preferring to omit photos of them from social media, and mention of their names in interviews. Heather Hudson (Exiles) Vindicator ( Heather MacNeil Hudson )

530-598: A battle with the world-eating Galactus . The Exiles then discover there is a second team conscripted by the Timebroker, Weapon X , whose missions typically involve killing or maiming innocents and heroes. The two teams join forces to rescue a group of children from a Sentinel prison camp. However, the teams are told the second stage of the mission is to kill one of the children – David Richards (son of Rachel Summers and Franklin Richards ) – who will apparently grow up to become

636-466: A bookstore. On January 1, 1993, UPS decided not to renew Winick's strip for syndication, feeling it could not compete in the current market. Winick was unable to secure syndication with another company, and was forced to move back in with his parents by the middle of 1993, doing unfulfilling T-shirt work for beer companies. Winick had Nuts & Bolts in development with the children's television network Nickelodeon as an animated series , even turning

742-426: A comic book creator with Pedro and Me , an autobiographical graphic novel about his friendship with The Real World castmate and AIDS educator Pedro Zamora . Winick wrote lengthy runs on DC Comics ' Green Lantern and Green Arrow series and created The Life and Times of Juniper Lee animated TV series for Cartoon Network , which ran for three seasons. As part of his run on Batman , Winick wrote

848-508: A copy of her husband's battle-suit. Through extensive training by Wolverine, Heather is able to hold her own in a battle. Heather teamed with Wolverine against Lady Deathstrike , and took the name Vindicator. She became stranded in the Savage Land , and formed the mutated natives into a team called Alpha Prime. Some time later, Heather was forced to defend Alpha Flight in a Parliamentary hearing. Eventually her husband returns and her suit

954-479: A different source for its power. Instead of manipulating electromagnetic energies, this suit allows its wearer to control geothermal energy, allowing Heather to melt rock and manipulate the resulting lava, create jets of lava, create both hot and cold jets of water, including jets of steam and cooling sprays of water. The suit can absorb heat into its power cells, provides its wearer with a personal force field, and enables feats of super-strength and super-speed. Heather

1060-466: A former runaway-turned prostitute named Mia Dearden , was HIV-positive. In issue #45 (February 2005), Winick had Dearden take on the identity of Speedy , the second such Green Arrow sidekick to bear that name, making her the most prominent HIV-positive superhero to star in an ongoing comic book, a decision for which Winick was interviewed on CNN . In 2003 Winick wrote a five-issue miniseries for DC's Vertigo imprint called Blood & Water , about

1166-677: A girlfriend and stays on the world on which he landed. Longshot, once again, got lucky and landed in the Crystal Palace after the transport went wrong. Psylocke and Thunderbird travel to Earth-616 to visit Captain Britain and Nocturne during New Excalibur 's victory party. During the party, Captain Britain is wounded by a strike force led by an armored lady called Rouge. While Betsy tries to care for her brother everybody else tries to fight, even Dazzler and Pete Wisdom , who were about to have sex, but, realizing they cannot win they teleport to

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1272-553: A long hiatus from Alpha Flight, Heather rejoins the team as the fourth Nemesis . Heather Hudson first appeared in The Uncanny X-Men #139 (November 1980) and was created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne . Heather was born in Calgary, Alberta , Canada . She was originally a secretary at Amcam corporation, where she fell in love with James MacDonald Hudson . After he had stolen his power suit to prevent it from being used as

1378-475: A man who has fallen in love with a dragon. After some fighting, the parents eventually surrender against true love and the dragon becomes human, while the Exiles are brought back to the Panoptichron, where Cat reveals that Gambit was listed as a member even before he was recruited. In the meantime, Hydra recruits a Wolverine-like man to her cause. Afterwards, Sage, Psylocke, Morph, Mystiq, Rogue, and Gambit help

1484-512: A means of communication between its wearer and whoever is operating the Crystal Palace on various missions. It has a slightly different appearance for each wearer. For the first time ever, Sabertooth has used the Tallus to transport himself back to the Crystal Palace, without anyone on the other side recalling him. When Magnus dies, he is replaced by Sunfire (Mariko Yashida). Sasquatch (Heather Hudson) arrives when Thunderbird becomes comatose during

1590-498: A military weapon, Heather discovered his secret and decided to share it with him. Soon after they were married. Heather supported her husband in the forming of Department H and his becoming a superhero. She also assisted Wolverine in a time of trouble before his career with the X-Men , and was later reunited with him. After Department H is dissolved, Heather brought the members of the disbanded Alpha Flight together to battle Tundra of

1696-558: A new #1 in April 2009, but the book was canceled after only six issues. Exiles was created by Mike Marts, Mike Raicht, Judd Winick and also artists Mike McKone and Jim Calafiore. Exiles was created after a period of development aimed at creating a new What If? book for Marvel. Raicht and Winick would develop the initial formula of Exiles' reality-hopping adventures. Chuck Austen came aboard as interim writer after Winick's move to DC Comics . Tony Bedard took over, writing roughly half

1802-427: A new member was to replace her. The team is teleported to the main room, where they find Heather (no longer pregnant), Nocturne (recovered from her stroke), and Morph waiting. The three of them reveal to the latest Exiles team that the last Exiles team, Sage, Sabretooth, Mystiq, Valeria, Rogue, and Gambit eventually became immersed within the Crystal Palace. Only Morph was spared, since he had Proteus possessing him, and

