Hyperkind #1
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeHyperkind #1 marks the debut of the entire Hyperkind team — Logix, Armata, Amokk, and Bliss — as well as their antagonist Thermakk and the shadowy supporting figure Eschbacher, making it the ground zero for every character in the series. As the flagship opening chapter of Clive Barker's Razorline imprint at Marvel, it also introduced the concept of the Paxis — a forgotten 1930s superhero team whose legacy the Hyperkind unknowingly inherit — giving the title an unusually layered mythology for a teen-oriented superhero book. The issue represents one of the more ambitious celebrity-creator experiments of the early 1990s speculator era: a horror novelist deliberately crafting a Comics Code-approved superhero universe with genuine psychological texture, planting themes of suppressed collective memory and the cost of power that ran through the entire nine-issue run.
In "Paxis Reborn," a mysterious stranger crashes to Earth in front of Lisa Moffitt, summoning her to the abandoned cinema where she and her friends Kenny and George awaken with otherworldly powers after entering ancient sarcophagi—just as an alien threat, Thermakk, descends upon them.
In "Ectokid," Dex Mungo—half human, half ghost—walks the edge between worlds, haunted by a dream that feels more real than his waking life. When he seeks out Mama Beau to unravel the mystery of his visions, he finds himself drawn deeper into the Ectosphere: a surreal realm where fantasy and dread collide, and every shadow holds a secret.
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Clive Barker formally unveiled the Razorline concept to the comics trade at a platform presentation in New York in May 1993, describing the four interrelated titles as 'the beginning of an expanding universe' he called the Barkerverse. Barker conceived the premises, characters, and titles for all four series but handed day-to-day scripting to other writers, with Fred Burke writing Hyperkind, Paris Cullins penciling, and Bob Petrecca inking under editor Marcus McLaurin and executive editor Carl Potts. The imprint launched directly into the most oversaturated new-title market in decades — competing simultaneously with new superhero lines from Malibu, Defiant, Dark Horse, and others — and that crowded landscape, rather than any creative failure, is what comics historians have identified as the primary cause of Razorline's truncated run.
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- First appearances of the Hyperkind team: Logix (Kenny Zambetti), Armata (Lisa Moffin), Amokk (George Yoneda), and Bliss (Dyan Devine), along with the canine fifth member Ecka and the alien antagonist Thermakk.
- The Paxis — the predecessor superhero team including Clarion, Dreamdance, Logicka (Ambertrance Fasia), Tempest (Wilda MacPherson), and Eschbacher — appear in flashback in this issue, establishing the series' central mythology of a forgotten heroic legacy.
- Story title is 'Paxis Reborn'; the issue went on sale July 13, 1993, with a September 1993 cover date.
- Creative team: written by Fred Burke, penciled by Paris Cullins, inked by Bob Petrecca, colored by Tom Smith, lettered by Steve Dutro, edited by Marcus McLaurin; characters created by Clive Barker.
- The cover is an embossed foil-enhanced (prismatic foil) cover — a deliberate concession to the gimmick-cover trends of the era.
- The issue contains a backup feature previewing Ectokid, the Razorline title that would later be scripted by Lana Wachowski (of The Matrix).
- Three editions exist: Direct, Newsstand, and an Australian variant — all sharing the same story content.
- The series is set on Earth-45828, a designation retroactively confirmed in the 2005 Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe alternate-universes one-shot, placing the Razorline in the broader Marvel Multiverse but entirely outside mainstream continuity.
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↩ Reprints Razorline: The First Cut #1 (1993)
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