Hyperkind #8
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeHyperkind #8 ('Lost and Found') is the penultimate chapter of Clive Barker's only superhero comic series, one of four interconnected titles making up Marvel's Razorline imprint — an ambitious experiment in bringing a literary horror auteur's sensibility to the mainstream superhero genre. As the second-to-last issue, it carries the weight of an arc building toward the series finale centered on the villain Lazurex Prime, and its large character roster documents the full scope of the Razorline universe on Earth-45828 in its final weeks of publication. The series as a whole represents a distinctive 1990s attempt to wed Clive Barker's thematic concerns — consciousness, identity, and inherited power — to the conventions of team superhero comics, making any issue from the run a document of that singular creative collision. The Razorline line's early cancellation due to market collapse means these late issues were among the last new story material ever produced in that corner of the Marvel multiverse.
In "Lost... ... and Found," Tempest awakens with no memory, piecing together her past as she journeys toward the Paragon Pyramid. Captured by the enigmatic Paragon John, she’s pulled from danger by the mysterious Zaniacs. Written by Fred Burke and illustrated by Roger Cruz, with inks by Petrecca and Halblieb, colors by Tom Smith, and letters by Steve Dutro, this 1994 Marvel issue features a cover by Paris Cullins and Bob Petrecca.
Tempest wakes with no memory, guided only by fragmented flashes of a life she can’t recall, as she journeys toward the Paragon Pyramid. Captured by the enigmatic Paragon John, she finds unexpected help in the unlikely form of the Zaniacs—whose motives remain as mysterious as her own past.
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Hyperkind was conceived by filmmaker and horror novelist Clive Barker as his take on what the superhero genre could become in the 1990s; he developed the premise and characters but handed day-to-day scripting to writer Fred Burke, with Paris Cullins on pencils, Bob Petrecca on inks, and Marcus McLaurin as editor, with Tom DeFalco serving as Marvel's editor-in-chief throughout the run. The series was one of four titles forming the Razorline imprint, which launched in 1993 alongside Ectokid, Hokum & Hex, and Saint Sinner, all set in the shared alternate universe designated Earth-45828. By the time issue #8 shipped in early 1994, the broader comics market bubble was collapsing, and comics historians have noted that the imprint's short run of seven to nine issues per title was largely a consequence of that market saturation rather than any deficiency in the creative concepts themselves.
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- Issue #8 is titled 'Lost and Found,' released February 8, 1994, with an April 1994 cover date — the penultimate issue of the nine-issue run.
- Written by Fred Burke, penciled by Paris Cullins, and inked by Bob Petrecca — the same core creative team that produced all nine issues of the series.
- Published under Marvel's Razorline imprint, created by Clive Barker; all Razorline characters exist in the alternate universe designated Earth-45828.
- The four core Hyperkind members appearing throughout the series are Logix (Kenny Zambetti), Armata (Lisa Moffin), Bliss (Dyan Devine), and Amokk (George Yoneda) — each whose power represents an aspect of human consciousness as conceived by Barker.
- Lazurex Prime is identified across sources as one of the Hyperkind's key enemies; the character's prominent role in the #8–9 arc (culminating in issue #9's title 'Lazurex Prime!') marks the build toward the series' climax.
- Paragon John, the series' central human antagonist, had been established as the Hyperkind's greatest foe and a cross-imprint figure in the Razorline line by earlier issues.
- The Razorline imprint's entire output — including all nine issues of Hyperkind — has never been collected in a trade paperback or made available on Marvel Unlimited, leaving the single issues as the only format for readers.
- Tom DeFalco is credited in Razorline indicia as Marvel's editor-in-chief, making his appearance in the issue's credits a production-context notation rather than a fictional character role.
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