1908-446: A new mission (normally a mission must be completed for the Exiles to move on). Next, the Timebroker replaces Beak with Holocaust , which they are informed is a punishment for disobeying previous orders. Eventually, the Exiles break free of the Timebroker and stage a raid on Panoptichron (also known as the "Crystal Palace"), home of the Timebroker and a location from which many parallel universes can be monitored. Here they discover that

2014-588: A powerful supervillain. Weapon X is willing to kill him, but the Exiles are not and the two teams fight until the Timebroker intervenes. Sabretooth (of the Weapon X team) agrees to stay behind and raise David Richards himself. The Timebroker sends Blink home after a visit to a world plagued by a variant of the Legacy Virus , since the team had repaired her personal broken chain in time and Magik (Illyana Rasputin) takes her place. Mimic then replaces Blink as leader, gaining

2120-668: A quick break in the Panoptichron, where Morph gives Rogue a new costume and Psylocke deals with her fear of Slaymaster. The Exiles then visit a reality where Valeria Richards has traveled and has called them for help to save the world from the Fearsome Quintet of Gold Goblin, Magneta, the Blood Skull, Black Baron Dormammu , and Doom. They defeat the quintet, but their leader, the Maker, is about to defeat them when Proteus' persona re-emerges. However, Morph's persona merges with that of Proteus in

2226-517: A reality where the Silver Surfer has already destroyed the Earth and is trying to destroy Galactus , who is the restorer of worlds in this reality. Then, Heather discovers an Earth inhabited by a disturbingly close approximation of the original Exiles team, complete with their own Timebroker. After the "classic Exiles" fight "the all-new Exiles" (as Morph put it), it is later revealed that the whole thing

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2332-495: A reality-reincarnated female version of Bucky Barnes . First seen in Exiles #5, they are a team that complete missions more ruthlessly than those of the Exiles. This team had various members and its roster changed more than the Exiles. Weapon X was originally composed of Sabretooth , Kane , Mesmero , Wolverine , Maverick , and Deadpool . Weapon X was finally disbanded when the Exiles arrived and both Blink and Gambit received

2438-430: A seemingly perfect world led by Victor Von Doom but when Blink is caught by Reed Richards she begins to discover what hides behind this facade. She then recruits Longshot and Morph, who also sense something amiss with this world. They flee with that world's Reed to begin a resistance. Meanwhile, Spider-Man 2099 meets Gwen Stacy and Sabretooth has a one-night stand with this world's Invisible Woman . In reality, she

2544-421: A small town boy named D.J. whose life takes an unexpected turn when a mysterious boy named Hilo falls from the sky, and takes D.J. and his friend Gina on adventures that include robots, aliens and a quest to save the world. The series represents Winick's first artwork since 2002's The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius: Gorilla Warfare , as well as his first children's book. It is published by Random House , with

2650-540: A staircase. Winick is mentioned in Dave Eggers ' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius . After appearing on The Real World , Winick and his former costar, Pam Ling , began to date. Winick proposed to her with a cartoon he made for the occasion, and which he presented to her while wearing a gorilla suit. The cartoon presented Ling with two choices to answer his proposal. After she accepted his proposal, he summoned three singing Elvises . Winick and Ling married in

2756-494: A team of X-Men on another Earth fight off the French during a French and British war. Psylocke receives some training from that world's Ogun. Cat discovers realities upon realities coming to their end and finds she can do nothing to stop it. However, she and Sabretooth face off against Empress Hydra after she locks them alone in a particular reality. Cat kills Wolverine by removing his claws and slashing him with them. The Exiles then enjoy

2862-514: A team with the returning Blink , though she pretends to be new to all of this just as much as the others. Morph acts as the Timebroker and this version of the Black Panther is T'challa's son, T'chaka. On their first mission, they are teleported away without finishing their mission, to Blink's shock. The team then goes to an Earth where Cerebro has killed all humans in North America. Working with

2968-560: A time before her husband's "death" – to the present. This group includes a copy of Heather. While she is not a member, this "new" group is active as Alpha Flight while the originals are helping to rebuild the Plodex homeworld. Alpha Flight (the team consisting of Sasquatch , Guardian , Vindicator, Shaman , Major Mapleleaf II , and both Pucks ) are brutally attacked by a new villain " the Collective ". They are killed and their bodies are left in

3074-849: A title which alternated with Brightest Day . In addition, he was a regular writer on the monthly Power Girl series. Winick wrote the screenplay for the 2010 direct to DVD animated feature Batman: Under the Red Hood , which was based on the 1988–89 story arc " Batman: A Death in the Family " and the 2005 " Batman: Under the Hood " story arc that he wrote in the Batman comic book. Beginning in September 2011, Winick began writing new Catwoman and Batwing ongoing series that were launched as part of DC Comics' reboot of its continuity, The New 52 . The Catwoman series

3180-435: A young man with terminal illness whose two friends reveal to him that they are vampires , and that they wish to save his life by turning him into a vampire himself. Winick's other comic book work includes Batman , The Outsiders , and Marvel 's Exiles . In 2005 he co-wrote Countdown to Infinite Crisis , a one-shot comic that initiated the " Infinite Crisis " storyline, with Geoff Johns and Greg Rucka . Winick

