Gen 13: Who They Are and How They Came to Be...

A one-shot from 2006, this DC Comics special offers a streamlined, standalone origin for the WildStorm team Gen 13, written by the characters' co-creators Brandon Choi and Jim Lee alongside Jeff Mariotte, with art by J. Scott Campbell. It serves as a concise primer on the super-powered teenagers and their emergence into a world of conspiracies and covert operations. For fans, it's a neatly packaged reintroduction to the team's core concept and visual identity.