Ramjet (Image Comics)

Ramjet
Ramjet, from Dynamo 5 #25 (October 2009). Art by Fran Bueno.
Publication information
Publisher	Image Comics
First appearance	Dynamo 5 #1 (January 2007)
Created by	Jay Faerber Mahmud A. Asrar
In-story information
Alter ego	Gage Reinhart
Species	Superhuman
Team affiliations	Dynamo 5
Notable aliases	Scatterbrain
Abilities	Flight Formerly: Telepathy Astral projection

Gage Reinhart is a fictional character appearing in publications by Image Comics. Created by writer Jay Faerber and artist Mahmud A. Asrar, he first appeared in Dynamo 5 #1 (January 2007).

For the first 24 issues of the series, the character possessed telepathy, and went by the codename Scatterbrain. In issue #25 of the series (October 2009), the character, whose powers had been erased in the previous issue, obtained different powers. Now possessing the power of flight, he goes by the codename Ramjet.

Following the assassination of Captain Dynamo, the much-beloved superhero protector of Tower City, his widow, former government agent posing as a now-retired investigative reporter Maddie Warner, discovered from his personal effects that he had been unfaithful to her countless times. Despite her devastation at this discovery, Warner realized that without a full-time protector, Tower City would be vulnerable to Captain Dynamo’s legion of super-villain enemies. She used her skills and the information she discovered to track down five people who could be Dynamo’s illegitimate children.

Gage Reinhart was the fifth of Captain Dynamo’s children Warner contacted. Reinhart is a 17-year-old Eastbridge, Texas high school football star who led his division in tackles for the entire season, and is the darling of both his female schoolmates and college scouts. Faerber has described Reinhart as "a popular, arrogant jock who never gave a damn about what anyone thought - until he can literally hear those thoughts. And he may not like what he hears." Gathering all five of the children together, Warner exposed them to the same unidentified radiation that gave Captain Dynamo his powers forty years earlier, unlocking their powers. Reinhart inherited his father’s telepathy. Reinhart takes the codename Scatterbrain, and works to protect Tower City with his newly discovered brothers and sisters.

Reinhart is often instrumental in the team's confrontations with its adversaries. One month after gaining his abilities, Reinhart and his siblings fought the paramilitary organization known as The Veil. Although he and the team acquitted themselves well against that foe, Visionary was kidnapped during the fracas, and brought to The Veil’s base. It fell upon Reinhart to use his telepathy to track Visionary via his brainwave pattern, which led to Visionary’s rescue. Reinhart was subsequently crucial to the team's victories against Voltage, and a thief using the Winterbourne Institute's strength-amplifying Strong-Suit.