3286-498: Is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics . Following the apparent death of her husband James , Heather inherits his leadership of Alpha Flight and battle suit, taking on the codename Vindicator, a previous codename James used. Following James' return, she took her husband's mantle of Guardian while he used Vindicator for a time before the two switched back to their original codenames. After

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3392-449: Is a communications device, which is worn by the leader of the group in order to communicate with the Timebroker. Through it, he would assign missions to the team and inform them of any changes, etc. Blink wears the Tallus in the beginning, but it is later transferred to Sabretooth when Blink rebels against the Timebroker. Mimic also wears the Tallus for a time in Blink's absence. It is now used as

3498-491: Is a master combat strategist, and received training in hand-to-hand combat from Puck and Wolverine . While as Nemesis, Heather wields the mystical sword Scell, granting her ability to teleport herself and others and superhuman durability, protecting her from serious injuries. However, using Scell's abilities without taking a life drains Heather of her life-force. Due to Scell requiring the life-force of its victims to sustain itself, Heather's lack of victims with Scell causes

3604-631: Is allowed to deliver the killing blow against King Hyperion with a kinetically charged sword of the slain Magik which causes an explosion that kills them both, leaving five Exiles alive and their mission complete. The Exiles visit the main Marvel Universe for a second time where they are joined by Namora , who replaces Magik, and are instructed to "leave their possessions and earn their wings". Reed Richards deduces this means they are to leave Nocturne behind (whose power involves possession) and have Beak join

3710-457: Is altered to manipulate geothermal forces and she takes the name Guardian. Soon after that, she battled the Fantastic Four . Heather and James have a baby (an as-yet-unnamed girl) and travel with their child and several other members of Alpha Flight to return a clutch of Plodex eggs to their homeworld. In addition, an accident brings temporal copies of most of the original Alpha Flight – from

3816-564: Is completely devoid of life. Only Blink, Mimic, Morph, Sabretooth, Beak, and Heather Hudson remain to pick up the pieces. The Exiles then return to Earth-616 to take Beak home. Unfortunately, Earth-616 is dominated by the House of M . During their stay, the Exiles run afoul of the body-hopping serial killer Proteus , who steals data from the Panoptichron and escapes from Earth-616 , leaving Beak depowered back home. The Exiles chase Proteus through several realities, including an alternate version of

3922-405: Is erased, with the Exiles still there, but it is magically restored by Reed Richards, and Valeria Richards ' amulet restores the world's population because they were being stored in the amulet. The Exiles are still there so they can help Psylocke recover from wounds inflicted by Wolverine , and to help rebuild the planet. Meanwhile, another Slaymaster slays another Psylocke on another world. After

4028-641: Is possibly immune to metal while in Morph’s body. Meanwhile, former Exile Thunderbird , is in the stasis gallery, dreaming of what might have been had he not become comatose. Power Princess leaves the team to return to the Squadron Supreme and Psylocke is brought on board to replace her. Blink, Longshot, and Spider-Man are brainwashed by HYDRA leaving only Sabretooth to pick up Morph and Psylocke. They are sent to kill Reed Richards. Slaymaster 's arrival makes them fail as Betsy faints before killing Reed. The world

4134-541: The Age of Apocalypse where he saves Wild Child . Blink then sends all five heroes (Luke Cage, Quentin, Nighthawk, Spitfire, and Wild Child) to replace Iron Man, Nighthawk, Wild Child, and Luke Cage from Quentin's reality. The team went to Earth-6706 to recruit Gambit and found themselves in a three-way war between Namor , Ororo , and the Black Panther . The team was separated with Rogue, Gambit and Namor, Mystiq in disguise with

4240-466: The Great Beasts . With this initiative creating a spectacular success, the team decided to continue operating Alpha Flight as an independent group. Before Alpha Flight had been back together for long, Heather witnessed the apparent death of James Hudson. She was then injured attempting to rescue a child from an alien Plodex . Heather is asked by the members of Alpha Flight to take over leadership of

4346-754: The Michigan Daily , in his freshman year, and he was selected to speak at graduation. The university published a small print-run of a collection of his strips called Watching the Spin-Cycle: The Nuts & Bolts Collection . In his senior year, Universal Press Syndicate , which syndicates strips such as Doonesbury and Calvin & Hobbes , offered Winick a development contract. After graduation, Winick lived in an apartment in Beacon Hill, Boston , Massachusetts, with fellow writer Brad Meltzer , struggling to develop Nuts and Bolts for UPS, while working at

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4452-554: The New Universe , an alternate version of 2099 , Squadron Supreme , Future Imperfect , and Heroes Reborn , before finally bringing Proteus down by trapping him in Morph’s body, which does not decay, unlike all of Proteus’ other host bodies. During the "World Tour" of hunting down Proteus, Mimic is possessed by Proteus and dies, forcing the Exiles to pick up new members Longshot , Spider-Man 2099 , and Power Princess to restore their diminished numbers. The Exiles begin cleaning out

