Noble Causes
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Cover of Noble Causes vol. 2, 3 (Sept, 2004).Art by Tyler Kirkham.
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Image Comics |
| Format | Miniseries and one-shots. Now an ongoing title. |
| Genre | |
| Publication date | January 2002 - April 2009 |
| Number of issues | 40 |
| Main character(s) | "See characters" |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) |
Jay Faerber J. Torres, Brian K. Vaughan, John Layman, Dan Abnett, Andy Lanning, Gail Simone |
| Artist(s) | (covers) Fran Bueno, Todd Nauck, Tyler Kirkman, Rodolfo Migliari, Andres Ponce, Ron Riley, Gabe Bridwell, Jack Lawrence, Yıldıray Çınar |
| Penciller(s) | Fran Bueno, Ron Riley, Jon Bosco, Yıldıray Çınar |
| Inker(s) | Fran Bueno |
| Creator(s) | Jay Faerber |
| Collected editions | |
| In Sickness and In Health | |
| Family Secrets | |
| Distant Relatives | |
| Blood and Water | |
Noble Causes is an American comic book series created and written by Jay Faerber, illustrated by a variety of artists and published by Image Comics.
The series follows the lives of the Nobles, a wealthy superhero family in the Image Universe. The stories focus less on the Nobles fighting supervillains and more on their personal lives. Originally intended to be an ongoing title, it was downgraded into a series of miniseries and one-shots. It finally became an ongoing title in 2004.
Beginning with issue #32, the series jumped five years after the previous storyline. At this point, the characters Gaia, Race and Liz are no longer active part in the family, while Doc's new wife, Olympia, and her two children joined the Noble family.
The series concluded in 2008 with the publication of issue #40.
The various releases are being collected into a number of trade paperbacks.
Race introduces Liz to the family for dinner. After a huge skirmish, Liz retreats to the bathroom, shaken by what she witnessed. Some time later, Race and Liz' wedding comes. Soon after, while on their honeymoon, Race is killed by a laser beam from the sky. Meanwhile, Zephyr discovers she's pregnant and Rusty discovers Celeste and Frost's affair when he catches them together in the shower. It is revealed that Icarus, the family’s loyal robot servant, had murdered Race and severely injured Rusty, in order to reshape the family into what he thought Doc wanted it to be.
Volume collects Noble Causes 4-issue mini-series and Noble Causes: First Impressions.
Picking up the pieces after their ordeal at the hands of Icarus, the Nobles are again rocked by scandal when Zephyr's pregnancy becomes public. Meanwhile, Rusty throws Celeste out of their home for sleeping with Frost. Frost uses information he has concerning Zephyr's baby as leverage for Gaia to reveal who his father is. Rusty goes through a number of superheroes he believes to be the father of Zephyr's baby. The father is revealed to be Draconis, whom Doc kills at the end of the story. Celeste serves Rusty with divorce papers and Gaia finally tells Frost who his father is.
Volume collects Noble Causes: Family Secrets 4-issue mini-series.
Frost goes off on a search for his true father, who turns out to be an alternate-reality version of Doc. In that reality, the Nobles are fugitives from the law. Meanwhile, Rusty, hurting after his divorce, finds love again when he meets Cosmic Rae. Liz has followed Frost on his search, looking for an alternate version of Race, who turns out to be rather amoral. After the death of his father, Krennick has become ruler of the Underworld, quite reluctantly. When Zephyr discovers that Krennick hires prostitutes to impersonate her, she becomes disgusted and tells Krennick to stay away from her. When Frost meets up with Liz, he decides to send her to another alternate reality — one where Race is alive but her own counterpart is dead.
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