A typical Mid-West weekend warrior, Joe "Buzz Man" Shears sets out one Sunday in summer to mow his overgrown lawn. Without warning, the yard erupts into a snarling tentacled beast of vegetation on a path of destruction. Entangled by the yard, Joe reaches for a blade on his mower, a miraculous magnetism wrenching it into his hands. Slicing through vines with tenacity, Joe prevails. Wiping his brow, Joe flips on the game to enjoy his little slice of suburbia with a much deserved cold one.

"ANTHIA is any alien scout sent from the jungle planet Lupulus [Apoidea System] to earthen 1978 to find new strains of flora. After an extreme blight erased all life on her home planet, she was rendered a refugee. A humanoid with features similar to earth's pollinating insects, ANTHIA uses her super powers of flight, energy aura, and hyper strength to protect threatened ned habitats in the Americas. She is occasionally spotted hovering through mango groves, spreading pollen and sampling nectar along the way."

"An orphan from Seoul, Ji-yoon Choi was taken in by monks and trained in an ancient form of martial arts. Word of her abilities spread to a bigoted grand master who banished her. Wandering the mountains, she was bitten by a viper, but escaped death. Ji-yoon's DNA was transformed. by the neurotoxins, giving her supernatural speed and the ability to multiply at will. Returning to Seoul wearing a blindfold as a handicap, she steals from the rich to support the poor (especially mothers and children)."

"An extension of Mother Nature herself, NATURIA manifests as a grove of trees with subtle humanoid features. Her spirt is reborn each millennia through a new human host, the latest via a 9-year old girl named Joanne Cole who was thought to be mute. While sleepwalking through the woods, Cole's aura and expansive emotional intelligence drew NATURIA upwards through the soil to embrace the child with a bevy of roots. NATURIA employs astounding spontaneous growth to entrap enemies or protect allies."

"While working late in the lab at an agri-experiment nation in Orange County, acclaimed chemist Dr. Camila Diaz was assaulted by a spy on the payroll of petrochemical magnet Herbert Goodnight. The thug hastily stabbed Diaz with a syringe loaded with hyper-distilled lemon oil, triggering chemical mutations. She awoke with acidic skin that surges to a stream from her fingertips when angered. Now known as CITRIQUE, she seeks to uncover the dark plot behind her attack."

"As a young pitcher, Valentino Fernández was an unstoppable force. But alas, injuries happen, life goes on, and childhood dreams fade. Years later, Valentino witnessed a careless driver barreling down on an oblivious pedestrian. Without a conscious thought, Fernández began his windup, a flaming baseball appearing in his palm. The pitch exploded in a brilliant blaze, striking the errant steering wheel, averting disaster. Lumino was born that day, taking the mound once more, seeking to lend a fastball to those in need."

"Banished from Kepler-186f, this alien castaway is marooned on Earth and solely seeks survival. With a mix of porcupine and Ceratopsian traits, SHATTERSPIKE launches projectile spines that explode once embedded in their target. Trace elements from meteorites provide vital nutrients, this feeble minded creature is always searching for them. Goodnight Industries happens to own mining rights to the largest known supply of the mineral, using it as leverage to employ the creature as a mercenary."

"Captured as a child and forced into slavery, ENZO was torn from his family and idyllic life in the Sicilian countryside. Hard labor would sculpt this boy into a man, and a deadly clash with a guard led to his current fate - he would fight for the entertainment of others in the great coliseum of Roma. With savage tenacity, ENZO has gradually become the most feared gladiator of th arena, loved by spectators and feared by opponents for ferocious facility with a blade. ENZO displays the Trinacria emblem on his shield to honor his homeland of Sicily."

"Vater von Pils is an anomaly - a throwback brute with supernatural strength, a massive mash-rake and kevlar lederhosen. Vater roams the Alps, assisting in the despotic assault of Goodnight Industries on rare ore buried within the mountains. His wintery cold breath freezes foes foolish enough to stand in his way. Vater is inspired by legendary Bavarian brewer Josef Groll (the father of the pilsner style), who took the world by cold fermented storm with his first batch of clear golden pale lager in 1842."