4558-696: The Yukon Territory as the Collective continues on to the United States. During the Chaos War storyline, Vindicator (alongside Guardian, Shaman , and Marrina Smallwood ) are among the heroes that return from the dead after what happened to the death realms. Reuniting with Aurora, Northstar, Sasquatch, and Snowbird, Alpha Flight gets back together to fight the Great Beasts. During the Fear Itself storyline, Vindicator helped Alpha Flight in fighting Attuma in

4664-507: The " Age of Apocalypse " and " House of M ". The first volume of Exiles ran for 100 issues, ending after a crossover with the members of New Excalibur in X-Men: Die by the Sword and the one-shot Exiles: Days of Then and Now . In March 2008 New Exiles began with Chris Claremont and artist Tom Grummett at the helm. Writer Jeff Parker and artist Salvador Espin relaunched the series with

4770-466: The 11th book in the series slated for publication in February 2025. ( https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/741634/hilo-book-11-the-great-space-iguana-by-judd-winick/ ) In Pedro , the 2008 film dramatizing Pedro Zamora 's life, Winick is portrayed by Hale Appleman . Winick and his wife Pam Ling can be seen in a cameo in a scene where Jenn Liu and Alex Loynaz , as Ling and Zamora, are meeting on

4876-447: The 2005 storyline " Under the Hood ", which featured the return of Jason Todd , the second Robin (who was murdered by the Joker in the 1988 storyline " A Death in the Family "), now operating as the anti-hero Red Hood . Winick also wrote the prequel mini-series Red Hood: The Lost Days , which detailed the exact nature of Todd's resurrection, as well as the animated film Batman: Under

4982-586: The Age of Apocalypse), Mimic (Calvin Rankin), Magnus Lensherr (son of Magneto and Rogue ), Thunderbird (John Proudstar), Nocturne (Talia Josephine "T.J." Wagner, daughter of Nightcrawler and Scarlet Witch ), and Morph . The team has since gone through a multitude of line-ups with Morph and Blink remaining the only original Exiles. Initially, the Exiles are employed by the Timebroker to fix broken realities. The Tallus

5088-481: The Crystal Palace absorbed Proteus in Morph's place. Heather reveals that she came up with the idea of snatching the new recruits at the moment of death, as it seemed to be "the least disruptive way to go". Polaris, Forge, Beast, and Panther all look at how their homeworlds turned out after they died. They all decide to continue working as a team and are each given their own Tallus. Nocturne goes with them in Blink's place for

5194-522: The Exiles return to Panoptichron, they find it empty, with no equipment, Timebreakers, or Heather. Blink and Morph eventually visit Heather, who thought the Exiles were dead and left Panoptichron. Heather is now pregnant and out of commission, so Psylocke stays behind to learn more about the Panoptichron while the other Exiles resume their missions. There she experiences visions which warn her of something bad to come, and an alternate version of Kitty Pryde appears from nowhere with no warning. The Exiles go to

5300-449: The Exiles team to capture his recently created X-Babies . The team consisted of versions of Blink, Morph, Mimic, Sunfire, Sasquatch, and Nocturne. Judd Winick Judd Winick (born February 12, 1970) is an American cartoonist , comic book writer and screenwriter , as well as a former reality television personality. He first gained fame for his stint on MTV 's The Real World: San Francisco in 1994, before finding success as

5406-487: The Exiles, which is confirmed by the Timebroker. The team is told by The Celestials to "beware the Timebreaker [sic], he is not what he seems". After this, the Timebroker's behavior becomes increasingly strange. Heather Hudson is removed from the team without explanation and replaced with former Weapon X member Sabretooth . The Tallus orders the Exiles to kill Mimic and despite their refusal, they are allowed to move onto

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5512-556: The Exiles. So, Blink decides to help an alternate Quentin Quire by acting as the Timebroker through Gambit 's old Tallus, which is given to him by the Nighthawk from the reality where the Exiles had battled Weapon X after Quentin is able to transport himself there on his own. Then, he meets Mary Jane and Luke Cage , from the Vi-Locks reality, and an alternate Spitfire . Finally, he ends up in

5618-406: The Panoptichron, in which they saw all former members of Exiles and Weapon X placed in stasis in one of the galleries of the Crystal Palace. After the Exiles contained the threat of Proteus they went about returning the bodies of the deceased to their native homeworlds, including all former Weapon X members, for proper burials. In Uncanny X-Men #461, Mojo summons a team of lawyers modeled after

5724-527: The Panoptichron. There, Dazzler discovers that Longshot, while alive, doesn't remember her and is about to kill herself to ease her pain when Mystiq comes to talk her out of it. TJ happily reunites with her former teammates while Sage is deemed the best option to care for Brian. Meanwhile, Cat, using the scanner, realizes that Roma and Saturnyne are in trouble. The Corps then suffers a lot of losses, despite Saturnyne's intervention. While Cat checks on Brian, Blink, Morph, Sabertooth, Thunderbird, and Dazzler join

5830-533: The Panther's team, and Sabretooth and Psylocke with Ororo. They eventually reunited for a final fight against the Panther and would have died if not for Psylocke and the powers of Gambit's mother, Susan Storm . Their mission was eventually revealed to them and they left the Earth despite the fact that the Panther had taken control of it. Meanwhile, Morph, Sage, and Cat are sucked into a world were Kitty shifts to another form. Sage regains her telepathic powers, as they defend

5936-483: The Red Hood , which adapted his original story to screen. Winick was born February 12, 1970, to a Jewish family, and grew up in Dix Hills, New York . In his youth Winick initially read superhero comics , but this changed when he read Kyle Baker 's graphic novel Why I Hate Saturn , which Winick said in a 2015 interview he still reads once a year. Winick also cites Bloom County: Loose Tails by Berke Breathed as

6042-776: The Saurians. Valeria Richards arrives at the Crystal Palace and joins the team, having been able to discern its location. Some time later, the New Exiles return to Gambit's world, where he discovers his father has died and he takes over as king, leaving the Exiles. Sabertooth and Psylocke begin a relationship. They, Sage, Morph, Valeria Richards, and Mystiq are the New Exiles. The series was once again relaunched in April 2009, written by Jeff Parker and drawn by Salvador Espin, but canceled in September 2009. Alternate versions of The Witch , Beast, Forge , Polaris , and The Panther are picked up right before their intended deaths and put together as

6148-602: The Tallus. The Exiles arrive in the main Marvel Universe ( Earth-616 ) where they meet the X-Men after Havok 's canceled wedding. The Exiles team up with the X-Men against an evil Havok from the Mutant X universe, who shares a body with the good Havok. After Havok is subdued, the Timebroker arrives to personally eliminate the Mutant X Havok's consciousness. After Sunfire is killed by

6254-504: The Timebreakers ditch the Exiles when the Timebreakers believe that they are not saving realities as they should be. However, after using several squads of Wolverines to complete the next mission and failing, Logan (from Days of Future Past ) and young James Howlett convince the Timebreakers that the Exiles are needed. The Exiles finally resume their reality-saving missions for the first time since they discovered Panoptichron when they save

6360-406: The Timebroker is an alien race of bug-like beings that found the Panoptichron and accidentally broke a series of timelines. Lacking the power to repair the timelines, they concocted this scheme of recruiting heroes from various worlds to do their work for them. Not only that, all previously "returned" heroes are actually in Panoptichron, frozen in blocks, along with the killed heroes. As a final twist,

6466-430: The World attempts to kill their child Claire. He was killed by Alpha Flight, but Vindicator escapes with Claire. After the Unity Party is abolished, Vindicator leaves Canada with her daughter Claire. Heather and Claire spend months on the run until Guardian, who never lost track of them, reluctantly follows orders to bring them to Department H on the condition that Heather and Claire would remain unharmed and safe. Through

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6572-469: The battlefield. Dazzler battles Rouge-Mort, who has badly wounded Roma, and Longshot gets concerned about her, making both himself and Sage wonder why/how, while Morph battles Jaspers by morphing into the Fury but his plan is quickly foiled. Sage, Psylocke, and Wisdom recruit Albion to their cause, who proves to be a match for James Jaspers until Jaspers turns into the Fury. Merlyn then comes to his daughter to finish

6678-510: The collected editions), published by Oni Press, which published trade paperback collections of all three miniseries. Winick’s graphic novel, Pedro and Me: Friendship, Loss, and What I Learned , was published in September 2000. It was awarded six American Library Association awards, was nominated for an Eisner Award, won Winick his first GLAAD award, has been praised by creators such as Frank Miller , Neil Gaiman , and Armistead Maupin , and has been incorporated into school curricula across

6784-506: The computer-related titles' cartoons was published in 1997 as Terminal Madness, The Complete Idiot's Guide Computer Cartoon Collection . While working on Pedro and Me , Winick began working on comic books, beginning with a one-page Frumpy the Clown cartoon in Oni Press ’ anthology series, Oni Double Feature #3, in 1998, before going on to do longer stories, like the two-part Road Trip , which

6890-418: The cost of humanity's creativity and the lives of anyone magical, such as her two friends Shaman and Snowbird. She was briefly "reunited" with what she thought was James Hudson, but who really turned out to be an impostor – the robot Delphine Courtney . Her body was temporarily distorted by Scramble , and then she was captured by Deadly Ernest. Eventually, these dangerous encounters led to Heather adopting

6996-499: The country. Winick's work in mainstream superhero comics received attention for storylines in which he explores gay or AIDS-oriented themes. In his first regular writing assignment on a monthly superhero comic book, DC Comics ' Green Lantern , Winick wrote a storyline in which Terry Berg , an assistant of the title character, emerged as a gay character in Green Lantern #137 (June 2001) and in Green Lantern #154 (November 2002)

7102-402: The device on the Tallus during the next teleport and Panther knocks Blink out. The Exiles then discover and head inside the Crystal Palace. There, they see multiple teams of Exiles being trained by various "Timebrokers". Blink finds them and decides to explain everything. She says she was going to wait until the team got the hang of saving broken realities, then fake her own death, at which point

7208-412: The evil King Hyperion has fully regenerated from being blown up by Gambit, broken free of his stasis and has taken over Panoptichron. The Exiles are nearly defeated with both Namora and Holocaust dying in the battle. Beak returns from stasis and saves the day by calling on two good versions of Hyperion for help, fulfilling his destiny as an Exile. King Hyperion is subdued and exiled to his home reality which

7314-544: The fight, Cat merges with Mystiq and kills Empress Hydra, thanks to an unplanned diversion by Gambit, who called her "mom". Meanwhile, Sage and Diana Fox are forced to unite to face off against Merlyn in Sage's mind. Diana eventually lets Sage take her over and Sage merges with the Crystal Palace, stopping the multiverse from destabilizing. Cat dies after the battle with Madame Hydra. The other Exiles save Neramani's world, with Rogue remaining behind since she has fallen in love with one of

7420-582: The first book published in September 2015. The deal is for three books, though Winick plans to have a total of six graphic novels by the time the story is finished, and hopes to release a book every six months. The first two volumes of the Hilo series, Hilo, the Boy Who Crashed to Earth and Hilo, Saving the Whole Wide World , are New York Times bestsellers . The HILO series has successfully continued with

7526-473: The first collection of that strip that changed his life, one which prompted him to spend the next ten years "horribly aping" Breathed's style. Winick graduated from high school in 1988 and entered the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor 's School of Art, intending to emulate his cartoonist heroes, including Breathed and Garry Trudeau . His comic strip, "Nuts and Bolts", began running in the school's newspaper,

7632-586: The form of Nerkodd: Breaker of Oceans. When Alpha Flight returns to their headquarters, they are betrayed by Gary Cody and his newly elected Unity Party. Vindicator sides with Cody. It is shown that six weeks earlier, Guardian and Vindicator were unable to regain custody of their child. While bringing Guardian to the Box Units for imprisonment, Vindicator is ambushed by Puck who knocks Vindicator out. After reclaiming her daughter Claire from her cousin, Vindicator assembles Alpha Strike (consisting of Persuasion , Ranark,

7738-465: The highlights of his past. The events of Die by the Sword take place between Exiles #99-#100. In Exiles #100 Blink, Nocturne, and Thunderbird decide to leave the team because they are physically and emotionally exhausted and need a break. They leave for Heather Hudson's reality so that Heather can keep track of Nocturne's progress as she continues to recover from her stroke. Sage struggles with her new knowledge gained from Roma and accidentally fights

7844-447: The house at 949 Lombard Street on Russian Hill on February 12, Winick's 24th birthday. Winick became roommates with Pedro Zamora . Although Cory Murphy, who was the first housemate to meet Zamora, learned that he was HIV-positive when they took the train together from Los Angeles to San Francisco, Winick learned that Zamora was the housemate who had AIDS after Winick and Zamora had decided to be roommates, when Zamora told him that he

7950-422: The human characters into mice, and proposing new titles like Young Urban Mice and Rat Race , but nothing came of it. Winick applied to be on MTV network's reality TV show, The Real World: San Francisco , hoping for fame and a career boost. During the casting process, the producers of the show conducted an in-person, videotaped interview with Winick. When asked how he would feel about living with someone who

8056-492: The identity of Nemesis and rejoins Alpha Flight to help protect mutant refugees from Department H, who has allied with Orchis . While most of her teammates are aware or her secret identity, Heather refuses to reveal herself to James, believing that she would do so when ready. Guardian eventually discovers Heather's identity after she is grievously wounded and falls unconscious following a battle with Department H's Box Sentinels . When Department H attacks Krakoa North to capture

8162-460: The job only to be beaten by Psylocke. Cap then makes his move on the Fury and with the help of Blink and Albion vanquishes him for now, leading to Merlyn's defeat. However, this victory comes with a price as Roma dies, though not before transferring her knowledge into Sage's mind. Saturnyne then promises to free Albion from jail to lead the Corps while Sage and TJ switch teams with Longshot who now remembers

8268-535: The mission: Weapon X and the Exiles were meant to fight to the death until only six remained. Magik , and Hulk were killed by Hyperion, while Firestar killed the Spider, immolating herself in the process. Ms. Marvel was killed in battle with Morph and finally, Hyperion was killed thanks to Gambit's sacrifice. Instead of six survivors, there were only five: Blink, Mimic , Morph, Sasquatch and Nocturne . The Exiles wouldn't meet any member of Weapon X until their visit to

8374-675: The mutant refugees, Heather uses her remaining life-force to teleport her mutant teammates and the refugees to the Alpha Flight Low-Orbit Space Station. Heather ultimately survives but falls into a coma and is taken into Department H's medical care while James and the remaining Flight members are arrested for treason. Formerly, Vindicator wore the Guardian suit that her husband currently wears. Currently Heather's suit, which she first employed in Alpha Flight vol. 2, taps into

8480-491: The next mission while Blink begins to train a new team. The man once known as Nick Fury recruits champions from alternate universes when a mysterious threat casts its shadow on the multiverse. Blink would be joined by a Kamala Khan from a post-apocalyptic reality, Iron Lad , Wolvie and Valkyrie in her journey to save the multiverse. The team is later joined by Peggy Carter as the Captain America of her universe, and

8586-492: The nick of time, stopping Proteus from killing the Exiles and saving the day. Valeria offers to assist them in fighting her mom, but Morph tells her that she would regret it and they suggest she go home. They then go to a reality where the main heroes are the human Daughters and Saurian Sons of the Dragon. There, they fight Lilandra, who has allied herself with Empress Hydra and they try to save Lilandra's sister Neramani from her. During

8692-460: The ongoing series Green Arrow and Black Canary , the first 14 issues of which Winick wrote. In November 2007, DC released a Teen Titans East special, a prequel for Titans , which was scripted by Winick. Following the " Battle for the Cowl " storyline, Winick took over the writing on Batman for four issues. He co-wrote the 26-issue biweekly Justice League: Generation Lost with Keith Giffen ,

8798-470: The other Exiles. Cat and Rogue explore the palace and almost die in a bungee-jumping accident, prompting Rogue to reveal flying powers. In the one-shot Exiles: Days of Then and Now , Blink discovers an Earth they were supposed to save, but did not because they were chasing Proteus during the World Tour. Iron Man, Nighthawk, Wild Child, and Luke Cage from that reality died because they did not receive help from

8904-480: The renegade Vision, Ultron, and Machine Man, the Exiles manage to disable Cerebro and give all the humans life model decoy bodies. After that mission, Morph tells the Exiles that they still have time to break up the X-Men/Brotherhood alliance from their first mission. They head back to that Earth and replace the native Scarlet Witch for their own. She reveals to Jean that Scott and Emma are having an affair, turning

9010-547: The rest of Alpha Flight traitors Wolverine decided to investigate. Vindicator then accompanies Alpha Strike into attacking Alpha Flight, Taskmaster , and Wolverine. Vindicator fights Guardian, who tries to get through to Vindicator by stating that Master of the World is controlling her. At the end of the Alpha Flight series, Vindicator (still under the influence of the Master) helped Alpha Flight against Alpha Strike and then Master of

9116-571: The season ended, Winick and Ling moved to Los Angeles to continue their relationship. By August 1994, Zamora's health began to decline. After being hospitalized, he asked Winick to substitute for him at a national AIDS education lecture. When Zamora died on November 11, 1994, Winick and Ling were at his bedside. Winick would continue Zamora's educational work for some time after that. Winick designed illustrations for The Complete Idiot's Guide to... series of books, and did over 300 of them, including that series’ computer-oriented line. A collection of

9222-426: The series, from #46-89. Chris Claremont came onboard as of issue #90 and ended the series with the crossover X-Men Die by the Sword , before restarting the series as New Exiles . New Exiles ran for 18 issues before being canceled. A few months later the series was restarted again with a second volume of Exiles , written by Jeff Parker . This relaunch only lasted 6 issues before being canceled as well. A third series

9328-494: The soldiers and send them home, just in time for them to see Doom's defeat, whose Earth is destroyed by Reed Richards as there is no way to turn the humans back to their normal emotional state. As a result the Exiles are scattered to various dimensions, much like Union Jack had done previously. Psylocke , Thunderbird , and Cat are able to work on the equipment and retrieve Blink, Morph, and Sabretooth, and new members Mystiq and Rogue are brought along. Spider-Man 2099 finds

9434-467: The stasis gallery of former Exiles and Weapon X members and send them back home. Iron Man , Daredevil , and Angel are sent back to their respective realities alive, while every other Earth with a missing superhuman holds a funeral. Blink, at the suggestion of Power Princess , takes Mimic home to be buried with his X-Men instead of burying him in Panoptichron. Spider-Man, Sabretooth, and Heather Hudson all decide to visit their home realities. Unfortunately,

9540-541: The story entitled "Hate Crime" gained media recognition when Terry was brutally beaten in a homophobic attack . Winick was interviewed on Phil Donahue 's show on MSNBC for that storyline on August 15, 2002, and received two more GLAAD awards for his Green Lantern work. In 2003, Judd Winick left Green Lantern for another DC series, Green Arrow , beginning with issue #26 of that title (July 2003). He gained more media recognition for Green Arrow #43 (December 2004) in which he revealed that Green Arrow's 17-year-old ward,

9646-417: The sword to drain her of her own life-force whenever she uses its teleportation abilities, worsening depending on the distance traveled and the number of people being teleported. As Heather's predecessors were undead and able to bypass Scell's requirement, Heather's continued use would result in her death. A black Canadian version of Heather Hudson, who served as her Alpha Flight's version of Sasquatch ,

9752-494: The team when her husband James, the leader of Alpha Flight, is apparently killed. She accepts, though initially she leads purely as a non-combatant. She led Alpha Flight on a mission with the X-Men, and was temporarily transformed by the mystic Fire Fountain. This transforms her into a state Loki refers to as a 'demi-god'. She has increased leadership abilities along with vague powers that put her above all other humans. She rejects these powers when all involved learn it would come at

9858-447: The telepaths against each other and dissolving the alliance. Emma Frost eventually kills the Witch from the Exiles' team, leaving the native Scarlet Witch to secretly join the Exiles. The team then takes a vacation on a peaceful Earth. During this time, Polaris reveals she can tell Blink is lying, so Forge builds a device to send everyone to where the Tallus was transmitting from. Forge plants

9964-604: The two fell in love and married. Two years later, Weapon X activated a hidden trigger in Wolverine's mind, forcing Heather to kill him when he went on a rampage. After years of mourning, she remarried Alpha Flight commander James Hudson, who had comforted her in her grief. In the series of Ultimate Comics: X , the Ultimate Heather Hudson appears. Heather resides in Florida and as the non-powered wife of James Hudson, who she

10070-476: The use of virtual reality and neuro-stimulants, Guardian tricks Heather into believing she is being rescued by mercenaries and taken to a safehouse in British Columbia , when in reality was being taken to a prison and subjected to more mental brainwashing to trust Department H again. During the " Fall of X " storyline, Heather escapes confinement and after leaving Claire with Marrina and Walt Samson , assumes

10176-542: The voice actors alongside Susan Blu . Between September 2005 and March 2006, Winick wrote the four-issue Captain Marvel / Superman limited series, Superman/Shazam: First Thunder with art by Josh Middleton . Winick continued his work with the Marvel Family in a 12-issue limited series titled The Trials Of Shazam! , and continued his Green Arrow work with 2007's Green Arrow/Black Canary Wedding Special , which led to

10282-514: Was HIV -positive, Winick gave what he thought was an enthusiastic, politically correct answer, despite reservations. Winick was accepted as a cast member on the show in January 1994. The producers informed the housemates that they would be living with someone who was HIV-positive, but they did not reveal who it was. Winick and his six castmates (Mohammed Bilal, Rachel Campos , Pam Ling , Cory Murphy, David "Puck" Rainey , and Pedro Zamora ) moved into

10388-465: Was a member of the Exiles , recruited against her will to replace a brain-damaged Thunderbird by the Timebroker. A brilliant scientist and physician, she became Sasquatch after being accidentally exposed to gamma rays. She was recruited to Alpha Flight as the team's muscle and medic, and shortly afterwards met Wolverine when he was found wandering the wilderness after escaping from the Weapon X facility. Heather successfully restored Wolverine to sanity, and

10494-642: Was a scheme orchestrated by the Grandmaster , who seeks revenge on the Exiles for freeing Professor X on their first mission and ruining a bet. The Exiles, past and present, join forces with the Wrecking Crew of that Earth to defeat the Grandmaster. The current team then leaves the Earth in the hands of the approximation Exiles. The Exiles then take three weeks to save a chain of cracked realities, injuring Blink, Morph, and Spider-Man. They also discover that Proteus

10600-540: Was an AIDS educator, and subsequently showed his scrapbook to Winick and the other housemates. Winick's Nuts and Bolts strip began running in the San Francisco Examiner in March of that year. Winick, who is Jewish , was offended at Rainey's decision to wear a T-shirt depicting four guns arranged in the shape of a swastika , and by Rainey's refusal to accede to Winick's request not to wear it. After filming of

10706-467: Was assigned to get close to him so Doom could copy the Tallus, which he does. He then sends a team of soldiers to Panoptichron. They take out Psylocke and assume Kitty Pryde is a freaked out child, though she appears to be faking that. The soldiers are attacked by Thunderbird , who is no longer comatose. Kitty Pryde (who goes by Cat ), uses her phasing powers to create a diversion long enough to allow Thunderbird to free Psylocke . Together, they defeat

10812-442: Was criticized by some readers for its focus on Selina Kyle's sexuality, particularly scenes showing her sexual relationship with Batman. Winick responded that it was DC that desired this tone. Winick was the head writer on The Awesomes , an animated superhero comedy series created by Seth Meyers and Mike Shoemaker for Hulu . It debuted on August 1, 2013, and ended on November 3, 2015. In July 2012 Winick announced that he

10918-567: Was launched as part of Marvel Legacy , written by Saladin Ahmed joined by the art team of Javier Rodriguez , Alvaro Lopez , and Jordie Bellaire and Joe Caramagna . A number of artists have penciled the series including Mike McKone, Jim Calafiore, Kev Walker, Clayton Henry, Mizuki Sakakibara, Casey Jones, Steve Scott , Paul Pelletier, and Tom Mandrake. Tom Grummett, Roberto Castro, Paco Diaz, and Tim Seeley worked on New Exiles . The Exiles team originally consisted of Blink (Clarice Ferguson, from

11024-592: Was leaving Catwoman after issue #12, in order to create an all-ages, original graphic novel called Hilo (pronounced "High-Low"), a move that Winick explained was inspired a year or so prior when his then-seven-year-old son asked to read his work. Not having age-appropriate material for him, Winick gave him Jeff Smith 's Bone , which both father and son enjoyed, and decided to create an all-ages story that his son could read. The full color series, whose tone and visuals Winick describes as "part E.T. , part Doctor Who , part Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes ", stars

11130-712: Was published in issues #9 and 10 of the same book. Road Trip went on to become an Eisner Award nominee for Best Sequential Story. Winick followed up with a three-issue miniseries , The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius , about a cynical, profane grade school whiz kid, who invents a myriad of futuristic devices that no one other than his best friend knows about. Barry Ween was published by Image Comics from March through May 1999, with two subsequent miniseries, The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius 2.0 and The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius: Monkey Tales (Retitled The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius 3 or The Adventures of Barry Ween, Boy Genius: Gorilla Warfare in

11236-484: Was responsible for bringing Jason Todd , the second character known as Batman's sidekick Robin , back from the dead, and making him the new Red Hood , the second such Batman villain by that name. That same year, Winick created an animated TV show named The Life and Times of Juniper Lee in 2005, which ran for three seasons on the Cartoon Network . Along with creating the show and the characters, he has also directed

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